Ana Alacovska

Presentation

Alacovska’s current research interests revolve around the sociology of culture with an emphasis on the power of genres to influence institutional and social relations; the creative labour studies with a special accent on gender inequalities and the critical studies of media organizations. She is now conducting research on the economic, cultural and social dynamics of the production of Scandinavian crime fiction within the Danish publishing field. This project, entitled “Masters of Crime: Scandinavian Crime Fiction in a Media Industries Perspective”, is generously funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities.

She has been the leader of a large research project on the temporality and informality of post-socialist creative work financially supported through a grant awarded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation through the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Primary research areas

Creative/Media/Cultural Industries

Sociology of culture

Creative labour studies

Genre studies

Discourse analysis

History of new media

Participatory cultures

Courses

Creative Industries (Elective)

Consumer Culture and Communication

Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods

Supervision

I welcome students for supervision in all areas of creative and media industries, creative work, creative business analysis, cultural policy, consumer cultures, the sharing economy, brand communities, participatory cultures, the political economy of media