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Miriam Brems is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. She is currently affiliated with Anja Bechmann's Social Media Influence project (2023-2028), investigating how social media influencers affect followers' political attitudes, values, and democratic participation through large-scale national studies.
Dr. Brems earned her PhD from Aarhus University, where her dissertation examined alternative news media usage in Denmark, analyzing prevalence, motivations, and relationships with trust in institutions, political attitudes, and voting behavior. Her educational background centers on interdisciplinary media-politics-democracy intersections.
Her research focuses on democratic implications of alternative news media and social media, particularly in high-trust contexts like Denmark. She employs mixed methods including surveys, experiments, content analysis, and interviews to study audience behavior, media positioning strategies, and political effects. Key themes include trust erosion, populist attitudes, media diet fragmentation, and the role of opinion leaders in information networks.
Analysis of her publications reveals consistent examination of Denmark's alternative media landscape through interdisciplinary lenses. Her work demonstrates how alternative media users navigate mainstream-alternative divides, with left-right ideological patterns in consumption and effects on political trust. Recent output emphasizes methodological innovation in digital media research and contextualizes findings within stable democratic systems.
Dr. Brems has taught in Aarhus University's journalism master's program and Information Science bachelor's program, delivering guest lectures internationally. She contributes to academic service as part of Journalistica's editorial team, developing methods sections and evaluating master's theses in journalism studies.
Her current research is funded by the Social Media Influence project, a major initiative examining social media as infrastructures of influence with emphasis on false information dissemination. This work involves national-scale data collection on YouTube usage and influencer effects across Danish populations.
