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Media and Communication Studies
Media and Communication Studies at K3 focuses on the significance of media for culture and society and for human thinking and everyday life, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The subject includes traditional mass media as well as digital media. Parts of the research are carried out within the interdisciplinary field of Communication for Development.
While Media and Communication Studies traditionally has been analytically and critically oriented, those approaches have increasingly been supplemented with practice and art-based research, which is central to the subject at Malmö University.
Research projects oriented towards Media and Communication Studies have a focus on analyses of:
- digital media
- activism and social movements
- media production processes and journalism
- audience engagement and listening practices
- political communication
- migration
- algorithms, datafication and data cultures
- extremism and online radicalization
- crisis communication
- museums, art curation and archival practices.
A critical approach unites these diverse projects, focussing on changing power relations, and contestations at the intersectionality of e.g. class, gender, age, race, ethnicity and sexuality.
Communication for Development
Communication for Development at K3 is an interdisciplinary research field combining communication studies and development studies focusing on culture, media, communication and development. Research within this field explores communication within contexts of articulating global and local processes of social change. Its multidisciplinary academic foundations draw on development studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography, migration and cultural studies in relation to communication for (sustainable) development, through critical and practical lenses involving culture and social-change oriented questions from a global perspective.
Researchers, publications and projects
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2025 | Article in journal
Imagining change in crisis: Climate imaginaries in activist agenda-settingForthcoming contributions
Julie Uldam, Daniel Lundgaard, Sila Latz, Tina Askanius
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2024 | Conference paper
Tropes of sexual violence and rape fantasies in far-right discourse
Maria Brock, Tina Askanius
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2024 | Conference paper
Imagining audiences, imagining work: What is imagined through Google Analytics audience data?
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Asko Kauppinen, Helena Sandberg
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2024 | Conference paper
Kids, YouTubers and com(merch)ial confusion: Children's perspectives on sponsored content and merch
Carolina Martinez, F. Thelanderasson, H. Sandberg
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2024 | Article in journal
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data
Signe Ivask, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
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2024 | Conference paper
Local public libraries, archives, and museums as agents of democratic resilience
Nanna Kann-Rasmusen, Hans Dam Christensen, Berndt Clavier, Lisa Engström, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
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2024 | Article in journal
Sportkommentatorn - en artist
Kutte Jönsson
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2024 | Article in journal
Self-mediatisation and the format of Swedish parliamentary speeches: Speech length and political slogans, 1920–2019
Johan Jarlbrink, Fredrik Mohammadi Norén
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2024 | Conference paper
Duct-Tape Solutionism: Automation as Panacea and Stopgap in the Swedish Public Sector
Martin Berg
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2024 | Chapter in book
Navigating automated futures: A Framework for Playing and Learning with Imaginaries, Interactions, and Impact
Vaike Fors, Martin Berg, Meike Brodersen
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Decent & dignified digital work from the margins. Anticipations from the Global South & invisible platform workers
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Networked misogyny in Sweden, Germany and Russia: articulations, intersections and transnational flows
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LISTEN- Collective listening to communities and spaces as a core capability in planning towards 15- minute suburban Cities
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Future Society and Democracy in Europe
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Countering Oppositional Political Extremism through Attuned Dialogue: Track, Attune, Limit
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Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of Linked Open Data
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Digital by default? Older adult citizens and digital welfare interfaces
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Swedish Parliamentary Debates
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Digital Emergency Communication (DIGeMERGE)
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Modern Times 1936
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Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
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Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)
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Welfare State Analytics: Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & C ulture, 1945-1989 (WeStAc)
fredrik.noren@mau.se
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Doctoral studies in Media and communication studies
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in Media and communication studies.
Media and Communication Studies focusses on the significance of media for culture and society, and for human thinking and everyday life. This is achieved from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The subject includes traditional mass media as well as digital media.
Contact for doctoral studies in Media and communication: Tina Askanius