About us

The offices of the department are located in Garnisonen and The Film House (Filmhuset). The department offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral education in four areas: Cinema Studies, Journalism, Media and Communication Studies and Fashion Studies. You can find us either on Karlavägen 104 or Borgvägen 1-5.

Department facts(2021)

  • 78 employees
  • 18 professors
  • 853 FTE (full-time equivalent) students
 

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Journalism and Media and Communication Studies have a common doctoral programme. 

The Department of Media Studies is a research-intensive department with several externally funded projects by amongst others The Swedish Research Council (VR) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ).

The Faculty of Humanities has chosen two leading research environments at the Department of Media Studies: Cinema Studies and Global Media Studies and The Politics of Mediated Communication (JMK).

The Department follows an active environmental policy and has introduced a travel policy as well. 

Annual report (in Swedish)

 

About the Section for Journalism, Media and Communication Studies (JMK)

JMK was founded in 1989 as a department through a merger between the former School of Journalism (Journalisthögskolan) and Mass Communication Research Center (Centrum för masskommunikationsforskning).

The Section for Journalism, Media and Communication Studies (JMK) offers undergraduate, masters, and doctoral education in two areas: Journalism and Media and Communication Studies. 

Studenter i redigeringsrummet på JMK. Foto: Ingmarie Andersson © 2019 Stockholms universitet
Studenter i redigeringsrummet på JMK. Foto: Ingmarie Andersson © 2019 Stockholms universitet

About the Section for JMK (In Swedish)
Journalism (su.se)
Media and Communication Studies (su.se) 
Courses and programmes

Research in Media and Communication Studies

Media and communication studies is a field that focuses on the most pressing issues of our time, as they appear at the intersection of communication, technology, politics and culture. We explore, in various ways, the basis for and content of mediated communication, its roles in society and in everyday life. 

Foto: User_72879/Mostphotos
Photo: User_72879/Mostphotos

 

Research in Media and Communications Studies
 

Research in Journalism

Journalism is an interdisciplinary field of research with a long history at Stockholm University. The subject was established in 1990 when the former Journalism School merged with the Centre for Mass Communication Research. 

Foto: Mihajlo Maricic/Mostphotos
Foto: Mihajlo Maricic/Mostphotos

 

Research in Journalism

 

About the Section for Cinema Studies

Cinema Studies is the study of moving images and screen cultures which centers on film, film experience, and phenomena surrounding films. Historically, it ranges from image cultures before film to the screens and digital platforms of today. (Source: su.se)

Utanför Bio Mauritz inne i Filmhusets foajé ses bilder på kända skådespelare från förr. Foto: Ingmarie Andersson © Stockholms universitet
Filmhusets foajé Foto: Ingmarie Andersson © Stockholms universitet

About the Section for Cinema Studies (In Swedish)
Cinema Studies (su.se)
Courses and programmes
This is where our movies are screened (in Swedish) (360°)

 

 

Research in Cinema Studies

Cinema Studies designates the study of moving images and image cultures harking back to periods prior to the breakthrough of film, up until the diverse platforms of the current mediascape. 

Forskning i filmvetenskap bedrivs vid IMS. Foto: Patrick Daxenbichler © Mostphotos
Research in Cinema Studies is conducted at the Department of Media Studies. Photo: Patrick Daxenbichler © Mostphotos

The focus of our teaching and research at Stockholm University primarily concerns key medial moments of transformation; in our field both research objects and the methods with which they are studied constantly undergo change.

Research in Cinema Studies (in Swedish)

 

 

About the Section for Fashion Studies

Fashion Studies examines the history of fashion, its social and economic functions and its role in the development of global production and consumption of clothing.

Ripsasamlingen, skapad av Ebba von Eckermann. Foto: Niklas Björling © Stockholms universitet
The Ripsa collection, created by Ebba von Eckermann 1950–1980 in Ripsa, region of Sörmland. Photo: Niklas Björling © Stockholm University

About the Section for Fashion Studies (in Swedish)
Fashion studies (su.se)
Courses and programmes

Stockholm University is committed to being carbon neutral by 2040

En blå flagga med Stockholms universitets vita logotyp vajar i vinden. Foto: Emanuel Almborg
Stockholms universitets flagga. Foto: Emanuel Almborg © Stockholms universitet

"In June 2019, as the first Swedish university, Stockholm University signed the UN Agreement on Global Sustainability Goals for Higher Education (Climate Emergency Letter), which means that Stockholm University is committed to:

  • Being carbon neutral by 2040,
  • Mobilising more resources for action-oriented climate research and skills creation,
  • Developing environmental and sustainability courses across disciplinary boundaries".

(Source: Our Climate Roadmap for 2020–2040)

Environment, climate and sustainability
Department travel policy
University policy for meetings and travel

 

Contact

On our Contact webpage you will find general contact information, and contact details to e.g. the Senior Management Team, press contacts, Student Affairs Offices and our Directors of Studies. 

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