Geomedia Karlstad

John Lynch

From John Lynch at the Centre for Geomedia Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.

  1. Mediatizing Waste

    MAR 25

    Mediatizing Waste

    In this podcast I talk with Crispin Thurlow, Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Bern. Here, he argues why it matters to talk about waste as a cultural issue. As he says, by understanding the kind of language people use to make sense of waste, we can help develop strategies for changing how it is perceived, discussed, and handled. This is an important starting point for developing more mindful, efficient, and sustainable ways to live with stuff. And often too much stuff. https://www.crispinthurlow.net/articulating-rubbish/

    42 min
  2. Disconnection in the everyday

    FEB 19

    Disconnection in the everyday

    In today's podcast I talk with Ana Jorge from the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies about her book Atomospheres and Digital Media: Connection and Disconnection across Everyday Life. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/atmospheres-and-digital-media

    50 min
  3. Conflicted Images/Images of Conflict

    2025-05-04

    Conflicted Images/Images of Conflict

    On the Geomedia podcast I talk with Professor Mette Mortensen on the way in which digital media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived.

    39 min
  4. On Display. Instagram, the Self and the City

    2025-01-29

    On Display. Instagram, the Self and the City

    Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform. Despite Instagram's reputation for shallowness, the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas. Who are we? What do we want to show of ourselves? What do we aspire to be? On Display is a book about how people remake their worlds through social media. John D. Boy and Justus Uitermark provide an encompassing account of how a platform that is unfailingly polished and ruthlessly judgmental shapes us and our environments. They examine how personalities, relationships, social movements, urban subcultures, and city streets change as they are represented on Instagram. Interviews and ethnographic vignettes render an intimate account of the desires and anxieties that animate the platform. Just as importantly, Boy and Uitermark reveal how Instagram is implicated in social inequalities. John D. Boy, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology (with tenure) at Leiden University.

    47 min
  5. Imaginative Futures

    2024-06-10

    Imaginative Futures

    In the podcast I talk with Professor Bo Reimer from Malmö University about his current research project into imaginative futures and issues such as AI.

    44 min
  6. Everest, Everestland, #Everest

    2024-01-26

    Everest, Everestland, #Everest

    Adventure tourism gets no more extreme than mount Everest. Each year sees increasing numbers of trekkers, climbers, and tourists in the region. The evident dangers and risks are, in many ways, the essence of its attraction – an experience to find yourself, define yourself or even display yourself. The establishing of cellular and wifi coverage has meant that even more images are generated each season. How might the experience of Everest be studied from the perspective of anthropology and media? In this edition of the podcast I talk to Jolynna Sinanan from the University of Manchester who is working on just this project. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/jolynna.sinanan

    37 min
  7. Diplomatic Material

    2023-09-06

    Diplomatic Material

    When we think of processes such as diplomacy we usually think of receptions, dinners and heavily coded conversations between state representatives. Yet there is a way to think about the complexity of this relationship in terms of how it operates through a range of material and immaterial practices from the rise of paper records in the British Empire to the procedures for standardisation for equipment between NATO countries. here I talk with Jason Dittmer, Professor of Political Geography at University College London about his book Diplomatic Material:Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/jason-dittmer

    29 min
  8. Radical Ocean Futures

    2023-09-06

    Radical Ocean Futures

    As the climate crisis impacts on all of us, science and research is continuously expanding on the amount of data that describes what is happening. Yet, communicating this information can be challenging, especially if we are to avoid endless doom scenarios that seem to offer little in terms of how we can imagine a different future. Andrew Merrie of the Stockholm Resilience Centre has been at the forefront of developing science-based future scenarios that build on fictional models to challenge this. https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2011-11-18-merrie.html https://rethink.earth/author/andrew-merrie/ https://www.planethon.io/about-us

    47 min
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From John Lynch at the Centre for Geomedia Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.

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  • Creator
    John Lynch
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Geomedia Karlstad