About us
The offices of the department are located in Campus Albano 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
- 65 employees
- apx 900 FTE (full-time equivalent) students
More about us
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
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.
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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.
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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)
Filmhusets foajé Foto: Ingmarie Andersson © Stockholms universitet
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.
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.
The Ripsa collection, created by Ebba von Eckermann 1950–1980 in Ripsa, region of Sörmland. Photo: Niklas Björling © Stockholm University
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.
Last updated: 2025-10-30
Source: Department of Media Studies