Andreas Widholm, Associate Professor

Andreas Widholm is Associate Professor of journalism in the Department of Media Studies (IMS) at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research addresses the relationship between media, politics and culture with a particular focus on journalism and social media. This broad area includes studies of online news, cultural journalism, global television news, digital political communication and media consumption from a variety of perspectives. Andreas received his PhD at IMS in 2011 with the thesis ”Europe in Transition: Transnational Television News and European Identity”. He is currently involved in a research project exploring historical and contemporary practices of cultural journalism in Sweden (financed by the Swedish research council 2016-2019). In 2016 he contributed to a research project on international news images of the Ukraine crisis with a study of the Russian global news broadcaster RT (financed by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency). Andreas was previously a co-researcher in ”Changing Places”, a research project exploring global and local media events as mediated through screen practices in public space (Swedish Research Council 2011-2013). In 2013-2016 Andreas held a position as senior lecturer of journalism at Södertörn University. In 2012-2013 he was appointed researcher in residence at Swedish Public Service Radio, where he worked with a series of projects relating to media consumption, online news flows and local audience networks. Andreas is currently on the board of the Swedish institute for media studies (Institutet för mediestudier).