Sweden

Maarit Jaakkola, PhD, Associate Professor, Media Researcher and Co-Director at the Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research NORDICOM. Jaakkola's research interests are located at the intersection of media, culture and learning, including questions related to media and information as well as cultural production. Recently, Jaakkola has been studying ordinary citizens' cultural engagement and cultural critique, the pedagogy and structures of Nordic journalism education, and cultural journalism.

Linus Andersson, Phd. Senior Lecturer, Halmstad University

Andersson has among other areas researched alternative media, art and television, media waste, and online radicalization. Currently he is doing work on media literacy, community studies and well being.

Michael Forsman, Associate professor, Media and communication Studies, School of Communication and Learning, Södertörn University, Stockholm. Coordinator of the Swedish team. Has published extensively on Swedish broadcasting history, popular culture, youth and media, media and Information literacy, and children and social Media. Currently he is engaged in a research project on Media Citizenship and the Mediatization of School as well as with work on Media and information literacy within teacher education. 

Helena Sandberg, Associate professor and Senior lecturer, Department of Communication and media, Lund University; Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare. Member of the  COST Action IS1410, The Multimodal and Digital Practices of Young Children (DIGILITEY), and WG1: ‘Young children's digital literacy and multimodal practices in homes and communities’. Group leader and PI of several projects on children advertising and internet (cai@lu.se), and digital media and everyday life, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Dnr 2010-1982, 2018-01261). Currently leading DIGIKIDS Sweden, a four year project on children, 0-3 years old, and their digital practices in a family context.

Ulrika Sjöberg, Associate professor,in Media and Communication Studies. My main research interests involve young people’s media use and media literacy. I am currently working with the project 'Crisis Communication with Children' (funded by The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency). Most recent publications include, for instance, ‘It's not about facts - It's about framing. The App generation's information-seeking tactics: proactive online crisis communication' (Journal of Contingencies and Crisis management). Representing Sweden in the international research network DigiLitEY - The digital literacy and multimodal of young Children (digilitey.eu).