Tobias Raun
Tobias Raun is an Associate Professor at Communication Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark.
He has presented his work at several conferences around Europe and the United States, where he has earned international reputation. His research has been published widely in book anthologies and peer reviewed journals in Danish and English (and a translation into Portuguese), primarily within the area of Visual Culture, New Media, Internet Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies (especially Transgender and Queer Studies). In 2013 his PhD Thesis was grated the KRAKA prize in Denmark for groundbreaking gender research.
In 2016 he published a book with Routledge on trans video blogging titled: "Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube" (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315599229).
He has been part of the international research project with the theme: “New Media New Intimacies” funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in Danish (http://rucforsk.ruc.dk/site/da/projects/new-media--new-intimacies(740221d3-0197-44ef-aa2d-da7c4b76d46b).html).
In 2018 he co-edited the anthology "Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities, Proximities" (https://www.routledge.com/Mediated-Intimacies-Connectivities-Relationalities-and-Proximities-1st/Andreassen-Petersen-Harrison-Raun/p/book/9781138631878).
From 2013 to 2019 he was the editor of the New Media section of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (https://www.dukeupress.edu/TSQ-Transgender-Studies-Quarterly/). He has also been guest editor of an issue of MedieKultur entitled "Gender and Media Revisited" (http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur). Since 2014 he has been part of the research network on Affect Studies, which collectively publishes articles and edits the research blog Peculiar (http://peculiar.dk/).
He has worked extensively on transgender self-representation, community building and activism via social media. This sommer he is publishing a new article (with Mons Bissenbakker) on healthcare discourses on the increase of transgender boys to the Gender Identity Clinic in Denmark. He has also been researching mourning in/through social media as well as new forms of self-branding among minorities. Currently he is working on a project entitled "Plastic Masculinity", investigating theoretically and analytically how to understand the reconfigurations of masculinity in light of the all-encompassing mediatization and biomedicalization of everyday life.
He has presented his work at several conferences around Europe and the United States, where he has earned international reputation. His research has been published widely in book anthologies and peer reviewed journals in Danish and English (and a translation into Portuguese), primarily within the area of Visual Culture, New Media, Internet Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies (especially Transgender and Queer Studies). In 2013 his PhD Thesis was grated the KRAKA prize in Denmark for groundbreaking gender research.
In 2016 he published a book with Routledge on trans video blogging titled: "Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube" (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315599229).
He has been part of the international research project with the theme: “New Media New Intimacies” funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in Danish (http://rucforsk.ruc.dk/site/da/projects/new-media--new-intimacies(740221d3-0197-44ef-aa2d-da7c4b76d46b).html).
In 2018 he co-edited the anthology "Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities, Proximities" (https://www.routledge.com/Mediated-Intimacies-Connectivities-Relationalities-and-Proximities-1st/Andreassen-Petersen-Harrison-Raun/p/book/9781138631878).
From 2013 to 2019 he was the editor of the New Media section of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (https://www.dukeupress.edu/TSQ-Transgender-Studies-Quarterly/). He has also been guest editor of an issue of MedieKultur entitled "Gender and Media Revisited" (http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur). Since 2014 he has been part of the research network on Affect Studies, which collectively publishes articles and edits the research blog Peculiar (http://peculiar.dk/).
He has worked extensively on transgender self-representation, community building and activism via social media. This sommer he is publishing a new article (with Mons Bissenbakker) on healthcare discourses on the increase of transgender boys to the Gender Identity Clinic in Denmark. He has also been researching mourning in/through social media as well as new forms of self-branding among minorities. Currently he is working on a project entitled "Plastic Masculinity", investigating theoretically and analytically how to understand the reconfigurations of masculinity in light of the all-encompassing mediatization and biomedicalization of everyday life.
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