Susanne Almgren

Assistant Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Communication and Behavioral Sciences , School of Education and Communication
Presentation Publications

Research

Susanne's compilation thesis is about news online and news users' opportunities and preferences to participate, in creating user-generated content (UGC), for example user comments. Her research has been published in the international journals Digital Journalism (Taylor & Francis, ROUTLEDGE), Social Media + Society (SAGE) and NORDICOM review and she is one of the contributing chapter authors to the Swedish Media Inquiry's research anthology Människorna, medierna & marknaden (2016: 30) [The people, the media & the market].

The research project Media Organizational Strategies and Participatory Practices was initiated by professor Tobias Olsson and associate professor Patrik Wikström. The project is financed by 80 percent by the Carl-Olof and Jenz Hamrin foundation, 20 percent by the included schools, School of Education and Communication (HLK) and Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) at Jönköping University.

Biography

Susanne is a doctor of philosophy (PhD) of Media and Communication Science, and lecturer at Jönköping University.

Susanne was previously working as a teacher in a Swedish equivalent to senior high school/upper secondary school (1998-2010), teaching various subjects related to traditional media, computer/internet use, graphic design, multimedia and producing texts for target audiences.

Article

Almgren, S. (2017). Undoing Churnalism? Users sharing local news on Facebook Digital Journalism, 5(8), 1060-1079. More information
Almgren, S., Olsson, T. (2016). Commenting, sharing and tweeting news: Measuring online news participation Nordicom Review, 37(2), 67-81. More information
Almgren, S., Olsson, T. (2015). ‘Let’s Get Them Involved’ . . . to Some Extent: Analyzing Online News Participation Social Media + Society, 1(2), 1-11. More information

Doctoral thesis

Almgren, S. (2017). Users and producers: Online News as Mediated Participation (Doctoral thesis, Jönköping: Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication). More information

Book chapter

Almgren, S. (2017). News Users’ (Dis)trust in Media Performance: Challenges to Sustainable Journalism in Times of Xenophobia. In: What Is Sustainable Journalism?: Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism (pp. 161 -179). More information
Almgren, S., Olsson, T. (2016). Deltagande användare - i princip och praktik. In: Människorna, medierna & marknaden: Medieutredningens forskningsantologi om en demokrati i förändring (pp. 377 -401). Stockholm: Fritzes More information

Conference paper

Almgren, S. (2017). ‘The monkey mountain’ and other stories of (dis)trust: Online news comments as venues for commonplace politics. The Future of Journalism: Journalism in a post-truth age? The sixth biennial conference, September 14-15, 2017, Cardiff University, UK. More information
Almgren, S., Olsson, T. (2014). Steering the Editorial Filter - User Comments as a Negotiated Space for Participation in Online News. ECREA 5th European Communication Conference Lisboa 12-15 November. More information
Almgren, S., Ekberg, S. (2013). User-Generated Content: Organizational Routines and Participatory Practices. Digital Transformations and Transactions in Media Industries, 13-15 June 2013, Bournemouth University UK. More information

Other publications

Almgren, S. . Participating Users across News Media Spaces. More information