My name is Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and I am a research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Before that, I did my PhD in Communications at Columbia University, working at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaching at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Most of my research deals with political communication, campaign practices, and media institutions and their ongoing transformations. My general interest is in the intersection between old organizations and new technologies, and in particular the various forms of civic and media participation that emerge there. I also retain a side interest in social theory.
Currently, I am part of a larger group of researchers developing an international, comparative project on the changing business of journalism, examining the impact of the rise of the internet and the global recession on commercial news media in a wide range of different democracies.
Previously, I did ethnographic research on the wider ramifications of American 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 based on recent developments in information and communication technologies. I am working on a book based on this, my dissertation work.
In the past, I have held jobs in administration, teaching, and editing. I have lived in Denmark, England, Germany, and the United States, and suspect I may add at least a couple more to that list over the years.
You can catch me at rasmuskleisnielsen [at] gmail [dot] com. I check it too often.
Education
2006-2010 PhD in Communications (with distinction), 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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