Expanding media histories: Cultural and material perspectives

Sune Bechmann Pedersen · Marie Cronqvist · Ulrika Holgersson

Jan 2024 · Nordic Academic Press

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234

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About this ebook

Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyze ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first part centers on media systems and media events, with studies of spiritist séances, Gallup polls, the mediated persona of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the burial of a Swedish elder statesman in 1915. The second part focuses on media materialities and infrastructure such as art replicas, ring binders, tourist guidebooks, and media technology in the IKEA home. Aimed at students and academics alike, Expanding Media Histories offers new empirical research, which engages critically with key concepts in media history today.

About the author

Sune Bechmann Pedersen is Reader in history and Senior Lecturer in digital history at Stockholm University. He has previously worked as researcher at Media History, Lund University, and as postdoc at the Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg. A historian of 20th century Europe, he specializes in the transnational history of media, memory, tourism, European integration, and the Cold War.

Marie Cronqvist is an Associate Professor in History and Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media History at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University, Sweden. Lina Sturfelt is a PhD in History and Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Studies at the Department of History, Lund University, Sweden.

Ulrika Holgersson is Reader in history and an Associate Professor in Media History and Journalism at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. Her research expertise is media discourses of class and gender in 20th century Sweden, media and democracy and media and monarchy.

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