I am interested in the role of media and communication in everyday life, especially in working life. Oftentimes, I use the term mediatization to refer to how media shapes work - and vice versa. I have a special interest in digital work geographies and how they intertwine with urban changes. Much of my research is located within The Centre for Geomedia Studies – a prioritized interdisciplinary research environment at Karlstad University.
In the last few years, my research has tilted towards analyses of media non-use, including moral and discursive changes that are symptomatic of post-digital capitalism. In a variety of contexts, many actors recommend we use our digital media less. But who gains from these new media moralities? How does the growing "digital detox" industry talk about digital media? And how do we judge those who fail to abide by the disconnectivity imperative or who, for one reason or another, cannot simply switch off their phone? These are examples of questions that I have addressed in some of my most recent research publications and conference papers.
In an ongoing research project, my colleagues and I explore these and similar questions in the specific context of coworking spaces. We recognize these shared, urban, and stylized work environments as post-digital workplaces, designed to cater to workers' obligations to be "always on" as well as to their potential desires to be "sometimes off".
In summary, my research evolves around topics like "mediatization", "mediatized work", "platform labour", "digital labour", "media morality", "the post-digital", "digital disconnection", "media non-use", "transmedia", "geomedia", "digital work geographies", and "media-induced gentrification". Typically, I scrutinize these topics through the lenses of social stratification and inequality, paying particular attention to categories or elements of class, habitus, capital, taste, distinction, eliteness, precarity, etc.
