Helle Strandgaard Jensen

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Danish

School of Culture and Society

Aarhus University Seal / Aarhus Universitets segl

Associate professor

School of Culture and Society - History, subject
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5
building 1463, 526
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
hs.jensen@cas.au.dk
Phone: +4587162203
Mobile: +4527201234

ORCID: 0000-0002-8623-9586

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Helle Strandgaard Jensen is Associate Professor of contemporary cultural history at Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also the co-director of the Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR). Jensen holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

Her work focuses on the contemporary history of mass media and digital archives in Scandinavia, Western Europe and the US after 1945. She combines historical methods with theoretical approaches from cultural studies and media studies. One part of Dr. Jensen's research has media as the historical object of study. The other investigates how digital media and in particular digital archives and digitised sources, influence the discipline of history.

Dr. Jensen currently works on two projects. One is a monograph about the transnational history of the American children’s programme Sesame Street during the 1970s. The book is based on work funded by the Danish Research Council (MOBILEX fellowship) and the European Commissions’ Marie Curie actions (CIG fellowship). A second micro-funded project, Sesame Street at 50: The Shapes of Digital Memory (SHAPES), uses a combination of computer-assisted analysis and close readings to investigate how social media platforms shape remembrance cultures.

Selected publications

Published
La télévision scandinave pour enfants dans les années 1970 : une institutionnalisation du « 68 scandinave » ?
Jensen, H. S., 2018, In: Strenæ. 13
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Like It or Not: How Sesame Street Influenced European Children's Television
Jensen, H. S., 2018, Children, Youth and American Telelvision. Schober, A. & Olson, D. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 102-122 21 p. (Routledge Advances in Television Studies, Vol. 12).
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Prix Jeunesse and the Negotiations of Citizenship in Children's Television
Jensen, H. S., 2018, In: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 11, 1, p. 101-107 7 p.
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Scandinavian children’s television in the 1970s: an institutionalisation of ‘68’?
Jensen, H. S., 2018, In: Strenæ. 13, 1
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From Superman to Social Realism: Children's Media and Scandinavian Childhood
Jensen, H. S., 2017, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 188 p. (Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition; No. 6).
Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › peer-review
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Negotiating ‘nonprofit’? The survival strategies of the Sesame Workshop
Jensen, H. S. & Lustyik, K., Mar 2017, In: Media International Australia. 163, 1, p. 97-106 10 p.
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En nordisk Sesame Street? Barnet som tv-forbruger i fællesnordisk tv-politik 1970-1975
Jensen, H. S., 2017, Forbrugets kulturhistorie : Butik, by og forbrugere efter 1660. Andersen, K., Jensen, K. & Thelle, M. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 257-284 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Digitale arkiver som medskabere i ny historieskrivning
Jensen, H. S., 2017, Digitale Metoder: At skabe, analysere og dele data. Drotner, K. & Iversen, S. M. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 69-86 18 p. (Medier, Kommunikation, Journalistik, Vol. 11).
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Making Children’s “Classics”, Making Past Childhoods: Children’s “classics” as sites for memory politics and nostalgia
Jensen, H. S., 2017, Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture. Wesseling, E. (ed.). Routledge, p. 104-121 18 p. (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present).
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Doing Media History in a Digital Age: Change and Continuity in Historiographical Practices
Jensen, H. S., 2016, In: Media, Culture & Society. 38, 1, p. 119-128 10 p.
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"Oh, my Sweet Summer Child": Children and Childhood in Game of Thrones
Jensen, H. S. & Qvistgaard, M., 2017, Game of Thrones versus History : Written in Blood. Pavlac, B. A. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, p. 137-146 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Parent-Pressure: A History of Parents as Co-consumers of Children’s Media
Jensen, H. S., 2016, In: Nordicom Review. 37, 1, p. 29-42 14 p.
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TV as Children's Spokesman: Conflicting Notions of Children and Childhood in Danish Children's Television around 1968
Jensen, H. S., 2013, In: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. p. 105-127
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Beyond ‘Media Panics: Reconceptualising Public Debates about Children and Media
Jensen, H. S., 2012, In: Journal of Children and Media. p. 413-429
Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review