Mona Blåsjö
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mona Blåsjö |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mona |
| FAMILY NAME | Blåsjö |
| SIGNATURE | BLÅSJÖ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6873-9408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding Temporal Governance in Activation
Swedish municipalities have assumed an increasingly vital role in labor market inclusion, particularly for individuals distant from employment. This article examines how municipal labor market units (MLMUs) enact activation policies through a temporal lens. From a mediated discourse analysis perspective, the study explores how frontline staff manage, negotiate, and resist temporal aspects embedded in national active labor market policies. Based …
Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge
Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? The aim of this article is to identify and analyze strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic. Retrospective interviews and textual material are analyzed with a framework of Mediated Discourse Ana…
Workplace communication in flux
Recently, changes in working life have become a prominent topic in academic research as well as professional literature and public discussions.It has been recognized that the contexts and conditions of work have become more transient and unpredictable due to global changes and megatrends related to, for example, migration, technological developments, and transforming values and lifestyles as the world becomes increasingly interconnected through t…
“It’s not the same thing as last time I wrote a report”
In the communications of modern organizations, text sharing and knowledge management are mainly digital. The digital systems that frame many types of communication consist of, e.g., intranets and document sharing software that are occasionally exchanged for new systems. Employees have to adjust to modified routines and learn new systems, and management has to make decisions about digital systems and how these are to be integrated with work proces…
I don’t know if I can share this.”
In modern business organizations, digital practices are enacted daily, often when sharing texts, which is crucial for knowledge management. How professionals experience digital text sharing is an issue that is often overlooked. In this paper, we focus on a relatively new aspect of business digital literacy: the literacy practice of digital text sharing in workplaces. Our analysis was conducted on ethnographic data from business organizations. The…
Translanguaging and multimodality in workplace texts and writing
Professionals working in international companies in Sweden are expected to speak, read, and write in Swedish and English in their daily work. This article discusses professional writing in different languages. Through the use of methods from linguistic ethnography, we aim to enrich the understanding of workplace literacy by studying writing and texts in multilingual business contexts. Our results show that professionals are expected to navigate b…
Put a meeting in my calendar!” The literacy practice of the digital calendar in workplaces
I dagens arbetsliv används många digitala redskap av vilka den delade digitala kalendern knappast har uppmärksammats inom tillämpad språkvetenskap. Ramen för studien är medierad diskursanalys, som här används på etnografiska data från en arbetsplats och åtta kontextuella intervjuer från åtta andra arbetsplatser. Materialet analyseras med fokus på agentivitet 1) kvalitativt utifrån Wertschs (1998) begrepp kring agentivitet, 2) och kvantitativt gen…
Doing interdisciplinarity in teacher education. Resources for learning through writing in two educational programmes
With a focus on resources for learning through writing, this paper compares the interdisciplinary framings of two teacher education programmes. What are the implications of these framings and resources for students’ possibilities when they write independent projects/bachelor theses? The paper presents a case study with data (interviews, texts, observations) from two different teacher education programmes. The conceptual framework stems from the A…
Att skriva avtal är att förutse problem”. Medierad diskursanalys som metod för att studera bolagsjuristers textbruk
Att texter är centrala i juridisk verksamhet är välkänt. Här fokuseras avtalstexter och avtalsprocesser i bolagsjuristers yrkesverksamhet, men även juristers övergripande kompetenser beskrivs i termer av medierande redskap/handlingar. Den teoretiska ramen är nyvygotskianism, varur Mediated Discourse Analysis används som analysmetod. Abstract:By applying concepts from Mediated Discourse Analysis (MDA, Scollon & Scollon 2004), this article contribu…
Translanguaging and multimodality in workplace texts and writing
Professionals working in international companies in Sweden are expected to speak, read, and write in Swedish and English in their daily work. This article discusses professional writing in different languages. Through the use of methods from linguistic ethnography, we aim to enrich the understanding of workplace literacy by studying writing and texts in multilingual business contexts. Our results show that professionals are expected to navigate b…
Att skriva avtal är att förutse problem”. Medierad diskursanalys som metod för att studera bolagsjuristers textbruk
Att texter är centrala i juridisk verksamhet är välkänt. Här fokuseras avtalstexter och avtalsprocesser i bolagsjuristers yrkesverksamhet, men även juristers övergripande kompetenser beskrivs i termer av medierande redskap/handlingar. Den teoretiska ramen är nyvygotskianism, varur Mediated Discourse Analysis används som analysmetod. Abstract:By applying concepts from Mediated Discourse Analysis (MDA, Scollon & Scollon 2004), this article contribu…
Doing interdisciplinarity in teacher education. Resources for learning through writing in two educational programmes
With a focus on resources for learning through writing, this paper compares the interdisciplinary framings of two teacher education programmes. What are the implications of these framings and resources for students’ possibilities when they write independent projects/bachelor theses? The paper presents a case study with data (interviews, texts, observations) from two different teacher education programmes. The conceptual framework stems from the A…
Put a meeting in my calendar!” The literacy practice of the digital calendar in workplaces
I dagens arbetsliv används många digitala redskap av vilka den delade digitala kalendern knappast har uppmärksammats inom tillämpad språkvetenskap. Ramen för studien är medierad diskursanalys, som här används på etnografiska data från en arbetsplats och åtta kontextuella intervjuer från åtta andra arbetsplatser. Materialet analyseras med fokus på agentivitet 1) kvalitativt utifrån Wertschs (1998) begrepp kring agentivitet, 2) och kvantitativt gen…
Translanguaging and multimodality in workplace texts and writing
Professionals working in international companies in Sweden are expected to speak, read, and write in Swedish and English in their daily work. This article discusses professional writing in different languages. Through the use of methods from linguistic ethnography, we aim to enrich the understanding of workplace literacy by studying writing and texts in multilingual business contexts. Our results show that professionals are expected to navigate b…
I don’t know if I can share this.”
In modern business organizations, digital practices are enacted daily, often when sharing texts, which is crucial for knowledge management. How professionals experience digital text sharing is an issue that is often overlooked. In this paper, we focus on a relatively new aspect of business digital literacy: the literacy practice of digital text sharing in workplaces. Our analysis was conducted on ethnographic data from business organizations. The…
Workplace communication in flux
Recently, changes in working life have become a prominent topic in academic research as well as professional literature and public discussions.It has been recognized that the contexts and conditions of work have become more transient and unpredictable due to global changes and megatrends related to, for example, migration, technological developments, and transforming values and lifestyles as the world becomes increasingly interconnected through t…
“It’s not the same thing as last time I wrote a report”
In the communications of modern organizations, text sharing and knowledge management are mainly digital. The digital systems that frame many types of communication consist of, e.g., intranets and document sharing software that are occasionally exchanged for new systems. Employees have to adjust to modified routines and learn new systems, and management has to make decisions about digital systems and how these are to be integrated with work proces…
Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge
Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? The aim of this article is to identify and analyze strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic. Retrospective interviews and textual material are analyzed with a framework of Mediated Discourse Ana…
Understanding Temporal Governance in Activation
Swedish municipalities have assumed an increasingly vital role in labor market inclusion, particularly for individuals distant from employment. This article examines how municipal labor market units (MLMUs) enact activation policies through a temporal lens. From a mediated discourse analysis perspective, the study explores how frontline staff manage, negotiate, and resist temporal aspects embedded in national active labor market policies. Based …
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Digital Communication and Language (3 works) · Knowledge management (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)