Geomedia Karlstad

The free exchange of opinion and argument in a shared space of a public sphere has been central to western democratic systems for over 150 years. The expansion of mobile communication technologies has introduced a number of key changes to this process and arguably raises the need for similarly new techniques for studying the very fluid and dynamic nature of these events. From protest to festivals, there are those who attempt to address the questions of movement of people and those excluded from or, indeed facilitated by systems of boundaries and entry points. https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/joan-rodriguez-amat https://www.kau.se/forskare/cornelia-brantner

In the podcast I talk with Stijn Reijnders about his research into media tourism and the popular imagination.

In the podcast I talk with Emiliano Treré, Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University in the UK about how digital communication technologies has impacted on recent activism and the role it is playing in social movements.

The study of television covers a wide range of different processes from production, technologies of broadcast and circulation, to audience experience and involvement. There is no doubt that the streaming platforms and portals of recent years have had and continue to have a profound impact on the patterns of consumption of televisual media content. How much things have changed is always a contested point of view as media adjust and change in all sorts of significant ways. Myself and Professor Annette Hill discusses the state of television studies today and the impact of technological changes on audiences. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/annette-hill https://www.routledge.com/Between-Habit-and-Thought-in-New-TV-Serial-Drama-Serial-Connections/Lynch/p/book/9780367186937

Media solidarities with which we are familiar with are a key part of the contemporary media landscape. Our question today, therefore, is how, and whether, the kinds of solidarity effected through the technologies of social media or television are part of any measurable process of social change or do they simply circulate within an increasingly complacent and self-righteous domain of individual consumerism. In the podcast today I talk with Professor Kaarina Nikunen about how the issue of the suffering of others is mediated today and how it has been shaped and altered by television and social media. https://www.tuni.fi/en/kaarina-nikunen

I talk with Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman about issues of gender theory today and her work on the subject.

In the podcast I discuss with Professor Lee Humphries of Cornell University the themes and insights explored in her book: The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. Drawing on a number of historical precursors from diaries to Kodak photography, Lee Humphries argues the case for approaching the practices of social media production of self as something less about narcissism and more about communication between ourselves and others through the ordinary things in life. https://communication.cals.cornell.edu/people/lee-humphreys/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/qualified-self

In the podcast I talk to Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wiken about their book Automating Vision : The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness. https://www.routledge.com/Automating-Vision-The-Social-Impact-of-the-New-Camera-Consciousness/McCosker-Wilken/p/book/9780367356774

In today’s podcast I talk to Professors Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne about issues arising from concerns of overuse of digital media and the strategies by which individuals seek to withdraw from the demands of ever present technologies. https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Brita.Ytre-Arne https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/trinesy/

On the podcast today I talk with James Ash from Newcastle University about his research in smart technologies and the ways in which these devices change the relationship of users to objects and what implications this has in terms of agency and autonomy. Due to the corona virus situation this interview was done via computer and the sound is less than that we would have in the studio. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/jamesash.html

In this podcast I talk with the Swedish journalist Po Tidholm about the issues facing the countryside today and how issues of neglect and the loss of cultural influence in relation to cities is having an impact on towns and villages. http://www.potidholm.se/

Today I talk to Professor Henrik Örnebring of Karlstad University about the state of journalism studies today and the challenges faced by the profession.

In this podcast I talk to Professor Sven Anders Johansson of Mid Sweden University about his research and publications in relation to climate change, political activism, and the effects of communication technologies on human relationships. https://www.miun.se/en/personnel/anders-johansson/

In this podcast, I talk to Dr Ross Abbinnett about his book (The Thought of Bernard Stiegler: Capitalism, Technology and the Politics of Spirit)on the work of Bernard Stiegler and the important questions it address about the dangers and potentials of new media technologies. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/social-policy/abbinnett-ross.aspx

In this episode I talk to some of the Geomedia researchers from Karlstad University: Professor André Jansson, Professor Mekonnen Tesfahuny, Karin Fast, Lena Grip. We discuss how and why Geomedia came to be established, the theme of home and migration, and the Masters level programme in Geomedia Studies. https://www.kau.se/en/researchers/andre-jansson https://www.kau.se/en/about-university/about-karlstad-university/ceremonies/akademisk-hogtid/akademisk-hogtid-2017-2 https://www.kau.se/forskare/karin-fast https://www.kau.se/en/researchers/lena-grip

In this episode, John Lynch talks with Gillian Rose of Oxford University about the central role of geography in understanding the world today and the changes in the discipline over the last few decades as new ideas have impacted its conceptual approaches. In her work, Rose is centrally concerned with the question of how the world is visualised through various media, each of which articulates something about the relationships between people and the environment. https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/grose.html

Les Roberts from Liverpool University was a speaker at the plenary session at the Geomedia 2019 conference (http://geomedia.se/conference/2019/). Here he discusses his work in this area and how he came to be part of the project to gather early amateur film recordings of the city of Liverpool in England. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/les-roberts/

Maren Hartmann was a keynote speaker at the Geomedia 2019 conference (http://geomedia.se/conference/2019/). Here she discusses some of the key ideas that relate to the theme of home and her research in this area. https://udk-berlin.academia.edu/MarenHartmann

In this podcast I talk to the London-based Irish filmmaker Christine Molloy. Along with her partner Joe Lawlor, as the production company Desperate Optimists, they have written, directed and produced a series of short films under the name of Civic Life, two feature films, Helen (2008) and Mister John (2013) and the documentary Further Beyond (2016). They are currently working on the final stages of their new film Rose Plays Julie. Christine was invited as a plenary speaker to the Geomedia 2019 conference and a recording of this can be found via the Geomedia website (geomedia.se/conference/2019/) as well as the Q&A session after the screening of Further Beyond. The following links provide details of the films that we discussed. Moore Street 2004 Short Film: vimeo.com/27145510 Leisure Center 2005 Short film: vimeo.com/17215802 Joy 2008 Short Film: vimeo.com/185302603 Helen 2008 Trailer: vimeo.com/17214414 Mister John 2013 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyt7JSOs6dI Further Beyond 2016 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQUwhzHZ5xs Rose Plays Julie, 2019 Clips: vimeo.com/334409463 Elephant (Gus van Sant, 2003) Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlsOf3PnGY Elephant (Alan Clarke, 1989) Film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OzEbS-ukyk