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Simon Lindgren

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

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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, computational text analysis, and social network analysis to study issues relating to movements, mobilization, opinions, and identities.

Bots in progressive politics: the cases of #blacklivesmatter and #metoo
Handbook of progressive politics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2025 : 423-433
Lindgren, Simon
Tracing class and capitalism in critical AI research
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, TripleC 2024, Vol. 22, (1) : 307-328
Ericson, Petter; Dobbe, Roel; Lindgren, Simon
Applying machine learning to media analysis improves our understanding of forest conflicts
Land use policy, Elsevier 2024, Vol. 144
Hallberg-Sramek, Isabella; Lindgren, Simon; Samuelsson, Jonatan; et al.
Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: articulations and actors in an emerging movement
Big Data and Society, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 11, (3)
Liminga, Agnes; Lindgren, Simon
Researching digital media and society
London: Sage Publications 2024
Lindgren, Simon; Eriksson Krutrök, Moa
Programmable politics in the aftermaths of the pandemic
Media Culture and Society, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 47, (3) : 613-623
Lindgren, Simon; Kaun, Anne
Statistical hypothesis testing and modelling of peoples’ power: a causal study of the #blacklivesmatter movement via hawkes processes on social and mass media
Data management technologies and applications: 12th international conference, DATA 2023, Rome, Italy, July 11–13, 2023, revised selected papers, Springer Nature 2024 : 95-126
Lindström, Alfred; Lindgren, Simon; Sainudiin, Raazesh
How “the left” meme: analyzing taboo in the internet memes of r/DankLeft
New Media and Society
Merrill, Samuel; Gardell, Mattias; Lindgren, Simon
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags
Social Media + Society, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 10, (2)
Östin, Emma; Lindgren, Simon
En studie av 2021 års licensjakts effekt på attityder till varg
Rapport: Naturvårdsverket, 7087
Dressel, Sabrina; Ericsson, Göran; Lindgren, Simon; et al.
Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
Lindgren, Simon
Introducing critical studies of artificial intelligence
Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2023 : 1-19
Lindgren, Simon
Beyond AI solutionism: toward a multi-disciplinary approach to artificial intelligence in society
Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2023 : 163-172
Lindgren, Simon; Dignum, Virginia
Getting Better?: Hegemonic, Negotiated and Oppositional Uses of Instagram for Mental Health Support
Journal of Communication Inquiry, Sage Publications 2023, Vol. 47, (3) : 268-290
Lindgren, Simon; Johansson, Anna
Endometriosis pain and epistemic community: mapping discourses in online discussions among sufferers
Social Science and Medicine, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 326
Lindgren, Simon; Richardson, Lorna
Mapping an emerging hashtag ecosystem: connective action and interpretive frames in the Swedish #MeToo movement
Feminist Media Studies, Routledge 2023, Vol. 23, (8) : 4089-4106
Lindqvist, Lisa; Lindgren, Simon
Social media amplification loops and false alarms: towards a sociotechnical understanding of misinformation during emergencies
The Communication review, Taylor & Francis 2022, Vol. 25, (2) : 81-95
Eriksson Krutrök, Moa; Lindgren, Simon
The ongoing and collective character of digital care for older people: moving beyond techno-determinism in government policy
Journal of technology in human services, Taylor & Francis 2022, Vol. 40, (4) : 357-378
Lindberg, Jens; Kvist, Elin; Lindgren, Simon
Digital media & society
London: Sage Publications 2022
Lindgren, Simon
Datadriven kunskapssociologi
Digitala metoder i humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021 : 235-256
Lindgren, Simon
Memes, brands and the politics of post-terror togetherness: following the Manchester bee after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing
Information, Communication and Society, Taylor & Francis Group 2021, Vol. 24, (16) : 2403-2421
Merrill, Samuel; Lindgren, Simon
Politiska maskiner: En analys av botar på Twitter
Stjärnspäckat: Reflektioner från amerikanska presidentvalet 2020 av ledande forskare, Mittuniversitetet; Demicom 2020 : 29-29
Lindgren, Simon
Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods
Cambridge: Polity Press 2020
Lindgren, Simon
A Social Science Perspective on Artificial Intelligence: Building Blocks for a Research Agenda
Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), Umeå: DIGSUM 2020, Vol. 2, (3) : 1-15
Lindgren, Simon; Holmström, Jonny
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) : 657-674
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
Hacking Social Science for the Age of Datafication
Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), Umeå: DIGSUM 2019, Vol. 1, (1) : 1-9
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
Tube therapy: Dealing with mental health problems in social video comment threads
First Monday, University of Illinois at Chicago University Library 2019, Vol. 24, (5)
Lindgren, Simon; Lundström, Ragnar
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
The concept of 'data' in digital research
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection, London: Sage Publications 2018 : 441-450
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
Digital Media & Society
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2017
Lindgren, Simon
Samhällsvetenskapliga arbetsmetoder
Samhällskunskap för lärare 4-9, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2017 : 277-292
Lindgren, Simon
Sociologiska perspektiv
Samhällskunskap för lärare 4-9, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2017 : 29-61
Lindgren, Simon
Mediala perspektiv
Samhällskunskap för lärare 4-9, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2017 : 63-93
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
Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang
Göteborg: Daidalos 2015
Carlsson, Eric; Nilsson, Bo; 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
Disruptiva platser: teknopolitik, ordning och störningar
Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang, Göteborg: Daidalos 2015 : 195-210
Lindgren, Simon
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
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: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Unified Theory of Information Research Group 2014, 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
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