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PhD students and doctoral projects

In the spring of 2021, the department has 13 current doctoral student projects. Here you can read more about our doctoral students and their dissertation work.

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Dennis Andersson

His dissertation focuses on how media effects affect people's perceptions of societal problems and is related to JMG's research project Variations of Media Effects (VARME).

Salma Bouchafra

Her dissertation project focuses on the visual representations of (in)security and the discursive construction of threat and fear in right-wing populist communication on social media.

Elena Broda

Her research interests include misinformation (and related concepts such as disinformation and fake news), political knowledge, attitude formation, audience studies, media effects and mixed methods.

Sherwin Chua

His dissertation project investigates the development and implementation of digital reader-revenue innovations among news publishers. Read more about Sherwin Chuas project here.
Read more about Sherwin Chua here.

Sara Ivarsson

This dissertation project focuses on how communication is interpreted, negotiated and understood as an idea in the process of constructing a new Government Agency in Sweden, as well as how these ideas impact the organization at large. Read more about Communication as idea and practice in a Swedish Government Agency.

Johannes Johansson

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Sofia Johansson

Her research interest centers around crisis communication and disinformation. She is specifically interested in how the socio-technological structures of social media platforms can amplify disinformation messages during a crisis, the narrative techniques used to spread disinformation during a crisis and the potential effects of such techniques on beliefs and attitudes.

Md Nabil

His PhD thesis investigates news representation of online misogyny.

Amanda Ramsälv

Her doctoral project approaches journalism with its news reporting as an authorative knowledge-producing institution. It investigates what form of knowledge news is. Read more about Amanda Ramsälv's dissertation work News as knowledge.

Gregor Retteneger

His thesis is looking into conspiracy theories and political dogwhistles in social media and it is part of the GRIPES project and WASP-HS.

Pavel Rodin

In his dissertation, he examines communication about health issues on social media.

Maria Sjögren

Her dissertation regards citizen dialogues as communicative and social practices. Read more about Maria Sjögren's project Discursive dimensions of public participation.

Nora Theorin

Her dissertation project focuses on media effects on attitudes toward migration in Europe. Read more about Nora Theorin's project Media impact on public perceptions of migration.