Personal information

Name

Fredrik Stiernstedt

Title

PhD Student

Discipline

Media and Communication Studies

Background

Fredrik Stiernstedt holds a Master of Arts from Södertörn University College. He has been working as project co-ordinator for the Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS), 2005-2006. Since February 2006 Fredrik Stiernstedt is a PhD-student at the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn Univeristy College and the University of Örebro. During Spring 2007 Fredrik Stiernstedt was guest researcher at the University of Oslo, which was made possible through a grant from STINT.

Specialities within the field:
Fredrik’s research interests and areas of lecturing within media studies includes radio and other sound media, software-studies, media history, media activism and alternative media and media philosophy.

Contact information:
Södertörns Högskola
S-141 89 HUDDINGE
fredrik.stiernstedt@sh.se
0046 8 608 42 94

Publications

Articles:
Stiernstedt, Fredrik & Linus Andersson (2008): “Creating Alternatives. Alternative Media Theory and Swedish Pirate Radio” in Culture, Subculture, Counterculture, Michaela Praisler and Gabriela Iuliana Colipca (eds) Galati: Europlus, pp. 219-241.

Stiernstedt, Fredrik (2008): “Book review: Other Voices. The Struggle for Community Radio in India.” in Westminister Papers in Communication and Culture, vol. 5(1), pp. 113-116.

‘The Decoding of a Format. On the production of music radio’ (tillsammans med Michael Forsman), in Jędrzejewski, Stanislaw (ed.) (2007) The Medium with a Promising Future. Radio in Central and Eastern European Countries, Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, s. 141-165.

‘Ett eget rum. Unga backpackers resedagböcker på internet’ [A room of one’s own. Young backpackers and their online travel diaries] i Locus. Tidskrift för forskning om barn och unga, nr 1-2;2007, s. 13-26.

Conference presentations:
”Musikradio i norden och Baltikum. Deltagande, flermedialitet och publikproduktion” [Music radio in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. Participation, multi-platform and the production of the audience]. Paper for the 18th Nordic Conference for Media Research, Helsinki, August 16-19, 2007.

“Pirates Ruling the Air” (with Linus Andersson) Paper for BEEGS Internal Conference, January 2007.

“The Decoding of a Format. Music Radio in Sweden and Estonia” (with Michael Forsman). Paper for the IREN Seminar, november 2006, Brussels.