Research
My research is concerned with how technology and digitalization affect our spatial relations. My research interests focuses on Geographies of Everyday life as increasingly entwined with digital technologies and media, especially how our understanding of places and location changes both for the individual and society at large with technological advances and increased digitalization. I work with ethnographic methods to study processes of behavior, imaginaries, and embodiment in relation to technology.
Teaching
I am currently teaching at the Bachelors programme for Social and Spatial Planning and the Bachelors programme for tourism and place design, Education for Geography teachers and the Masters Programme in Spatial and Social Transformations.
I am experienced with lectures, seminars, examinations and supervision in a variety of courses, primarily in human geography, but also in tourism and geography.
My teaching centers around spatial perspectives, theory of science, qualitative methods, and ethics.
Selected publications
Saltin, Linnea. 2026. VR Heterotopia: User Imaginaries of Virtual Reality Headsets as Technology for Reaching Utopic Spaces. Media and Communication. Vol 14. Article nr 11191. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.i501
Saltin, Linnea. 2026. Ektopic - A Phenomenology of VR usage in Swedish Homes. Doctoral Thesis. ISBN: 978-91-7867-676-7
Saltin, Linnea. 2026. Game and Play in Designing Places in VR—A Theoretical Approach to VR Tourism Emergence. In Tourism and Place Design: Designing Places to Live, Operate and Visit. Red. Hoppstadius, F. Tesfahuney, M. & Åkerlund, U.