Signe Sophus Lai

Signe Sophus Lai

Tenure Track Assistant Professor


  1. 2024
  2. Accepted/In press

    Media & Society - An Introduction

    Jensen, Klaus Bruhn & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2024, (Accepted/In press) Routledge.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. Accepted/In press

    Public goods & private property: A Waltz between Big Tech and the Nordic Welfare States

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, Sep 2023, (Accepted/In press) The Future of the Nordic Media Model: A Digital Media Welfare State?. Nordicom

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  5. E-pub ahead of print

    Datafied School Life: The Hidden Commodification of Digital Learning

    Lai, Signe Sophus, Andelsman Alvarez, Victoria & Flensburg, Sofie, 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Learning, Media and Technology. 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Digital tracking and infrastructural power

    Lomborg, Stine, Helles, Rasmus & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2023, Handbook of Critical Studies of AI. Lindgren, S. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 354–366 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Follow the Data! A Strategy for Tracing Infrastructural Power

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2023, In: Media and Communication. 11, 2, p. 319-329 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Gateways: Comparing Digital Communication Systems in Nordic Welfare States

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 2023, Nordicom. 205 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  9. Published

    Medier og samfund - en introduktion

    Jensen, Klaus Bruhn & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2023, 3 ed. Samfundslitteratur. 285 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  10. Accepted/In press

    Suomen digitaalinen viestintäjärjestelmä: infrastruktuurit, markkinat ja valtion osallistuminen

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2023, (Accepted/In press) Alustakirja. Gaudeamus

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Who controls the internet in Myanmar?

    Flensburg, Sofie, Lai, Signe Sophus & Lehmann-Jacobsen, E. T., 2023, Public interest infrastructure: Digital alternatives in our data-driven world and journalism's role getting there. Ag, M., Refsing, N. S. & Lehmann-Jacobsen, E. (eds.). International Media Support, p. 26-37 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterCommunication

  12. 2022
  13. Published

    Being social

    Zhou, B., Vittadini, N., Aroldi, P., Pasquali, F., Pagh, Jesper, Zeng Skovhøj, F. H., Lai, Signe Sophus, Su, C. C., Liu, Jun & Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, 29 Nov 2022, Comparing communications systems: The internets of China, Europe, and the United States. Jensen, K. B. & Helles, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 77-107 31 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    How to do things with media

    Leguina, A., Ørmen, Jacob, Zeng Skovhøj, F. H., Lai, Signe Sophus, Pagh, Jesper, Downey, J., Helles, Rasmus & Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, 29 Nov 2022, Comparing communications systems: The internets of China, Europe, and the United States. Jensen, K. B. & Helles, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 108-140 33 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    The internet and other media of communication

    Ørmen, Jacob, Hölig, S., Lai, Signe Sophus, Pagh, Jesper, Zeng Skovhøj, F. H., Hasebrink, U., Behre, J., Helles, Rasmus & Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, 29 Nov 2022, Comparing communications systems: The internets of China, Europe, and the United States. Jensen, K. B. & Helles, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 46-76 31 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Healthcare appscapes: How patient data flow from public welfare systems to private tech

    Lai, Signe Sophus, Lomborg, Stine & Klausen, M., 22 Oct 2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  17. Published
  18. Published

    Big Tech and Welfare States: Comparing Nordic internet infrastructures and political economies

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 20 Oct 2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Inequalities in the datafied school

    Lai, Signe Sophus, Flensburg, Sofie & Andelsman Alvarez, Victoria, 23 Jun 2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Comparing Internet Infrastructures: Empirical Approaches to Digital Communication System Analysis

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 29 May 2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    The Good Life

    Lomborg, Stine & Lai, Signe Sophus, 27 May 2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Datafied Education: The Hidden Commodification of School Life in Denmark

    Andelsman Alvarez, Victoria, Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 24 May 2022. 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    A Good Way to Talk. A Comparative Analysis of Communication Choices in China, Denmark and the US

    Pagh, Jesper, Zeng, F. H. & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2022, In: Information, Communication & Society. 25, 15, p. 2317-2332

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Datafied Mobile Markets: Measuring control over apps, data accesses, and third-party services

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2022, In: Mobile Media & Communication. 10, 1, p. 136-155 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    What media still do to people

    Helles, Rasmus, Lomborg, Stine & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2022, Comparing Communication Systems: The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States. Bruhn Jensen, K. & Helles, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 141-156 16 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  26. 2021
  27. Published

    Deepening Surveillance: Small tracker ecologies beyond the dominant giants

    Helles, Rasmus, Lomborg, Stine & Lai, Signe Sophus, 9 Sep 2021.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Invasiveness in the app ecosystem: The political economy of infrastructures for mobile datafication

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 9 Sep 2021.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    From Welfare Regime to Digital Momentum: Digital power structures and internet regulation in Denmark

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 8 Sep 2021.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    From the Second Shift to the Digital Shift: women and the stakes of relational communication

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 7 Sep 2021. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    The App Ecosystem and its Invasive Species: Exploring the political economy of infrastructures for mobile datafication

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 20 Aug 2021, p. 1-5. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    The Appscape Method: Approaching mobile datafication from an infrastructural user perspective

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 20 Aug 2021.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Designing a Proxy for Privacy. A tool for assessing the intrusiveness of mobile apps

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 20 May 2021.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Human Capabilities in a Datafied Society. Empirical approaches to studying the interplay between digital communication and internet infrastructures

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 15 Jan 2021, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet. 312 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

  35. Published

    Invasive Species of the App Ecosystem: Exploring the Political Economy of Mobile Communication

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 2021, In: International Journal of Communication. 15, p. 2301–2318 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    “She’s the communication expert”: Digital labor and the implications of datafied relational communication

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 2021, In: Feminist Media Studies. 23, 4, p. 1857-1871 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  37. 2020
  38. Published

    Appscapes in everyday life. Studying mobile datafication from an infrastructural user perspective.

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 11 Dec 2020, In: MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research. 36, 69, p. 29-51

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    Infrastructures of tracking: Mapping the Ecology of Third-Party Services Across Top Sites in the EU

    Helles, Rasmus, Lomborg, Stine & Lai, Signe Sophus, 1 Nov 2020, In: New Media & Society. 22, 11, p. 1957-1973 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Comparing Digital Communication Systems: An empirical framework for analysing the political economy of digital infrastructures

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 24 Oct 2020, In: N O R D I C O M Review. 41, 2, p. 127-145

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    A proxy for privacy: Uncovering the surveillance ecology of mobile apps

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 15 Jul 2020, In: Big Data & Society. 7, 2, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    Shani Orgad, Heading Home. Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 1 Jun 2020, In: European Journal of Communication. Volume 35, issue 3, p. 317-317 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  43. Published

    Networks of power: Analysing the evolution of the Danish internet infrastructure

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 20 May 2020, In: Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society. 5, 2, p. 1-22 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  44. 2019
  45. Published

    Mapping digital communication systems: Infrastructures, markets and policies as regulatory forces

    Flensburg, Sofie & Lai, Signe Sophus, 25 Dec 2019, In: Media, Culture & Society. 42, 5, p. 692-710 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published

    The Digital Second Shift: Women and the stakes of datafied relational communication

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 6 Dec 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Tracing communicative patterns: A comparative ethnography across platforms, media and contexts

    Lai, Signe Sophus, Pagh, Jesper & Zeng, F. H., Jul 2019, In: N O R D I C O M Review. 40, 1, p. 141-157 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    The Invisible Internet: Mapping of third-party services as a new resource for analyzing and comparing digital media systems

    Helles, Rasmus, Lomborg, Stine & Lai, Signe Sophus, 30 Jun 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  49. Published

    Mapping digital communication systems: Infrastructures, markets and policies

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 29 Jun 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  50. Published

    TPS infrastructures and the web as a communication system

    Lomborg, Stine, Helles, Rasmus & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  51. 2018
  52. Published

    COMBINING DIGITAL TRACE DATA WITH RESEARCH METHODS ON A GLOBAL SCALE

    Helles, Rasmus, Ørmen, Jacob, Lai, Signe Sophus & Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, 11 Oct 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  53. Published
  54. Published

    Between Internet and Media Policy: Mapping regulatory regimes of digital communication

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Flensburg, Sofie, 24 May 2018. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  55. Published

    Show and Tell: Mapping communicative patterns in everyday life

    Pagh, Jesper, Zeng, F. H. & Lai, Signe Sophus, 24 May 2018. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  56. Published

    “ALL IS LOVE”: Negotiating reality and community in the SKAM commentary track

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 24 May 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  57. Published

    The political economy of invisible infrastructures

    Helles, Rasmus, Lai, Signe Sophus & Lomborg, Stine, 22 May 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  58. Published

    #allislove: The SKAM Commentary Track: Co-Narrating a Cross-Media Series

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 2018, 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society: Networked Influence and Virality - Revisited, Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 340-344 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  59. Published

    Tracking the trackers: the political economy of invisible infrastructures

    Lomborg, Stine, Helles, Rasmus & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  60. 2017
  61. Published

    Travelling or not? A content analysis mapping Danish television drama from 2005 to 2014

    Helles, Rasmus & Lai, Signe Sophus, 19 Dec 2017, In: Critical Studies in Television. The international journal of television studies. 12, 4, p. 395–410 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  62. Published

    Transnational European Television Drama: Production, Genres and Audiences

    Bondebjerg, Ib, Redvall, Eva Novrup, Helles, Rasmus, Lai, Signe Sophus, Søndergaard, Henrik & Astrupgaard, C., 4 Nov 2017, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 318 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  63. Published

    Thick-Big Descriptions

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 29 Sep 2017. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  64. Published

    Co-producing Television Series: A Network Analysis of Co-producers and Distribution in Europe

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Helles, Rasmus, 17 Aug 2017. 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearchpeer-review

  65. Published

    Distribution and viewing of television series in the Nordic countries: A report prepared for Nordisk Film & TV Fond

    Helles, Rasmus, Astrupgaard, C., Lai, Signe Sophus & Redvall, Eva Novrup, 17 Aug 2017, Oslo: Nordisk Film & TV Fond. 51 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportReport

  66. Published

    The composition of international success

    Helles, Rasmus & Lai, Signe Sophus, 2017. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearchpeer-review

  67. 2016
  68. Published

    Reimagining Television Audiences: An empirical interview study on institutionalized audiencemaking

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 9 Nov 2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  69. Published

    Cross-European Television Distribution: A Network Perspective

    Helles, Rasmus & Lai, Signe Sophus, 6 Sep 2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  70. Published

    Seernes favoritserier: genrer, narrativer og kulturmøder

    Astrupgaard, C. & Lai, Signe Sophus, 13 May 2016, In: Kosmorama. 263

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  71. Published

    1864 på DR’s digitale hjemmebane: Seerne som amatørkritikere på dr.dk

    Astrupgaard, C., Lai, Signe Sophus & Larsen, F. S. K., 15 Feb 2016, 1864: tv-serien, historien, kritikken. Hansen, K. T. (ed.). Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, p. 283-306 24 p. (Interdisciplinære kulturstudier, Vol. 8).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  72. 2015
  73. Published

    Cultural and Generic Proximities: An empirical reception study of The Killing and Midsomer Murders

    Lai, Signe Sophus & Astrupgaard, C., 1 Oct 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  74. Published

    The Advent of Streaming Television in Denmark - Ratings Revisited

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 13 Aug 2015. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  75. Published

    Ratings Revisited

    Lai, Signe Sophus, 11 Jun 2015, In: Tidsskrift for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling . 3, 1, p. 5-29 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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