MEDIA, CULTURE and POWER:
European cultural perspectives
Annette Hill, Lund University
Annette Hill is a Professor of Media and Communication at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, UK. Her research focuses on audiences and popular culture, with interests in media engagement, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures of viewing. She is the author of seven books, and many articles and book chapters which address varieties of engagement with reality television, news and documentary, television drama, entertainment formats, live events and sports entertainment, film violence, media ethics.
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Her most recent book is Reality TV: Key Ideas (Routledge 2015). Other books include Paranormal Media (Routledge 2011), Restyling Factual TV (2007), Reality TV (2005), The Television Studies Reader (with Robert C Allen 2003), TV Living (with David Gauntlett 1999), and Shocking Entertainment (1997). Her next book is
Media Experiences (Routledge 2017).
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She is the programme leader for the Msc in Media and Communication.
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LECTURERS
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.
Annette Hill
Lund University
Rita Figueiras
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Göran Bolin
Södertörn University
Rita Figueiras, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Rita Figueiras is a Professor at the Human Sciences Faculty at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Coordinator of the PhD program in Communication Studies at the UCP and member of the board of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC). Visiting Professor of University of São Paulo (Brazil) and of Södertörn University (Sweden). Her work focuses on political communication and journalism, particularly in the areas of political digital media, political news journalism, electoral campaigns, and, more broadly, the relationship between the media and power. Her most recent work is a co-edited book - Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave (Routledge, 2015).
Eduardo Cintra Torres, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Researcher at the CECC. Latest of 17 books: “Marques” (História dum Perseguido) de Afonso Lopes Vieira (org.), Lisbon, INCM, 2016; Telenovela, Indústria & Cultura, Lda. [Telenovela, Industry & Culture, Inc.], Lisbon, FFMS, 2015; From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media,co-edited with Samuel Mateus, Frankfurt, Peter Lang Ed., 2015.
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Eduardo Cintra Torres
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Tina Askanius
Lund University
Tina Askanius, Lund University
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Tina Askanius is a researcher and assistant professor in the department of Media and Communication at Lund University, Sweden. Her research primarily concerns the social media-social movement nexus and she has published extensively on these matters in the context of both radical left and extreme right activism.
Sofia Johansson
Södertörn University
Stina Bengtsson
Södertörn University
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.
Stina Bengtsson, Södertörn University
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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.