I am a Professor of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden, where I am also the director of DIGSUM, an interdisciplinary research centre studying the social dimensions of digital technology, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Social Research.
My research is about politics, power, and resistance at the intersection of society and digital technologies. I use critical discourse approaches, computational text analysis, and social network analysis to study issues relating to movements, mobilization, opinions, and identities.
DIGSUM
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Books
Lindgren, S. and Eriksson Krutrök, M. (2024). Researching Digital Media and Society. Sage.
Lindgren, S. (2023). Critical Theory of AI. Polity.
Lindgren, S. (2023, ed.). Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Elgar.
Lindgren, S. (2022). Digital Media and Society, 2nd Edition. Sage.
Lindgren, S. (2020). Data Theory. Polity.
Lindgren, S. (2017). Digital Media and Society. Sage.
Lindgren, S. (2017, ed.). Hybrid Media Culture. Sage.
Lindgren, S. (2013). New Noise. Peter Lang.
Ten recent papers
Liminga, A. and Lindgren, S. (2024): “Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: Articulations and actors in an emerging movement”. Big Data & Society. [https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241266416]
Hallberg-Sramek, I., Lindgren, S., Samuelsson, J. and Sandström, C. (2024). “Applying Machine Learning to Media Analysis Improves Our Understanding of Forest Conflicts”. Land Use Policy, 144, 107254. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107254]
Ericson, P., Dobbe, R. and Lindgren, S. (2024): “Tracing Class and Capitalism in Critical AI Research”. TripleC. [https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1464].
Östin, E. and Lindgren, S. (2024): “Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags”. Social Media + Society. [https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241245668]
Merrill, S., Gardell, M. and Lindgren, S (2024): ”How ‘the Left’ Meme: Analyzing Taboo in the Internet Memes of r/DankLeft”. New Media & Society. [https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241232144]
Lindström, A., Lindgren, S. and Sainudiin, R. (2024). “Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Modelling of Peoples’ Power: A Causal Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement via Hawkes Processes on Social and Mass Media”. DATA2023 Conference Proceedings. Springer.
Lindgren, S. (2023). ”Introducing critical studies of artificial intelligence”, in Lindgren (ed.). Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Elgar.
Lindgren, S. and Dignum, V. (2023). ”Beyond AI solutionism: toward a multi-disciplinary approach to artificial intelligence in society”, in Lindgren (ed.). Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Elgar.
Lindgren, S. (2023). ”Tvärvetenskaplighet inom tekniska mediestudier: exemplet sociala och politiska botar”, in Berg, Leckner, Engberg (eds.). Tekniska mediestudier. Studentlitteratur.
Lindgren, S. and Richardson, L. (2023). ”Endometriosis and epistemic community: Mapping discourses of pain in online discussions among sufferers”. Social Science & Medicine. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115889]