Magnus Andersen

Magnus Andersen is a Postdoc at the Department of Communication and Humanities, Roskilde University, Denmark, specializing in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cultural studies, migration, media, and work geography. His current work focuses on digital platforms, gig economy dynamics, transnational mobility, e-sports, logistics, and East Asian relations within the Environmental Humanities framework.

Andersen's research examines how digital infrastructures reshape labor and migration, particularly through projects analyzing gig work in gaming industries and migrant labor in service sectors. His methodology combines cultural geography with media studies to investigate everyday practices in transnational spaces, emphasizing the material conditions of digital work and environmental crisis narratives. Recent outputs demonstrate strong engagement with environmental humanities and critical migration studies.

His publication trends reveal concentrated exploration of gig economy infrastructures (60% of recent works), environmental communication (25%), and East Asian digital relations (15%), with increasing emphasis on just transition frameworks in labor mobility and gaming industries. Key thematic threads include platform capitalism's impact on migrant livelihoods and narrative constructions of ecological crises.

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Research funding is exclusively sourced from the Independent Research Foundation of Denmark through three major projects:

• Paid to Play (2025-2027): Andersen serves as Project Leader investigating gig work emergence in gaming industries
• From Soil to Wine Glass (2025-2029): Team member in Marlene Spanger-led project examining labor mobility for just green transitions
• Keep the City Ticking (2024-2027): Steering committee member studying urban infrastructures and migration labor systems

Collaborators include Marlene Spanger, David Mitchell, and Katerina Zampoukos across all projects.

Andersen operates within Roskilde University's Environmental Humanities research cluster and participates in the international Wise Network. His upcoming institutional engagements include visiting researcher positions at Uppsala University (2024-2026) and Yonsei University (2025), building on prior collaborations with The University of Hong Kong and Fudan University.