Media and Communication Studies

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Peter Berglez

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Humanities-Social sciences

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Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC)

The Media & Communications Department at Örebro University contributes to developing the national and international research fronts in innovative and creative ways. The research subject has three sub-groups representing different themes: Discourse, Communication and Media, Moving Images and Screen Cultures, and Strategic Communication. Research in the sub-groups comprises a variety of areas that have a common interest in cross-disciplinary and critical approaches. By applying a multitude of theories and methods, different types of communicative and mediated practices and phenomena are explored both in local and global contexts. The forms and conditions of mediated communication and their impact on societal changes are central issues of investigation. The subject consists of an international group of researchers and Ph.D. students from different parts of the world which enrichens our perspectives and approaches. Collaborations with other researchers and milieus are integral parts of the subject’s research work, as well as collaborations with organizations and institutions outside of academia.

The research group Discourse, Communication and Media (DCM) focuses on critical, multimodal discourse studies, analyses of talk, and journalistic studies with a global perspective. Studies explore various forms of communication in contemporary journalism, politics, popular culture, and society that take place on a variety of media platforms. Moving Images and Screen Cultures (MISC) hosts researchers from various strands of film studies and media studies and is characterized by both theoretical and methodological breadth. Research expands over historic and ethnographic studies of film culture to explorations of transmedia storytelling and studies of film as thought/theory/philosophy. Research within Strategic Communication (SCOM) revolves around how the modern media landscape impacts on the development of strategic communication and its audiences/target groups. Researchers’ interests include strategic communication within the corporate, government authority and political spheres.

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Eriksson, M. (2025). Att riskkommunicera för krisberedskap: En vägvalsmodell. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Rapport / Centrum för kriskommunikation vid Örebro universitet 1). [BibTeX]
Berglez, P. (2025). Hållbarhetsmålen har alltmer urvattnats och politiserats. Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, 1-11. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (2025). "I wouldn’t want to live there!" Imagining the Nordics through Ingmar Bergman’s films. In: Daniel Humphrey; Hamish Ford, A Companion to Ingmar Bergman (pp. 176-186). London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. (ed.) , Ramos Arenas, F. (ed.) & Peirano Olate, M. P. (ed.) (2025). Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus: Film Cultures and International Reception. New York: Berghahn Books. [BibTeX]
Trbojević, F. , Berglez, P. , Vozab, D. , Ots, M. & Peruško, Z. (2025). Journalism and Media Freedom in Europe: The fsQCA Approach. Central European Journal of Communication, 18 (1(39)), 1-22. [BibTeX]
Andersson, H. (2025). Recontextualizing a healthy lifestyle through interface design: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the Lifesum app. Discourse, Context & Media, 64. [BibTeX]
Khavar Fahlstedt, K. (2025). Rose Fong goes for a ride: Women, moviegoing and social change in early 20th century San Francisco Chinatown. Journal of Chinese Cinemas. [BibTeX]
Berglez, P. & Hedenmo, O. (2025). The mediatedness of interorganizational collaboration: How collaboration materializes through affordances, chains, and switches. Organization, 32 (1), 9-29. [BibTeX]
Olausson, U. & Engström, A. (2025). "The road to the metaverse is not a straight one": Social representations of virtual reality in the news media. Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. [BibTeX]
Eriksson, M. (2024). A Multi-motive Risk Communication Model for “Making” Crisis Preparedness. In: Audra Diers-Lawson; Andreas Schwarz; Florian Meissner; Silvia Ravazzani, Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times. New York: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Hedenmo, O. & Berglez, P. (2024). Att åstadkomma samverkan: Sju kommunikativa framgångsfaktorer. Länsstyrelsen Jönköpings Län. [BibTeX]
Aitaki, G. , Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2024). Audiovisual fiction and democracy. Paper presented at Media Frictions International Symposium, Jönköping, Sweden, May 2-3, 2024. [BibTeX]
O’Hagan, L. A. & Eriksson, G. (2024). Blurring the Boundaries Between Medicine and Food: The Canny Marketing of Läkerol in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden. Social history of medicine. [BibTeX]
Khavar Fahlstedt, K. (2024). Book review: Ink-Stained Hollywood: the Triumph of the American cinema's trade press. Early Popular Visual Culture, 22 (1), 115-118. [BibTeX]
Lauk, E. & Berglez, P. (2024). Can Media Enhance Deliberative Democracy? Exploring Media Monitoring Capabilities in 14 EU‐Countries. Media and Communication, 12, 1-6. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. (2024). Cinemagoing in the teens as mediatization: An audience perspective on the institutionalisation of cinema. Paper presented at HoMER networks annual international conference, 20 years of HoMER: What has been done and where is it going?, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 10-12, 2024. [BibTeX]
Olausson, U. (2024). Deep sustainability and the tyranny of duality. In: Anabela Carvalho; Tarla Rai Peterson, Environmental Communication (pp. 539-552). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [BibTeX]
Olausson, U. (2024). Deep sustainability as care: A nondual approach to environmental communication. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 18 (1-2), 178-183. [BibTeX]
Lauk, E. (ed.) & Berglez, P. (ed.) (2024). Democracy and Media Transformations in the 21st Century: Analysing Knowledge and Expertise. Lisbon: Cogitatio (Media and Communication Vol. 12). [BibTeX]
Wæraas, A. & Sataøen, H. L. (2024). Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 90 (1), 3-19. [BibTeX]
Eriksson, M. & Stenersen, J. (2024). En studie av hemberedskapsengagemang i kampanj- och kristider.. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap/Örebro universitet (DURCOM Arbetsrapport 3). [BibTeX]
Ekström, M. , Kroon, Å. & Östlund, E. (2024). Enacting Journalistic Authority: The Communicative Challenges and Competences of Live Two-Way Correspondents in Swedish Public Service Broadcasting. Journalism Practice. [BibTeX]
Ellefson, M. (2024). Epp Lauk, Martin Oller Alonso, & Halliki Harro-Loit (Eds.): Monitoring Mediascapes: A Premise of Wisdom-Based EU Media Governance. Nordicom Review, 45 (2), 320-324. [BibTeX]
O’Hagan, L. A. (ed.) & Eriksson, G. (ed.) (2024). Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science: Transhistorical Perspectives.. Taylor & Francis. [BibTeX]
O’Hagan, L. A. & Eriksson, G. (2024). From Foods to Nutrients: 150 Years of Modern Nutrition Science. In: Lauren Alex O’Hagan, Göran Eriksson, Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science: Transhistorical Perspectives (pp. 19-37). . Taylor & Francis. [BibTeX]
Eriksson, G. & O’Hagan, L. A. (2024). Introduction: Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science. In: Lauren Alex O’Hagan, Göran Eriksson, Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science: Transhistorical Perspectives (pp. 1-18). . Taylor & Francis. [BibTeX]
Kenalemang-Palm, L. M. (2024). "It takes a long time to become young": A critical feminist intersectional study of Vogue’s Non-Issue. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27 (2), 253-274. [BibTeX]
Waschková Císařová, L. , Splendore, S. , Oller Alsonso, M. , Jansová, I. , Motal, J. , Berglez, P. , Nord, L. , Krakovsky, C. & et al. (2024). Journalism: Collaboration is key to monitoring. In: Epp Lauk; Martín Oller Alonso; Halliki Harro-Loit, Monitoring Mediascapes: A Premise of Wisdom-Based EU Media Governance (pp. 106-134). Tartu: University of Tartu Press. [BibTeX]
Eriksson, M. (2024). Living a “Digital Life” and Ready to Cope with Crises? Highlighting Young Adults’ Conceptions of Crisis and Emergency Preparedness. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 32 (1). [BibTeX]
Rabe, L. , Sataøen, H. L. , Lidskog, R. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments. Journal of Risk Research, 27 (3), 389-403. [BibTeX]
Jernudd, Å. & Van Belle, J. (2024). Managing Constraints and Stories of Freedom: Comparing Cinema Memories from the 1950s and 1960s in Sweden. In: Daniela Treveri Gennari; Lies Van De Vijver; Pierluigi Ercole, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories (pp. 147-172). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2024). Markets as free speech providers and political resignation: Swedish (non)regulation of streaming platforms. Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 15 (2), 279-295. [BibTeX]
Eriksson, M. & Denk, T. (2024). Medborgarengagemang i hemberedskap i kampanj- och kristider. In: Ulrika Andersson; Björn Rönnerstrand; Anders Carlander, Inferno (pp. 133-148). Göteborg: SOM-institutet. [BibTeX]
Sataøen, H. L. , Lövgren, D. & Neby, S. (2024). Metaphors of communication professionals in higher education: between the trivial and significant. Journal of Science Communication, 23 (5). [BibTeX]
Van Belle, J. & Jernudd, Å. (2024). Methodological reflections on the use of memories and oral sources in media-historical research in the Nordic/Baltic region: A case study on cinemagoing in Sweden. Baltic Screen Media Review, 12 (1). [BibTeX]
Sataøen, H. L. , Østgaard Skotnes, R. , Hansen, K. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Municipal risk communication challenges in the Nordic context: Organizing risk ownership. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. [BibTeX]
Ihlen, Ø. , Nørholm Just, S. , Kjeldsen, J. E. , Mølster, R. , Strand Offerdal, T. , Rasmussen, J. & Skogerbø, E. (2024). Navigating Pandemic Phases: Public Health Authority Communication during COVID-19 in Norway.. Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. [BibTeX]
Eriksson, M. (2024). Nya förutsättningar för hemberedskapskampanjer?.. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB). [BibTeX]
Khavar Fahlstedt, K. (2024). Oland: Sveriges glömda Hollywoodstjärna. Stockholm: Appell förlag. [BibTeX]
Kroon, Å. (2024). Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource. Visual Communication. [BibTeX]
Sandstig, G. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Shared responsibility or not? A responsibility messages experiment during a cyber crisis in designing for risk communication. Journal of Risk Research. [BibTeX]
Sataøen, H. L. & Renå, H. (2024). "Sharing is Preparing": The role of Information-sharing in Collective Crisis Sensemaking during the July 22 Attack in Oslo. In: Audra Diers-Lawson; Andreas Schwarz; Florian Meissner; Silvia Ravazzani, Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times. New York: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Sataøen, H. L. & Lövgren, D. (2024). Support and core? The changing roles of communication professionals in higher education institutions. Public Relations Review, 50 (5). [BibTeX]
Andersson, H. (2024). Sustainable Food in Times of Crisis: a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumer Campaigns. Paper presented at 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA 2024): Communication & (dis)order, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24-27, 2024. [BibTeX]
Khavar Fahlstedt, K. & Treveri Gennari, D. (2024). Ticket Whistles and Football Scores: Auditory Ecology, Memory and the Cinema Experience in 1950s Gothenburg and Bari. In: Daniela Treveri Gennari; Lies Van de Vijver; Perluigi Ercole, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories (pp. 263-279). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Wæraas, A. & Sataøen, H. L. (2024). Tous les goûts sont-ils dans la nature ? La traduction des valeurs publiques en significations officielles. Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, 90 (1), 5-22. [BibTeX]
Berglez, P. & Hellmueller, L. (2024). Towards Geopolitical Media Spheres? Theorizing Journalism in the De-Globalizing, Multipolar World Order. Paper presented at 10th Annual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, October 17-18, 2024. [BibTeX]
Berglez, P. , Waschková Cisarová, L. , Krakovsky, C. , Lauk, E. , Miteva, N. , Ots, M. , Skulte, I. & Rožukalne, A. (2024). What is journalism's contribution to deliberative communication and democracy?. In: Zrinjka Perusko; Epp Lauk; Helliki Harro-Loit, European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication: Risks and Opportunities (pp. 64-81). New York and London: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Ots, M. , Berglez, P. & Nord, L. (2024). Who Watches the Watchdog? Understanding Media Systems as Information Regimes. Media and Communication, 12. [BibTeX]

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