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
- Åsa Kroon
- Ahmed Mohamed-el-Gody
- Jakob Nilsson
- Johan Nilsson
- Joel Rasmussen
- Hogne Sataoen
- Johanna Stenersen
- Tindra Thor
- Jono Van Belle
- Hanna Hallin, PhD student
- Pedro Scofano de Almeida, PhD student
- Axel Vikström, 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.
- Monography for Edinburgh University Press that develops a new concept of philosophical articulation in and through audiovisual media.
- 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?
- Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life: A study of cinema-going in its peak and decline
- 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
- 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
- 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
Abalo, Ernesto. & Nilsson, Johan (2021). Fostering the truthful individual Communicating media literacy in the comic Bamse. Nordicom Review, 42 (1), 109-123. Link to article in Sciendo
Allam, Rasha. & El Gody, Ahmed. (2021). Diffusion of Development Journalism Inside Egyptian Newsrooms. The International Journal of Press/Politics. Link to article in Sage Journals
Andersson, Helen. & Smith, Angela. (2021). Flags and fields: a comparative analysis of national identity in butter packaging in Sweden and the UK. Social Semiotics. Link to article in Taylor & Frances Online
Eriksson, Göran. & O’Hagan, Lauren (2021). Selling "Healthy" Radium Products With Science: A Multimodal Analysis of Marketing in Sweden, 1910-1940. Science communication. Link to article in Sage Journals
Eriksson, Mats. & Engqvist, Björn. (2021). Medborgarnas beteende på kommunala webbsidor om risk, beredskap och kris: en pilotstudie. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (DURCOM Arbetsrapport 1). Link to publication (pdf)
Kroon, Åsa. (2021). "Moderate” gendering in Swedish gambling advertisements. Feminist Media Studies. Link to article in Taylor & Frances Online
Sataøen, Hogne. L. (2021). "Exotic, welcoming and fresh”: stereotypes in new Nordic branding. Journal of Place Management and Development. Link to article in Emerald Insight