Linda Ryan Bengtsson

Current research projects

• Bruksort 2.0 - ecosystem for the future, in collaboration with Hagfors municipality, Compare, Visist Värmland, Uddeholm, Experience Next Lindholmen, Tydlig ledarskap, Vinnova (2024-2025)
• The Experience Industry: Geomedia Technologies for Live Performance

Previous research projects

• Reserach grant through The Centre of Geomedia Studies (2022)
  Music Ecosystems (MECO), financed by EU (2018-2021)
• Place-based Digital Experiences (PDU), financed by Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (2019-2021)
• Music Innovation Network Inner Scandinavia, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (Interreg) (2015-2018)
• Community Experience Data Lab Kronoparken (xKRP), financed by Vinnova (2018)
• Digitalisation and the Tourism Industry, part of the Academy of Smart Specialisation, Karlstad University and Region Värmland  (2016-2018)
• Exposed, financed by Vinnova (2018)

Teaching
I continuously teach on undergraduate and advanced levels in Media and Communication studies. The teaching mainly revolves around visual culture, digital culture, interactivity, design, and design methodology.

Research
My research addresses the relationship between place and media and revolves around media practices and media design, with focus on cultural and creative industries and the tourism industry. My research is conducted in an interdisciplinary setting together with researchers from Human geography, Tourism studies, and Business administration. Our studies are often conducted in collaboration with public and private organizations, and are preferably practice-oriented and in co-creation. I have since 2013 in different ways been involved in the strategic and executive work of developing the center for Geomedia studies.

Research Advisor
In my role as a research advisor, I focus on strategic activites, building research environments, and collaboration with the surrounding society. My role is to strengthen the opportunities for research funding and environmental development for individual researchers and research environments, as well as to identify national and international collaborations.

My continuous collaboration with public and private actors and my experiences as a research advisor, has allowed me to become:

• Member of the board of the Baltic Sea Foundation
• Vice chairman of the Baltic Sea Foundation's research delegation 
• Member of the Visit Värmland's board
• Member of the management team for the YH training Experience Designer

Braunerhielm, L., Gibson, L. & Ryan Bengtsson, L. (2024) Geomedia perspectives for multiple futures in tourism development. Media and Communication, vol 12, https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.8157

Grip, L. Braunerhielm, L., Ljungberg, E. & Ryan Bengtsson, L. (2024) Introduction to Special issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities. Geomedia perspectives on everyday life in small towns and rural communities. Culture Unbound. 16(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.5191

Ryan Bengtsson, L., Karlsson, J. & Edlom, J. (2024) Röster från den svenska musikbranschen: utmaningar och lösningar under pandemin. I Florén, T. & Gullö, J-O. Musik – musikproduktion – musikbransch: Tolv samtida berättelser. Dalarna University.

Karlsson, J., Edlom, J. & Ryan Bengtsson, L. (2024) Innovating music experiences – Creativity in pandemic times, In Gullö, J-O., Hepworth-Sawyer, R., Paterson, J. & Toulson, R. Innovation In Music: Cultures and Contexts. Routledge.

Braunerhielm, L., & Ryan Bengtsson, L. (2023). Geomedia sensibility in media technologies. Anatolia, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2023.2277369

Ryan Bengtsson, L., & Edlom, J. (2023). Commodifying participation through choreographed engagement: the Taylor Swift case. Arts and the Market. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAM-07-2022-0034

Ryan Bengtsson, L., & Van Couvering, E. (2022). Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221129530

Ryan Bengtsson, L., Braunerhielm, L., Gibson, L.,Hoppstadius, F. & Kingsepp, E.(2022). Digital media innovations through participatory action research: Interventions for digital place-based experiences. Nordicom Review, 43(2) 134-151. https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2022-0009

Ryan Bengtsson, L. and Edlom, J. (2021), Mapping transmedia marketing in the music industry: A methodology. Media and Communication, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 164-174. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.4064

Fast, K., Jansson, A., Tesfahuney, M., Ryan Bengtsson, L, & Lindell, J. (2018). Introducing Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. Routledge.

Jansson A. & Ryan Bengtsson L. (2018). “Ambiguities of Network Capital: Experiences of connectivity and integration among artists and craftsmen in the cultural ecosystem of Arvika, Sweden” in Contemporary Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds eds Fast K., Jansson A., Lindell J., Ryan Bengtsson L. and Tesfahuney M. Routledge. pp. 195-214.

Ryan Bengtsson, L. (2012). Re-negotiating social space: Public art installations and interactive experience (Doctoral dissertation, Karlstad University).