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Dr

Bjørn Nansen

Snr Lecturer Media And Communications
Culture and Communication
social sciences
communication
science & technology
technology
arts & humanities
social science
film, radio & television
film, radio, television
death
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Dr

Bjørn Nansen

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Digital death and commemoration
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Bjørn Nansen.

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THE FUTURE CEMETERY

This project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the experience of the cemetery for a..

2019 - 2022
Active
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THE FUTURE CEMETERY

This project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the experience of the cemetery for a..

2019 - 2022
Active
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THE FUTURE CEMETERY

This project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the experience of the cemetery for a..

2019 - 2021
Active
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Disposal of the dead: beyond burial and cremation

This project aims to investigate the contexts, motivations, responses to, and implications of emerging alternatives to the profoundly import..

2018 - 2021
Active
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“CAN I DOWNLOAD A CAR?”: EMERGING CONSUMER ISSUES FOR ONLINE ACCESS, COMMUNICATION AND SHARING OF 3D PRINTER FILES

2015 - 2016
Completed
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DOMESTIC 3D PRINTING RESEARCH INITIATIVE - DOMESTIC AND COMMERCIAL MODELS OF USE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE

2014 - 2015
Completed
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Digital Commemoration

This project investigates the interrelated commemorative practices, technology platforms, and social formations associated with digital comm..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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Digital Commemoration

This project investigates the interrelated commemorative practices, technology platforms, and social formations associated with digital comm..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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Digital Commemoration

This project investigates the interrelated commemorative practices, technology platforms, and social formations associated with digital comm..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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Children's Active Video Games: Family Perceptions, Uses and Negotiations

This project will examine the family use of active video games. It will produce new evidence on how they are managed by parents and how they..

2013 - 2018
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Additional Information

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Bjørn Nansen.

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Young children's haptic media habitus

Bjorn Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Digital Domesticity Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Senior Lecturer Department of Computing and Information Systems Martin Gibbs, Senior Lecturer Media and Communications Bjorn Nansen, Associate Professor Media and Communication Rowan Wilken

Book  |  2020

Digital Domesticity – Media, Materiality, and Home Life - Oxford Scholarship Online Find In Library Find In Worldcat Digital Domes..

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Digital Domesticity Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, Rowan Wilken

Book  |  2020

While the home provides a necessary anchor point for our empirical and theoretical work, we are well aware that the home is not se..

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Young Children and Mobile Media Producing Digital Dexterity

Bjørn Nansen

Book  |  2020

This book investigates young childrens everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mob..

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Young Children and Mobile Media

Bjørn Nansen

Book  |  2020

This book investigates young children’s everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products – such as mo..

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"Adapt or Die": The funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety

Luke Van Ryn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2019

Funeral directors shot themselves in the foot over cremation, and cemeteries got splattered with the blood.

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Sleep mode: mobile apps and the optimisation of sleep-wake rhythms

Bjorn Nansen, Christopher O'Neill

Journal article  |  2019  |  First Monday

This article contributes to the critical analysis of sleep and its technological mediation by analysing how sleep is modulated thr..

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Postdigitality in Children’s Crossmedia Play: A Case Study of Nintendo’s Amiibo Figurines

Bjorn Nansen, Thomas APPERLEY

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book examines the rise of internet-connected toys and aims to anticipate the opportunities and risks of IoToys before their w..

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Techniques of the Tactile Body: A Cultural Phenomenology of Infants and Mobile Touchscreens

B Nansen, Rowan Wilken

Journal article  |  2019  |  Convergence

A key dimension of young children’s mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped..

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Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary researc..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Communication and Media Studies
Information Systems
Sociology
Expanding Knowledge
Communication
Computer Software and Services
Anthropology
Other Information and Communication Services
Cultural Studies
Community Service (excl. Work)

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles by Bjørn Nansen.

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Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Fraser Allison, Tamara Kohn

March 26, 2020
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Pixelating our playgrounds

Bjørn Nansen

January 15, 2018
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Want to live forever? Here’s how

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

July 16, 2017
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Computing changed the 'flow' of watching television

Bjørn Nansen

June 8, 2016
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Tweets from the afterlife: social networking with the dead

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

December 1, 2014
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NBN benefits regional centres, but rural Australia is still left wanting

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold

November 26, 2014
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Death and the selfie: welcome to a grave new world

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

November 24, 2014
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From here to Eterni.me – the quest for digital immortality

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

November 14, 2014
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Australia, what do you think of the NBN?

Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold

September 3, 2013
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Ditch the cotton wool and let kids travel independently

Lisa Gibbs, Bjørn Nansen

August 28, 2013

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2012

Discovery early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

Australian Research Council
2009

Best Paper Award: OzCHI Open 24_7 Conference, November 2009

OZCHI
2005

Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship

University Of Melbourne
2004

Dwight Prize for Best Honours Student (awarded by the Department of English, University of Melbourne) 2004.

University of Melbourne
2016

Digital media research fellow, Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Snr Lecturer Media And Communications

Culture and Communication

Honorary

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Member

International Communications Association (ICA)

Board Member

Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts Honours

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts

Deakin University

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