Research profile

Malene Charlotte Larsen, PhD, and is an Associate Professor in social media studies. Since the mid-2000s, she has researched digital youth culture and young people's use of social media. She leads the research group Digital Media in Everyday Life.

In recent years, Malene's research has focused on young people's use of Snapchat, algorithms in everyday life, the relationship between social media design elements and the well-being of children and youth as well as young people's sustainable comsumption i digital everyday life. Methodologically, she works with digital ethnography and nexus analysis.

Latest book is 'Social Media Across Everyday Contexts: Digital Childhood and Youth in the Nordics' from 2024.

Teaching profile

Since 2005, Malene Charlotte Larsen has taught and supervised students from first semester to thesis level in the programs Communication and Digital Media (formerly Humanities Informatics), Communication, Information Science, Interactive Digital Media, Media Studies, Information Technology, and Sociology at Aalborg University. She has also taught students at other Danish and international universities as a guest lecturer.

Her primary teaching areas include social media, digital media and digital culture, internet use, interpersonal communication, media sociology, and discourse analysis, as well as methodological courses such as qualitative methods, research ethics, digital methods, internet-mediated mixed methods research, and digital ethnography.

Administrative profile

Malene Charlotte Larsen is a member of the Study Board for Communication and Digital Media and faculty member of AAU Practice Committee.

PhD Supervision

Currently, Malene is (co) PhD supervisor for two Phd students focusing on strategic use of social medie and social media, sustainability and food waste.