{"id":1006,"date":"2015-06-23T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkiv.mediekom.se\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2015-06-23T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:35:26","slug":"gastinlagg-av-johan-lindell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkiv.mediekom.se\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"G\u00e4stinl\u00e4gg av Johan Lindell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media and cosmopolitanism \u2013 a non-media centric approach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firstly, I would like to thank the FSMK committee and the reviewers for shortlisting my dissertation as a top 3 candidate for the FSMK dissertation award (and congratulations to my good friend Flor Enghel who was awarded the prize). I would also like to thank the FSMK committee for inviting me to use this forum to summarize aspects of my PhD dissertation before colleagues in the field.<\/p>\n

My dissertation, which I defended in May 2014, is an attempt to come to terms with certain discourses about social life and how it has fundamentally changed over the last couple of decades. It is often assumed that, in times of globalization and mediatization, we become more attuned to the world as a whole. Various media are thought of as being there at our disposal, expanding our imaginative horizons. Following such notions, media allow people to become cosmopolitans (or, \u201ccitizens of the world\u201d).<\/p>\n

In my dissertation I set out to study cosmopolitanism and its relationship to various media practices empirically. The aim being to understand this \u201cexpanded mode of reference\u201d and the social conditions in which it exists. The study thus attempts to fill research gaps in the sociology of cosmopolitanism (what is cosmopolitanism and where in society do we find it?) and in media studies (are the media making us more cosmopolitan?).<\/p>\n

The main findings and contributions include:<\/p>\n