Media and Communications
The media are permeating our entire existence, and that is why the research field of Media and Communication has grown rapidly over recent years.
At Jönköping University, this research environment has a strong international profile. We are internationally well-recognized in the research fields of sustainable communication, transmedia storytelling, and social change. Our research supports the Media and Communication bachelor program, and the master’s program Sustainable Communication. Moreover, we are at the core of the School of Education and Communication new research profile EduCom: Educommunicating social sustainability
The research environment Media and Communication at Jönköping University (MCS) is profiled towards Sustainable Communication. The aim of this research milieu is to produce knowledge about how communication in various contexts – in journalism, organizations, politics, popular culture, etc. – might contribute to meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations’ sustainability agenda. MCS addresses all three dimensions of sustainability – environmental, social, and economic – and how communication in various forms might contribute to their reconciliation.
Within the framework of this research profile, the MCS researchers run the program Sustainable Communication, whose aim is to develop knowledge about the role of communication in sustainable development challenges (mediated communication in particular). Read more about this program here.
Renira Gambarato, Research Leader of MKV.
Sustainable Communication
Within the framework of this research profile, the MCS researchers drive the Sustainable Communication program, whose goal is to develop knowledge about the role of communication in the challenges of sustainable development (especially mediated communication).
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Hill, A., Liao, Y. (2025). Slow reality TV and Chinese audiences.
In: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Abingdon: Routledge
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Hill, A. (2025). Introduction – Audience engagement and experiences. In: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Abingdon: Routledge
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Hill, A., Lunt, P. (2025). Introduction to Companion to Media Audiences. In: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Abingdon: Routledge
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Gambarato, R. (2025). Transmedia (anti-storytelling) audiences. In: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Abingdon: Routledge
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Gambarato, R. (2025). Introduction - Audience modes: A granular approach. In: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Abingdon: Routledge
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Hill, A., Lunt, P. (2025). The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences. Abingdon: Routledge
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Alvén Sjöberg, J. (2024). Frictions Of Public Sector Organizations’ Strategic Communication: A study about the Swedish Police’s social media use for public safety. Ljubljana: ECREA
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Gambarato, R., Heuman, J. (2024). Transcending the blurred boundaries of Chernobyl. In: Punctum Semiotics Monographs Thessaloniki: Hellenic Semiotic Society
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Wappelhorst, A. (2024). Who feels unheard in a car-centric world? Insights into forced (non)driving [blog post].
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Enghel, F. (2024). Revisiting everyday activism for gender justice and expanding on its communicative dimensions. International Journal of Communication (pp. 3814-3835).
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Wappelhorst, A. (2024). Revisiting Colonialism: Decolonial and Postcolonial City Walking Tours as Political Education for Inclusive Cities.
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Sartoretto, P. (2024). Pedagogies of resistance: Social movements and the construction of communicative knowledge in Brazil. In: Srividya Ramasubramanian & Omotayo O. Banjo (Ed.), Oxford Library of Psychology Oxford University Press
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Tsertsidis, A., Rapado, I. (2024). Examining the availability of information on welfare technologies for people living with dementia in Sweden: a scoping review. Taylor & Francis
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Alvén Sjöberg, J. (2024). Frictions of public sector organizations’ strategic communication: A study about the Swedish Police’s social media use for public safety. Jönköping: Media and Communication at HLK, Jönköping University
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Wappelhorst, A., Till, A., Sartoretto, P. (2024). One bicycle at a time – An autoethnography of the communicative potential of spatial practices.
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