Henrik Bergius

I am currently working on my dissertation project: All aboard the digital train - technological marginalisation in public transit. The project is connected to the centre for geomedia studies.

Digital infrastructure has expanded rapidly and become integrated into the fundamental structures of society. Public logistical structures are no exception, with Swedish public transit utilising digital platforms enabled by mobile media technologies for both travel planning and ticket management. However, the structural expectation for individuals to integrate themselves with digital technologies could create frictions, both for people who do not use smartphone technologies and for those unfamiliar with the public transit system

My research interest is in how mobility is structurally affected by smartphones, and what we expect from public infrastructures in Sweden’s state of extreme digitalisation. I examine this using ethnographic methods observing practices of non-smartphone users in public transit. By lifting this marginalised perspective I hope to create understandings of what it actually means to live as a digital outsider, while saying something about general phenomena of mobility and digitalisation.

I am teaching in multiple courses in media- and communication studies.

Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and master's degree in Culture and Democracy, both from the University of Gothenburg. Working at KAU since 2023.