Amanda Mouritsen is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University. In her explorative and user-centric Ph.D. project, she studies Danish adolescents' and young adults' usage, experience, and understanding of the platform TikTok. With the project, Amanda wishes to uncover the characteristics of the video content and the digital culture the users engage with on TikTok, how and why they use TikTok in their everyday lives, and how they experience and make sense of TikTok. Overall, the project aims to understand this highly discussed, criticized, and complex platform from a user-centric standpoint.

Amanda is enrolled in the Ph.D. programme ICT, Media, Communication, and Journalism at the Graduate School of Arts. She is a member of the research programme Media, Communication, and Society and an affiliate member of the research center DATALAB - Center for Digital Social Research. Amanda has previously worked as a research assistant on the project Reaching Young Audiences.