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Gustav Westberg

Gustav Westberg Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities and Education

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Gustav Westberg
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About Gustav Westberg

 Gustav Westberg is an Associate Professor in Swedish Language. His research is rooted in multimodal critical discourse studies and social semiotics. In his research, Gustav investigates meaning-making in relation to different social phenomena and political problems, taking a particular interest in the materiality of discourses. In one strand of his research, he studies how antisemitism materializes in the everyday life of Jewish youth and how such materializations affect antisemitism as a lived experience. In another strand of his research, he investigates generative AI as a semiotic technology within the communication industry, with a focus on how practitioners use and evaluate AI tools in their everyday working life.
 
Previously, Gustav has, among other things, studied how ideas about authenticity materialize when clothes and items are branded as Sámi. He has also studied how radical-right extremism re-emerges through embodied semiotics.
 
Gustav is the PI of two research projects:

Antisemitic manifestations - the semiotics of antisemitism in Sweden and experiences among Jewish youth (The Swedish Research Council 2023–2027)

Generative AI as Semiotic Technology: Policies, Platforms and Practices in the Communication Industries (ComAI) (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2027–2029)

Gustav is the coordinator of the research group Multimodal Communication.

Gustav coordinates and teaches at the BA programme Language, Rhetoric, and Communicative Leadership, as well as on the teacher programme.

Publications

Articles in journals |  Books |  Chapters in books |  Collections (editor) |  Conference papers |  Conference proceedings (editor) |  Daily newspapers |  Doctoral theses, monographs |  Reports | 

Articles in journals

Books

Chapters in books

Collections (editor)

Conference papers

Conference proceedings (editor)

Daily newspapers

Doctoral theses, monographs

Reports