Miyase Christensen Professor

COURSES TAUGHT (Selection)

*Environmental Communication

*Academic Research (doctoral course)

*Global Media Studies (MA course)

*Media, Justice and Human Rights (MA course)

*Master’s Thesis

*Undergraduate Thesis (B and C levels)

*Contemporary Debates in Media and Communications Theory (doctoral course)

*Media, Technology and Society (doctoral course)

*Classics of Social Theory: Histories and Contemporary Debates (doctoral course)

*Globalization and the Political Economy of Communication (doctoral course)

*Social Theory and the Media (doctoral course)

*Media, Communication and Citizenship (doctoral course)

* Methodology of Media and Communication Studies: How to Avoid Pitfalls and Face Challenges (doctoral course)

* Communication Geography (doctoral course)

* Intercultural Communication and Media (MA level)

* Race, Ethnicity and the Media

* Cross-cuts of Film and Media
* Communication Theory (both BA and MA levels)
* Media, Culture and Technology
* Introduction to Communication (BA)
* Film and TV Audiences (Graduate level)
* Theory and Literature of Film-TV Studies (Graduate Level)
* Media Technology and Society (BA-MA)
* TV Technology and Culture (BA-MA)
* Media Audiences (MA)
* Introduction to International Communication (BA)
* Digital Divide (BA-MA)

CURRENT AND RECENT FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

2017-2022

“Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe” granted a total of EUR 2 499 861,25 under Horizon 2020-EU.3.6.2.4. - Promote coherent and effective cooperation with third countries. Coordinator: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS. Christensen’s Work Package: Environmental Change Communication as a Problem of Diplomacy” (with N. Wormbs as WPL of “Environment: Monitoring as an Arena for Science Diplomacy).

2020-2023

“COVID19, Media and Trust in Stockholm” granted 996 958 SEK by FORMAS to do research on information reach and immigrant communities in Stockholm during the pandemic (with C. Christensen).

2018

“Crosscuts Stockholm Environmental Film Festival” granted 498 000SEK by FORMAS for the organization of film festival.

2015-2018

"Arctic Governance and the Question of Fit in a Globalized World”, Granted 5,6 million SEK by FORMAS (commenced Jan 2015-2018, Annika E. Nilsson and Miyase Christensen).

2015-2017

“The Social Journalist: News Work and News Organizations in an Era of Networked Sociality” Granted 2,7 million SEK by the Swedish Research Council FAS (C. Christensen, Miyase Christensen and M. Djerf Pierre).

2012-2016

“Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social Space and Cultural Citizenship”, (Project Dir. Miyase Christensen) Granted 5,8 million SEK by VETENSKAPSRÅDET; 2012-2016.

2013-2015

“Kinetic Élites: The Mediatization of Social Belonging and Close Relationships among Mobile Class Fractions”,(2012-2015) (A. Jansson and Miyase Christensen) Granted 5,8 million SEK by VETENSKAPSRÅDET.

2008-2013

“Secure Spaces: Media, Consumption and Social Surveillance” (2009-2013) research project granted 2,6 million SEKby Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (A. Jansson and Miyase Christensen)

“Models, Media, and Arctic Climate Change: Understanding the Interface between Sustainability Policies and Modeling of Climate and Ecosystems” (2009-2012) research project granted 5,9 million SEK by the Swedish Research Council FORMAS (Dir: Sverker Sörlin; with M. Christensen, N. Wormbs and A. Nilsson).

2008-2010 (Network Grant)

“Media and Community Research Group” (2008-2010) research platform granted 140,000 SEK by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Miyase Christensen, A. Jansson and C. Christensen).

SUPERVISION (Doctoral Students):

Main Supervisor: Florencia Enghel (graduated 2014; won best doctoral dissertation award in Media and Comm in Sweden); Rebecca Bengtsson (graduated in 2021; won best doctoral dissertation award in Media and Comm in Sweden); Ilkin Mehrabov (graduated 2017);

Linda Ryan-Bengtsson (graduated 2012); Tindra Thor (graduated 2018); Tom Buurman (2015-2022).

Co-supervisor: Johan Lindell (graduated 2014; won second best doctoral dissertation award in Media and Comm in Sweden).

PUBLICATIONS & WRITTEN WORK

Books (Monographs)

1. 2019 Nilsson, A.E. and Christensen, M. Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power, London: Routledge.
2. 2015/2017 Christensen, Miyase and Jansson, A. Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change, Palgrave McMillan (republished in paperback).
3. 2009 Christensen, M. Connecting Europe: Politics of Information Society in the EU and Turkey, Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.

• 2003 Christensen, M. Telecommunication Policy and Emerging Information Society in the EU, University of Texas at Austin, doctoral dissertation.

Books (Edited)

1. 2026 (Forthcoming) Christensen, M. Routledge Companion to Global Media and the Environment, London: Taylor&Francis (the volume is commissioned and in-progress).
2. 2014 Jansson, A. and Christensen, Miyase. Media, Surveillance and Identity: Social Perspectives, Peter Lang Publishing.
3. 2013/2016 Christensen, M., Nilsson, A. and Wormbs, N. (eds.) When the Ice Breaks: Media and Politics of Arctic Climate Change, PalgraveMcMillan (republished in paperback).
4. 2011 Christensen, Miyase, Jansson, A. and Christensen, C. (eds), Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space. NY: Peter Lang.
5. 2008/2009 Christensen, Miyase & Erdogan, Nezih. (eds) Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (republished in paperback).

Guest-Edited Journal Issues:

1. 2023 “On Mediatons and the Environment: Earth in Focus”, special issue guest-edited by Miyase Christensen, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
2. 2018 (January) "Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives " special issue guest-edited by Miyase Christensen, (assoc. eds. Larsen, K., Åberg, A. and Lidström, S.) Environmental Communication.
3. 2017 (October) “Post-Normative Cosmopolitanism”, Guest-edited by Miyase Christensen, International Communication Gazette.
4. 2014 (Oct-Dec issue) Christensen, Miyase and Titley, G. (guest editors) special issue entitled “Technology and Empowerment?”, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 11(1).
5. 2013 Burkart, P. and Christensen, Miyase (guest editors) special issue entitled “Geopolitics and the Popular”, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 11(1).
6. 2013 (July) Christensen, Miyase (guest editor), special issue entitled “New Media Geographies and the Middle East”, Television and New Media.

Journal Articles

1. 2023 Christensen, M. “On Mediatons and the Environment: Earth in Focus”, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
2. 2019 Klimenko, E., Nilsson, A. E., & Christensen, M. (2019). “Narratives in Russian Media of Conflict and Cooperation in the Arctic”, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 2019, p. 32-
3. 2018 Christensen, Miyase and Nilsson, A. E. “Media, Communication and the Environment in Precarious Times”, Journal of Communication, Ferments in the Field Special Issue.
4. 2018 Christensen, M. “Slow Violence in the Anthropocene: An Interview with Rob Nixon on Communication, Media, and the Environmental Humanities”, Environmental Communication, (January 2018), 7-14. DOI:1080/17524032.2017.1367178
5. 2018 Christensen, M., Åberg, A. Lidström, S. & Larsen, K. (2018) “Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives”, Environmental Communication, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2018.1421802
6. 2017 Christensen, M., & Wormbs, N. (2017) “Global Climate Talks from Failure to Cooperation and Hope: Swedish News Framings of COP15 and COP21”. Environmental Communication, 1-18 (published online June 2017). Print version:11(5), 682-699. DOI:1080/17524032.2017.1333964
7. 2017 Christensen, M. (2017) “Postnormative Cosmopolitanism: Voice, Space and Politics”, International Communication Gazette, 79(6–7) 555–563, DOI: 10.1177/1748048517727188
8. 2017 Christensen, M. & Thor, T. (2017) “The Reciprocal City: Performing Solidarity – Mediating Space through Street Art and Graffiti”, International Communication Gazette, 79(6–7) 584–612, DOI: 10.1177/1748048517727183
9. 2017 Christensen, Miyase and Nilsson, A. E. “Arctic Sea-Ice and Communication of Climate Change”, Popular Communication, 15(4), 249-268.
10. 2016 Christensen, Miyase. “Cultures of Surveillance: Privacy and Compliant Exchange”, in special journal issue Media Presence and Mobile Modernities, Nordicom Review, Vol 37, pp. 177-182.
11. 2016 Burkart, P. Christensen, M., Semati, M. and Zuberi, N. “Editor’s Introduction”, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 14(4), pp. 195-198. (Short editorial review of popular comm research and current issues).
12. 2015 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “Complicit Surveillance, Interveillance and the Question of Cosmopolitanism: towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Mediatization”, New Media and Society, 17(9), 1473-1491.
13. 2014 Christensen, Miyase and Titley, G. “Technology and the Question of Empowerment”, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 11(1), pp. 202-207.
14. 2014 Christensen, Miyase and Morley, D. “New Media, New Crises, New Theories?”, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 11(1), pp. 208-222.
15. 2013 Christensen, M. “TransNational Media Flows: Key Concepts and Debates”, International Journal of Communication, 7 (2013), 2400-2418.
16. 2013 Burkart, P. and Christensen, Miyase “Geopolitics and the Popular”, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 11(1), introductory essay.
17. 2013 Christensen, M. “New Media Geographies and the Middle East”, Television and New Media, 14 no. 4 267-270, introductory essay.
18. 2013 Christensen, M. and Christensen, C. “The Arab Spring as Meta-Event and Communicative Spaces”, Television and New Media., July 2013 14 no. 4 351-364.
19. 2012 Christensen, M. “Online Mediations of Sociality in Transnational Spaces: Cosmopolitan Re/formations of Belonging and Identity in the Turkish Diaspora”, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(5), 888-905.
20. 2011 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “Cultural Citizenship and the Communicative Space of Mediated Sexual Expressivity”, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Vol 7: 2, pp.209-224.
21. 2010 Christensen, M. “Notes on the Public Sphere on a National and Post-National Axis: Journalism and Freedom of Expression in Turkey”, Global Media and Communication, August, 6 (2) 177-97.
22. 2008Christensen, M. “A Contentious Terrain in EU Information Society Policies: Media Pluralism and Freedom of Expression” MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research Aut/Win (46), pp.80-92.
23. 2008 Christensen, M. & Christensen, C. “The Afterlife of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries and Ephemeral Communicative Space,” Popular Communication6(3), pp.155-172.
24. 2006 Christensen, M. “EU Candidacy and Information Society Policies in Turkey: A Reality Check” Global Media Journal-Mediterranean Edition, 1(1), 29-45.
25. 2006 Christensen, M. & Christensen, C. “Genre Blending in Popular Turkish Television,” In I. Bondebjerg (ed.), European Film and Media Culture: (Northern Lights 2005. Film and Media Studies Yearbook. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

Refereed Book Chapters

• 2022 Christensen, M. Communication and Diplomacy: The Arctic Council’s Communication of Science on Social Media. In C. Mays, L. Laborie and P. Griset (eds), Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe, 185-192.
• 2020 Christensen, M. Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene. In K. Smets, K. Leurs, M. Georgiou, S. Witteborn & R. Gajjala (eds), The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration.
• 2019 Christensen, M. & Christensen, C. (2019). The Mediation of Migration and States of Exception. In, Retis & R. Tsagarousianou (eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2018 Christensen, M. “Art and Activism on Hospitality and Solidarity” in (Shaw, A. and Scott, T. eds), Interventions: Communication Theory and Practice, NY: Peter Lang, 247-256.
• 2016 Christensen, M. and Wormbs, N. “When the Ice Breaks: The Arctic in the Media”, in Jennifer Newell, L. Robin and K. Wehner, Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 153-168.
• 2014 Christensen, M. “Technology, Place and Mediatized Cosmopolitanism” in Andreas Hepp and F. Krotz (eds) Mediatized Worlds: Culture and Society in a Media Age. NY: Palgrave-McMillan
• 2014 Christensen, M. “Complicit Surveillance and Mediatized Geographies of Visibility” in André Jansson and M. Christensen (eds) Media, Surveillance and Identity: Social Perspectives. NY: Peter Lang, pp. 15-31.
• 2014 Jansson, A. and Christensen, M. “Introduction” in André Jansson and M. Christensen (eds) Media, Surveillance and Identity: Social Perspectives. NY: Peter Lang, pp. 1-12.
• 2013 Christensen, M. “Arctic Sea Ice and Climate Change: The News Story That Was”, in Miyase Christensen, Nilsson A. and Wormbs, N. (eds), When the Ice Breaks: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change, NY: PalgraveMacMillan.
• 2013 Christensen, M. Nilsson A. and Wormbs, N “Globalization, Climate Change and the Media”, in Miyase Christensen, Nilsson A. and Wormbs, N. (eds), When the Ice Breaks: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change, NY: PalgraveMacMillan.
• 2013 Christensen, M. Nilsson A. and Wormbs, N “Changing Arctic – Changing World”, in Miyase Christensen, Nilsson A. and Wormbs, N. (eds), When the Ice Breaks: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change, NY: PalgraveMacMillan.
• 2012 Lenert, E. Christensen, M., Tufekci, Z. and Gustafson, K. “The Digital Divide: The National Debate and Federal and State Level Programs” in Joseph Straubhaar, Z. Tufekci, B. Lentz, and J. Spence (eds), Race, Class and the Digital Divide in Austin: The Persistence of Inequity in the Technopolis, Austin: University of Texas Press.
• 2011 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “Fields, Territories and Bridges: Networked Communities and Mediated Surveillance in Transnational Social Space” in The Internet & Surveillance, Christian Fuchs, Boersma, K., Albrechtslund, A. and Sandoval, M. (Eds.), London: Routledge.
• 2011 Christensen, Miyase, Jansson, A and Christensen, C. “Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space: Assessing the Means and Metaphysics of Online Territories,” in Miyase Christensen, Jansson, A and Christensen, C. (eds) Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space. NY: Peter Land Publishing.
• 2011 Christensen, M. “Online Social Media, Communicative Practice and Complicit Surveillance in Transnational Contexts” in Miyase Christensen, Jansson, A. and Christensen, C. (eds) Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space. NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
• 2010 Christensen, M. “Visions of Media Pluralism and Freedom of Expression in EU Information Society Policies” in Beata Klimkiewicz (ed) Media Freedom and Pluralism: Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe. CEU Press.
• 2009 Christensen, M. "Contextualizing the Public Sphere: Freedom of Expression and Room for Diversity in the Turkish Media" in Inka Moring (ed) Manufacturing Europe: Spaces of Democracy, Diversity and Communication. Nordicom Press.
• 2008 Christensen, M. “Rethinking European Media Landscapes: D'où venonsnous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?” in M. Christensen & N. Erdogan. (eds) Shifting Landscapes: Media and Film in European Context, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
• 2008 Christensen, M. & Erdogan, N. “The Many Faces of Film and Media in Europe” in M. Christensen & N. Erdogan (eds) Shifting Landscapes: Media and Film in European Context, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
• 2006 Christensen, M. “What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of the EU’s Information Society Policies,” In J. Servaes (ed.), Beyond WSIS: Towards a Sustainable Agenda for the Information Societ Intellect Press.
• 2005 Christensen, M. “Social Shaping of Technology as a Central Component of European Communication Research” In A. Usluata and J. Rosenbaum (eds) Shaping the Future of Communication Research in Europe. Istanbul, Yeditepe University Publications.

Full Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed - selection)

1. 2022, Session Talk “Geopolitics and Communicative Power in Precarious Times: the Arctic at Crossroads”at Panel entitled ‘On Thinning Ice: Geopolitics and Mediation of the Arctic Today on a Global-Local Axis’, October 13-16, 2022, Reykjavik.
2. 2022, Preconference Session Talk (with C. Christensen as co-author) “Covid, Communication and At-Risk Immigrant Communities in Stockholm: Ignoring, Leveraging or Modifying Media Ecologies?” at PRECONFERENCE: ‘Communicative Dynamics of the Pandemic and Identities on the Margins’, 26-30 May 2022, Paris, ICA Annual Conference.
3. 2021 Planery Talk, “Communicating Diplomacy/Communication and Diplomacy: The Arctic Council’s Communication of Science on Social Media” Open Conference, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg 25-26 November 2021 Science Diplomacy as an Intercultural Encounter.
4. 2018 “Artistic and Activist Interventions in the Politics of Migration”, ECREA Panel at IAMCR 2018, Oregon, 20-24 June.
5. 2017 Christensen, M. and Jansdotter, J. “Cosmopolitanism and Intellectual Mobility: Spatial and Communicative Considerations”, International Communication Association, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, May 25-29, San Diego, Div (Full paper).
6. 2017 Christensen, M. “Art and Activism on Solidarity and Hospitality”, International Communication Association, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, May 25-29, San Diego, Div, for the panel “Relating with the Refugees: Communicative Practices and Migrant Socialities”, Co-organizer and Respondent: Miyase Christensen (Full panel paper).
7. 2017 Christensen, M. “Media and Political Polarization in Post-Migration Contexts: Views from Sweden and Turkey”, International Conference on Politics and Society in Contemporary Turkey: State, Constitution and Media May 4-5, 2017 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Full paper)
8. 2017 Buurman, T. and Christensen, M. “Governance and the Changing Arctic: News Framings in U.S. Newspapers from 2007 to 2015”, Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE), Leicester, June 28-July3.
9. 2016 Christensen, M. and Nilsson, A. “Scalar Politics and The Question of Fit in a Mediatized World: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Arctic Governance”, International Communication Association, Global Comm and Social Change Div (Full paper).
10. 2016 Christensen, M. ‘"Cosmopolitan" Cities: Performing Solidarity – Mediating Space’, Everyday Humanitarianism, 14-15 April, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), (Full paper).
11. 2016 Christensen, M. “Moral Geographies of Place: Street Art and Graffiti as Communication of Solidarity”, International Communication Association, Popular Communication Div. (Panel Paper).
12. 2016 Christensen, M. And Buurman, T. “Global Arctic: Cultures of Climate Change”, Arctic Circle, 7-10 October Rejkyavik (Panel Paper).
13. 2016 Nilsson, A. and Christensen, M. “The Scalar Politics of Arctic Security”, Arctic Circle, 7-10 October Rejkyavik (Full Paper).
14. 2016 Christensen, M. Panel Convener and Chair: “Environmental Themes and Popular Narratives: Communicating Change from Asia to Europe”, ICA 2016 Japan, 9-13 June, Environmental Communication Division, panel participants: Toby Miller, Alison Anderson, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Jingfang Liu (Full proposal).
15. 2016 Christensen, M. “Fast Media and Slow Media on Climate Change”, ICA 2016 Japan, 9-13 June, Environmental Communication Division (Accepted Panel Paper).
16. 2015 Christensen, M. and Thor, T. “Postnormative Cosmopolitanism: Voice, Space, Citizenship”, ICA, San Juan 2015, Popular Communication Division (Panel Paper).
17. 2014 Christensen, M. “Sea Ice Minima and the News Coverage of Arctic Climate Change: Views from the USA, UK and Sweden,” Communication and Global Social Change Division, ICA (International Communication Association), Annual Conf. Seattle, May 22-16, Seattle, USA (Full Paper).
18. 2014 Christensen, M. “Communicating through the Wall: Representations of Difference in Stockholm via Graffiti”, ICA, Seattle 2014, Popular Communication Division (Panel Paper).
19. 2013 Christensen, M. “Politics of Race and Sexuality, and Moral Proximity: View from Sweden”, ICA, London 2013, ERIC and Popular Communication Divisions (Full Paper).
20. 2013 Christensen, M. “Internationalizing Popular Communication Research”, ICA, London 2013, Popular Communication Division (Panel Paper).
21. 2013 Christensen, M. “Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Europe”, ICA, London 2013, ERIC Division (Panel Paper).
22. 2012 Christensen, M. “Popular Communication Tools and Spaces of Belonging in Migrant Contexts” Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, May 2012, Phoenix, USA. The paper was part of the panel “Thinking Methods: Popular Communication and Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical” (chair-convener: M. Christensen, discussant Paul Frosh).
23. 2012 Christensen, M. “Social Media, Place-making and the Question of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Gendered Perspectives from the Turkish Diaspora”, International Communication Association (ICA): ERIC (Ethnicity and Race in Communication) Division, May 2012 (Full Paper).
24. 2012 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “Interveillance, Complicit Surveillance and the Question of Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Mediatization”, International Communication Association (ICA): Philosophy of Communication Division, May 2012, (Full Paper).
25. 2012 Christensen, M. “Cosmopolitanism, Embodied Expressivity and Morality of Proximity” Paper presented at the Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, July 2012, Paris. The paper was part of the panel “Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social Space and Cultural Citizenship” (chair-convener: M. Christensen, discussant Lilie Chouliaraki), (Full Paper).
26. 2012 Christensen, M. “Popular Communication Methods: a Phenomenological Understanding of Transnational Mediations” Crossroads in Cultural Studies, July 2012, Paris. The paper was part of the panel “Borders, Methodologies and Popular Communication Research” (chair-convener: M. Christensen, discussant Patrick Burkart), (Panel Paper).
27. 2011 Christensen, M. “Discursively Shaping the Environment: Swedish National and Regional Media Coverage of The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (“COP15”)” Global Communication and Social Change Division, International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, May 2011, Boston, (Full Paper).
28. 2010 “Online Social Media, Communicative Practice and Complicit Surveillance in Transnational Contexts: The Case of the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden” International Communication Association (ICA): ERIC (Ethnicity and Race in Communication) Division. Singapore, June 22-26, (Full Paper).
29. 2010 “Journalism and Freedom of Expression in Turkey: Notes on the Public Sphere” International Communication Association (ICA): Journalism Division. Singapore, June 22-26 (Panel Paper).
30. 2008 “Remediations of Transnationalism: Diasporic Communities and Online Social Networking”, Paper presented atEthnicity and Race in Communication Division, ICA, 22-26 May, Montreal, (Panel Paper).
31. 2006 “Abstract Inclusion-Concrete Exclusion: ICTs, EU Policies And Aspects Of Digital Divide” International Communication Association (ICA): Communication Law and Policy Division. Dresden, Germany. June 19-23, (Full Paper).
32. 2005 “Information Society: For What Price? EU’s IST Policies, WSIS and an EU Candidate Country Perspective.” International Communication Association (ICA): Communication Policy and Law Division. New York, USA. May 26-30. (Full Paper: Awarded “Top 3 Paper” in Communication Policy and Law.)
33. 2000 “Changing Media and Altering Theoretical Models: Impacts of Private Broadcasting in Turkey: Reconstruction of National Identity.” International Communication Association (ICA). Acapulco, Mexico. June 1-7, (Full Paper).

Invited Talks & Keynote Speeches (selected from those with full-texts delivered)

1. 2024 Polar Night Week, Svalbard. Keynote Speech: “On Thinning Ice: Geopolitics and Mediation of the Arctic Today on a Global-Local Axis”, Svalbard, 26 January.
2. 2024 Polar Night Week, Svalbard. ICARP IV (International Conference on Arctic Research Planning) Planery Address: “On Thinning Ice: Geopolitics and Mediation of the Arctic Today on a Global-Local Axis”, Svalbard, 26 January.
3. 2024 Science Diplomacy week ExPoSTEAM Experts and Politicians on Science and Technology. Plenary Talk: “Social media, public sphere and science diplomacy at the intersection of technological determinism and constructivism”, Padova-Italy, 23 October.
4. 2024 Arctic Circle Assembly, Global Arctic Mission Council Roundtable Panel “Boom or Bust: It’s the Environment Now!”, invited talk “Media, Geopolitics and Power in the Anthropocene: Arctic in Focus”, October 16 2021, Reykjavik.
5. 2024 Calotte Academy, 11-17 November. Keynote Speech: “Arctic geopolitics and the role of (mis)information in a polarised communication ecology”, Univruty of Lapland, Rovaniemi, 11 November.
6. 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly, Japan Forum. Invited Talk, “Arctic Geopolitics on Thinning Ice”, Tokyo, 4-6 March, 2023.
7. 2023 Stockholm Environment Institute, New Imaginations for Climate Action Conference. Keynote Speech. “On Mediations and the Environment”, Stockholm, 25 October.
8. 2022 Arctic Circle Assembly, Global Arctic Mission Council Panel, invited talk “Media, Geopolitics and Power in the Anthropocene: Arctic in Focus”, October 16 2021, Reykjavik.
9. 2021 Arctic Circle Assembly, Global Arctic Mission Council Panel, invited talk “Communicating the Environmental Crisis”, December 20, 2021. At online symposium entitled “Global Crises: Awareness, Literacy and Political (Public) Communication”, organized by Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University, and aboutpeople, Market Research and Public Opinion (Greece).
10. 2021 Arctic Circle Assembly, Global Arctic Mission Council Panel, invited talk “Media, Geopolitics and Power in the Anthropocene: Arctic in Focus”, October 16 2021, Reykjavik.
11. 2020 Arctic Circle Assembly, Global Arctic Mission Council Panel, invited talk “Arctic Today: Power, Politics and the Public Sphere”, November 11, 2021 (electronically streamed talk).
12. 2020 Session Talk, “Discursive Geographies, Infrastructure and Power: Rethinking Science Diplomacy” What is the role of science in environmental diplomacy? H2020 Project InsSciDE workshop| June 11-12, 2020.
13. 2020 Breakout session talk, "Arctic Today: Geopolitics Mediation and Power", Sixth International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-6) Secretariat, Arctic Environment Research Centre, National Institute of Polar Research, 2-6 March, Tokyo-Japan.
14. 2019 Arctic Circle Assembly, Global Arctic Mission Council Panel, invited talk Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power, Oct. 10-13, Reykjavik, 2019.
15. 2019 Keynote Talk "Arctic (Climate) Change: Geopolitics and Mediation" at ASIAQ4 (The Arctic Science Integration Quest): Online Workshop November 12-13, 2019, Stockholm University (https://asiaq.org/activities/fourth-workshop-november-12-13-2019-travel-free/)
16. 2019 Keynote Plenary Speech “Arctic (Climate) Change, Mediation and Power”. at the Global Fusion international Conference, Austin Texas, Oct 25-27, 2019.
17. 2018: “Arctic Journalism at the Crossroad of Technology, Economy and Politics” Arctic Circle Assembly Panel Organized by Annika E. Nilsson and Miyase Christensen, (respondent Miyase Christensen), Reykjavik, 20 October, 2018.
18. 2017 Christensen, M. “Media Materialities and New Arctic Geographies”. Speech presented at the symposium Global Arctic – Regional Governance: Visions and Mediations of Northern Spaces, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-7 December (co-authored with A.E. Nilsson).
19. 2017 Christensen, M. Invited Talk “Cosmopolitanism Today: Media and Migration”, at ZeMKI Center for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, 15 June.
20. 2016 Christensen, M. Invited Speech at the “Connected Migrants. Encapsulation & Cosmopolitanism’ colloquium, the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 14-16 December, Amsterdam.
21. 2016 (7 Nov), Keynote Speech “Media, Migration and Cosmopolitanism”, at Media Point Conference, Prague (ECREA Preconference).
22. 2016 (8 Dec) Invited Speech “Cosmopolitan Spaces? Mediation and Geopolitics Today”, at the Participatory Public Space Symposium, held at the Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne.
23. 2016 (8 Dec) Ambient Screens and Transnational Public Spaces by N. Papastergiadis. Talk delivered at book launch, at the Participatory Public Space Symposium, held at the Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne.
24. 2016 Invited talk “Scalar Politics and Media Power” at the Research Meeting Arctic Futures: Past and Present held at the Stockholm Environment Institute on June 1.
25. 2016 Plenary Talk Nilsson, A. and Christensen, M. “The Politics of Environmental Stewardship: Defining the Regional in a Globally Interconnected World”, Arctic Frontiers Conference, Tromso, Norway, 23-28 January.
26. 2016 Invited talk and screening of the film “Cosmopolitanism” at Annenberg School of Communication; February.
27. 2016, 1 Nov, Invited Talk “Arctic Change, Environmental Narratives and the Media: From Obama’s Alaskan Tour to Paris COP21”, at Communication School, Texas A&M Uni.
28. 2016, 1 Nov, “Migration, Racisms and Media: Europe in Focus”, Invited Talk at International Studies Program Texas A&M Uni.
29. 2016 (10 Oct) Invited plenary talk, “Global Arctic Global Media” Arctic Circle Assembly, 7-10 October Rejkyavik.
30. 2015 Invited talk delivered at the Plenary “Big Brothers and Little Sisters: Surveillance, Souveillance and Coveillance on the Internet”, Nordmedia 2015, Copenhagen, 14 August 2015.
31. 2015Christensen, M. “Neighbors and Strangers: View from Up North”, Keynote at ICA, San Juan, May 2015, Popular Communication Division Preconference on Stuart Hall.
32. 2015"Technology and the Question of Empowerment", 19-20 June, Uni of Westminster, London, Reframing Media/Cultural Studies.
33. 2015 Invited talk delivered at the University of Texas at Austin, “Climate Change and the Media”, 20 January.
34. 2014 Invited speech delivered at the international conference “Freedom of Information under Pressure”, Technical University of Vienna, Feb 2014.
35. 2014, Keynote speech delivered at the international conference, “Multiculturalism: Where Do We Go from Here?, University of Sussex, March 2014.
36. 2012 Keynote speech delivered at the international conference, 10-11 May 2012, Izmir University of Economics (title of speech: Transnational Media Flows: Key Concepts and Debates).
37. 2012 Keynote speech delivered at the Swedish Association of Media and Communication Research (FSMK) conference on 25 April 2012, Umeå (title of speech: Centring Non-Media-Centricism in Communication Research).
38. 2011 Invited paper “Communities, Constellations, Diasporas: Communicative Sociality and Social Space Online”, keynote speech delivered at the Conference ‘Communities and Migration’ at the Global and Local Levels, Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Cultural Analysis, June 23-24.
39. 2011 Invited paper at the conference Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism, Centre for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. January 13 and 14. Paper entitled “Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and Transnational Sociality: An Intermediary Space between Mediation and Mediatization”
40. 2010 Invited participation at Symposium “Technical Development and Institutional Change in early 2000s”, 31 May, Gothenburg University.
41. 2008 “Online Territories and Virtual Diaspora” keynote speech delivered at HumanIT Symposium on Media, Technology and Social Change, June 3, Karlstad.
42. 2007 Invited participation at Salzburg Seminar, Session “Immigration and Social Inclusion: Rethinking National Identity”, 23-27 March, Salzburg, Austria.
43. 2007 “European Research Networks” Invited presentation delivered at Preconference Session, International Communication Association (ICA) 21-28 May, San Francisco
44. 2005 Invited participation at the European Commission Conference “Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: New Challenges, New Opportunities” Brussels, 12-13 December.
45. 2005 Invited participation at the colloquium, "Hard Power, Soft Power - Americanization and Globalization." Richmond University, London. June 3.
46. 2003 Keynote speech “From the Printing Press to the Internet: The Development of the Media in Turkey” delivered at Panel on Media in Turkey on the 80th Anniversary of the Republic, Edirne, Turkey, Association of Southeast European Journalists’ October 23.

Conferences, Seminars & Colloquia

1. 2018 Christensen, M. “Media, Communication and the Environment in Precarious Times: Rethinking Questions of Justice and Rights”, ICA Pre-Conference: Global Media and Human Rights, 23-24 May, Prague.
2. 2018 Christensen, M. “Media and the Environment in Precarious Times”, Higher Seminar, Jönköping University, 6 March.
3. 2015 Christensen, M. Co-organization of international conference Global Fusions with Texas A&M, 22-25 October 2015.
4. 2015 Christensen, M. “Fast Media and Slow Media on Global Climate Change”, Global Fusions, 25 Oct 2015.
5. 2015 Christensen, M. “Post-Normative Cosmopolitanism”, Global Fusions, 24 Oct 2015.
6. 2015 Christensen, M. (respondent and chair) “Global Research Methods”, Global Fusions, 24 Oct 2015.
7. 2014 Christensen, M. “Images and mediation of Arctic climate change” 2nd World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH 2014), Guimarães, Portugal, 7-14 July 2014.
8. 2014 Christensen, M. “Cities of difference: Channelling and challenging belonging in urban media and communications,” ICA (International Communication Association), Annual Conf. Seattle, May 22-16, Seattle, USA.
9. 2013 Christensen, M. “Politics of Race and Sexuality and Moral Proximity: the View from Sweden” Paper accepted to the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, June 2013, London, (panel title: Politicized Digital Intimacy of Race, Ethniciy and Gender).
10. 2013 Christensen, M. “Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Europe” Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, June 2013, London, (panel title: Race and Ethnicity in Communication).
11. 2013 Christensen, M. “Internationalizing Popular Communication” Paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, June 2013, London, (panel title: Ten Years of Popular Communication).
12. 2013 Christensen, M. “Images and mediation of Arctic climate change”, Nordic STS Conference, Trondheim, 24-26 April, 2013. (Christensen, M. also as panel co-organizer for the session “Images and Narratives in Climate Change Debates and Energy Policy”)
13. 2013 Mehrabov, I. and Christensen, M. “Mediatization, Migration and Home-Making: Ontological and Material Dimensions”, IAMCR, Dublin, June 2013.
14. 2012 Christensen, M. “The Arab Spring and Digital Communication”, paper presented at ECREA (European Comm Research and Education Association) Conference, October 2012, Istanbul.
15. 2011 Christensen, M. “Cosmopolitanism and Mediations in the City”, paper accepted by the Sociology of Migration Division of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference, 7-10 September, 2011, Geneva.
16. 2011 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “Remediated Sociality and the Dual Logic of Surveillance: Assessing the Place of Cosmopolitanism in Mediatized Lifeworlds”, paper accepted by the Sociology of Communication and Media Research Division of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference, 7-10 September, 2011, Geneva.
17. 2011 Christensen, M. “Transnational Communicative Sociality between Mobility and Fixity: The Case of the Turkish Migrants”, Participatory Communication Div. as part of the panel “Digital Life in the Middle East”, panel chair K. Riegert, IAMCR July 2011.
18. 2011 Christensen, M. “Mediations of Spatial Attachment and Belonging in the City: The Case of the Turkish Diaspora in Stockholm”, Diaspora and Media WG. as part of the panel “Articulating Difference and Belonging: Communication Practices of Migrant Groups in Five Urban Spaces,” panel chair Saskia Witteborn, IAMCR July 2011.
19. 2011 Christensen, M. “Social Surveillance, Media and Consumption”, Ghosts of Surveillance, ECOST-MEETING-IS0807-030511-006999, Iasi, Romania, 3-5 May.
20. 2011 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “The Encapsulated Self vs. the Cosmopolitan Self: Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Interactive Communication and Complicit Surveillance”, submitted to the Conference Mediatized Worlds: Culture and Society in a Media Age, 14th April – 15th April 2011, University of Bremen, Germany.
21. 2010 “Restructuring of the Social Sphere at the Junction of Mediatization, Mediation and Complicit Surveillance: A Study on Transnational Communities in Sweden”, paper accepted to the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden. October 21-23 (participation cancelled due to health problems).
22. 2010 Christensen, M. “Mediation, Mediatization and Transnational Space”, presentation to the Migra-Nord Seminar. Helsinki, Finland, September 1-3.
23. 2010 Christensen, M. and Jansson, A. “Networked Communities and the
24. Interactive Surveillance in Transnational Social Space” Conference “Global Surveillance Societies”, City University of London, April 13-15.
25. 2009 Christensen, M. “The Ubiquitous Gaze: Complicit Surveillance and Communicative Space in Transnational Contexts”, Paper presented at the NordMedia Conference: Body, Soul and Society, 13-15 August, Karlstad.
26. 2008 Christensen, M. “Engendering Transnationalism: Mediated Communication, Everyday Contexts and Turkish Diasporic Women”, Paper presented at Preconference Workshop organized by Mediated Networks: Engendering Diaspora and Global Citizenship network coordinated by Leeds University, IAMCR Conference, 19-20 July, Stockholm.
27. 2008 Christensen, M. "New New Media Communities and Online Territories" Panel organizer, ECREA International Conference, 25-28 November, Barcelona.
28. 2007 Christensen, M. “Negotiating Culture and Citizenship in European Media Policy” paper presented at NordMedia 2007 Conference, Global Media and Cultures Division.
29. 2007 Christensen, M. “European Media, Identity and Culture” presented at Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context conference, Istanbul, 8-10 September, 2007.
30. 2007 Christensen, M. “Visions of Freedom of Expression and Media Pluralism in EU Information Society Policies”, paper presented at the ESF/COSTA30 meeting, Brno, 15-17 December, 2007.
31. 2006 Christensen, M. “Being European…Any Way that Turkey Can” Presentation (panel) to the conference of the International Communication Association (ICA): Popular Communication Division. Dresden, Germany. June 19-23.
32. 2005 Christensen, M. “From Culture Industries to Creative Industries: Filmmaking in the EU Area.” Presentation at the conference From Westernization to the EU: Modernization, Cinema, Spectacle. Bahçeşehir University and French Cultural Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, June 23-25.
33. 2004 Christensen, M. “The Good, the Bad and the Other: Search for National Identity on Turkish Pop Star.” International Conference on Americanization, Globalization and Popular Culture. Istanbul, Turkey, May-20-22.
34. 2004 Christensen, M. “Social Shaping of Technology as a Central Component of Future European Communication Research.” International Conference by ECA on European Communication Research, Istanbul, Turkey, April 17-19.
35. 2004 Christensen, M. “Social Shaping of Telecoms and Information Society in Turkey: An Analysis within the Context of the EU’s Information Society Policies.” International Conference on Deconstructing WSIS at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium March 1.
36. 2003 Christensen, M. “Telecommunications Policy and the Emerging Information Society in Turkey : An Analysis within the EU Context.” EURICOM-Venice International Conference on Information Society Visions and Governance, Padova-Venice, Italy, May 5-7.
37. 2003 Christensen, M. “Turkey, Information Society and Beyond.” Conference on the Media and Communication Networks, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 12.
38. 2002 Christensen, M. “EU Policy and the Creation of a European Information Society in a Global Economy.” Presentation at the “R.I.P.E.@2002, Broadcasting & Convergence: Articulating a New Remit” conference. Helsinki/Tampere, Finland. January 17-19.
39. 2001 Christensen, M. “Defining and Curing the Digital Divide: EU and US Approaches.” Presentation to the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR) & International Communication Association ( ICA ) Symposium on Digital Divide. University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. November 16-18.
40. 2001 Christensen, M. “Information Society and Digital Economy: A Comparative Look at the Digital Divide in the US and the EU Contexts.” Presentation at the conference of the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR): ECCR Division, Budapest 7-9 September.
41. 2000 Christensen, M. “Turkish Cinema in Historical Context.” RTF-MES Film Colloquium. The University of Texas at Austin, USA. March 11.

Popular Articles and Public Events (Conferences & Festivals)

NEWSPAPER AND OTHER (Selection)

1. 2020 “Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene—with a postscript on the coronavirus” by M. Christensen, 7 March, https://medium.com/@miyachr/cosmopolitanism-in-the-anthropocene-with-a-postscript-on-the-coronavirus-8d86424f773
2. 2019 “Minskat flygande kräver kunskap om människor”, Debatt artikel published by Extrakt, http://www.extrakt.se/minskat-flygande-kraver-kunskap-om-manniskor/?fbclid=IwAR1nQAc_ShYPdk5cRNTBlxbvw2jMHvVNuVE9_z6kF5W7hVyy3UgOmbj5c2g co-authored by Maria Wolrath-Söderberg, Nina Wormbs, Markus Larsson, Mathias Fridahl, Karolina Isaksson, Miyase Christensen, 24 January 2019.
3. 2018 “Nu måste klimatkunskap omsättas i handling”, Debatt artikel published by ETC, https://www.etc.se/debatt/nu-maste-klimatkunskap-omsattas-i-handling, co-authored by Maria Wolrath-Söderberg, Nina Worms, Mathias Fridahl, Karolina Isaksson, Miyase Christensen, Markus Larsson, 13 April 2018.
4. 2017 Miyase Christensen (with Annika E. Nilsson and Tom Buurman): “The Thawing Arctic Beyond Flags”, CommonDreams https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/08/07/thawing-arctic-beyond-flags 7 August 2017.
5. 2017 Christensen, M. “When Bad News is Good News”, World Policy Journal-Blog,http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/17/when-bad-news-good-news 17 April 2017.
6. 2016 (September) Christensen, M. “Nyhetsbevakningen av klimatförändringar och miljöfrågor” (paper copy +web version), Effekt Magasin
7. 2015 Wormbs, N and Christensen, M. “Medie’s Rapporter Påverkar Vilken Vetenskap Vi Får”, Dagens Nyheter,26 October
8. 2014 Christensen, M. Robin, L. and Möller, N. “Climate Change Show and Tell”, Le Monde Diplomatique (Eng. Edition), November 2014.
9. 2014 Spr Interview on Media, Surveillance and Identity for a 32 minute documentary film.
10. 2013 Christensen, M. Nilsson, A.E. and Wormbs, N. “Eyes on the Ice”, Le Monde Diplomatique (Eng. Edition), November 2013.
11. 2009 Christensen, M. “Complicit surveillance and social networking: Watching me watching you” Le Monde Diplomatique (Eng. Edition), October 2009
12. 2009 Christensen, M. “Facebook is Watching You” Le Monde Diplomatique, Manière de voir, Special Issue Internet: Révolution Culturelle, no: 109, Février-Mars, 2010, pp. 53-55. Re-published: The New York Times, Op-Ed, November 3, 2009; International Herald Tribune, November 4, 2009

MEDIA APPEARANCES (RECENT)

• Interview "2007 and Beyond: The Media and Narratives of Geopolitical Competition in the Arctic" by Polar Geopolitics Podcast, 30 April 2019 (https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/polar-geopolitics/2007-and-beyond-the-media-d2IYCPVN3iM/)
• SvD article by Johan Carlo Olsson, ”Filmfestival ska ge nya perspektiv på klimatet”, 22 Nov 2018, https://www.svd.se/filmfestival-ska-ge-nya-perspektiv-pa-klimatet
• TV interview by Iceladic TV Broadcasting RUV ”Arctic Circle Conference Courts Controversy”, 22 Oct 2019, https://www.ruv.is/frett/arctic-circle-conference-courts-controversy

PUBLIC EVENTS ORGANIZED / CO-ORGANIZED BY CHRISTENSEN

September, 2022: Film Festival and Conference Organization: “The Crosscuts Stockholm Environmental Film Festival” is funded by the Swedish research council FORMAS, 1 September 2022.

November, 2019: Film Festival, Short Film Competition and Conference Organization: “The Crosscuts Stockholm Environmental Film Festival” is funded by the Swedish research council FORMAS, 22-24 November 2019.

November 2018 Organization of Crosscuts Film Festival, Short Film Competition

The Crosscuts Stockholm Environmental Film Festival is organized by the Environmental Humanities Lab, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The Festival is funded by the Swedish research council FORMAS (PI Miyase Christensen), 23-25 November 2018.

October 2018: “Arctic Journalism at the Crossroad of Technology, Economy and Politics” Arctic Circle Assembly Panel Organized by Annika E. Nilsson and Miyase Christensen, (respondent Miyase Christensen), Reykjavik, 20 October, 2018.

May 2018: Organization, on behalf of the JMK-SU Leading Research Environment, the international preconforecence Global Media and Human Rights at the International Communication Association conference in Prague, in May 2018.

December 2017: Co-organization, with Annika E. Nilsson of Public Event: “Global Arctic – Regional Governance: Visions and Mediations of Northern Spaces, Nordic Museum/Nordiska Museet”, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-7 December 2017

March 2017: Lead-organization of and talk at public symposium “A Second Home: A symposium bringing together academic and artistic perspectives on refugees, migration and citizenship”, Filmhuset 8 March, Stockholm Uni.

November 2016 Public Symposium, as an event of the VR Project “Cosmopolitanism from the Margins”, in cooperation with Maynooth National Uni, “A Cosmopolitan Europe? On Borders, Brexits and Burkinis”, Public Symposium and Art Exhibition (for my project Cosmopolitanism from the Margins) debating politics, migration and racism in Europe. Location: Dept of Media Studies, Maynooth Uni, Ireland.

2016 28 January Organization of and Presentation at Public Symposium “Migration in Times of Crisis”, JMK, event representing the current Leading Research Envr. of the JMK division, Stockholm Uni. Speakers included Head of Immigrationsverket, journalists and civil society representatives.

2014 Public Symposium, as an event of the VR Project “Cosmopolitanism from the Margins”, two-day event, “Cosmopolitanism: Voice, Space, Citizenship”, Oct 30-31, KTH, Stockholm.

FILM

Fall 2015: Release of documentary film entitled Cosmopolitanism (associated with the VR project Cosmopolitanism from the Margins and for which we, along with filmmaker Erik Gandini, acquired 2m SEK through Film Institutet and Ander Foundation) involving Kofi Annan. A book (for my co-authored monograph Cosmopolitanism and the Media) and Gandini's film launch took place at Filmhuset on October 16, 2015.

RADIO INTERVIEWS

“Surveillance in the Age of Facebook” on Radio Adelaide, Australia for the program Backstory by Sean Robinson, 26 October 2009.