Leif Hemming Pedersen

“Modern media can promote both inclusion and recognition, but also leads to disrespect and unfreedom”

Leif H. Pedersen is a postdoc at Roskilde University. He deals with the role that media and media development, in a broad sense, play for processes and struggles around social recognition. In this context, he tries to connect insights from media (usage) research with social philosophical theories and discussions regarding recognition and disrespect, and to investigate these phenomena in ethnographic studies together with young media users.

Leif is included as a researcher in this scientific project dealing with the development of the Toveshøj public housing area in western Aarhus. The project is rooted in Bevica Fonden's partnership with Landsbyggefonden.