Teaching
Program director for the MA program Global Journalism
Current teaching: Global Journalism, Global Media, Methodology, Thesis Course (on the International Master Programme Global Journalism). Thesis supervising. Supervising of doctoral dissertations
Previously: Media and Post-colonial Theory, Media and Identity Politics, Media and Globalization Theory, Foreign News, Genre Theory, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Theory, Semiotics, Post-structural Theory
Research
Nation and Globalization in Foreign News. Culture and Politics in the International News Picture Circuit.
(2008-2013, postdoctoral project)
Media Climate. International project on media reporting from climate summits. 20 countries participate. (2008- . Swedish partner. Project headed by Risto Kunelius, Tampere University and Elisabeth Eide, Oslo University).
The Conflict in Caucasus in Journalism: Political Analysis in News(papers) in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
(2008-2009, Swedish partner. Project headed by Heikki Heikkilä, University of Helsinki).
Publications
(2010, forthcoming) ”What is Threatening the West? Islam/Communism, Religion/Politics and the Rational/Irrational Discourse”, in Nohrstedt, Stig Arne (ed.) From Risk Society to Threat Society (preliminary title). Gothenburg: Nordicom
(Forthcoming) ”Foreign News – A Flagship of the Nation in an Age of Globalization” in Pultar, Gönül (ed) De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization, MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas)
(2010) Communicating the Nation. National Topographies of Global Media Landscapes (ed., with Inka Salovaara-Moring), Gothenburg: Nordicom (http://www.nordicom.gu.se/?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=313&me=3)
(2010) ”Image-Nation. The National, the Cultural and the Global in Foreign News Slide-shows” in Roosvall, Anna & Salovaara-Moring, Inka (eds.) Communicating the Nation, Gothenburg: Nordicom
(2009) “We Witness the World. National and Cosmopolitan Memories in Documentaries about Foreign Nations”, in Castelló, E.Dhoest, A. & O’Donnell, H. (eds.) The Nation on Screen, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
(2009) “Global Divides in Cosmographic Genres. Charity, Solidarity and Different Explanations of Difference” in Nordicom Review. Jubilee Issue, 30(2009) (http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/283_roosvall.pdf)
(2008) ”Dokument utifrån – en TV-historia om identitet. Egen och andras” (Documents from Abroad. A TV History about Identity – One’s Own And Others’) in Edin, Anna & Vesterlund, Per (eds.) Svensk television – en mediehistoria (Swedish Television – a Media History), Stockholm: SLBA (http://www.kb.se/dokument/Aktuellt/audiovisuellt/284-308RoosvallDokumentutifrån.pdf)
(2005) Utrikesjournalistikens antropologi. Nationalitet, etnicitet och kön i svenska tidningar (The Anthropology of Foreign News. Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in Swedish Newspapers) (doctoral dissertation, Media and Communication Studies), Stockholm: JMK
(2002) ”Men of the Headlines. Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Soviet Discourse in Swedish Daily Papers 1987” in Hurd, Madeleine, Olsson, Tom & Åker, Patrik (eds.) Storylines, Media Power and Identity in Modern Europe, Stockholm: Hjalmarson & Högberg
(2002) ”Den Andre och den Andra på utrikessidorna” (The Other He and the Other She on the Foreign News Pages) in Camauër, Leonor, Kleberg, Madeleine & Lundgren, Kristina (eds.) Bromskloss och pådrivare. Medier, genus, social förändring (Brake Pedal and Prompter. Media, Gender and Social Change), Stockholm: JMK
(2000) Svartsprit i pressen. Källor och teman i dagspressens diskurs om svartsprit före respektive under/efter OAS första opinionsbildningskampanj (Illegal Alcohol in the Press. Sources and Themes in the Discourse about Illegal Alcohol before and during/after OAS’ First Campaign) , Stockholm: OAS, Socialdepartementet (Department of Social Affairs)
(1996) "Sjuksköterskan och strejken — en fråga om identitet" (The Nurse and the Strike – a Question of Identity) in Becker, Karin, Ekecrantz, Jan, Frid, Eva-Lotta & Olsson, Tom (eds.) Medierummet (The Media Room), Stockholm: Carlssons
(1995) "Att delta i historien. Judisk filmfestival som identitetsförstärkare" (To take part in history. The Jewish film festival as an identity reinforcer) in Filmhäftet. Kritisk tidskrift för analys av rörliga bilder (The Film Booklet. Critical Journal for Analysis of Moving Images) nr 1-2/1995 (with Sonja Kalmering)
Conference papers (selection 2007-2009)
(2009) “The Politics and Poetics of Communicating Violence and Suffering” key note panel address in the panel Politics of Communicating Violence and Suffering, at the conference Violence and Network Society. School Shootings and Social Violence in Contemporary Public Life, Helsinki, Finland, 6-7 November 2009.
(2009) "Communications, Nations and Globalisations. Media and the Nation Revisited", NordMedia 09 (presened in the group Theory, Philosphy and Ethics of Communication), Karlstad 13-15 August 2009
(2009) “Discourses of Oneness versus Discourses of Particularity. Global Identity Politics of Foreign News Slide-shows”, paper presented at the ICA conference in Chicago, USA, 20-25 May 2009.
(2008) “Politicization of Religion/De-politicization of Politics. Islam and Communism in World News from the Days of the Cold War and into the post September 11 era”, keynote address at the conference Researching Media and Religion: Future Directions of Mediatization Theory and Analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-21 October 2008.
(2008) “Global, Inter- and Intra-National Divides in Cosmographic Genres. Charity, Solidarity and Different Explanations of Difference”, plenary address in the Nordic plenary on Global Divides, IAMCR congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-25 July 2008
(2008) “The (Unintentional) Identity Politics of World News Slide Shows. Clashes and Convergences of Technological and Cultural Globalization”, paper presented at the IAMCR congress, Stockholm, Sweden 20-25 July 2008.
(2008) “De-spiritaulaization of Religion/Spiritualization of Politics. Islam and Communism in World News from the Days of the Cold War and into the Post September 11 era” paper presented at the conference Media, Spirituality and Social Change, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 4-7 June 2008.
(2007) “The Picture-in-Picture Practice in Foreign News. Fetishism in Western Visualizations of Middle Eastern Men”, paper presented at the Nordic conference/network meeting Through the Image. Using the visual to investigate, analyze, create and present, The Nordic Network for Visual Social Science, Stockholm, 25-27 October 2007.
(2007) “Communicating Nations in an Age of Globalization. Representation of Self and Others in Swedish televison broadcasts of documentaries about foreign nations”, paper presented at the conference Narrating the Nation: Television Narratives and National Identities, Reus/Tarragona, Spain, 4-5 October 2007.
(2007) “Sense of Place. Nation and Globalization in Foreign News”, paper presented at the 18:th Nordic conference for Media and Communication Research, Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 August 2007.
Other texts
(2003) ”Krig och journalistik - sanning och lögn” (War and Journalism. Truth and Lies), opinion article for Aftonbladet’s series Medierna och Irakkriget (The Media and the Iraq war), Aftonbladet (Aftonbladet Debatt) 2 May 2003.
