Orla Vigsö

Professor

Journalism Media and Communication JMG

Telephone

+46 31-786 49 98

Mail

orla.vigso@jmg.gu.se

Visiting address

Seminariegatan 1B

41313 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 710

40530 Göteborg

About Orla Vigsö

Mag.art. & cand.mag. in Political Science and Scandinavian Languages from Aarhus University, Denmark, 1990. Fil. lic. (2002) and Ph.D. (2004) in Scandinavian Languages from Uppsala University, with studies of political communication and election posters. Has worked as assistant and associate professor in Uppsala, Roskilde, Göteborg, Örebro, and Södertörn. Promoted to Professor of Rhetoric at Södertörn University 2011, and Professor in Media Studies 2015. Working for JMG since March 2013.

Research Areas

My two main areas of research are political communication and satire.

Research

My latest project is a study of Swedish political cartoons from 1890 till today, their frequency, content, and form.

I also partake in the collection of election campaign materials in relation to the European election 2014, as part of a group of European researchers and in order to make the posters, videos, etc. available for comparative studies.

Teaching

I have 25 years of experience teaching language, rhetoric, communication, theory and method, etc. in Denmark and Sweden. My current teaching is mainly within the analysis of political communication.

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