About the School
Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Associate professor
School of Culture and Society - History, subject
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5
building 1463, 526
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Phone: +4587162203
Mobile: +4527201234
Research areas
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary Denmark > Cultural history
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary Denmark > Globalisation
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary Denmark > Denmark and Scandinavia
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary Denmark > History of gender
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary Europe > Cultural history
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary Europe > Globalisation
- History and Archaeology > Contemporary World > Cultural history
- Art, Culture and Media > Digital Media > Internet history
- Art, Culture and Media > Radio and TV > TV history
- Art, Culture and Media > Digital Media > Media politics
- Art, Culture and Media > Digital Media > Multimediality/cross-mediality
Profile
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 Jensen's research has media as the historical object of study. The other looks at how digital media – in particular digital archives, sources, and research tools – influence the discipline of history. She currently works on two projects. One has been funded by the Danish Research Council and the European Commissions’ Marie Curie actions and focuses on the global history of the American children’s programme Sesame Street during the 1970s. A second project investigates digital archives as historiographical agents by looking at the production, content, and use of these within the discipline of history. She is the author of From Superman to Social Realism: Children’s Media and Scandinavian Childhood (John Benjamins 2017).
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La télévision scandinave pour enfants dans les années 1970 : une institutionnalisation du « 68 scandinave » ?
Jensen, H. S., 2018, In: Strenæ. 13Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Scandinavian children’s television in the 1970s: an institutionalisation of ‘68’?
Jensen, H. S., 2018, In: Strenæ. 13, 1Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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 › Research › 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.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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. 105-127Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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. 413-429Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
ReNEW: Professor
Hilson, M., Koefoed, N. J., Jensen, M. F., Jensen, H. S., Sørensen, A. I. F., Thomsen, B. M. S., Povlsen, K. K., Witcombe, N. A. & Körber, L.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research
DigiLitEY: The digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children
01/09/2015 → 01/09/2019
Project: Research
The digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children (DigiLitEY) (External organisation)
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Member)
2015 → 2019Activity: Membership types › Membership in research network
KEYNOTE: Little elves, black panthers and super 8mm cameras: children’s media in 1970s’ Scandinavia.
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Lecturer)
13 Aug 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
ARTS at DHOXSS, Digial Humantities at Oxford Summer School
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Organizer)
2 Jul 2018 → 6 Jul 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
KEYNOTE: Dissecting the Digital Archive. Archival literacy and digital scholarship in the 21st century.
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Lecturer)
14 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Gary Cross
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Host)
3 Apr 2018 → 16 May 2018Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Media, history & archives: digitisation of archives and the influence on historical research
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Lecturer)
28 Feb 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Digitala arkiv och forskning om små barn, institutioner och utbildning
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Lecturer)
27 Feb 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Enabeling Digital Scholarship
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Participant)
11 Dec 2017 → 13 Dec 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
History & Digital Archives
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Organizer)
8 Nov 2017 → 9 Nov 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
KEYNOTE: Storing Stuff, Structuring Stories. The power of digital archives in contemporary historiography
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Lecturer)
7 Nov 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
What is not "digital history"?
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Organizer)
5 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
Annual Tony Watkins Lecture
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Lecturer)
24 Nov 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Best paper award
Jensen, Helle Strandgaard (Recipient), Dec 2012
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Honourable mention, Fass-Sandin Prize
Jensen, Helle Strandgaard (Recipient), May 2014
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Honourable mention, Nordic History Book Prize
Jensen, Helle Strandgaard (Recipient), Aug 2017
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Hurtige klip i børte-tv
Press/Media: Press / Media
Sesamstrasse - Ernie, Bert und Krümelmonster
Press/Media: Press / Media
Sesame Street 50år
Press/Media: Press / Media
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