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• 2025-05-19

  The Geomedia Day 2025

  On May 15, 2025, the annual Geomedia Day was held at Elite Stadshotellet in Karlstad. A full day of insightful discussions, research presentations and creative collaboration.

  André Jansson opened the event with a welcome address, followed by an update on the upcoming 2025 Geomedia conference from Georgia Aitaki.

  The morning continued with a workshop session focusing on the Geomedia Panel data. The session was divided into three parts: an introduction to the interview data by Karin Fast; group work with some of the collected material, and a joint discussion around key themes.

  After lunch, four researchers presented reflections based on their ongoing research under the headline “Geomedia Temporalities and Futures”:

• 2025-05-12

  Research project wants to create sustainable rural ecosystems through place design

  - With this project, we want to help lay the foundation for an ecosystem that supports collaboration between industries and sectors. The objective is to create synergies and boost the competitive edge of the companies and the appeal of rural locations, says Lotta Braunerhielm, docent in Human Geography at Karlstad University.

  Lotta Braunerhielm, please tell us about the project

• 2025-04-24

  New Study Reveals How AI Search Engines Reshape Access to Political News Across Languages

  Researchers from Karlstad University explored how generative AI search engines, such as Microsoft Copilot, are transforming political news retrieval - and with it, the global flow of information.

  The study "Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages" was published in the journal Telecommunications Policy and is co-authored by Professor Cornelia Brantner, Professor Michael Karlsson, and Joanne Kuai.

• 2025-04-17

  New Geomedia project focuses on historical video games

  Peter Wikström, docent in English at Karlstad University, is working together with Geomedia to develop project applications in collaboration with Embracer Games Archive in Karlstad.
  – The project focuses on material objects related to historical video games, such as covers, packaging, manuals and the design of discs and cartridges.

  – The approach we are using in the research project is multimodal discourse analysis, says Peter Wikström. We will select objects from Embracer’s massive archive, which will then be analysed in case studies with different approaches and research questions.

  The project covers various time periods and types of games to contribute to knowledge about the significance of material objects, which play a particularly important role when it comes to historical games.

• 2025-04-11

  Transforming Passions – The International Geomedia Conference returns to Karlstad University

  The Transforming Passions conference marks the 10-year anniversary of the conference series, celebrating a decade of engagement with Geomedia Studies. This year, the conference returns home to Karlstad University after several years.

  The Transforming Passions conference is both a moment of reflection and an opportunity for expansion, looking back at the origins of Geomedia.

  As a transdisciplinary gathering, Transforming Passions fosters dialogue between scholars and artists and provides a platform for exchanging ideas, exploring methodologies and sharing creative expressions that shape our understanding of media, space, culture and the arts. By bringing formats, disciplines, and perspectives, the conference continues to push the boundaries of Geomedia.

• 2025-03-27

  Research on tourists in the digital age presented in China

  Richard Ek and Mekonnen Tesfahuney, both professors in human geography at Karlstad University, recently finished a paper called “Sloterdijk, Geomedia, and the Existential Tourist”. Richard Ek presented the paper at a conference in China.

  Richard Ek, tell us about your paper “Sloterdijk, Geomedia, and the Existential Tourist”