Data journalism, gender and ideologies online, digital parenting, investigative journalism, and how parliamentarians use media – these were just some of the topics of the doctoral theses defended at Nordic universities last year. In 2024, 66 researchers earned their PhDs in the region. Congratulations to all!
Through searches across databases including DiVA in Sweden, Cristin in Norway, NORA in Denmark, and Finna in Finland, we found 62 accepted theses in 2024. None were found in Iceland. The universities of Bergen, Copenhagen, Tampere, and Turku had the highest number of accepted doctoral theses in the Nordic region last year.
Congratulations to all the graduates of last year! If you are aware of any theses that are missing from the list, please let us know.
Doctoral Theses 2024
Sweden (14)
Baltz, André: Dialog och digital kommunikation i svenska kommuner, Umeå University
Bendfeldt, Luise: Tales of Lonely Young Men: Analysing Portrayals of Misogynistic Incel Violence, Uppsala University
Broms, Lovisa: Equestrian (Media) Cultures in Transition? Mediatization of Stable Cultures Through Social Media, Malmö University
Burnett, Allan: Order in Ruins: British Society and the Media Assemblage of The World at War c. 1970-1975, Lund University
Daudi, Aurélien: Conspicuous Fitness: Social Media, Fitspiration, and the Rise of the Exhibitionistic Self, Malmö University
Elmerot, Irene: Decoding Discourse: A Corpus Linguistic Study of Evaluative Adjectives and Group Nouns in Czech Print News Media (1989–2018), Stockholm University
Hedenmo, Otto: Elusive Promises of Mediated Collaboration: An Exploration of Media-Driven Potentials and Pitfalls in Collective Climate Change Mitigation, Jönköping University
Mohammadinodooshan, Alireza: Data-driven Contributions to Understanding User Engagement Dynamics on Social Media. Linköping University
Morini, Francesca: Design + Data Journalism: Shifting Epistemologies, Values, and Practices, Södertörn University
O’Farrell, Kate: Gender and Ideologies Online: Discursive Constructions in Online News Comment Sections, Stockholm University
Osborne, Tanya: Unicorns in Moderation: Gender and Epistemology on Stack Overflow., Gothenburg University
Sjögren, Maria: A Talking Matter: Discursive Enactments of Norms and Tensions an a Public Participation Process, Gothenburg University
Stenkvist, Sara Rebecka: Ett självmatande maskineri. En etnografisk studie av kommunikationsverksamheten i en svensk myndighet, Gothenburg University
Svensson, Torbjörn: From Games to News: Creating an Engagement Model for Digital Local News, University of Skövde
Denmark (12)
Andelsman Alvarez, Victoria: At Arm’s Length: Thinking with Care about Digital Parenting in Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Batikha, Josef Peter: Koldkrigsjournalistik: en mediehistorisk analyse af skiftende amerikanske regeringers påvirkning af Danmarks Radio under Den Kolde Krig, 1945-1970, Roskilde University
Brems, Miriam: Alternative News Use in a High-Trust Media and Political Context: The Spread and Use of Alternative Media and their Democratic Implications in the Least Likely Case of Denmark, Arhus University
Brinkmann, Mørch Maria: DR for børn: Strategi og strategisk arbejde i en digital medievirkelighed, University of Copenhagen
Henriksen, Elbæk Sofie: Big Tech to the Rescue? An Ethnographic Study of Corporate Humanitarianism in the Refugee Crisis, Copenhagen Buisiness School
Henriksen, Møller Fredrik: BURN IT DOWN: Anti-Systemic Narratives and Counterpublics in Digital Alternative Information Environments, Roskilde University
Hyslop Graham, Mike: Single-Player Games and the Self: (Game)Play and Transformations, IT University of Copenhagen
Kappelgaard Severin-Nielsen, Majbritt: Parliamentarians’ Media Practices in a Hybrid Media Environment: A Mixed-Methods Study of Media Strategies and Behaviors in Danish Politics, Aalborg University
Lohse, August: Political Participation, Responsiveness and Discourse in the Social Media Age, University of Copenhagen
Lykke Ringgaard, Rebekka: Kollektive anklager i aktuel skandinavisk offentlighed, Aarhus University
Pedersen, Kristina Aleksnadrova: Subtle Strings and Loud Chains: Autocratic Strategies of Information Control and their Impact on Media and Political Expression, University of Copenhagen
Rossi, Sippo: Bots on Social Media: The Past, Present and Future, Copenhagen Business School
Scott Hansen, Sne: Wearable Communication: Exploring Communicative Agency with Wearable Digital Tracking Technologies for Personalized Decision-Support in People’s Everyday Lives, University of Copenhagen
Weldingh, Line: Mediernes problembarn: Den fastlåste danske klimajournalistik – er der en vej ud?, Roskilde University
Norway (15)
af Malmborg, Frans August Runo: Artificial Intelligence – a Promethean Technology? Frames, Narratives and Arguments about AI in the EU and the Nordics 2016-2022, University of Adger
Bjerknes, Fredrik: Exploring Investigative Journalism: Boundaries, Epistemologies and Visibilities, University of Bergen
Doan, Tu My. Viewpoints Detection in Political Speeches, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Haanshuus, Birgitte Prangerød: Old Hate in New Media: Understandings of Antisemitism and Boundary-Making in the Norwegian Digital Public Sphere, University of Oslo
Iveland, Kari: Lyrics, Voices, and the Stories They Tell, University of Agder
Kiberg, Håvard: Platform Ambivalence: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Platformization and the Norwegian Music Industry, University of Bergen
Kronman, Linda Maria Jessica: Performing Bias: Conceptions of Machine Vision Bias in Digital Art, University of Bergen
Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie: Re/Presentations of Migrant Integration Discourses in Northern Norway, Nord University
Mehri S. Agai: Digital Flux: The Process of Youth Disconnection in an Ambivalent Digital Modernity, University of Bergen
Obukhova, Anna: Svalbard Through the Prism of Russian Media: A Discourse and Cognitive Perspective, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Okopnyi, Pavel: Collaborative Video Editing, University of Bergen
Outzen, Mads: Facing Terror: The Ethical Potential of Facing Terror Through Film, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Refsum, Anne Sigrid: Skillingsvisene i Norge ca. 1780-1860. Mellom muntlighet og massemedium, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stifjell, Celina: She-Monsters and Sea Changes: Imagining Submersion in Speculative Feminist Fiction, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Undrum, Linda Victoria Moland: Kritisk literacy, multimodalitet og sosiale medier: En utforsking av multimodale fritidstekster og tekstpraksiser på Instagram, ungdommers vurdering av dem, og hvordan de kan inngå i norskfagets arbeid med kritisk tilnærming til tekst, University of Stavanger
Finland (21)
Antola, Laura: Creating Transnational Superheroes: The Adaptation of American Superhero Comics in Finland in the Late Twentieth Century, University of Turku
Asman, Ihsan Can: Intimate Happenings: Uses of Porn and Other Sexual Media in Turkey, University of Turku
Erkkilä, Taina: Towards Maturity in Alignment: Balancing Organizational Listening and Speaking on Social Media, University of Jyväskylä
Fernandez Galeote, Daniel: Gamification and Climate Change Engagement: Building Knowledge, Developing Practice, and Studying Experiences and Effects, Tampere University
Harju, Auli: Experiencing Public Participation and Its Research, Tampere University
Huttunen, Kaapo: The Sounds of Nordic Noir, University of Turku
Huuhka, Marleena: Weird Encounters in Virtual Worlds: Towards a Theory of Performative, Anarchic Counterplay as Resistance, Tampere University
Kaartinen, Miina: Kehkeytyvä selviytyminen ja toinen tieto : Kulttuurisen sosiaalityön kompilaatio, Tampere University
Koivula, Minna: Journalism Made Different: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Newsrooms, University of Jyväskylä
Korkeamäki, Laura: Historians’ and Media Scholars’ Interactions with Research Data: Research Work Processes, Information Needed, and Focus Formulation to Understand Human Phenomena, Tampere University
Lathi, Henri: Growing Up Online: Adolescents’ Digital Media Use and Its Relationships with Individual Factors, Social Factors, and Health, University of Jyväskylä
Leppälä, Mia: Enterprise Social Media for Knowledge Brokering, Alto University
Marttila, Eetu: Compulsion for Connection: Exploring Problematic Social Media Use, University of Turku
Morney, Elisabeth: Beyond the Craft — Three Perspectives on the Creative Process in the Innovation of Television Formats, Alto University
Oisalo, Niina: Traces, Gaps and Constellations: Acts of Remembering in Contemporary Nordic Documentary Film, University of Turku
Park, Solip: Understanding Game Work Migration: Game Expats in Finland, Aalto University
Parthasarathi, Vibodh: A Considered Silence: The Regulatory History of Press Ownership in India, University of Helsinki
Ritter, Susanne: Regimenting Bodies, Regulating Lives: Fatness, Gender, and Relationships of Power in Makeover Television Shows from Finland and the United States, Tampere University
Räikkönen, Jenni Maria: Pronouns separating the UK from the EU: We and us in British newspapers and parliamentary debates in 1973–2015, University of Helsinki
Salonen, Margareta: Revising the Understanding of Gatekeeping Theory: Factors and Practices of Post-Publication Gatekeeping., University of Jyväskylä
Spurava, Guna: Towards Platform Awareness in Media Education, Tampere University
Teirilä, Olli: From Weapons of Mass Destruction to Snowden and Beyond: Development of Intelligence-Media Relationship in Britain, National Defence University.
Tyni, Janne: Exploring Rewards in Serious and Educational Games, University of Eastern Finland
Is your thesis missing? Let us know and we will complement the list!
Image: University of Bergen.