My name is Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and I am a PhD student in Communications at Columbia University.
I mainly do research on political communications and media. My general interest is in the intersection between old organizations and new technologies, and in particular the various forms of participation that emerge there.
My dissertation research is an ethnographic study of the wider ramifications of political campaigns’ practices of mobilizing people on a large scale to use personal contact as a form of political communication, working through things like canvassing and phone banking, and involving recent developments in information and communication technologies.
I have also written about letters to the editor, blogging, and other formats for participation through communication.
Abstractly, my interest can be parceled out in the areas of political communication, political and media organizations, the introduction of new technologies in any of these settings, plus forms of media and political participation. I also retain a strong interest in social theory.
My background includes jobs in administration, teaching, and editing. I have lived in Denmark, England, Germany, and the United States, and hope to add at least a couple more to that list over the coming years. I am today a proud inhabitant of New York City – if I ever fell in love with a single city, this is the one.
You can catch me at rasmuskleisnielsen [at] gmail [dot] com. I check it too often.
Education
2006- PhD Student in Communications, Columbia University
2005-2006 Fulbright/DAF Student at the New School for Social Research
2003-2006 MA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen
2002-2003 MA in Political Theory (with distinction), University of Essex
1999-2002 BA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen
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