Forskning
My primary research interest is in the political economy of large online media platforms including Google and Facebook, as well as other platforms which copy features of the large media platforms. I also study data visualisation and, increasingly, climate communication.
My Google Scholar profile (ironic, I know) shows recent work
Current funded research projects:
- Algorithms and media organisations</li>
- SWEGIG (job intermediary platforms in Sweden)
Undervisning
At Karlstad, I usually teach final-year students in media theory and methods with a focus on PR and strategic communications, and science and technology studies. I also teach our data visualisation course
Biografi
I was born in Cambridge, England and raised in Boulder, Colorado. Academia is the family business: both my parents also had PhDs. My mother taught vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Colorado and my father ran Micropaleontology Press out of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
I moved to London in 1994 and remained there until 2013. In London I met and married my husband, Henrik Örnebring, who also teaches at Karlstad. In 2013 we moved with our family to Karlstad permanently. We have two children born in 2007 and 2012.
Utvalda publikationer
2012. “Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development” in G. Bolin, ed., Cultural Technologies The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society. New York: Routledge.
2011. “Navigational Media: The Political Economy of Online Traffic” in D. Winseck and D. Jin, eds, Media Political Economies: Hierarchies, Markets and Finance in the Global Media Industries. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2008. “The History of the Internet Search Engine: Navigational Media and the Traffic Commodity” in A. Spink and M. Zimmer, eds. Web Search: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (177-206). Berlin: Springer.
2008. “Internet Ratings Systems” in W. Donsbach, ed. The International Encylopedia of Communication (2453-2455). Oxford:Blackwell.
2008. “Search Engines” in W. Donsbach, ed. The International Encylopedia of Communication (4521-4525). Oxford:Blackwell.
2008. With Sonia Livingstone “Information Literacy” in W. Donsbach, ed. The International Encylopedia of Communication (2230-2234). Oxford:Blackwell.
2008. With Sonia Livingstone and Nancy Thumim. "Converging traditions of research on media and information literacies: Disciplinary and methodological issues" in J. Coiro, M. Knobel, C. Lankshear and D.J. Leu, eds. Handbook of Research on New Literacies (103-132). New York and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
2007. “The Economy of Navigation: Search Engines, Search Optimisation, and Search Results,” in M. Machill and M. Beiler, eds. The Rising Power of Search Engines (105-126). Cologne: Herbert von Halem Publishers.
2007. “Is Relevance Relevant? Markets, Science and War: Discourses of Search Engine Quality,” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(3):article 6. Available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/vancouvering.html
2005. With Sonia Livingstone and Nancy Thumim Adult Media Literacy: a Review of the Research Literature.. Commissioned by the Office of Communications (Ofcom). Published by Ofcom. 86pp. Available at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/aml.pdf
Övrigt
I have an avid interest in technology and in textile crafts and also in their overlap. Possibly the geekiest thing I have ever done is to decipher an 8-bit knitting machine programming language. I've also hacked my 1980s knitting machine with an Arduino chip. I knit (mostly by machine), sew, weave, crochet and spin. You can see many of my projects on Ravelry (username ejvc).
Och ja, jag kan prata svenska och även undervisar på svenska!