Seminars

COMING SEMINARS
 

7th March 2012
MKV HIGHER SEMINAR 15.00-17.00 in room 12c350
organized by Media and Communication Studies

Mekonnen Tesfahuney & Cecilia Möller (KaU Department for Cultural Geography and Tourism) will present:
Tourism, Catastrophes and Social Media

13th March 2012
15.15-17 in room 21d402

Ulf Mellström & Caroline Wamala from Gender Studies will present on:
Gender and ICTs: histories of inclusion and exclusion 

Information on the seminar and presenter will be updated shortly
 

16th April 2012
15.15-17.00 in room 3d416

Frank van Geelkerken will present on:
Using Trojan Horses as criminal investigatory method: putting the backdoor to fundamental freedoms ajar

Information on the seminar and presenter will be updated shortly

27th April 2012
15.15 - 17.00 in room 21d416

Ilkin Mehrabov will present on:
Construction and Constitution of Home among migrants in Sweden: Theoretical reflections on future comparative study on Azerbaijani, Russian and Turkish communities  

The main aim of my doctoral study is to look on transnational imagination of migrant communities living in Sweden, away from their own Heimat, and to question what constitutes as home for them, do they feel Sweden only as temporal place of living or do they fully conceive Sweden as their 'new' homeland?

The three pillars of this research, in a sense a tripod to place camera of panoramic observation on, will be theoretical framework bordered by concepts of identity (expressed in Stuart Hall's terms of constant becoming instead of fixed base), transnationalism (especially fueled by approach of Steven Vertovec) and mediatization (as defined by Friedrich Krotz).

An auxiliary aim of the study is to critique the media-centric approach (especially in the manner of conducting non-media-centric media analysis advised by David Morley) and instead purely concentrate on communication. Thus, special importance will be given to a role of language, and particularly theories of Wittgenstein, and, following de Certeau, significance of everyday practices.

Ilkin Mehrabov is doctoral candidate at the department of Media & Cultural Studies, Karlstad University, funded by HumanIT. Originally from Azerbaijan, he obtained his M.Sc in Media & Cultural Studies and B.Sc in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Recipient of multiple academic and arts awards, he is currently working on his doctoral dissertation focusing on migrant communities and their everyday communication and media usage. His publications and research interests are in the spheres of radical and migrant media, alternative journalism, changing media technologies and their social impact, ICT for development, video art and video activism, as well as nationalism & identity politics.

PAST SEMINARS

2nd February 2012

Julio Angulo presented on desgning secure and user friendly online transaction 

11th November 2011

Gudrun Wicander defended her doctoral thesis on mobile supported e-government systems in Tanzania

3rd November 2011

Germaine Hillerström presented her doctoral thesis work on the purchase of digital content and the protection of consumers

21st September 2011

Florencia Enghels, PhD student in Media and Communication studies presented her views on Communication for Social Change

2nd September 2011

Round table discussion: What are the strengths and particularities of HumanIT and Karlstad University in this area?

8 June 2011

Seminar on Facebook

Presentations by Jolanda Girzl (Consumer Europe) Jakob Svensson (Media and Communication Studies) John Sören Pettersson (Informatics)

28 April 2011

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg from Stockholm University, Faculty of Law.

25 February 2011

Sameer Patil: With A Little Help From My Friends: Can Social Navigation Inform Interpersonal Privacy Preferences?

26 January 2011

Ilkin Mehrabov

12 December 2010

Jakob Svensson & Gudrun Wicander: M4D2010

27 October 2010

Frank van Geelkerken