Simon Lindgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Lindgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindgren |
| SIGNATURE | LINDGREN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Applying machine learning to media analysis improves our understanding of forest conflicts
Conflicts over the management and governance of forests seem to be increasing. Previous media studies in this area have largely focused on analysing the portrayal of specific conflicts. This study aims to review how a broad range of forest conflicts are portrayed in the Swedish media, analysing their temporal, spatial, and relational dimensions. We applied topic modelling, a machine learning approach, to analyse 53,600 articles published in the S…
Tube therapy
In this paper, we examine forms of communication and types of peer support that may arise in relation to mental health problems in peer-produced forums of social video comment threads. We focus specifically on how young fans of young YouTube celebrities (YouTubers) use this social media space to communicate with other YouTubers as well as with other fans about issues related to mental health. Through a semantic analysis, where topical themes in c…
Turning the inside out
This article analyses what happens on social media (Twitter) when a local issue specific to a certain Indigenous group spreads out to a wider network of actors. We look closer at the process where emic (inside) discourses are enabled, through social media, to reach a broader audience and become part of translocal debates. In a case study of information sharing, network building and support on Twitter in relation to a series of Sámi anti-mining pr…
Social media and the transnationalization of mass activism
This paper explores the labour movement organization LabourStart, a digital initiative that, by various means such as e-mail campaigns and social media use, seeks to promote workers’ rights and to strengthen the labour movement on a global scale. The main aim of this study is to analyse a) how LabourStart employs Twitter for communication and organisation and b) how the Twitter-sphere that LabourStart constitutes — and is constituted by — is geog…
From Object to Flow
This article discusses how certain sensibilities and techniques from a network perspective can facilitate different levels of thinking about symbolic interaction in mediated contexts. The concept of network implies emergent structures that shift along with the people whose connections construct these webs of significance. A network sensibility resonates with contemporary social media contexts in that it focuses less on discrete objects and more o…
Crowdsourcing Knowledge Interdiscursive Flows from Wikipedia into Scholarly Research
Information increasingly flows from smart online knowledge systems, based on 'collective intelligence', and to the more traditional form of knowledge production that takes place within academia. Looking specifically at the case of Wikipedia, and at how it is employed in scholarly research, this study contributes new knowledge about the potential role of user-generated information in science and innovation. This is done using a dataset collected f…
The Potential and Limitations of Twitter Activism
This article aims to shed more light on the potentials and limitations of social media as a tool for activists. It does this by focusing on the use of one particular social media platform — Twitter — during one specific period of a certain uprising: the first 24 hours of protests in Libya during the Arab Spring in 2011. Even though this study is thus limited, it represents an important step in the direction of analyzing what actually happens when…
Hybrid Media Culture
New Noise
This book is about online subcultures thriving in the border zones between pop cultural and political engagement. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops a cultural theory of social movements in the digital age
It took me about half an hour, but I did it!’ Media circuits and affinity spaces around how-to videos on YouTube
Combining sentiment analysis and discursive network analysis, this article looks to answer which sentiments characterize YouTube comments discourse, with a specific focus on how-to videos. What are the differences between comments to various types of videos, and which discursive contexts seem to promote positive sentiment and a participatory climate? Furthermore, the aim is to map out a variety of existing user strategies in terms of their degree…
YouTube gunmen? Mapping participatory media discourse on school shooting videos
"Ungdomsrån" - uppkomsten av ett begrepp
This article presents results from a research project, the main aim of which is to analyze media representations of youth robberies in a number of Swedish newspapers during the five year period 1998-2002. Prominent patterns in the way media report these crimes are mapped using content analysis, and discussed in terms of their potential consequences. The theory of so called moral panics plays an important part in these discussions. When it comes t…
Populärkulturstudier
YouTube gunmen? Mapping participatory media discourse on school shooting videos
It took me about half an hour, but I did it!’ Media circuits and affinity spaces around how-to videos on YouTube
Combining sentiment analysis and discursive network analysis, this article looks to answer which sentiments characterize YouTube comments discourse, with a specific focus on how-to videos. What are the differences between comments to various types of videos, and which discursive contexts seem to promote positive sentiment and a participatory climate? Furthermore, the aim is to map out a variety of existing user strategies in terms of their degree…
Applying machine learning to media analysis improves our understanding of forest conflicts
Conflicts over the management and governance of forests seem to be increasing. Previous media studies in this area have largely focused on analysing the portrayal of specific conflicts. This study aims to review how a broad range of forest conflicts are portrayed in the Swedish media, analysing their temporal, spatial, and relational dimensions. We applied topic modelling, a machine learning approach, to analyse 53,600 articles published in the S…
Turning the inside out
This article analyses what happens on social media (Twitter) when a local issue specific to a certain Indigenous group spreads out to a wider network of actors. We look closer at the process where emic (inside) discourses are enabled, through social media, to reach a broader audience and become part of translocal debates. In a case study of information sharing, network building and support on Twitter in relation to a series of Sámi anti-mining pr…
Crowdsourcing Knowledge Interdiscursive Flows from Wikipedia into Scholarly Research
Information increasingly flows from smart online knowledge systems, based on 'collective intelligence', and to the more traditional form of knowledge production that takes place within academia. Looking specifically at the case of Wikipedia, and at how it is employed in scholarly research, this study contributes new knowledge about the potential role of user-generated information in science and innovation. This is done using a dataset collected f…
Populärkulturstudier
"Ungdomsrån" - uppkomsten av ett begrepp
This article presents results from a research project, the main aim of which is to analyze media representations of youth robberies in a number of Swedish newspapers during the five year period 1998-2002. Prominent patterns in the way media report these crimes are mapped using content analysis, and discussed in terms of their potential consequences. The theory of so called moral panics plays an important part in these discussions. When it comes t…
YouTube gunmen? Mapping participatory media discourse on school shooting videos
It took me about half an hour, but I did it!’ Media circuits and affinity spaces around how-to videos on YouTube
Combining sentiment analysis and discursive network analysis, this article looks to answer which sentiments characterize YouTube comments discourse, with a specific focus on how-to videos. What are the differences between comments to various types of videos, and which discursive contexts seem to promote positive sentiment and a participatory climate? Furthermore, the aim is to map out a variety of existing user strategies in terms of their degree…
The Potential and Limitations of Twitter Activism
This article aims to shed more light on the potentials and limitations of social media as a tool for activists. It does this by focusing on the use of one particular social media platform — Twitter — during one specific period of a certain uprising: the first 24 hours of protests in Libya during the Arab Spring in 2011. Even though this study is thus limited, it represents an important step in the direction of analyzing what actually happens when…
Hybrid Media Culture
New Noise
This book is about online subcultures thriving in the border zones between pop cultural and political engagement. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops a cultural theory of social movements in the digital age
From Object to Flow
This article discusses how certain sensibilities and techniques from a network perspective can facilitate different levels of thinking about symbolic interaction in mediated contexts. The concept of network implies emergent structures that shift along with the people whose connections construct these webs of significance. A network sensibility resonates with contemporary social media contexts in that it focuses less on discrete objects and more o…
Crowdsourcing Knowledge Interdiscursive Flows from Wikipedia into Scholarly Research
Information increasingly flows from smart online knowledge systems, based on 'collective intelligence', and to the more traditional form of knowledge production that takes place within academia. Looking specifically at the case of Wikipedia, and at how it is employed in scholarly research, this study contributes new knowledge about the potential role of user-generated information in science and innovation. This is done using a dataset collected f…
Social media and the transnationalization of mass activism
This paper explores the labour movement organization LabourStart, a digital initiative that, by various means such as e-mail campaigns and social media use, seeks to promote workers’ rights and to strengthen the labour movement on a global scale. The main aim of this study is to analyse a) how LabourStart employs Twitter for communication and organisation and b) how the Twitter-sphere that LabourStart constitutes — and is constituted by — is geog…
Turning the inside out
This article analyses what happens on social media (Twitter) when a local issue specific to a certain Indigenous group spreads out to a wider network of actors. We look closer at the process where emic (inside) discourses are enabled, through social media, to reach a broader audience and become part of translocal debates. In a case study of information sharing, network building and support on Twitter in relation to a series of Sámi anti-mining pr…
Tube therapy
In this paper, we examine forms of communication and types of peer support that may arise in relation to mental health problems in peer-produced forums of social video comment threads. We focus specifically on how young fans of young YouTube celebrities (YouTubers) use this social media space to communicate with other YouTubers as well as with other fans about issues related to mental health. Through a semantic analysis, where topical themes in c…
Applying machine learning to media analysis improves our understanding of forest conflicts
Conflicts over the management and governance of forests seem to be increasing. Previous media studies in this area have largely focused on analysing the portrayal of specific conflicts. This study aims to review how a broad range of forest conflicts are portrayed in the Swedish media, analysing their temporal, spatial, and relational dimensions. We applied topic modelling, a machine learning approach, to analyse 53,600 articles published in the S…
Sociology (10 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Art (3 works)