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Jesper Strömbäck

Assistant Head of Department

Journalism Media and Communication JMG
Telephone
+46 31-786 49 34
Mail
jesper.stromback@jmg.gu.se
Visiting address
Seminariegatan 1 B
41313 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 710
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Journalism Media and Communication JMG
Telephone
+46 31-786 49 34
Mail
jesper.stromback@jmg.gu.se
Visiting address
Seminariegatan 1 b
41313 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 710
40530 Göteborg

About Jesper Strömbäck

Jesper Strömbäck is professor in journalism and political communication at JMG, and vice head with responsibility for research. Before he was professor in the same areas at Mid Sweden University. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Zürich and the University of Florida. In 2011–2013, he was working within the Prime Minister’s Office as director of the then-governments Commission on the Future of Sweden. He is one of the leaders of Network of European Political Communication Scholars (Nepocs) and fellow within the International Communication Association.

Research Areas

* News journalism (content, news selection, effects)

* Political communication

* Mediatization of politics

* Media and campaign effects

* Knowledge resistance

* Changing media environments and their democratic impact

* Media trust

Current Research Project

* Changing media environments and democracy

* Knowledge resistance: causes, consequences, cures

* Moving from networked to patchworkedd society: Motivational underpinnings and societal consequences

Teaching

Jesper primarily teaches journalism and political communication at undergraduate as well as graduate courses.

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