Jette Kofoed’s work explores processes of cyberbullying and processes inclusion and exclusion in education. With an explicit interest in children and young people’s perspectives on their own lives, experiences, media, and education she investigates the affectivity of sharing of texts and photos on Snapchat. She explores how cyberbullying is affectively charged and felt in excavating the minute and intimate details of having wanted and unwanted photos shared, of sharing unwanted pictures of others, of expelling and being expelled from communities of which you feel belonging and of living the betrayals of having secrets shared beyond the groups of confidentiality. The basic ‘take’ of her work is to move into the affective tenor of processes of inclusion and exclusion and to work beyond a first person solidarity, but rather work with multiple solidarities in trying to grasp more than one experience in complicated matters of grief, nausea, shame, shaming and ephemeral belonging. 

Jette’s work on cyberbullying relates to questions of affective methodologies and research ethics. Subjects which she teaches and publishes within as well. Jette Kofoed is associate professor at Aarhus University.