Dr. Göran Svensson

Biography

Göran Svensson holds a PhD from the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden, with a thesis on understanding media criticism focusing on conceptual, empirical, and theoretical studies of Swedish media criticism from 1998 to 2013. A trained journalist, he has worked in print and radio as a freelance journalist and has been teaching media communication and journalism at Uppsala University since 1988. He has published research in various academic journals, including Sociologisk forskning and Media, Culture & Society, and has contributed to the Swedish Handbook of Journalism Research. His research interests include media criticism, accountability, trust, and the credibility of media with a specific focus on young online news users, as well as digital public diplomacy, nation branding, and soft power, particularly in relation to Sweden's status within a contemporary multipolar world. He examines the digitalization of institutions and processes, advocating for critical studies of mediated communication and institutionalization from a critical institutionalist perspective.

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