My paper on the uses of interactive features on Swedish newspaper web sites has been published online at Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. This was the first paper I wrote as part of my PhD work, and so it is especially satisfying to see it published. Otherwise, I’m gearing up for a spring semester full of travel, research, teaching and music. Here’s what I know so far:

• I’ll be presenting my ongoing work with Hallvard Moe on Twitter use during Scandinavian elections at the NETworked 2012 conference later in january, at the 9th Scandinavian Workshop on E-government (SWEG 2012) in february and at the ICA-sponsored CMN2012: Communicating in a World of Norms conference in march.
• I’ve been invited to hold two seminars the Department of Informatics and at qumu, both at Umeå University and both at the end of february
• In april, I’ll be going to Oslo to present part of my dissertation work at the 2012 International Symposium on Media Innovations.

Just got word that the paper on Twitter use during the 2010 Swedish elections (co-authored with Hallvard Moe) has been published online. Of course, you need to subscribe to the journal in question in order to read the piece – or you can get your hands on the pre-print version, available here. Hope you like it!

Waking up this morning, I was greeted with great news – a paper on ethical and methodological issues I co-wrote with Hallvard Moe had been accepted for publication in Nordicom Review. The paper, entitled Methodological and ethical challenges with large-scale analyses of online political communication, emanates from our ongoing project on political Twitter use in the Scandinavian region. This publication marks a nice opportunity for us to provide other interested researchers with some insights into the issues we continuously face when doing research on social media and sets of “big data”. A pre-print version of the paper is available here.

A paper that I co-wrote with, among others, Stefan Hrastinski and Jenny Eriksson Lundström, was published in this month’s issue of First Monday. While I think the paper turned out good and interesting, what is perhaps even more interesting is the semi-Swedish coat of arms (or something like that) that is currently featured on the First Monday web site. For the purposes of documentation, it is also featured in the screen shot above. Viking research?

My vacation in Tarragona, Spain is winding down. Just as I was about to head off to the NordMedia 2011 conference (by way of Sweden), I was informed that my co-authored paper “Studying political microblogging. Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign” had been accepted for publication in New Media & Society. Good news indeed – I’ve mentioned before that this particular journal was one of my inspirations for pursuing a career in research, and so, I was very satisfied with these news. The paper was co-written with Hallvard Moe and is the first publication to come out of our ongoing project regarding political Twitter use in the Scandinavian countries.