Spring School 2016 - Media, Private Sphere and Daily Life

Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University

Deborah Chambers is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. Her most recent book is, Social Media and Personal Relationships: Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). In this post for the History of Emotions Blog she analyses the aspirations and anxieties associated with online friendship in the twenty-first century.

LECTURERS

Stina Bengtsson, Södertörn University

Stina Bengtsson is associate professor in Media and Communication Studies and Head of Department of Media and Communication Studies. She is currently doing research about media and everyday life, digital media morality and ethics, youth culture, taste and power. She gives the course Media and Everyday Life at the masters programme Media, Communication and Everyday Life and teaches quantitative methods at the bachelor programme's second year.

Verónica Policarpo, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Doctor in Social Sciences (Sociology), University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). Director of the Research Centre of Public Opinion of the Catholic University of Portugal (CESOP). Assistant professor of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal. Visiting Professor of the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China. Visiting post-doc research fellow of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester.

Sofia Johansson, Södertörn University

Sofia Johansson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University (Södertörns högskola). She has worked at Södertörn since the autumn of 2006 and teaches on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is Programme Coordinator for two Bachelor's degree programmes, "Medievetarprogrammet" and "Medier, Engelska och Globalisering".

Sofia received her PhD from the University of Westminster in the UK in 2006, for a thesis titled 'Reading Tabloids: A Study of Readers of the Sun and the Daily Mirror'. Her research interests cover journalism, media reception, popular culture and social media. She is a founding board member of the international journal Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, and has been involved in a number of research projects, currently heading a project titled "Music use in the online media age", financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Göran Bolin, Södertörn University

Göran Bolin is professor in Media & Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Bolin's research interests are focused on cultural production and consumption in contemporary culture industries, and how relationships between these are altered by digitization and marketization processes. His most recent work is summarised in Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (Ashgate, 2011), and in the edited volume Cultural Technologies. The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society (Routledge, 2012). His book Media Generations: Experience, Identity and Mediatized Social Change will appear in 2016 on Routledge.

Deborah Chambers,

Newcastle University