Mats Björkin
Head of department
Department. of CulturalAbout Mats Björkin
Ph.D., Associate Professor in Film Studies
General
I finished my Ph.D. in Film Studies in 1998 (Stockholm University) and am since 2002 Senior Lecturer in Film Studies.
In addition to research and teaching in Film Studies, and for two years even at the School of Film Directing, I have also held several managerial, board positions and contributed to development projects. I have over the years also written about media and cultural theory in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
I am a member of the Game Research Colloquium.
Since July 2015 I am head of the Department of Cultural Sciences.
Research
My research is mainly about the history of video games, seen both as cultural and media history, but also as part of the histories of software and hardware.
I have also studied what media technologies, nature and human beings have to do with each other. Much has revolved around Sweden during the 1950s, where everything important could be communicated by means of film, television, audio tapes, films, flannelgraphs, exhibitions, advertising, magazines, catalogues, conferences, reports, and debates, but also with the help from trucks, blocks of ice, rivers, power plants, washing machines, hands and faces.
What unites these lines of research is that each object requires its own historical and theoretical analysis for it to say something on a more general level.
Teaching
I have taught in most areas of Film Studies and prefer combining overviews with problem-oriented case studies based on an idea that humanist education is primarily about helping students develop analytical skills to be able to do and make new exciting things. An example of this is the Bachelor's program Media, aesthetics and Cultural Entrepreneurship, which I took the initiative to in 2013 and then started the Autumn semester 2015.
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The Gothenburg International Exile Film Festival In
Context
Boel Ulfsdotter, Mats Björkin
Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere / edited by Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Arne Lunde. - 2019-01-01 -
Far East Film Festival
20
Boel Ulfsdotter, Mats Björkin
Alphaville, Journal of Film and Screen Media - 2018-01-01 -
Come and Blow the Horn: Sound, Sex and Cultural
Heritage
Mats Björkin
Swedish cinema and the sexual revolution : critical essays / edited by Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson - 2016-01-01 -
Datorer som nya massmedier: I skarven mellan 1970- och
1980-tal
Mats Björkin
Massmedieproblem: Mediestudiets formering / Mats Hyvönen, Pelle Snickars & Per Vesterlund (red.) - 2015-01-01 -
Reconstructing past media ecologies: The 1960s generation in
Sweden
Mats Björkin
European Journal of Communication - 2015-01-01 -
A Speculative Game Writer's
Room
Mats Björkin
Learn Do Share #3 - 2013-01-01 -
Jämställdhet på
burk
Mats Björkin
"Skosmörja eller arkivdokument?" Om filmarkivet.se och den digitala filmhistorien - 2012-01-01 -
Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems: Files, Objects,
Distribution
Mats Björkin
Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society, ed. by Göran Bolin - 2012-01-01 -
Reality sucks! Producing passion for the
real
Mats Björkin
"Passionen för det reala": nya rum - 2010-01-01 -
Peer-to-peer File-sharing Systems: Files, Objects,
Distribution
Mats Björkin
Cultural Technologies / Cultures of Technology Symposium 19-20 October 2009, Södertörns högskolan - 2009-01-01 -
På spaning efter nya sociala
kontrakt
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2009-07-30 - 2009-01-01 -
Industrial Films and
Cybernetics
Mats Björkin
Films that Work, eds. Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau - 2009-01-01 -
Will Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System Change Media
Production?
Mats Björkin
Media in Transition 6: Stone and papyrus, storage and transmission, MIT 24-26 April 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Det kalla kriget vanns i
köket
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2008-01-13 - 2008-01-01 -
I begynnelsen var public
service
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2008-11-21 - 2008-01-01 -
You or the Consultant? Designing Audiovisual Material on Corporate
Websites
Mats Björkin
Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2008 Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 6-9/3 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
Videosajter: kollaboration och
amatörism
Mats Björkin
Välfärdsbilder: svensk film utanför biografen, red. Erik Hedling och Mats Jönsson - 2008-01-01 -
Sounds for Homes, Sounds for Industries: Electronic music and industrial
films
Mats Björkin
Screen Studies conference, Glasgow, UK 4-6/7 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
Andra Avenyn: Studying Swedish Television Drama
Production
Mats Björkin
Nordic Media in Theory and Practice, UCL, London, 7-8/11 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
European Television Audiences: Localising the
Viewers
Mats Björkin, Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano
A European Television History , Jonathan Bignell &Andreas Fickers (eds) - 2008-01-01 -
Reaching new audiences through Drama
Production
Mats Björkin, Maria Edström
IAMCR, International Association for Media and Communication Reserarch, Media and Global Divide, July 20-25,Stockholm 2008. Working Group Media Production Analysis - 2008-01-01 -
You shoot, I shoot": Artistic Research and Media
Production
Mats Björkin
Media-In-Transition 5 Conference, MIT, Cambridge, Mass, USA, 27-29/4 2007. - 2007-01-01 -
Industriefilm und
Kybernetik
Mats Björkin
Filmische Mittel, industrielle Zwecke: Das Werk des Industriefilms, herausgegeben von Vinzenz Hediger und Patrick Vonderau - 2007-01-01 -
The Story the Consultant Told: Visualization and Storytelling in Management
Consulting
Mats Björkin
Media-In-Transition 4 Conference, MIT Cambridge, Mass, USA, 6-8/5 2005. - 2005-01-01 -
Fäbodjäntan: Sex, Communication and Cultural
Heritage
Mats Björkin
Frispel: Festskrift till Olle Edström - 2005-01-01 -
Nya perspektiv: Kvinnliga
filmare
Mats Björkin
KINArapport - 2004-01-01 -
Modernitetens skuggor: En kinesisk filmhistoria i tre delar + Femte
generationen
Mats Björkin
KINArapport - 2004-01-01 -
Industrifilm som dokument och
kommunikationsmedium
Mats Björkin
Det förflutna som film och vice versa: Om medierade historiebruk, red. Pelle Snickars och Cecilia Trenter - 2004-01-01 -
Television and Commercial Culture in Sweden during the
1950s
Mats Björkin
Media-In-Transition 3 Conference, MIT Cambridge, Mass, USA, 2-4/5 2003. - 2003-01-01 -
Mediated mining: landscape and economic progress in industrial
films
Mats Björkin
Norberg-Nora 700 Years of Iron Production, Norberg and Nora 18-22/8 2003 - 2003-01-01 -
Platser i rörelse: industrifilm och
mediehistoria
Mats Björkin
Kultur, plats identitet: Det lokalas betydelse i en globaliserad värld, red. Helene Egeland och Jenny Johannisson - 2003-01-01 -
Popular Astronomy 1900: science, fiction and new media: August Strindberg, a case
study
Mats Björkin
Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana/Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society - 2003-01-01 -
Thailändsk film mellan hovnöje och
statskupp
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2003-07-25 - 2003-01-01 -
Ljudforskning med nya
öron
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2003-02-08 - 2003-01-01 -
Moderniteten formade sitt eget
ljudlandskap
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2003-02-09 - 2003-01-01 -
1923|1933 Production, Reception and Cultural Significance of Swedish Non-fiction
Film
Mats Björkin, Pelle Snickars
Triumph der Bilder: Kultur- und Dokumentarfilme vor 1945 im internationalen Vergleich, (Hg.) Peter Zimmermann und Kay Hoffmann - 2003-01-01 -
Om audiovisuella mediers användbarhet för att förstå det
förflutna
Mats Björkin
Historikermötet 2002, Örebro, 19-21 April 2002. - 2002-01-01 -
Re-mapping the cash flow: Audiovisual Media and Corporate
Communication
Mats Björkin
Media-In-Transition 2 Conference, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 12-12 maj 2002. - 2002-01-01 -
Early Swedish (Non-fiction) Cinema and
Cartography
Mats Björkin, Pelle Snickars
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television - 2002-01-01 -
När moderniteten marscherade in i Tysklands
städer
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2002-01-31 - 2002-01-01 -
Modernismens fotografiska
geografi
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2002-05-12 - 2002-01-01 -
Kinesisk jazz och fonografisk
realism
Mats Björkin
Svenska Dagbladet (Under strecket) 2002-07-03 - 2002-01-01 -
Remarks on writing and technologies of sound in early
cinema
Mats Björkin
The Sounds of Early Cinema, eds. Richard Abel and Rick Altman - 2001-01-01 -
Industrial Greta: Some Thoughts on an Industrial
Film
Mats Björkin
Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930, eds. John Fullerton and Jan Olsson - 1999-01-01 -
Bevara dokumentärfilmens kulturarv: Åtgärdsförslag samt förslag till Centrum för dokumentärfilm och en
Filmvårdscentral
Mats Björkin, Bengt Nyström
- 1999-01-01 -
Amerikanism, bolsjevism och korta kjolar: filmen och dess publik i Sverige under
1920-talet
Mats Björkin
- 1998-01-01 -
Swedish 'Quality' Film: The Production Output of Orientaliska Teatern,
1911-1912
Mats Björkin
Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema, ed. John Fullerton - 1998-01-01