Max Boholm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1679534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Boholm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Boholm |
| SIGNATURE | BOHOLM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8912-1543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Whose AI Problem? Critical Narratives and Practitioner Problematizations
Drivers of cybersecurity improvements in local government
Public organisations are struggling with the urgent need to increase their cybersecurity, i.e. the protection of information and information systems. The aim of this article is to examine how cybersecurity maturity in local government is improved through internal capacity-building and inter-municipal collaboration (IMC), and how the effectiveness of these strategies depends on the timing of their deployment in the development of organisational ca…
Political dogwhistles and semantic change in Swedish politics
This article investigates how citizens’ understanding of multivocal political words – dogwhistles – changes over time and varies between groups. Dogwhistles are ambiguous political messages that convey a veiled meaning to a targeted subset of the audience but are inaudible to others. They present challenges from the standpoint of democratic representation and the principles of open and informed deliberation. We use survey data from a two-wave pan…
Textual Representation and Intertextuality of Graphene in Swedish Newspapers
Textual representation of graphene in Sweden’s most circulated newspapers is analyzed in 229 articles from 2004 to 2018. What is and is not said about graphene is explored through systematically identifying the lexical and grammatical patterns of sentences using the word “graphene.” Graphene is said to be a super material with certain properties, to be an object of research, commercialization, and application, and to have societal significance. G…
Just Carbon”
Graphene is a nanomaterial with many promising and innovative applications, yet early studies indicate that graphene may pose risks to humans and the environment. According to ideas of responsible research and innovation, all relevant actors should strive to reduce risks related to technological innovations. Through semi-structured interviews, we investigated the idea of graphene as a risk (or not) held by two types of key actors: graphene resear…
How do Swedish Government agencies define risk
This study is guided by two research questions: first, how is the word risk defined by Swedish Government agencies and, second, do these agencies use the word risk consistently with how it is defined? These questions are answered by first selecting relevant agencies and then systematically searching for definitions of risk on these agencies’ websites. The study demonstrates that risk is defined in 14 ways, many of which vaguely express the idea t…
The use and meaning of nano in American English
The morpheme nano is today used in various words, such as nanometer, nanoscale, nanotechnology, nanomaterial, nanorobot, iPod nano, and nanotyrannus. This range of uses is partly explained by an interest in nanotechnology manifest in many spheres of society, including science, politics, and popular culture. These varied uses of nano challenge semantic description, as the meaning of nano in use greatly exceeds its precise meaning of "billionth par…
A Definition Framework for the Terms Nanomaterial and Nanoparticle
Risk association
This article addresses a fundamental feature of risk discourse, namely, risk association, defined as the process whereby an agent establishes a connection between something, x, and the notion of risk. In addition, risk association can be defined as the result of such a process, i.e. an established connection between x and risk. A special case of risk association is when x is linked to harmful properties and thus is represented as a risk. Although…
Towards a semiotic definition of discourse and a basis for a typology of discourses
This article engages with the widely used academic concept of discourse. The aim is threefold: first, to provide a comprehensive overview of how the notion of discourse is conceived based on (a) definitions in the academic literature, (b) dictionary definitions, and (c) corpus data; second, to define discourse as a set of related representations; and, third, to suggest a basis for a typology of discourses. Following Peirce, a representation is re…
Dis-Ag-reement
What constitutes a potentially hazardous object is often debated. This article analyses the polemic construction and negotiation of risk in the Swedish controversy over the use of antibacterial silver in health care and consumer products. This debate engages the media, government agencies, parliament and government, non-governmental organizations and companies. Texts and websites from these actors were studied using content analysis. Antibacteria…
The representation of nano as a risk in Swedish news media coverage
Focusing on the role of language in categorization and on the broad conceptual field centred on the morpheme nano, this study addresses the association between phenomena referred to by words having nano as a constituent and risk in Swedish newspaper reporting. The study raises the question of how nano-associated phenomena (e.g. nanotechnology and nanoparticle) are represented as risks? Articles considered for analysis contain both a word having n…
Dis-Ag-reement
What constitutes a potentially hazardous object is often debated. This article analyses the polemic construction and negotiation of risk in the Swedish controversy over the use of antibacterial silver in health care and consumer products. This debate engages the media, government agencies, parliament and government, non-governmental organizations and companies. Texts and websites from these actors were studied using content analysis. Antibacteria…
Risk association
This article addresses a fundamental feature of risk discourse, namely, risk association, defined as the process whereby an agent establishes a connection between something, x, and the notion of risk. In addition, risk association can be defined as the result of such a process, i.e. an established connection between x and risk. A special case of risk association is when x is linked to harmful properties and thus is represented as a risk. Although…
The representation of nano as a risk in Swedish news media coverage
Focusing on the role of language in categorization and on the broad conceptual field centred on the morpheme nano, this study addresses the association between phenomena referred to by words having nano as a constituent and risk in Swedish newspaper reporting. The study raises the question of how nano-associated phenomena (e.g. nanotechnology and nanoparticle) are represented as risks? Articles considered for analysis contain both a word having n…
Just Carbon”
Graphene is a nanomaterial with many promising and innovative applications, yet early studies indicate that graphene may pose risks to humans and the environment. According to ideas of responsible research and innovation, all relevant actors should strive to reduce risks related to technological innovations. Through semi-structured interviews, we investigated the idea of graphene as a risk (or not) held by two types of key actors: graphene resear…
Towards a semiotic definition of discourse and a basis for a typology of discourses
This article engages with the widely used academic concept of discourse. The aim is threefold: first, to provide a comprehensive overview of how the notion of discourse is conceived based on (a) definitions in the academic literature, (b) dictionary definitions, and (c) corpus data; second, to define discourse as a set of related representations; and, third, to suggest a basis for a typology of discourses. Following Peirce, a representation is re…
Textual Representation and Intertextuality of Graphene in Swedish Newspapers
Textual representation of graphene in Sweden’s most circulated newspapers is analyzed in 229 articles from 2004 to 2018. What is and is not said about graphene is explored through systematically identifying the lexical and grammatical patterns of sentences using the word “graphene.” Graphene is said to be a super material with certain properties, to be an object of research, commercialization, and application, and to have societal significance. G…
How do Swedish Government agencies define risk
This study is guided by two research questions: first, how is the word risk defined by Swedish Government agencies and, second, do these agencies use the word risk consistently with how it is defined? These questions are answered by first selecting relevant agencies and then systematically searching for definitions of risk on these agencies’ websites. The study demonstrates that risk is defined in 14 ways, many of which vaguely express the idea t…
The representation of nano as a risk in Swedish news media coverage
Focusing on the role of language in categorization and on the broad conceptual field centred on the morpheme nano, this study addresses the association between phenomena referred to by words having nano as a constituent and risk in Swedish newspaper reporting. The study raises the question of how nano-associated phenomena (e.g. nanotechnology and nanoparticle) are represented as risks? Articles considered for analysis contain both a word having n…
Dis-Ag-reement
What constitutes a potentially hazardous object is often debated. This article analyses the polemic construction and negotiation of risk in the Swedish controversy over the use of antibacterial silver in health care and consumer products. This debate engages the media, government agencies, parliament and government, non-governmental organizations and companies. Texts and websites from these actors were studied using content analysis. Antibacteria…
The use and meaning of nano in American English
The morpheme nano is today used in various words, such as nanometer, nanoscale, nanotechnology, nanomaterial, nanorobot, iPod nano, and nanotyrannus. This range of uses is partly explained by an interest in nanotechnology manifest in many spheres of society, including science, politics, and popular culture. These varied uses of nano challenge semantic description, as the meaning of nano in use greatly exceeds its precise meaning of "billionth par…
A Definition Framework for the Terms Nanomaterial and Nanoparticle
Risk association
This article addresses a fundamental feature of risk discourse, namely, risk association, defined as the process whereby an agent establishes a connection between something, x, and the notion of risk. In addition, risk association can be defined as the result of such a process, i.e. an established connection between x and risk. A special case of risk association is when x is linked to harmful properties and thus is represented as a risk. Although…
Towards a semiotic definition of discourse and a basis for a typology of discourses
This article engages with the widely used academic concept of discourse. The aim is threefold: first, to provide a comprehensive overview of how the notion of discourse is conceived based on (a) definitions in the academic literature, (b) dictionary definitions, and (c) corpus data; second, to define discourse as a set of related representations; and, third, to suggest a basis for a typology of discourses. Following Peirce, a representation is re…
Just Carbon”
Graphene is a nanomaterial with many promising and innovative applications, yet early studies indicate that graphene may pose risks to humans and the environment. According to ideas of responsible research and innovation, all relevant actors should strive to reduce risks related to technological innovations. Through semi-structured interviews, we investigated the idea of graphene as a risk (or not) held by two types of key actors: graphene resear…
How do Swedish Government agencies define risk
This study is guided by two research questions: first, how is the word risk defined by Swedish Government agencies and, second, do these agencies use the word risk consistently with how it is defined? These questions are answered by first selecting relevant agencies and then systematically searching for definitions of risk on these agencies’ websites. The study demonstrates that risk is defined in 14 ways, many of which vaguely express the idea t…
Textual Representation and Intertextuality of Graphene in Swedish Newspapers
Textual representation of graphene in Sweden’s most circulated newspapers is analyzed in 229 articles from 2004 to 2018. What is and is not said about graphene is explored through systematically identifying the lexical and grammatical patterns of sentences using the word “graphene.” Graphene is said to be a super material with certain properties, to be an object of research, commercialization, and application, and to have societal significance. G…
Political dogwhistles and semantic change in Swedish politics
This article investigates how citizens’ understanding of multivocal political words – dogwhistles – changes over time and varies between groups. Dogwhistles are ambiguous political messages that convey a veiled meaning to a targeted subset of the audience but are inaudible to others. They present challenges from the standpoint of democratic representation and the principles of open and informed deliberation. We use survey data from a two-wave pan…
Whose AI Problem? Critical Narratives and Practitioner Problematizations
Drivers of cybersecurity improvements in local government
Public organisations are struggling with the urgent need to increase their cybersecurity, i.e. the protection of information and information systems. The aim of this article is to examine how cybersecurity maturity in local government is improved through internal capacity-building and inter-municipal collaboration (IMC), and how the effectiveness of these strategies depends on the timing of their deployment in the development of organisational ca…
Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Materials Science (5 works) · Nanotechnology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)