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Simon Lindgren

My research is about politics, power, and resistance at the intersection of society and digital technologies.

Contact

E-mail
simon.lindgren@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 95 19

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Affiliation
Professor at Department of Sociology
Location
Hus Y, Beteendevetarhuset & Norra beteendevetarhuset Mediagränd 14, Beteendevetarhuset, Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I am Professor of Sociology and director of DIGSUM, an interdisciplinary academic research centre for the study of social dimensions of digital technology.

My research is about politics, power, and resistance at the intersection of society and digital technologies. I use critical discourse approaches, text mining, and social network analysis to study issues relating to movements, mobilization, opinions, and identities.

I am the author of Digital Media and Society (2017) and Data Theory (2020).

Getting Better?: Hegemonic, Negotiated and Oppositional Uses of Instagram for Mental Health Support
Journal of Communication Inquiry
Lindgren, Simon; Johansson, Anna
Memes, brands and the politics of post-terror togetherness: following the Manchester bee after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing
Information, Communication and Society
Merrill, Samuel; Lindgren, Simon
The rhythms of social movement memories: the mobilization of Silvio Meier’s activist remembrance across platforms
Social Movement Studies, Routledge 2020, Vol. 19, (5-6)
Merrill, Samuel; Lindgren, Simon
Free speech or hate speech?: A legal analysis of the discourse about Roma on Twitter
Information & communications technology law, Taylor & Francis Group 2019, Vol. 28, (1) : 1-18
Enarsson, Therese; Lindgren, Simon
Movement Mobilization in the Age of Hashtag Activism: Examining the Challenge of Noise, Hate, and Disengagement in the #MeToo Campaign
Policy & Internet, John Wiley & Sons 2019, Vol. 11, (4) : 418-438
Lindgren, Simon
Continued contexts of terror: analyzing temporal patterns of hashtag co-occurrence as discursive articulations
Social Media + Society, Sage Publications 2018, Vol. 4, (4)
Eriksson Krutrök, Moa; Lindgren, Simon
A ghost in the machine: tracing the role of "the digital' in discursive processes of cybervictimisation
Discourse & Communication, Sage Publications 2018, Vol. 12, (5) : 517-534
Lindgren, Simon
Beyond the nation-state Polish national identity and cultural intimacy online
National Identities, Routledge 2017, Vol. 19, (3) : 293-309
Kania-Lundholm, Magdalena; Lindgren, Simon
Turning the inside out: social media and the broadcasting of indigenous discourse
European Journal of Communication, Sage Publications 2017, Vol. 32, (2) : 131-150
Lindgren, Simon; Cocq, Coppélie
Online tribes and digital authority: what can social theory bring to digital archaeology?
Open Archaeology, Warsaw: De Gruyter Open 2017, Vol. 3, (1) : 139-148
Richardson, Lorna-Jane; Lindgren, Simon
Challenging the roles of “skilled” professionals and “risky” young mothers: peer support, expertise, and relational patterns in Facebook groups
Journal of technology in human services, Abingdon: Routledge 2017, Vol. 35, (3) : 247-270
Sjöberg, Magdalena; Lindgren, Simon
Local moral economies: the space, place, and locality of social media mobilisation
Globalizations, Routledge 2017, Vol. 14, (6) : 884-895
Örestig, Johan; Lindgren, Simon
Social Media and the Transnationalization of Mass Activism: Twitter and the labour movement
First Monday, Vol. 21, (8)
Dahlberg-Grundberg, Michael; Lundström, Ragnar; Lindgren, Simon
Introducing Connected Concept Analysis: A network approach to big text datasets
Text & Talk, Vol. 36, (3) : 341-362
Lindgren, Simon
Sociala medier och det politiska
Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang, Göteborg: Daidalos 2015 : 7-17
Carlsson, Eric; Nilsson, Bo; Lindgren, Simon
Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang
Göteborg: Daidalos 2015
The Work of Audiences in the Age of Clicktivism: On the Ins and Outs of Distributed Participation
Media Fields Journal, Vol. 10 : 1-6
Lindgren, Simon
Disruptiva platser: teknopolitik, ordning och störningar
Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang, Göteborg: Daidalos 2015 : 195-210
Lindgren, Simon
Translocal Frame Extensions in a Networked Protest: Situating the #IdleNoMore hashtag
IC: Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, Vol. 11 : 49-77
Dahlberg-Grundberg, Michael; Lindgren, Simon
For the Lulz: Anonymous, Aesthetics and Affect
tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society / Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Vol. 12, (1) : 238-264
Ferrada Stoehrel, Rodrigo; Lindgren, Simon
The power of precision air strikes and social media feeds in the 2012 Israel–Hamas conflict: 'targeting transparency’
Australian Journal of International Affairs, Routledge 2014, Vol. 68, (5) : 569-591
Heemsbergen, Luke Justin; Lindgren, Simon
Introduktion till samhällsvetenskaplig analys
Lund: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2014
Hjerm, Mikael; Lindgren, Simon; Nilsson, Marco
Aktiviteter och organisering bland unga på internet
FOKUS 14, Stockholm: MUCF 2014 : 190-199
Lindgren, Simon
Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Interdiscursive flows from Wikipedia into scholarly research
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 6 : 609-627
Lindgren, Simon
Giving Online Support: Individual and Social Processes in a Domestic Violence Forum
International Journal of Web Based Communities, Vol. 10, (2) : 147-157
Lindgren, Simon
The hybrid discourse of digital piracy
Hybrid media culture: sensing place in a world of flows, London: Routledge 2014 : 90-105
Lindgren, Simon
From Object to Flow: Network Sensibility, Symbolic Interactionism, and Social Media
Symbolic Interaction and New Social Media, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 : 7-41
Markham, Annette; Lindgren, Simon
Nya uppväxtvillkor: Samhälle och individ i förändring
Stockholm: Liber 2013
Johansson, Thomas; Lindgren, Simon; Hellman, Anette
The Potential and Limitations of Twitter Activism: Mapping the 2011 Libyan Uprising
tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society / Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Vol. 11, (1) : 207-220
Lindgren, Simon
Pirate panics: comparing news and blog discourse on illegal file sharing in Sweden
Information, Communication and Society, Taylor & Francis Group 2013, Vol. 16, (8) : 1242-1265
Lindgren, Simon
New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group 2013
Lindgren, Simon
Towards a heterotopology: unlayering the reality of hybrid media culture
Hybrid media culture: sensing place in a world of flows, London: Routledge 2013 : 139-148
Lindgren, Simon
Hybrid media culture: sensing place in a world of flows
Routledge advances in sociology, 114
Sub*culture: exploring the dynamics of a networked public
Transformative Works and Cultures, (14)
Lindgren, Simon
Hybrid media culture: an introduction
Hybrid media culture: sensing place in a world of flows, London: Routledge 2013 : 1-15
Lindgren, Simon; Dahlberg-Grundberg, Michael; Johansson, Anna
"It took me about half an hour, but I did it!": Media circuits and affinity spaces around how-to videos on YouTube
European Journal of Communication, Vol. 27, (2) : 152-170
Lindgren, Simon
The sociology of media and communication technologies
Introduction to Sociology: Scandinavian Sensibilities, London: Pearson 2012 : 140-159
Lindgren, Simon
Mediepåverkan och mobilisering
Nya medier och kommunikation: Makt och meningsskapande i den digitala tidsåldern, Malmö: Gleerups 2012 : 107-123
Lindgren, Simon
Nya medier och kommunikation
Nya medier och kommunikation: Makt och meningsskapande in den digitala tidsåldern, Malmö: Gleerups 2012 : 157-160
Lindgren, Simon
Collective coping through networked narratives: YouTube responses to the Virginia Tech shooting
School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 : 279-298
Lindgren, Simon
Nya medier och kommunikation: Makt och meningsskapande i den digitala tidsåldern
Malmö: Gleerups 2012
Ett nytt medielandskap
Nya medier och kommunikation: Makt och meningsskapande i den digitala tidsåldern, Malmö: Gleerups 2012 : 7-21
Lindgren, Simon; Engström, Kerstin; Enbom, Jesper
The subpolitics of online piracy: A Swedish case study
Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Sage Publications 2012, Vol. 18, (2) : 143-164
Lindgren, Simon; Linde, Jessica
Vi deltar!: Utvärdering av Arvsfondens satsning på ungdomar och demokrati 2009-2012
Stockholm: Arvsfonden 2012
Lindgren, Simon; Åberg, Ida; Lundström, Ragnar; et al.
YouTube as a performative arena: how Swedish youth are negotiating space, community membership, and gender identities through the art of parkour
Youth culture and net culture: online social practices
Hendrick, Stephanie F.; Lindgren, Simon
Introduksjon til samfunnsvitenskapelig analyse
Oslo: Gyldendal 2011
Hjerm, Mikael; Lindgren, Simon
Collective problem-solving and informal learning in networked publics: reading vlogging networks on Youtube as knowledge communities
Interactive Media Use and Youth: Learning, Knowledge Exchange and Behavior, Hershey, PA: Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference 2011 : 50-64
Lindgren, Simon
A copy, of a copy, of a copy?: exploring masculinity under transformation in Fight Club
Scope. An online Journal of Film Studies, Nottingham, UK: Department of Culture, Film & Media, University of Nottingham 2011, (19)
Lindgren, Simon
En ny medievardag
Adda en vuxen: Om ungdomsarbete på Internet, Stockholm: Ungdomsstyrelsen 2011 : 7-17
Lindgren, Simon
Textanalys
Många möjliga metoder, Lund: Studentlitteratur 2011 : 269-281
Lindgren, Simon
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