Delighted to be plenary speaker at the @discoursenet.bsky.social DNC6 earlier today with my talk on ‘Retrotopias & Past-to-Future Dis/Continuities: Temporal Scales in Normalisation of Illiberal & Neoliberal Discourse’. Million thanks for great discussion & for having me @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

We would like to remind you to our DNC6 (7-10.7.2025) conference taking place in Brussels next year! Please apply and join us for science & networking in these challenging times! Also, if you miss tomorrow, but really want to make it, you always can write organisers an email (after 6 months).

Critical Discourse Studies, Vol 22 (2) We are very pleased to announce this Special Issue>> Political Economy of Discourse: A Festschrift for Phil Graham. Guest editor: Allan Luke www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcds20/c...

DiscourseNet Congress 6 #DNC6 — the opening. Jan Zienkowski, the organizer and spiritus movens @engage-uclouvain.bsky.social

What does Freedom of Movement really mean? FOM@PLAY IT National Event, 21/05, 0900, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Naples. Keynotes: M. Krzyżanowski, Uppsala University @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social & F. Zappettini, La Sapienza University, Rome, @francozappettini.bsky.social Info: www.unior.it/it/eventi/fo...

V.much looking forward to this fab TaalX event of the NL Graduate School in Linguistics at RUG! Please join us online and/or in person! Thank you so much for organising @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & looking forward to our discussions @veronikakoller.bsky.social cc @uumediacomms.bsky.social

Delighted representing @uumediacomms.bsky.social during two fab days of great presentations & discussions at the annual TRAIN Meeting of Swedish Media & Comms PhD Programmes - with many thx to fantastic colleagues from Jönköping University for fab organization!

Great turnout at the @uumediacomms.bsky.social PhD defence today by our own @emmaronngren.bsky.social defending her Thesis ”Making Sense of Russian Strategic Narratives: Affect & Reception Among Young Russian Speakers in Latvia” w. @goranbolin.bsky.social as opponent, info www.uu.se/en/events/de...

Last week, I officially nailed my doctoral thesis, which is now available open access! The defense will take place on March 21 at Uppsala University. Read it here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Two Assoc. Senior Lecturer positions in Information Systems are advertised at School of Informatics & Media, Uppsala University, SE - one post based at UU Main Campus Uppsala & one at UU Campus Gotland in Visby. Uppsala: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Visby: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Please re-post!

It is a wrap for another fab @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day! Million thx to all colleagues for attending, commenting & sharing all grand work! @emmaronngren.bsky.social @jakobssonp.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @kajsaklein.bsky.social @mediamartin.bsky.social @pedrobic.bsky.social

Last - but certainly not least - at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Day is the presentation by the one and only Jacek Smolicki speaking about his fab work on "Voices as relations: Artistic explorations into voice capturing technologies"

Next on @uumediacomms.bsky.social grand annual Research Day is the one and only Daniel Lövgren speaking about his fab work on "Epistemologies of Communication in Nordic Universities: A Study of (Strategic) Communication Professionals"

After a short lunch break we are resuming our discussions @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Day - with great Johan Lindell now presenting on "Screenequalities: Mapping social inequality in digitalized everyday life"

Next @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day we are moving to the fabulous @emmaronngren.bsky.social & Göran Svensson speaking about their fascinating work on "Propaganda and International Communication: Conceptual challenges and transformations in times of information disorder and war"

Next on @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day is the fab Claes Thoren discussing his fascinating work on "Resonance in an accelerating world: Understanding the emergence and characteristics of post-digital artifacts"

After fab Lucia break a.k.a. 'Fika' we are resuming the fabulous presentations at annual @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day - with our great Peter Jakobsson now speaking abt "News media as epistemic intermediaries: How has the epistemic practices of journalism changed in age of social media?"

Ahh 'fika', I remember you fondly

Next on at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Away Day is Matilda Tudor with her brilliant and much needed work on "The truth and nothing but the truth: Discourses of datafication in medical age assessment debates"

First on at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Away Day is the great Alexandra Brankova speaking about "Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West"

So today is the research highlight of the year here @uumediacomms.bsky.social - as in cold Uppsala lit by Lucia-day we are having our Research Away Day! We will be posting live updates & info throughout the day here on our new Bluesky account! Do stay tuned!

So we are happily on Bluesky now - and will be posting here all the exciting news about our UU Media & Communications programme and in particular our research! Please follow us for regular updates & info!