Linnea Saltin
Research
My research area is about 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, imaginations and embodiment in realtion 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.
I am experienced with lectures, seminars, examinations and supervision in a variety of courses, primarily in human geography, but also in tourism, media and communication and geography. I have experience of Bachelor thesis supervision.
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. (Forthcoming) Game and Play in Designing Virtual Places for VR Tourism. In Tourism and Place Design: Designing Places to Live, Operate and Visit. Red. Hoppstadius, F. Tesfahuney, M. & Åkerlund, U.
Publications
- Linnea Saltin - 2026