Media and Communications
The media are permeating our entire existence, and that is why the research field of Media and Communication has grown rapidly over recent years.
At Jönköping University, this research environment has a strong international profile. We are internationally well-recognized in the research fields of sustainable communication, transmedia storytelling, and social change. Our research supports the Media and Communication bachelor program, and the master’s program Sustainable Communication. Moreover, we are at the core of the School of Education and Communication new research profile EduCom: Educommunicating social sustainability
The research environment Media and Communication at Jönköping University (MCS) is profiled towards Sustainable Communication. The aim of this research milieu is to produce knowledge about how communication in various contexts – in journalism, organizations, politics, popular culture, etc. – might contribute to meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations’ sustainability agenda. MCS addresses all three dimensions of sustainability – environmental, social, and economic – and how communication in various forms might contribute to their reconciliation.
Within the framework of this research profile, the MCS researchers run the program Sustainable Communication, whose aim is to develop knowledge about the role of communication in sustainable development challenges (mediated communication in particular). Read more about this program here.
Sustainable Communication
Within the framework of this research profile, the MCS researchers drive the Sustainable Communication program, whose goal is to develop knowledge about the role of communication in the challenges of sustainable development (especially mediated communication).

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Alzamora, G., Gambarato, R., Tárcia, L. (2024). #PrayforAmazonia: Transmedia mobilisation within national, transnational and international identities.
In: Routledge Advances in Transmedia Studies Abingdon: Routledge
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Sjöberg, J. (2023). Participatory Processes to Make Sense of Communicating Public Safety via Social Media.
Toronto, Canada: International Communication Association
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Sjöberg, J., Blom, K., Rostedt, J. (2023). Nyfiken på MKV-doktoranden Annika W!: Avsnitt 17 av HLKs doktorandpodd.
Jönköping: Högskolan för lärande och kommunikations doktorandorganisation, Jönköping University
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Sjöberg, J., Blom, K., Rostedt, J. (2023). Vara på konferens om rädsla och vad gör andra doktorander?: Avsnitt 16 av HLKs doktorandpodd.
Jönköping: Högskolan för lärande och kommunikations doktorandorganisation, Jönköping University
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Sjöberg, J., Blom, K., Rostedt, J. (2023). Balans mellan undervisning och forskning + besök av prof. Tobias Samuelsson! Doktorandpodd@HLK: Avsnitt 15 av HLKs doktorandpodd.
Jönköping: Högskolan för lärande och kommunikations doktorandorganisation, Jönköping University
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Löfgren, I., Sartoretto, P., Rosa, A. (2023). Das práticas à circulaçãode sentidos: olhares sobre amidiatização do processo eleitoralna Suécia e no Brasil [From practices to meaning circulation: insights about mediatization of elections in Sweden and Brazil].
In: A. Weschenfelder, A. F. Neto & V. Borelli (Ed.), Midiatização, pandemia e eleições: Disputas e transformações nas discursividades contemporâneas (pp. 347-372). Campina Grande, Paraíba: Eduepb
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Wappelhorst, A. (2023). Lost in Translation: Creating a Multilingual Learning Platform.
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Klein, K. (2023). COLLABORATORS, SUPPORTERS, AND SCIENCE JUDGES: How trust in the Public Health Agency’s messaging was achieved.
In: S. Bergmann and M. Lindström (Ed.), Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment (pp. 256-275). Taylor and Francis
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Sjöberg, J., Cassinger, C., Gambarato, R. (2023). Communicating a sense of safety: the public experience of Swedish Police Instagram communication.
Journal of Communication Management
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Sjöberg, J. (2023). “How Do We Communicate a Sense of Safety?”: A Study to Enhance the Swedish Police Social Media Communication to Create a Sense of Safety in the Public Sphere.
Tallinn: Juri Lotman Semiotics Repository, Tallinn University The School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonian Semiotics Association, Tallinn University
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Reinikainen, H., Sjöberg, J. (2023). Personal or professional?: An exploratory analysis of Finnish and Swedish police officers on social media.
Bergen: Nordicom
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Alzamora, G., Gambarato, R. (2023). Comunicação e design em semiose: Um percurso em andamento [Communication and design in semiosis: A journey in progress].
In: P. Borges & J. Franco (Ed.), Tempo da colheita: Homenagem à Lucia Santaella [Harvest time: Festschrift for Lucia Santaella] (pp. 317-326). São Paulo: FiloCzar
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Sjöberg, J. (2023). “How do we communicate a sense of safety?”: Participatory processes to enhance the Swedish Police's social media communication regarding creating a sense of safety in the public sphere.
Bergen: Nordicom
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Olsson, T., Abalo, E., Hammarlin, M., Viscovi, D. (2023). Digital by default? Older adults’ interaction with welfare interfaces.
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Abalo, E. (2023). With senior citizens in mind? Affordances and constraints in how Swedish government user interfaces offer different contact channels to its users.
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