About Vilde

Vilde Schanke Sundet (PhD) is a full-time Researcher at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. She is the project leader of GLOBAL NATIVES, a research project exploring the position of global media platforms among Norwegian teenagers and how national media producers and policymakers respond to global platforms and the media habits of a new media generation.

Sundet has published extensively on topics of television production, media industries, media policy and audiences/fans in journals such as New Media & Society, European Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, Poetics, Media History, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Television & New Media, Critical Studies in Television, Convergence, Journal of Media Business Studies, Journal of Fandom Studies, Northern Lights, First Monday, VIEW, Nordicom Review, 16:9 filmtidsskrift and Norsk medietidsskrift.

Sundet is the author of Television Drama in the Age of Streaming (2021) and TV – en innføring (2010, co-authored).

Sundet holds a PhD in media studies from the University of Oslo (2012) and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Inland Norway University (2014-2017). She has worked four years as an Advisor and Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.

Sundet has several commissions of trust. She is currently serving as:

Deputy Chair of the Norwegian Broadcasting Council (Kringkastingsrådet)
Vice Chair of ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Sections
ECREA co-editor of Critical Studies in Television
Section Editor for the Television and Audience and Reception Studies section of the Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies
Advisor for the media festival THIS

Sundet has previously served as:

Member of the Council for Applied Media Research (Rådet for anvendt medieforskning)
Board Member at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo
Editorial member of the Norwegian journal of media research (Norsk medietidsskrift)