Karlstads universitet
Communication Geography
The overarching question of Communication Geography regards "how communication produces space, and how space produces communication". The research terrain cuts across disciplines like media studies, urban studies, tourism studies and architecture.
Visual Culture and Consumer Culture
André Jansson has also combined an exploration of the intersections of media and consumer culture with a closer examination of the production of space. For instance, Jansson has carried out research dealing with the mediatized spaces and consumer phantasmagoria of Montreal's Expo 67, and the housing exhibition Bo01 held in Malmö in 2001.
André Jansson, Professor, holds a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from Göteborg University (2001). He has also worked at Malmö University and has been a visiting researcher at McGill University, Montreal.
André's web site and publications
Globalization, Media and Social Change
Miya Christensen’s main research involves an exploration of transnationalization processes and social theory in relation to media use/mediatization, social inclusion and surveillance. Currently, she has two three-year funded projects (see the Research Projects link for information) and conducts research on media, consumption and social surveillance (funded by RJ); and environment and the media (funded by FORMAS). Christensen is Executive Board Member of Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division of International Communication Association (ICA).
Politics of Media and Popular Communication
Miya Christensen has also been conducting research on the spatialization/commodification of media and communications in Europe (policies and regimes); questions related with media pluralism and freedom of expression; politics of popular communication; and media and the public sphere.
Christensen has published a number of books and numerous international articles addressing both of her main research areas including Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (Cambridge S.P); Connecting Europe: Politics of Information Society in the EU and Turkey (Bilgi Univ. Press); Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space (Peter Lang, forthcoming); and Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey: Structures, Spaces, Voices (Routledge, forthcoming).
Christensen holds a Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Texas at Austin. Sha has lived and worked in the United States and Turkey prior to her move to Sweden.
Miya's Publications in the Research Database
Politics and alternative media
Christian Christensen's main area of research interest is in media, politics and democracy, with an increasing focus on alternative forms of media production, distribution and exhibition. In his work he has covered issues from Turkish journalism to BBC coverage of the Iraq war. An ongoing area of research interest lies in the use of web-based systems for the distribution of political/activist documentary film.
Christian Christensen obtained his Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on public service and commercial television news in Sweden. He has lived and worked in the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey and Sweden.
Christian's publications in the research database
Economic and managerial aspects of cultural production
In his research Patrik Wikström combines perspectives from evolutionary economics, sociology of culture, and system dynamics in order to explore topics such as brands and branding, business models, consumer behaviour, consumer marketing, creativity in organisations, disruptive technologies, organisational learning, and strategic decision-making. Recently he has been primarily focused on music industry dynamics, but he also considers other media industries such as advertising, book, film and video, "interactive entertainment", radio, and television, as parts of his domain.
Patrik Wikström is a media scholar and achieved his PhD on music industry dynamics (2006) from Karlstad University.
Patrik's publications in the research database
Patrik's web site
The production of web sites
Building on the framework of the production of culture perspective Christer Clerwall focuses his research on how the form and content of web sites is affected by the production miliueu in witch they are produced. The research investigates how structural factors such as technology, laws and regulation, industrial structure, organizational structure, market, and occupational careers affect the production of web sites and their form and content.
Christer Clerwall is currently working on his dissertation called How web sites become the way they are.
Christer's publications in the research database
Computer-mediated culture and communication
Malin Sveningsson Elm’s research interests are internet culture, computer-mediated communication and online communities. She has also studied gender and identity online, and more recently, gender in computer games.
Publications include “Creating a Sense of Community. Experiences from a Swedish Web Chat” (2001), and she is a co-author of “Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet” (2002) and “ Cyberfeminism in Northern lights. Gender and digital media in a Nordic context” (2007). She has also published on methodological aspects of doing Internet research.
Malin Sveningsson Elm received her Ph.D 2001, from the Department of Communication Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. She has also worked at the Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg.
Malin's publications in the research database