Media and Communication Studies
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- Humanities-Social sciences
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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.
Researchers
- Helen Andersson
- Peter Berglez
- Merja Ellefson
- Cansu Elmadagli
- Mats Eriksson
- Göran Eriksson
- Åsa Jernudd
- Lame Maatla Kenalemang-Palm
- Kim Khavar Fahlstedt
- Åsa Kroon
- Ahmed Mohamed-el-Gody
- Jakob Nilsson
- Johan Nilsson
- Ulrika Olausson
- Joel Rasmussen
- Hogne Sataoen
- Johanna Stenersen
- Tindra Thor
- Jono Van Belle
- Hanna Hallin, PhD student
- Pedro Scofano de Almeida, PhD student
- Malin Ågren, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Communication of "good" foods and healthy lifestyles
- Cross-sector collaboration on climate change mitigation as a communicative challenge. What are the key success factors?
- Decoding Education Policy: Computational Methods for Education Policy Research
- Fostering, Commercialism, and Transmedia Worldbuilding in Bamse
- Ingmar Bergman out of focus: translations, receptions & interpretations
- Internal dimensions of crisis communication in an on-going crisis situation: Lessons from 22th July terrorist attacks
- Mediadelcom - Critical Exploration of Media-Related Risks and Opportunities for Deliberative Communication: Development Scenarios of the European Media Landscape.
- New motives for the citizen's home preparedness?
- Ordinary people on Television: A historical study of change, continuity and transformation
- Pandemic Rhetoric (PAR)
- Reputation Management in the health care sector
- Strategic Communication and Organizing in the Scandinavian Higher Education Sector: Towards the Promotional University?
- The logic of measuring, managing and governing ecosystems (EcoLogic)
- Trust and distrust in Sweden's covid-19 management: The pandemic rhetoric project extended (PAR-EX)
Completed projects
- Ambiguous Visions: The Politics of Hollywood Satire
- Analyzing the Mechanism, Impact and Circumvention of Internet Censorship in the the Arab World
- Crisis Communication in a Digital Age
- Dear Hunters. Ecocritical Perspectives on Swedish Hunting Films 2008 - 2012
- European Research on the Historical Experience of Cinema Going
- Film Satire and American Exceptionalism
- Global Media, Global Transformations
- Hollywood Subversion: American Film Satire in the 1990s
- Interactive Racism in Swedish Online Media, Press and Politics: Discourses on Immigration and Refugees at Times of Crisis
- Media images of mental ill-health in connection with violent crime
- MediaClimate
- Monograph: Jakob. A. Nilsson (2023), Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville. Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Nation and Globalization in Foreign News. Culture and Politics in the International News Picture Circuit (2008-2012)
- Post-television practices: Reinventing broadcasting and print media with the use of web TV
- Press Conferences as Public Arena
- Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life: A study of cinema-going in its peak and decline
- The Language of Politics in the Media Public Sphere
- The Politics of Place. Ethnicity and Class in Media Representations of Indigenous and Mobile Minorities
- Threat Images and Identity
- Through a post-political gaze: On the ideological loading of democracy in the coverage of Chávez's Venezuela
- Up and Down with Climate Change in the Media
- War Journalism in the New Wars
New Publications
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. Link to article in DIVA
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. Link to article in DIVA
Eriksson, M. & Stenersen, J. (2024). En studie av hemberedskapsengagemang i kampanj- och kristider. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap/Örebro universitet (DURCOM Arbetsrapport 3). Link to article in DIVA
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). Link to article in DIVA
Eriksson, M (2024). A Multi-motive Risk Communication Model for “Making” Crisis Preparedness. I (red.) Diers-Lawson. A, Schwarz, A., Meissner, F., och Ravazzani, S., Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times. Routledge: New York. Link to article in Taylor & Francis
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. Link to article in DIVA
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. Link to article in DIVA
Berglez, P. Hedenmo, O. (2023) “The mediatedness of interorganizational collaboration. How collaboration materializes through affordances, chains, and switches”, Organization. Link to article in DIVA in Sage Journals
Berglez, P. (2023) “Ten news criteria for sustainable journalism”, Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies. Link to article in Intellect DISCOVER
Eriksson, M. , Falkheimer, J. & Gardell, E. (2023). Kristider. In: Jesper Strömbäck; Ingela Wadbring, Snabbtänkt. Eftertänkt. En vänbok till Lars Nord (pp. 26-27). Sundsvall: Demicom. Link to article in DIVA
Jernudd, Å, and Van Belle, J. (2023). Managing constraints and stories of freedom: Comparing cinema memories from the 1950s and 60s in Sweden. In: Treveri Gennari, D., Van de Vijver, L., and Ercole, P. (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories. Palgrave Macmillan.
Kroon, Å. (2023). Welcome Inside The Casino Cottage: Challenging the Notions of “Risk” in Online Casino Advertising through a Context-Attentive Discourse Analysis of a Swedish Brand’s Ad Videos from 2014-2022. Critical Gambling Studies, 4 (1), 38-52. Link to article in DIVA
Kroon, Å. & Nilsson, J. (2023). How slow is ‘slow TV’? Audiences’ experiences of meditation, obsession and authenticity when watching swimming moose on Swedish television. Journal of Popular Television, 11 (3), 279-298. Link to article in DIVA
Nilsson, J. (2023). Inculcative Address, Commercial Worldbuilding, and Transmedia Economy in the Children’s Franchise Bamse. Popular Communication, 21(3–4), 171–184.
Link to article in Taylor & Francis Online
Nilsson, J. (2023), Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville. Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media. Edinburgh University Press.
Nilsson, J. (2023). “A Planetary Whole for the Alienated. John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea Through Jameson and Deleuze”. In: Bolton, L., Martin-Jones, D., Sinnerbrink, R. (eds). Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew. Edinburgh University Press.
Rääf, C. , Martinsson, J. , Eriksson, M. , Ewald, J. , Javid, R. G. , Hjellström, M. , Isaksson, M. , Rasmussen, J. & et al. (2023). Restoring areas after a radioactive fallout: A multidisciplinary study on decontamination. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 270. Link to article in DIVA
Sataøen, H. L. & Eriksson, M. (2023). “Striking the right balance”: tensions in municipal risk communication management for preparedness. Journal of Communication Management, 27 (4), 601-616. Link to article in DIVA
Sjöberg, J., Berglez, P. Gambarato, R.) (2023) ”’Malmö is Not Sweden’s Chicago’: Policing and the Challenge of Creating a Sense of Safety Through Social Media Strategies”, Nordicom Review. Link to article in Sciendo
Van Belle, J., & Jernudd, Å. (2023). Remembering television as a new medium: Conceptual boundaries and connections. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 13(1), 67–81. Link to article in intellect DISCOVER