

Department of Political Science
SamTech Coordinator
Main research areas
- World politics & humanitarianism
- Digital technology & new media
- Digital methods
Current research
PhD research project
Governing #compassion: The new technopolitics of mediated humanitarianism. My PhD research project offers a detailed exploration of three examples of the use of new digital media technologies in mediated humanitarianism: social media, Virtual Reality and smartphone apps. Engaging with key insights from postphenomenology, digital ethnography and science- & technology studies, I produce an analytical framework that opens up analyses of mediated humanitarianism to questions about power at the level of digital materialities. Whereas previous work on mediated humanitarianism and distant suffering has focused on the role of discourses and media representations of humanitarian disasters, this dissertation shifts the attention to the material capacities and affordances of digital media technologies and how these are enacted or disrupted in the mundane contexts of the everyday. In doing so, the dissertation provides novel insights into the technopolitics of mediated humanitarianism in the digital age.
Other research projects
The emergence of natively digital international politics. Collective discussion piece co-authored with Alexei Tsinovoi, Fabio Cristiano and Luisa Cruz Lobato. An extended abstract for the paper is currently being considered by International Political Sociology.
Technology, affect & world politics: A postphenomenological perspective. Working paper. In progress. An earlier version of the paper was presented at BISA 2019.
Digital interfaces with distant suffering: Exploring the vibrant digital materiality of visual global politics. Working paper. In progress. An earlier version of the paper was presented at EISA 2019.
The political economy of mediated humanitarianism: A critical approach. Working paper. In progress.
Art, parasitic critique & hacking: Exploring international political design through Jacob Remin's 'Harvesting the Rare Earth.' Working paper. In progress
Areas of expertise
- Critical perspectives on technology & world politics
- Digital media & humanitarian communication
- The global power of Big Tech corporations
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2022) Lund Political Studies
DissertationArt, parasitic critique & hacking : Discussing international political design through Jacob Remin’s ‘Harvesting the Rare Earth’
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2021)
Conference - otherDigital interfaces with distant suffering : Exploring the vibrant digital materiality of visual global politics
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2021)
Conference - otherTech-giganterne truer vores demokrati, mens vi afspritter vores hænder
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2020) Berlingske Tidende
Newspaper articleEmbodying War, Becoming Warriors : Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State's Online Propaganda
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2020) Advances in Critical Military Studies , p.170-188
Book chapterReflections on Naomi Klein's Pandemic Shock Doctrine
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2020) e-International Relations (e-IR)
Journal article (comment)Digital interfaces with distant suffering: Reflections on power, technology and affect
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2019)
Conference - otherOn the Technics of Affect: Opportunities and Challenges for International Relations Theory
Daniel Møller Ølgaard, Ty Solomon
(2019)
Conference - otherNotes on the digital spectator: Images of war, econonies of affect & the (micro)politics of distant suffering
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2018)
Conference - otherEmpathy, subjectivity, technology: On the (problematic) politics of Virtual Reality
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2018)
Conference - otherEmbodying war, becoming warrior: The affective underpinnings of images & Islamic State’s digital/visual propaganda
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2018)
Conference - otherReview - Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2017) e-International Relations (e-IR)
ReviewPlay, Politics & the Practice of Resistance
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
(2015) Journal of Resistance Studies
Journal article
About me
I have been a PhD student with the Department of Political Science since September 2016. I hold an MA in International Conflict Studies from King's College London and an MSc in Global Studies from Roskilde University. Prior to joining the department as a PhD student I have worked at the Danish Immigration Service and with the Danish political party Alternativet. I regularly publish and appear in Danish media.