Henry Mainsah

Research groups

Technology and Sustainability

Research projects

IMAGINE – Contested Futures of Sustainability
When you think about the future, what do you imagine? Flying cars, tubed food, or high-tech clothing might be among the images that come to mind. IMAGINE sets out to study these images of the future as imaginaries. Imaginaries are the many ways in which we humans think about the future and ways in which they can become possible. Our project looks specifically at how we imagine sustainable futures.
LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability
How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?
Relinking the weak link. Building resilient digital households through interdisciplinary and multilevel exploration and intervention
What roles do socio-technical practices and infrastructures play in shaping security risks in technologies of the home and what tools and interventions can be developed to enable digitally resilient households?
U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces
The key goal of this project is to provide a research-based understanding of the interconnection between cultural and technological preconditions for strengthening youth participation in digital dialogue spaces.

Scientific publications

Langeland, Fredrik; Prøitz, Lin; Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen; Mainsah, Henry (2022). I de sosiale ytterkantene. Konstruksjoner av kjønn og maskuliniteter hos norske menn i ufrivillig sølibat. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning . Vol. 46.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3041131

Mainsah, Henry; Slade, Emma; Slettemeås, Dag; Southerton, Dale Keith; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2022). Methodological innovations and challenges of research on digitally connected homes: an introduction. Digital Creativity . Vol. 33.

Dralega, Carol Azungi; Katuwal, Yam Bahadur; Mainsah, Henry (2022). COVID-19 Lockdown, Information Access and Use Among African Diaspora in Norway. Dralega, Carol Azungi; Napakol, Angella (Ed.). COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication. Chapter 13. p. 197-213. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110...

Mainsah, Henry (2022). Exploring creative pedagogies for research methods: Reflections from a workshop series. Methodological Innovations . Vol. 15.

Hebrok, Marie; Mainsah, Henry (2022). Skinny as a Bird: Design fiction as a vehicle for reflecting on food futures. 12 p. Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies . Vol. 141.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...

Raymond, Corbin Edin; Morrison, Andrew; Mainsah, Henry (2022). Framing scenario thinking in a mode of futures by design inquiry. Lockton, Dan; Lenzi, Sara; Hekkert, Paul; Oak, Arlene; Sádaba, Juan; Lloyd, Peter (Ed.). DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July. 253. Design Research Society.

Prøitz, Lin; Langeland, Fredrik; Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen; Mainsah, Henry (2022). Hybride maskuliniteter og hatideologi på nett: en litteraturgjennomgang om incels i et feministisk medievitenskapelig perspektiv. Norsk Medietidsskrift . Vol. 29.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2998315

Sanchez Boe, Carolina; Mainsah, Henry (2022). Porte de la Chapelle: Les migrants à la trace. Gardesse, Camille; Le Courant, Stefan; Diez, Evangeline (Ed.). L'EXIL À PARIS 2015-2020: Expérience migratoire, action publique et engagement citoyen. Part 2, Chapter 2.

Mainsah, Henry; Rafiki, Nicole (2022). Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city. Qualitative Research .

Sanchez Boe, Carolina; Mainsah, Henry (2021). Detained through a Smartphone: Deploying Experimental Collaborative Visual Methods to Study the Socio-Technical Landscape of Digital Confinement. Digital Culture & Society . Vol. 7.

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Research reports

Prøitz, Lin; Mainsah, Henry; Langeland, Fredrik (2021). FROM BOYHOOD TO RADICALISED MASCULINITY: A rapid research response from the International Symposium on Incels. ISBN: 978-82-92038-18-5. 38 p.

Mainsah, Henry; Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen (2020). The consumer literacies of teenagers in virtual gaming environments. 33 p.
https://oda.oslomet.no/oda-xmlui/handle/20.500.121...

Mainsah, Henry; Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen; Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane (2019). En undersøkelse av det digitale hverdagslivet til ungdom med nedsatt funksjonsevne. 87 p.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/2929

Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen; Mainsah, Henry (2019). Søte jenter og tøffe gutter. En kunnskapsoppsummering om barn som forbrukere i et kjønnsperspektiv. 36 p.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1320

Slettemeås, Dag; Mainsah, Henry; Berg, Lisbet (2018). Brukeranmeldelser og ratinger. Rykteøkonomien på fremmarsj? SIFO oppdragsrapport nr. 12-2018. ISBN: 82-7063-482-4. 43 p.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1307

Slettemeås, Dag; Mainsah, Henry; Berg, Lisbet (2018). Eldres digitale hverdag. En landsdekkende undersøkelse om tilgang, mestring og utfordringer i informasjonssamfunnet. SIFO oppdragsrapport nr. 18-2018.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1309

Mainsah, Henry; Azungi, Carol Dralega (2014). Ethnic minority youth participation in the production and consumption of social media in Norway. ISBN: 978-82-428-0345-0. 47 p.
http://www.vestforsk.no/filearchive/vf-rapport-4-2...

Mainsah, Henry; Hansen, Jane Pernille; Jackson, Daniel (2013). Field study for Ulstein Power and Control II. 42 p.

Sandlund, Per Johan; Beitveit, Ribekka; Mainsah, Henry (2013). Field study for Ulstein Power and Control I. 54 p.

Mainsah, Henry Nsaidzeka (2009). Ethnic Minorities and Digital Technologies: New Spaces for Constructing Identity. 213 p.

These publications are obtained from Cristin. The list may be incomplete

Dissemination

Mainsah, Henry; Slettemeås, Dag; Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane; Paupini, Cristina (2022). Digital platforms, markets and commodification. RELINK networking meeting - University of Bristol. Centre for Sociodigital Futures - University of Bristol.

Mainsah, Henry; Slettemeås, Dag; Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane; Paupini, Cristina (2022). Creative methods for researching digital practices. RELINK networking meeting at the University of Bristol. Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol.

Mainsah, Henry; Horsti, Karina; Leurs, Koen (2022). The interrelated politics of forced migration, media & data: memory, surveillance, and extraction. European Media Salon.

Mainsah, Henry (2021). Position statement: Discussion panel - Decolonising Futures in Design Education. Decolonising Futures in Design Education: Language, Philosophy, Making. Fuel4Design project.

Mainsah, Henry (2021). Methodological innovations and challenges for research in and on smart/connected home environments. Workshop: Methodological innovations and challenges for research in and on smart/connected home environments.

Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane; Mainsah, Henry (2021). Simply complex? A multimodal discourse analysis on the envisioned future living with the internet of things. 8th European Communication Conference Online (ECREA): Communication and Trust.

Mainsah, Henry (2021). Online gaming platforms and the critical consumer literacies of Norwegian teens. 8th European Communication Conference Online (ECREA): Communication and Trust.

Mainsah, Henry (2021). Ethnographic inquiry on and through the digital. Private Lives workshop. University of Oslo.

Mainsah, Henry (2021). Prompts for a multisensory exploration of the city. READING, WRITING AND ACTIVATING URBAN PLACES: METHODS AND ASSIGNMENTS webinar. Writing Urban Places COST action CA18126.

Mainsah, Henry (2021). Methods for reading, writing, and activating urban spaces. Right to the City / Droit à la Ville : An international online symposium. Goldsmiths, University of London & Université de Paris.

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Henry Mainsah

Research groups

Technology and Sustainability

Research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Research reports

Dissemination