Ida Melander
Ida Melander Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: aWRhLm1lbGFuZGVyO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303094
Room: F2150
About Ida Melander
Ida Melander is Senior Lecturer in Swedish language. Her research interests include meaning-making in digital settings, discourse analysis, narrative analysis and health communication.
Ida completed her PhD in 2022. Her thesis explores health communication about the chronic disease endometriosis in three patient-oriented, alternative and new settings: knowledge negotiations in online discussion forums, seeking care through so-called ‘self-referrals’, and multimodal illness narratives.
She is currently working on three different projects. The first project investigates digital pens in writing instruction (in collaboration with Anders Björkvall from Örebro University and Fredrik Lindstrand from Konstfack). The second project is a study of news aimed at young people on TikTok. The overall purpose of the study is to describe the news genre and Swedish news reporting on TikTok, and to critically examine the news that is published there. The third project is a continuation of one of the dissertation's sub-studies, dealing with self-referrals. This follow-up project will complement the patient perspective taken in the thesis by including how doctors assess these referral texts.
Research projects
Active projects
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Publications
Articles in journals
- Melander, I. & Björkvall, A. (2022). När den organiserade sjukvården uppfattas som otillräcklig: Affekt och känsla i texter om endometrios. RASK: Internationalt tidsskrift for sprog og kommunikation (55), 33-52. [BibTeX]
- Melander, I. (2021). Att söka vård med text: Egenremissen som genre. Språk och stil, 31 (2), 160-191. [BibTeX]
- Melander, I. (2019). Multimodal Illness Narratives: Sharing the Experience of Endometriosis. Diegesis, 8 (2), 68-90. [BibTeX]
- Milles, K. , Holmdahl, J. , Melander, I. & Fugl-Meyer, K. (2018). 'Something that stretches during sex': replacing the word hymen with vaginal corona to challenge patriarchal views on virginity. Gender and Language, 12 (3), 294-317. [BibTeX]
- Milles, K. , Holmdahl, J. , Melander, I. , Hjortek, L. & Fugl-Meyer, K. (2017). ”Den som töjs under sex": Ordet slidkrans som sexualpolitiskt verktyg. HumaNetten (38), 128-140. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Björkvall, A. , Lindstrand, F. & Melander, I. (2024). Shaping and Writing by Hand: On Situated Uses and Semiotic Potentials of Digital Pencils in a Swedish Fourth-Grade Class. In: Marissa McClure Sweeny; Mona Sakr, Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood (pp. 25-44). . Bloomsbury Academic. [BibTeX]
- Melander, I. (2021). Illness Negotiations and the Particular: Exploring Online Forum Interactions About Endometriosis. In: Marjut Johansson; Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen; Jan Chovanec, Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy (pp. 307-331). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Conference proceedings (editor)
- Jansson, D. (ed.) , Melander, I. (ed.) , Westberg, G. (ed.) & Yassin Falk, D. (ed.) (2024). Svenskans beskrivning 38: Förhandlingar vid trettioåttonde sammankomsten. Örebro 4–6 maj 2022, Del I. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Svenskans beskrivning 38:1). [BibTeX]
- Jansson, D. (ed.) , Melander, I. (ed.) , Westberg, G. (ed.) & Yassin Falk, D. (ed.) (2024). Svenskans beskrivning 38: Förhandlingar vid trettioåttonde sammankomsten. Örebro 4–6 maj 2022, Del II. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Svenskans beskrivning 38:2). [BibTeX]
- Jansson, D. (ed.) , Melander, I. (ed.) , Westberg, G. (ed.) & Yassin Falk, D. (ed.) (2024). Svenskans beskrivning 38: Förhandlingar vid trettioåttonde sammankomsten, Örebro 4–6 maj 2022, Del III. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Svenskans beskrivning 38:3). [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Melander, I. (2022). Att göra sin röst hörd: Sjukdomsförhandlande diskurser, genrer och berättelser om endometrios. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]
Reports
- Björkvall, A. , Lindstrand, F. & Melander, I. (2025). Revisiting Cultures of Inscription: Digital Pencils in Swedish Compulsory Schools. Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]