Mats Ekström

Professor

Journalism Media and Communication

JMG

Telephone

+46 31-786 12 36

+46 702-88 38 79

Mail

mats.ekstrom@gu.se

About Mats Ekström

Background

Mats Ekström did his PhD in Sociology at Uppsala University. He has been a professor in Sociology (2001-) and in Media and Communication (2002-2011) at Örebro University. Since 2011 he is professor in Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg.

Research areas

Journalism
Media talk and interaction
Discourse and Conversation analysis
Media, politics and democracy
Young people’s media use and civic engagement
Methodology

Current research projects

Engaging audiences with constructive journalism
Activation and articulation of authoritarian attitudes: The importance of the media
Right-wing populism in the news media: A cross-cultural study of journalist practices and news discourse
The epistemologies of digital news journalism
Political socialization and human agency: the development of civic engagement from adolescence to young adulthood
Practices of frontline interactions in the Swedish Social Insurance Agency: A study of how goals and rules are shaped and handled in conversations between officials and citizens in the public sector

Teaching

Mats teaches courses in media and communication studies and on the journalism program.

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