Jakob Olsson

Research
In October 2024 I defended my thesis Wired Children, Adult Networks, and Digital Tensions : Digitalisation and Media Skirmishes in Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Sweden 2000–2019. My research interest is mainly how literature, especially for children and young adults, relates to contemporary technology and media.
Selected publications
Wired Children, Adult Networks, and Digital Tensions - Digitalisation and Media Skirmishes in Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Sweden 2000–2019. Karlstad University Press, 2024
”THE YOUTUBE SUCCESS NOW IN BOOK FORM!” IJustWantToBeCool, Yumi, Tomu and the Convergence Machine". Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 53(1), 2023.
"To send out one's voice into the black night - The curious radio in Selma Lagerlöf's 'Plea to America'". Evangelium enligt Selma. Red. Anna Forssberg, Anna Nordlund & Lisbeth Stenberg. Mårbacka förlag, 2018.
