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Mathilda Åkerlund

My research concerns far-right, misogynist, and conspiratorial political expressions, and how digital platforms enable these

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mathilda.akerlund@umu.se
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Affiliation
Affiliated as visiting researcher at Department of Sociology
Location
Hus Y, Beteendevetarhuset & Norra beteendevetarhuset Mediagränd 14, Beteendevetarhuset, Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Email: mathilda.akerlund@gu.se

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg. I am also affiliated with the Center for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM) and senior editor for DIGSUM's Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR).


You can find my contact info on my University of Gothenburg staff page and all my publications via my Google Scholar profile.

This isn't journalism, it's propaganda!: patterns of news media bias accusations on Twitter, 2010–2020
Digital Journalism
Strömbäck, Jesper; Åkerlund, Mathilda
Politics of deliberate inaction: the disconnect between platform justifications and user imaginaries on content moderation in a ‘free speech’ online forum
New Media and Society, Sage Publications 2025, Vol. 27, (3) : 1235-1255
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Cumulative disinformation through citation: investigating the longitudinal construction of Sweden as the 'rape capital' of the world
New Media and Society
Åkerlund, Mathilda; Strömbäck, Jesper
The shifting image of Sweden abroad: framings of the 2022 Swedish election in traditional and far-right online media from the United States, Germany, India, and China
Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Taylor & Francis 2024, Vol. 30, (4) : 512-532
Merrill, Samuel; Schroeder, Ralph; Åkerlund, Mathilda; et al.
Through a white lens: Black victimhood, visibility, and whiteness in the Black Lives Matter movement on TikTok
Information, Communication and Society, Routledge 2023, Vol. 26, (10) : 1996-2014
Eriksson Krutrök, Moa; Åkerlund, Mathilda
Refugees versus 'refugees': the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers
Media Culture and Society, Sage Publications 2023, Vol. 45, (7) : 1400-1417
Palmgren, Amanda; Åkerlund, Mathilda; Viklund, Lisen
The Sweden paradox: US far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia
Journal of ethnic and migration studies, Routledge 2023, Vol. 49, (19) : 4789-4808
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Far right, right here: interconnections of discourse, platforms, and users in the digital mainstream
Akademiska avhandlingar vid Sociologiska institutionen, Umeå universitet, D122
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Dog whistling far-right code words: the case of ‘culture enricher' on the Swedish web
Information, Communication and Society, Routledge 2022, Vol. 25, (12) : 1808-
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Influence Without Metrics: Analyzing the Impact of Far-Right Users in an Online Discussion Forum
Social Media + Society, Sage Publications 2021, Vol. 7, (2)
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Automatiserad datainsamling
Digitala metoder i humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021 : 137-160
Åkerlund, Mathilda
From technology speculation to value creation: the changing discourse and actants in the construction of IoT on Twitter
First Monday, University of Illinois Press 2021, Vol. 26, (12)
Åkerlund, Mathilda; Nylén, Daniel
The importance of influential users in (re)producing Swedish far-right discourse on Twitter
European Journal of Communication, Sage Publications 2020, Vol. 35, (5) : 613-628
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers
Journalism Studies, Routledge 2019, Vol. 20, (9) : 1319-1338
Åkerlund, Mathilda
Standing up for Sweden?: the racist discourses, architectures and affordances of an anti-immigration Facebook Group
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Oxford University Press 2018, Vol. 23, (6) : 332-353
Merrill, Samuel; Åkerlund, Mathilda
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