Simon Lindgren

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

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Professor at Department of Sociology

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).

Digital media and society: 2nd Edition

London: Sage Publications 2022

Lindgren, Simon

Datadriven kunskapssociologi

Digitala metoder i humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021 : 235-256

Lindgren, Simon

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, 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)

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

Hacking Social Science for the Age of Datafication

Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), Umeå: DIGSUM 2019, Vol. 1, (1) : 1-9

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

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

The concept of 'data' in digital research

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection, London: Sage Publications 2018 : 441-450

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

Mediala perspektiv

Samhällskunskap för lärare 4-9, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2017 : 63-93

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

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