Personal information

Name

Sofia Johansson

Title

PhD, Lecturer

Discipline

Media and Communication Studies

Background

Sofia Johansson (b. 1975) is Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörns högskola (University College). She received her PhD from the University of Westminster in 2006, for a thesis titled ‘Reading Tabloids: A Study of Readers of the Sun and the Daily Mirror’. She has worked at Södertörn since the autumn of 2006 and teaches on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests cover journalism, media reception and popular culture.

Sofia is a member of the research team on the project ‘The role of the media to identity and democracy’, which, led by Peter Petrov and Cecilia von Feilitzen, examines media use in Stockholm and St Petersburg. She is also a co-ordinator within the umbrella project ‘Cultures of Technology, Technologies of Culture’. She is a founding board member of the journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, where she has edited a special issue on ‘celebrity culture’ (2005) and is co-editing a forthcoming (2008) issue on the future of news journalism.

Publications
Johansson, Sofia (2008) ‘Gossip, Sport and Pretty Girls: What Does “Trivial” Journalism Mean to Tabloid Newspaper Readers?’, Journalism Practice, Vol. 2(3): 402-413.

Johansson, Sofia (2008) with Mascha Brictha (eds.) News Journalism in Transition, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol. 5(2).

Johansson, Sofia (2008), with Mascha Brichta, (2008) ‘Editorial’, in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol.5(2), pp. 1-3.

Johansson, Sofia (2007) Reading Tabloids: Tabloid Newspapers and Their Readers, Huddinge: Södertörn Academic Studies.

Johansson, Sofia (2007) They Just Make Sense”: Tabloids As An Alternative Public Sphere?’, in Richard Butsch (ed.) Media and Public Spheres, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 83-95.

Johansson, Sofia (2006) ‘”Sometimes You Wanna Hate Celebrities”: Tabloid Readers and Celebrity Coverage’, in Su Holmes and Sean Redmonds (eds.) Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture, London: Routledge, pp. 343-358.

Johansson, Sofia (2005) (ed.) Mediating Celebrity, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol.2(2).

Johansson, Sofia (2005) ‘Editorial’, in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol.2(2), pp. 1-5.