Stockholm University Department of Media Studies

Projects

Ongoing Projects

Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures

Patrick Vonderau

Arctic Governance and the Question of Fit in a Globalized World

The Arctic is changing rapidly in ways that fundamentally affect the region’s ecosystems and societies and create new...

Arctic Governance

Miyase Christensen

Att ge röst åt det förflutna: Vittnesmål och minnesarbete i dokumentärfilmen

Soundscapes of Recollection: Filmed Testimony and Memory Work in Documentary Cinema. A project financed by the Swedis...

Beyond the Screen: Embodied Spectatorship in Contemporary Film Installation

Olivia Eriksson

Electronic Labyrinths: An Archaeology of Video Through the Lens of Film

The PhD project Electronic Labyrinths: An Archaeology of Video Through the Lens of Film (2013-2018) engages in an arc...

Jonathan Rozenkrantz

Existential Terrains

What does it mean to be a human being in the digital age? How are those classic existential questions about our finit...

Existensfilosofi

Amanda Lagerkvist

Timothy Hutchings

Michael Westerlund

Katerina Linden

Cinema ́s Middle-Zones and the Infrastructure of Entertainment: Hollywood in Sweden in the Silent Era

The project aims to enhance our understanding of Swedish cinema in relation to globalized media cultures. The primary...

Svensk filmhistoria

Kulturell förändring

Hush! The Aesthetics of Silence in Early Sound Film (c. 1927–1934)

My current research project, ‘The Aesthetics of Silence in Early Sound Film (c. 1927–1934)’, examines the role of sil...

I-Media-Cities

The interdisciplinary research project I-Media-Cities aims to develop technology for providing access to the audiovis...

Local Film History

Archival Research

Maaret Koskinen

Ingrid Stigsdotter

The Worlds of Cultural Journalism

The cultural desks of Swedish mainstream media have recently been key players in digitally circulated debates on raci...

Kulturjournalistik

Demokratifrågor

Kristina Riegert

Imagination Against Anthropocentrism: Animals in Surrealism

Kristoffer Noheden

Mellan Flickorna och Amorosa

Syftet med projektet är att bidra med ny kunskap om förhållandet mellan statsfeminism och kulturproduktion och att sk...

Svensk filmhistoria

Den nya kvinnorörelsen

Feministisk filmkultur

Film som offentlighet

Organized Crime on the Agenda

The aim is to analyze the parliamentary debates and media representations of organized crime in Sweden since 1990, tr...

Oscar Night in Hollywood

Celebrity Culture

Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén

Painting the City

Resistance-by-recording

Using the Arab world as a prism, the project advances a three-prong approach - based on media practice, media ecology...

Kari Andén-Papadopoulos

Screening Protest

The problem of representation at the heart of contemporary societies is double-edged, with both political elites and ...

Media and Protest

Media Globalization

Martin Karlsson

Alexa Robertson

Special Issue: Fashion Practice

In addition to the international proliferation of courses and degree programs dedicated to the study of fashion in re...

Fashion Practice

Lauren Downing Peters

Special Issue: The International Journal of Fashion Studies

The International Journal of Fashion Studies will be devoting a special issue, entitled ‘The State of Fashion Studies...

Chiara Faggella

Lauren Downing Peters

Streaming Heritage

Digital Distribution

Digital Media Infrastructures

Patrick Vonderau

Tinker TV: Making Streaming Television Work

Versions of a Shared Past

Smith's dissertation project, “Versions of a Shared Past: Private Films in Public Archives,” explores the way present...

Women's Film History Network: Norden

In this project, coordinated by Stockholm University, research and memory institutions collaborate in approaching the...

Swedish Film History

Ingrid Stigsdotter