Henry Mainsah

About

Henry Mainsah is a Research Professor at OsloMet and part of the Technology and Suatainability research group at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO). He obtained a PhD in Media and Communication from the University of Oslo and has developed an interdisciplinary research portfolio located at the crossroads between the social sciences and the creative disciplines focusing on digital media, youth culture, design, and interdisciplinary methods. Mainsah’s research covers topics such as digitization, digital literacy, youth culture, smart living, creative research methods, and participatory design.

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

Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane ; Paupini, Cristina ; Mainsah, Henry (2023). Intra-Acting With Technology During Remote Fieldwork in Homes: Curating Video Interviews and Drawing Methods. 12 p. International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM). Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231185466

Mainsah, Henry ; Rafiki, Nicole (2022). Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city. Qualitative Research.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941221096599

Raymond, Corbin Edin; Morrison, Andrew; Mainsah, Henry Nsaidzeka (2022). Framing scenario thinking in a mode of futures by design inquiry. Proceedings of DRS.
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.688

Mainsah, Henry (2022). Exploring creative pedagogies for research methods: Reflections from a workshop series. Methodological Innovations. Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991221114572

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://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102983

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://doi.org/10.18261/nmt.29.2.3

Sanchez Boe, Carolina; Mainsah, Henry (2022). Porte de la Chapelle: Les migrants à la trace. Gardesse, Camille; Le Courant, Stefan; Diez, Evangeline (Ed.). ÉDITIONS L'ŒIL D'OR.

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://doi.org/10.18261/tfk.46.3.8

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. p. 197-213. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-803

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. 4 p. Digital Creativity. Vol. 33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2138453

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Research reports

Dralega, Carol Azungi; Mainsah, Henry ; Dahle, Margunn Serigstad (2023). Video Games and Critical Media Literacy in Family Contexts in Norway. 58 p. NLA University.

Slettemeås, Dag ; Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane ; Mainsah, Henry (2023). Årvåken og overvåket? Norske forbrukeres forhold til digitale data, sporing, personalisering og målretting i overvåkningsøkonomien. ISBN: 9788270635481. 82 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3063287

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. Nora Forlag.

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

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

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

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. Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1309

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. Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1307

Slettemeås, Dag ; Mainsah, Henry ; Berg, Lisbet (2018). Plattformøkonomien: En landsdekkende undersøkelse om bruk av strømme-, booking-, bruktomsetnings- og delingstjenester. ISBN: 82-7063-478-6. 87 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1308

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. Vestlandsforsking.
http://www.vestforsk.no/filearchive/vf-rapport-4-2

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Dissemination

Mainsah, Henry ; Dralega, Carol Azungi; Dahle, Margunn Serigstad (2023). Workshopguide: Hvordan får barn og unge til å reflektere over dataspill og mediekompetanse. NLA Høyskolen, Kristiansand.

Mainsah, Henry (2023). Platform structures and enacting data literacies through critical pedagogy. Everyday Life in Digitalized Worlds - Conference on private lives and sociality in a digital era.

Mainsah, Henry (2023). DESIGN FICTION/DIGITAL CONFINEMENT workshop - an introduction. Digital Confinement 5th Anthropology of Confinement Network Meeting and Workshop, Aarhus 2023.

Åberge, Albertine; Dralega, Carol Azungi; Mainsah, Henry (2023). ESCAPEROOM VR360: Hekta? Et kodekammer om din digitale hverdag – Samfunnskunnskaps.

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

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 ; 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.

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). 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.

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Henry Mainsah

About

Research groups

Technology and Sustainability

Research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Research reports

Dissemination