I am an Associate professor at Nord University in Norway. I have previously worked at the Department of Psychology at NTNU and at Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. I have also done research on children’s young people’s and media use, pro-anorexia, safety and communication in the petroleum industry, ideology in pop culture, crime reporting in the news and the relations between journalists and the police, journalistic use of social media and news sharing on social media, and user-generated content in the news.I have a PhD in Safety Management and Communication in high-risk industries from the Department of Psychology at NTNU. After finishing the PhD I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies. There I was a member of the ViSmedia-project on dilemmas and opportunities connected to visual surveillance. My work included teaching journalism and investigating user-generated content from social media in the news and the ethical dilemmas related to visual media exposure of ordinary citizens.Currently, I am teaching scientific theory and methods at the Nord University, Business School, traffic department, and on a bachelor project at the Department of Psychology, NTNU.I have have been teaching and tutoring at NTNU and the University of Bergen, and given single lectures at several other universities and at seminars. I have been teaching media psychology, qualitative methods, journalism, ethics, media pedagogy, information work and communication in organizations. Committee to protect children and young people from harmful media content.I am member of a government-appointed committee whose mandate is to gather existing knowledge on how children and young people use new media to publish content online, and to give policy advice on how to help children become safer and more competent in the face of digital services. It is an interdisciplinary committee set up by the Ministry of Culture, and will deliver a NOU (Norwegian public report) by September 2020 (postponed to March 2021 due to Covid-19-related delays).Link to description of the committee and the mandate in full (in Norwegian) https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/utval-for-a-verne-barn-mot-skadeleg-medieinnhald/id2653797/