Göran Svensson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Informatics and Media
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 14
- E-mail:
- Goran.Svensson@im.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, MCS. Section leader MCS. Erasmus+ Coordinator.
Biography
Göran Svensson holds a PhD from the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Sweden, with the thesis Understanding media criticism. Conceptual, empirical and theoretical studies of Swedish media criticism 1998-2013. He is also a trained journalist and has worked as print, radio and freelance journalist. He has taught media and communication and journalism at Uppsala University since 1988.
Research
He has published in Sociologisk forskning, Javnost-The public, Media, Culture and Society, Nordicom-Review, Journal of Social Science Education, been the editor of the sociological textbook Sweden- Everyday life and Structure and contributes to the Swedish Handbook in journalism research. He is also a contributor to the reports published by IMS, Institutet för mediestudier.
He is doing research in three areas. (1) Media criticism and accountability, trust and credibility in the media, with a specific focus on credibility among young online news users. (2) Digital Public Diplomacy, Nation Branding and Soft Power, particularly Sweden’s relation to the global major powers in the contemporary multipolar world order. (3) Digitalization and institutions and processes of institutionalizations. The basic goal in his research is to create bridges between critique/criticality and institutions and to investigate the role that mediated communication, both analog and digital, have for this relation. This is done through studies of mediated/digital institutionalization developing a critical institutionalist perspective.
Publications
Recent publications
The narratives of geographical indications as commons: a study on Catalan and Swedish cases
Part of Food, Culture, and Society, p. 1014-1031, 2023
The Turn towards New Criticalities in the Study of Media, Communication and Journalism
Part of Media Theory, p. 233-256, 2023
Sweden: Old wine in new bottles
Part of The global handbook of media acountability, p. 111-119, Routledge, 2022
Part of Makten över information, Uppsala universitet, 2022
2022
All publications
Articles in journal
The narratives of geographical indications as commons: a study on Catalan and Swedish cases
Part of Food, Culture, and Society, p. 1014-1031, 2023
The Turn towards New Criticalities in the Study of Media, Communication and Journalism
Part of Media Theory, p. 233-256, 2023
Part of Journal of Social Science Education, p. 87-109, 2019
- DOI for Diversity and credibility in young people’s news feeds: A foundation for teaching and learning citizenship in a digital era
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Part of Nordicom Review, p. 47-64, 2017
“China Going Out” or the “World Going In”? The Shanghai World Expo 2010 in the Swedish Media
Part of Javnost - The Public, p. 83-97, 2013
Mediekritik och mediemakt: Bidrag till en kartering av mediekritikens fält
Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 171-194, 1998
Books
Chapters in book
Sweden: Old wine in new bottles
Part of The global handbook of media acountability, p. 111-119, Routledge, 2022
Part of Makten över information, Uppsala universitet, 2022
Den utdragna resan: Sociologen och medievetarna i Uppsala
Part of Sociologiska institutionen vid Uppsala universitet 75 år, p. 210-214, Uppsala universitet, 2022
Medier om medier – en ovanlig kvantitativ översikt av svenska mediers bevakning av sig själva
Part of Nyheter – allt mer en tolkningsfråga: Mediestudiers innehållsanalys 2007-2018, Institutet för mediestudier, 2019
Part of Media Accountability in the Era of Post-Truth Politics. , Routledge, 2019
Medieetik, mediekritik och ansvar
Part of Handbok i journalistikforskning, p. 103-116, Studentlitteratur AB, 2019
Social Media as Civic Space for Media Criticism and Journalism Hate
Part of Managing democracy in the digital age: internet regulation, social media use, and online civic engagement., Springer International Publishing AG, 2018
Part of Global Meida Worlds and China, p. 226-229, 中国传媒大学出版社, 2015
Part of Global Media Worlds and China, p. 226-229, Communication University of China, 2015
Medieetik, mediekritik och ansvar
Part of Handbok i journalistikforskning, p. 115-132, Studentlitteratur AB, 2015
Utländska bilder av Sverige: Bespeglingar i det moderna
Part of Sverige - vardag och struktur, p. 139-161, Norstedts Förlag, 1988
Collections (editor)
Sverige - vardag och struktur: Sociologer beskriver det svenska samhället
Norstedts Förlag, 1988
Conference papers
2022
Finding the way to the reader: Local news and the challenge to connect with the readers
2021
Journalism on journalism – glimpses of a neglected beat in Swedish news journalism
2019
2019
Curators of Sweden – contestation and the representation of the nation
2019
Media, criticality and institutions
2019
2018
2017
Using a critical institutional approach in the analysis of power struggles over media and journalism
2016
2016
Podcasting as an instrument of media accountability. Experiences from Sweden
2016
2016
Social media as civic space for media criticism and journalism hate
2015
2015
2015
2013
Synliga och gömda – frågor och aktörer i debatten kring Liza Marklunds Gömda
2009
Sociala enklaver, slussar och vändkors: dokusåpa, realityteve och den sociala inbäddningen
2005
Mellan "deras" och "vår" journalistik: nya aktörer och arbetsformer i reporterarbete
2005
Att ställa medier till svars: mediekritik och ansvarstagande i journalistik och medier
2003
Kritikens former och verkan: om kritikbegreppet och mediekritik
2001
1999