Forskningsinriktningar

Politisk kommunikation/politisk socialisation
Publik- och receptionsforskning
Nyhetsjournalistik och nationalism

Undervisning

Vetenskaplig metod (kvantitativ och kvalitativ)
Medie- och kommunikationsteorier

Pågående forskningsprojekt

Mediated Citizenship: Opportunities, Conditions and Practices in Young People’s Everyday Lives (Vetenskapsrådet).

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Political socialization and human agency: the development of civic engagement from adolescence to young adulthood (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). Länk till forskargruppen Youth and Society (YeS).

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Publikationer

Östman, Johan: The influence of media use on environmental engagement: A political socialization approach. Submitted to Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.

Ekström, Mats and Östman, Johan: Information, interaction and creative production: the effects of three forms of Internet use on youth democratic engagement. Revise & resubmit, Communication Research.

Östman, Johan (forthcoming) When private talk becomes public political expression: Examining a practice-field hypothesis of youth political development. Accepted for publication in Political Communication.

Ekström, Mats and Östman, Johan (forthcoming, 2013): Family talk, peer talk, and young people’s civic orientation. Accepted for publication in European Journal of Communication.

Östman, Johan (2012): Information, expression, participation: How involvement in user-generated content relates to democratic engagement among young people. New Media & Society, 14(6): 1004–1021.

Eriksson, Göran and Östman, Johan (2010) Receptionsanalys. In: M. Ekström and L. Larsson (Eds.) Metoder i kommunikationsvetenskap. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Östman, Johan (2009) Journalism at the Borders. The Constitution of Nationalist Closure in News Decoding. Örebro Studies in Media and Communication, 8. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Doctoral dissertation).

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Östman, Johan (2007) Border Journalism and the Articulation of National Horizons. In: B. Höijer (Ed.) Ideological Horizons in Media and Citizen Discourses. Göteborg: Nordicom.

Presentationer på konferenser, 2011–

Ekström, Mats and Östman, Johan: “Information, interaction, and creative production: the effects of three forms of Internet use on youth democratic engagement”. Paper presented at Media and Participation Conference, Lund University, March 29, 2012.

Amnå, Erik and Östman, Johan: “Citizen Styles and Communication Habits: In Search for the Stand-by Citizen”;

Ekström, Mats and Östman, Johan: “Media engagement and political engagement: How specified forms of media use are related to young people’s participation in politics”;

Östman, Johan: “Communication and Youth Political Agency: A Uses and Gratifications Approach”.

Presentations made at the international workshop Changing Styles of Citizenship: Communication, Media and Youth Engagement, Stockholm, 29–30, September, 2011, organized by the Political Socialization Program at Youth and Society (YeS) and funded by the Swedish Research Council.

Östman, Johan and Ekström, Mats: “Information, entertainment and civic orientation among adolescents: Exploring differential effects of media use”. Paper (peer reviewed) presented at 61st Annual International Communication Association Conference, Boston, May 29, 2011.