Personal information

Name

Göran Bolin

Title

Professor

Discipline

Media & Communication Studies

Background

Göran Bolin is professor in Media & Communication Studies. Bolin’s current research interests are focussed on cultural production and consumption in contemporary culture industries, and the effects of on the relationship between these provoked by digitization and marketization processes. His most recent work is summarised in Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (Ashgate, 2011). An edited volume on Cultural Technologies. The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society (Routledge) will appear in 2012.

Bolin has since the early 1990s worked in or headed research projects on violence in the media, youth and cultural production, entertainment television and the relation between production practices and textual expressions, media consumption and the production of value in cultural industries, media structure and use in the Baltic Sea region, mobile phone use, media generations, etc.

He is currently directing four projects: Value and the Media (Swedish Science Foundation, 2008-2011), Cultures of Technology/Cultural Technologies (Baltic Sea Foundation, 2008-2012), Digital Media Cultures. Audiences, Lifestyles and Generations in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Baltic Sea Foundation, 2008-2012), and Audiences in the Age of Media Convergence: Media Generations in Estonia and Sweden (Baltic Sea Foundation, 2010-2012).

He is an editor of Young (Sage), and on the editorial board of four other international peer review journals.