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.

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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.

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Ten recent papers

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]

Lindqvist, L. and Lindgren, S. (2022). “Mapping an Emerging Hashtag Ecosystem: Connective action and interpretive frames in the Swedish #MeToo movement”. Feminist Media Studies. [https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2149604]

Lindgren, S. and Åkerlund, M. (2022). “TAPS: Tweets Across the Political Spectrum 2016–2020”. SocArXiv. [http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/c7dqy]

Lindgren, S. and Åkerlund, M. (2022). “The TAPS Dataset: Political Tweets 2016-2020”. Harvard Dataverse. [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QG1HQF]

Eriksson Krutrök, M. and Lindgren, S. (2022). “Social media amplification loops and false alarms: Towards a socio‑technical understanding of misinformation during emergencies”. The Communication Review. [https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2035165]

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