I’m a Swedish-Finnish journalism and media scholar interested in questions at the intersection of media, arts/culture and learning. I’m working as the Co-Director of the Centre of Nordic Media Research Nordicom in Sweden, and as a Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University in Finland. I'm also an Associate Professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg. Previously, I have worked as a journalist, critic, press officer, upper secondary school teacher in media/communication studies and teachers’ media educator.
My current research deals, above all, with the following topics:
• Journalistic content and specialized professional journalism; cultural journalism and criticism in print and digital forms
• Cultural audiences: amateur content producers, non-institutionalised reviewing and cultural audience development of media organisations
• The disciplinary pedagogy of journalism education and the Nordic journalism schools
• Media literacy as a form of public pedagogy, media and information literacy (MIL) in the Nordic countries
Besides my research, I have a strong research-and-development-oriented interest in virtual networking and collaboration activities, in particular academic online engangement and pedagogy.
Keywords: journalism studies, professionalism, cultural journalism, arts journalism, arts review, cultural criticism, newspapers, online journalism, social media, user-generated content, Instagram, YouTube, audience development, media education, media literacy, media and information literacy (MIL), journalism education, journalism pedagogy