Stina Bengtsson
Professor
I am professor of Media and Communication Studies who explores media use in everyday life from phenomenological, material, tempo-spatial and ethical perspectives.
Culture and Education
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Stina Bengtsson is professor in Media and Communication Studies . She works in the area of media and everyday life, and has for the past 25 years been exploring how people coexist with media from phenomenological, material, spatial and ethical perspectives. In her work she has approached media experiences from a detailed micro perspective, aiming at understanding how the media, as practices, technologies and texts play a fundamental role in everyday life and the construction of a ‘good life’. She is currently involved in a research project that explores dimensions of mediatisation of everyday life. Bengtsson is also part of the steering group of the graduate school School, Sports, Screen: Value-Laden Learning Practices (financed by the Swedish Research Council), in collaboration with Uppsala University and the Swedish Sports Academy (GIH).
Throughout her work, Bengtsson employs phenomenological approaches to media and media use, calling for embodied and sensorial dimensions of media technologies as key areas of attention in media research.
Bengtsson teaches on all educational levels, and and was Dean of Faculty between 2022 and 2025. She has been visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2015), University of Calgary (2018), Helsinki University (2021-2022) and University of Bergen (2025).
Ongoing research projects:
School, Sports, Screen: Value-laden learning practices (2022-2026, Swedish Research Council)
Meazuring mediatisation (2026-2030, Anderstiftelsen)
Earlier research projects:
What is News? News perceptions and practices among young adults in times of transition (2019-2023, The Baltic Sea Foundation)
New media and civil society in the new mediapolis, 2015-2018 (The Baltic Sea Foundation)
Digital Media Morality, 2014-2017 (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
Habitus and higher eduacation: Power, Taste and Cultural Dissonance, 2012-2015 (The Baltic Sea Foundation)
- Virtual Everyday Life, 2010-2013 (The Swedish Research Council/VR)
- Virtual Baltic Sea Region, 2009-2011 (postdoc project at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies)
- The Don Quixote of Youth Culture: media use and cultural preferences among students in Estonia and Sweden, 2002-2005 (funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation/ÖSS)