Högre seminarium i MKV / Research Seminars in Media & Communication
Preliminärt schema våren 26 - Preliminary schedule spring 26
Tisdag den 13 januari
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2126
Forsknings- och handledarkollegium
Tisdag den 10 februari
Kl.13.15-15.00 i F2126
Maria Jansson, Professor of Gender Studies at HumUS/ORU: The rise and fall gender equality and diversity policy in Swedish public service: Are we in the middle of a nationalist turn?
This seminar will present some of the results from the 3-year project DIGISCEENS. Among other things, the project has investigated how gender equality and diversity policies have developed in Swedish public service policy. Analyzing media policy from 2012-2025, we have found that neoliberal governance principles have paved the way for first steps toward a nationalist and anti-gender and diversity agenda in Sweden. These changes go beyond neoliberalization defined as the proliferation of a market logic in all walks of society (Brown, 2006). We have found a dismantling of gender equality and diversity policies and various policy elements which previously have been used to mitigate informational inequalities. Further, our results show that recent policy documents construct an essentialist notion of “Swedishness” which they want public service to disseminate. Taken together, these changes indicate the beginning of a process toward abandoning media policy as a tool to mitigate informational and cultural inequalities.
Tisdag den 24 mars
Kl. 13:15-15:00 i F134
Seminarium för forskningsansökningar/seminar for research applications
Tisdag den 28 april
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2126
Tindra Thor, lektor i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap.
Titel: Smarta verktyg och mjukvarutjänster i undervisning och forskning.
Vid detta seminarium berättar och demonstrerar Tindra hur man kan arbeta med program för kvalitativ kodning av empiriskt material.
Tisdag den 12 maj
Kl. 13:15-15:00 i F2126
Peter Berglez: Towards multiple models of media polarization? Approaching a theoretical and empirical challenge for international communication and political communication research
Traditionally, strong polarization mechanisms in media-politics relations have primarily been associated with a few countries’ media systems, such as Italy and Spain (Hallin & Mancini 2024). However, socio-technological and political-technological developments during the last decades call for comparative media model/system research (Hallin & Mancini 2012; Mattoni % Ceccobelli 2018; Humprecht et al. 2022; Berglez et al 2025; Schröder 2025) that increasingly integrate the role of political polarization for understanding any national media system. Consequently, to view polarization as a central regulator of media-politics-citizens relations in most, if not all, national media systems, be they the media systems of Germany, Slovakia, Sweden, or UK. A prioritized task should be to empirically identify different types of polarized media models; to cluster nation-states within these different models, and to understand their impact in society (e.g. radicalization, systemic violence; dysfunctional parliamentary systems) The assumption is that political polarization operates partly differently and to different extents in different national and regional contexts, in which political parallelism; the “tango-factor” (functional interaction between media and politics); State intervention (media literacy resources; uniting role of PBS): algorithm transparency, and ”negotiation culture” are to be considered central variables. This research idea is, however, still very much in development and comments for further improvements are welcomed.
Preliminärt schema hösten 25 - Preliminary schedule autumn 25
Tisdag den 9 september
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2126
Forsknings- och handledarkollegium
Tisdag den 16 september
Kl. 13.00-15.00 i F133
90%-seminarium för Hanna Hallin.
Opponent: Magnus Fredriksson, Göteborgs universitet.
Inställt! Tisdag den 23 september
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2126
Kaly Halkawt Lundström, barn- och ungdomsvetenskap, SU - Enchanted fans - comfort, ecstasy and the hangover!
Inställt ! Tisdag den 7 oktober
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2126
Hur används maktbegreppet inom MKV? Reflektion över välbekanta traditioner och framväxande perspektiv. Peter Berglez.
Tisdag den 14 oktober
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2240
Ansökningsseminarium (framläggande av pågående projektansökningar)
Tisdag den 21 oktober
Kl. 13:15-15:00 i F2240
Jennifer Renoux. Senior Researcher. Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, will present her ongoing research. The title of the presentation is: Beyond the Hype : Perspectives on (Gen)AI for the ethically inclined. AI in general, and generative AI is particular, have swept over the world in a few years. Amidst all the technological prowess, real or imagined, of these systems, there is one question that must be discussed : and what about ethics? In this talk, she will give a high level introduction of the ethical questions pertaining to the development and use of AI. The goal of this talk is to give the audience the right starting points to learn more and discuss about the ethical use of AI.
Tisdag den 11 november
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2240
Forsknings- och handledarkollegium
Inställt ! Tisdag den 18 november
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i P2
Docentföreläsning, Jono Van Belle
Tisdag den 25 november
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2240
Pedro Scofano de Almedias 60%-seminarium.
Granskare/Reviewer: Prof. Maria Jansson, genusvetenskap, ORU.
Tisdag den 9 december
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i F2126
Angela Smith, University of Sunderland: Toxic masculinity and banal populism: the case of Andrew Tate.
Onsdag till torsdag 10-11 december
MKVs forskardagar/research days, Grythyttan Gästgiveri.
Tisdag den 16 december
Kl. 13.15-15.00 i P267
Kornelia Johansson, SLU: The polarized debate on forests in times of transition: Understanding the role of Swedish journalists