Göran Bolin

Professor in Media and Communication Studies

Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation
Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap
Forskningsledare vid CBEES 
Rum: PC 206/F931 Hotellet
Tel: 6084218
Fax: 6084640

goran.bolin@sh.se

 

Göran Bolin is professor in Media & Communication Studies at Södertörn University. Bolin has since the early 1990s worked in or headed research projects on violence in the media, youth and cultural production, entertainment television and the relation between production practices and textual expressions, media consumption and the production of value in cultural industries, media structure and use in the Baltic Sea region, mobile phone use, etc. Methodologically the projects have involved textual analysis, media ethnography, statistical analysis, cultural analysis. His recent project ‘Variable Media Landscapes. Mediated Social and Cultural Change in the Baltic Sea Region’ (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies 2002-2006) analysed the role of the media in and for social and cultural change over the last decades of the 1900s and the early 2000s. He is currently heading the project ‘Digital Media Cultures: Audiences, Life-styles and Generations in the Age of Digital Reproduction’ (Baltic Sea Foundation 2007-2009), and the project ‘Value and the Media. An Inquiry Into the Production and Consumption of Value in Media Industries’ (Swedish Science Foundation 2008-2010).
 
Bolin is the author of 5 books and reports and 8 edited books. He has published in journals such as Nordicom Review, Young, AV/Montage, International Journal of Cultural Studies, MedieKultur, Screen, Javnost/The Public, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication and Social Semiotics.
 
He is editor of Young. Nordic Journal of Youth Research.

 

Books

Bolin, Göran (2003): Variations, media landscapes, history. Frameworks for an analysis of contemporary media landscapes, (Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola 2003:1), Huddinge: MKV.
Bolin, Göran & Michael Forsman (2002): Bingolotto: produktion, text, reception, (Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola 2002:1), Flemingsberg: MKV.
Bolin, Göran (2001): Masskommunikation. Historia och kulturell värdebildning, (Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola 2001:1), Flemingsberg: Södertörns högskola.
Bolin, Göran (1998): Filmbytare. Videovåld, kulturell produktion och unga män, Umeå: Boréa.
Bolin, Göran (1993): Videovåld i Sverige. En kommenterad filmografi, Stockholm: JMK.

Edited books (selection)

Bolin, Göran (ed.) (2005): The Media Landscape of Södertörn 2002. Media Use, Values and Everyday Life in Southern Stockholm (Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola 2003:1), Huddinge: MKV.
Bolin, Göran, Monica Hammer, Frank.Mikael Kirsch & Wojciech Szrubka (eds) (2005): The Challenge of the Baltic Sea Region. Culture, Ecosystems, Democracy, Huddinge: Södertörn University College.
Bolin, Göran & Karin Lövgren (red) (1995): Om unga män. Identitet, kultur och livsvillkor, Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Fornäs, Johan & Göran Bolin (red) (1995): Youth Culture in Late Modernity, London: Sage.
Fornäs, Johan & Göran Bolin (red) (1992): Moves in Modernity, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.

Articles & Book chapters (most recent)

Bolin, Göran (2009): ‘Television Textuality. Textual Forms in Live Television Programming’, in Nordicom Review, vol. 30(1) (in print).
Bolin, Göran (2009): ‘Media Events, Eurovision and Societal Centres’, in Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp & Friedrich Krotz (eds): Media Events in a Global Age, London & New York: Routledge. (in print).
Bolin, Göran & Per Ståhlberg (2009): ‘Between Community and Commodity. Nationalism and Nation Branding’, in Anna Roosvall & Inka Solivara Moring (eds): Communicating the Nation, Göteborg: Nordicom. (in print)
Bolin, Göran (2009): ‘Symbolic Production and Value in Media Industries’, in Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 2(3) (in print).
Bolin, Göran & Oscar Westlund (2009): ‘Mobile Generations. The Role of the Mobile in the Shaping of Swedish Media Generations’, International Journal of Communication, vol. 3: 108-124.
Bolin, Göran (2008): ‘Bildspråk och berättarform. Narrativa framställningar i multimediala miljöer’, i Mats Ekström (ed.): Mediernas språk, Malmö: Liber, s. 40-60.
 
Bolin, Göran (2007): ‘The Politics of Cultural Production. The Journalistic Field, Television and Politics’, in Kristina Riegert (ed.): Politicotainment. Television’s Take on the Real, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 59-82.
 
Bolin, Göran (2007): ‘Media Technologies, Transmedia Storytelling and Commodification’, in Tanja Storsul & Dagny Stuedal (eds): Ambivalence Towards Convergence. Digitalization and Media Change, Göteborg: Nordicom, pp. 237-248.
 
Bolin, Göran (2006): ‘Visions of Europe. Cultural Technologies of Nation States’, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 9(2): 189-206.
Bolin, Göran (2005): ’Notes From Inside the Factory. The Production and Consumption of Signs and Sign Value in Media Industries’, in Social Semiotics, vol 15(3): 289-306.
Bolin, Göran (2005): ’En form av television. Globaliseringen av nationell TV-kultur’, i Medieultur, nr. 39, pp. 38-49.
Bolin, Göran (2004): “The value of being public service. The shifting of power relations in Swedish television production”, in Media, Culture & Society vol. 26(2): 321-331.
 
Bolin, Göran (2004): “Mobiltelefon och mediegeneration. Mobilen som gemenskapande och individualiserande medium”, i Sören Holmberg & Lennart Weibull (red): Ju mer vi är tillsammans, Göteborg: SOM-Institutet, s. 329-342.
Bolin, Göran (2003): “Spaces of television. The structuring of consumers in a Swedish shopping mall”, in Nick Couldry & Anna McCarthy (eds): Media/Space. Place, scale and culture in a media age, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 126-144.
 
Bolin, Göran (2003): “Medieforskning mellan kultur och samhälle. För en integrativ medievetenskap”, i Ulla Carlsson (red): Mångfald i medieforskningen. Göteborg: Nordicom, s. 71-88.
Bolin, Göran (2002): “In the Market for Symbolic Commodities. Swedish lottery game show ’Bingolotto’ and the marketing of social and cultural values”, in Nordicom Review vol. 23(1-2) 177-204.
 
Bolin, Göran (2002): “Nationsmarknadsföring. Eurovisionsschlagerfestivalen som modern världsutställning”, i Staffan Ericson (red): Hello Europe! Tallinn Calling! Eurovision Song Contest 2002 som mediehändelse, Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola 2002:3, Huddinge: MKV, s. 33-42.
 
Bolin, Göran (2001): “Bingolotto. Produktion, varor, värden i kommersiell TV”, i Nordicom Information vol. 23(3-4):15-32.
 
Bolin, Göran & Michael Forsman (2000): “Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft in Schweden. Zergleiderung oder Ko-Existenz?”, i Montage/AV, vol 9(1): 187-201.
 
Bolin, Göran (2000): “Film swapping in the public sphere. Youth audiences and alternative cultural publicities”, in Javnost/The Public, vol 7(2): 57-73.
 
Bolin, Göran (1999): “Producing cultures. The construction of forms and contents of contemporary youth cultures”, i Young. Nordic Journal of Youth Research, vol 7(1): 50-65.
Bolin, Göran & Michael Forsman (1996): “Film studies in Sweden: Cinema arts and back again?”, i Screen vol 37(3): 294-302.
Bolin, Göran & Michael Forsman (1996): “Film studies in Sweden. The past, the present and the future”, i Nordicom Review, nr 2/1996, s 25-34.
Bolin, Göran (1994): “Beware! Rubbish! Popular culture and strategies of distinction”, i Young vol 2(1): 33-49.