SIMON LINDGREN

I am a Professor of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden. I research digital culture with a focus on how new media publics navigate the border landscape between the new potentials for participation and activism on the one hand, and the risks for exclusion and exploitation on the other.
 
I try to take an active part in developing theoretical as well as methodological tools for analyzing discursive and social network aspects of the emerging new media landscape. My publications are on themes like hacktivism, digital piracy, citizen journalism, subcultural creativity, popular culture and visual politics.