Lecturer and researcher at the department of Media and Communication studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Research interests: internet culture, computer-mediated communication, social interaction, youth culture, gender, identity, computer games.

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Education

2001, Ph.D, Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

1996, B.A Media & Communication Studies, Jönköping University, Sweden

Employments and affiliations

2002-present Assistant Professor, dept of Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University.

2002 Researcher, Center for HumanIT, Karlstad University.

2001-2002 Researcher, Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg.

1996-2001 Doctoral student, dept of Communication studies, Linköping university.

Research projects:

2006-2008 Gender Play: Intersectionality in computer game culture. With PhD Jenny Sundén. Funded by The Swedish Research council.

2005-2006 Young Swedes’ gender- and identity work on the Internet. Funded by The Swedish Research council.

1999-2001 Internet words – methodologies for research in Internet communications. With Yvonne Waern, Maria Mattus, Jenny Sundén and Daniel Pargman. Funded by The Swedish Research council.

1998-2000 Digital Borderlands - Cultural identity and interactivity in new communication media. With Johan Fornäs, Martina Ladendorf, Kajsa Klein and Jenny Sundén. Funded by The Swedish Research council.

Publications:

Books:

Sveningsson Elm, Malin & Sundén, Jenny (Eds.) (2007) Cyberfeminism in Northern lights. Gender and digital media in a Nordic context. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Sveningsson, Malin, Lövheim, Mia & Bergquist, Magnus. (2003). Att fånga Nätet: Kvalitativa Metoder för Internetforskning. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Fornäs, J., Klein, K., Ladendorf, M., Sundén, J. & Sveningsson, M. (Eds.) (2002). Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet. Amherst: Peter Lang Publishing.

Sveningsson, Malin (2001) Creating a Sense of Community. Experiences from a Swedish Web Chat. Dissertation. Linköping: Linköping Studies in Art and Science, 233. PDF

Book chapters

Sveningsson Elm, Malin (forthcoming) Language deterioration revisited: The extent and function of English content in a Swedish chat room. In: Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen & Jeremy Hunsinger (Eds.) International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer Publishing. 

Sveningsson, M. (forthcoming). ’How do various notions of privacy influence decisions in qualitative internet research?’ In: Annette Markham and Nancy Baym (Eds.) Internet Inquiry: Dialogue among Researchers, Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2007). Doing and undoing gender in a Swedish Internet community. In: Sveningsson Elm, Malin & Sundén, Jenny (Eds.). Cyberfeminism in Northern lights. Gender and digital media in a Nordic context. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. PDF

Sundén, J. & Sveningsson Elm, M. (2007). Cyberfeminism in Northern lights. Introduction. In: Sveningsson Elm, Malin & Sundén, Jenny (Eds.). Cyberfeminism in Northern lights. Gender and digital media in a Nordic context. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2006). Young men’s gender- and identity work in a Swedish Web community. In Mia Consalvo & Caroline Haythornthwaite (Eds.) AoIR Internet Annual Volume 4. Amherst: Peter Lang Publishing.

Sveningsson, M. (2006). Anonymitet och identitet i gemenskaper på Nätet. In: Jobring, O (Ed.). Att skapa lärgemenskaper på Nätet. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Sveningsson, Malin (2003) Ethics in Internet Ethnography. In Elizabeth A. Buchanan (Red.): Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Hershey: Idea Group Publishing. PDF

Sveningsson, Malin (2003) The significance of English content in a Swedish web chat. In John Sören Pettersson (Ed.): HumanIT 2003. Karlstad University Studies 2003:26.

Sveningsson, Malin (2002) Cyberlove. Creating Romantic Relationships on the Net. In J. Fornäs, K. Klein, M. Ladendorf, J. Sundén & M. Sveningsson (Ed.) Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet. Amherst: Peter Lang Publishing.

Sveningsson, Malin (2002) Samtal och Samtalsstilar på Internet. In Peter Dahlgren (Ed.) Internet,medier och kommunikation. Lund: Studentlitteratur. PDF

Sveningsson, Malin (2001) An antisocial way to meet. Social representations of the Internet. In M. Chaib (Ed.). Perspectives on Computer Interactions - a multidisciplinary reader. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Sveningsson, Malin (1999) Cybermöten. Om webchat som arena för kontaktskapande. In Fägerborg & Westergren (Ed.) Mus och Människa. Nordiska muséets skriftserie.

Articles

Sveningsson Elm, M. (accepted for publication). Exploring and negotiating femininity: Young women’s production of style in a Swedish internet community. YOUNG.

Sveningsson Elm, M. (accepted for publication). “Teenagers get undressed on the internet” - Young people’s exposure of bodies in a Swedish Internet community. Nordicom Review. 

Sveningsson Elm, M. (forthcoming). Understanding and studying Internet culture(s) – hybridity and interdisciplinarity. Presentation for Panel “Culture and Media Technology”, the 18th Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research in Helsinki 16.-19.8.2007: Generations, communication and media philosophy. Nordicom Review.

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2007). Gender stereotypes and young people’s presentations of relationships in a Swedish Internet community. YOUNG 15(2), p. 145-167.

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2006). Att visa sin kropp på Nätet – om ungdomars självpresentationer på Lunarstorm. Locus 1/06. PDF

Sveningsson, Malin (2002). Analyzing Web Chat Discourse. A reflection on methods. In: Beyond Texts. Nord Nytt, 85.

Proceedings

Sveningsson Elm, M. (forthcoming). Young People's Gender- and Identity work in a Swedish Internet Community. Keynote speech. In Proceedings of the Third International Summer School
organized by IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6 in cooperation with FIDIS Network of Excellence and HumanIT “The Future of Identity in the Information Society”, Karlstad University, Sweden, 6th – 10th August 2007

Sveningsson Elm, M. (forthcoming). Young people’s exposure of bodies in a Swedish Internet community. Paper presented at The Virtual’07: Interaction. A conference, September 20-22 2007. PDF

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2007). Taking the girls’ room online. Similarities and differences between traditional girls room and computer-mediated ones. Paper presented at INTER: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden, ACSIS, Norrköping, June 11-13, 2007. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. Available at: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/025/061/   PDF

Sveningsson, M. (2006). Ungdomars köns- och identitetsarbete på Internet. In Bodil Axelsson och Johan Fornäs (red.) Kulturstudier i Sverige. Nationell forskarkonferens, 13–15 juni, 2005, Norrköping, Sweden. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. Available at: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/015/

Sveningsson, Malin. (2002). Buying Music Online. A Qualitative Study of Swedish Record Buyers’ Shopping Experiences. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'02), 12-15 July 2002, University of Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Unpublished

Sveningsson, M. & Wildermuth, S.M. (submitted). World Wide Wooing: A Look At Online Romances From A Cross-Cultural Perspective.

Conference papers

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2007). Exploring and negotiating femininity: Young women's production of style in a Swedish Internet community. Paper presented at Internet Research 8.0 - Let's PLay. International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers,  Vancouver, Canada, October 17 - 20, 2007.

Sveningsson Elm, M. (2007). Representations of gender in a Swedish Internet community. Paper presented at the 3rd Christina conference on women’s studies & the 4th European gender and ICT symposium, University of Helsinki, March 8-11, 2007.

Sveningsson, M. (2006). Doing gender in a Swedish Internet community. Paper presented at the 9th Nordic Youth Research Information Symposium, NYRIS 9, Landscapes of Youth, 12-14 January, 2006, Stockholm.

Sveningsson (2005) Young men’s gender- and identity work in a Swedish Web community. Paper presented at Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations. International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, October 5 - 9, 2005.

Sveningsson, M. (2005). Ungdomars självpresentationer i en svensk webbgemenskap.  Paper presented at the 17th. Nordic Conference on Media and Communication Research, Aalborg, August 11 -14, 2005.

Sveningsson, Malin (2004) Young women’s gender-and identity work in a Swedish web community. Paper presented at Internet Research 5.0: Ubiquity? International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers at the University of Sussex, England, 19-22nd September 2004.

Sveningsson, Malin. (2002). “Cities, Settlements and Small Towns: the Dynamics of Online Communities.” Paper presented at CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES: Fourth International Conference, 29 juni-2 juli, 2002, Tampere, Finland. http://www.crossroads2002.com/

Sveningsson, Malin. (2002). “Cities, Settlements and Small Towns: the Dynamics of Online Communities.” Paper presented at CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES: Fourth International Conference, 29 juni-2 juli, 2002, Tampere, Finland. http://www.crossroads2002.com/

Sveningsson, Malin. (2001). Moral Codes and Double Standards in a Swedish Web Chat. Paper presented at Internet Research 2.0: Interconnections. The Association of Internet Researchers Second International Conference. October 10-14, 2001, University of Minnesota, USA.

Sveningsson, Malin. (2001). Play and Performance in a Swedish Web Chat. Paper presented at the 15th Nordic Conference on Media and Communication Research, Reykjavik, Island, August 11-13 2001.

Sveningsson, Malin. (2000). Cyberlove. Creating Romantic Relationships on the Net. Paper presented at Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline. The Association of Internet Researchers First International Conference. September 14-17, 2000, University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

Sveningsson, Malin. (1999). Veteranen, Missbrukaren, Gruppmedlemmen och “De Andra”. Chattares berättelser om sig själva och sin värld. Paper presented at the 14th Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research, Kungälv, August 14-17 1999.