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Johan Lindell is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University's Department of Informatics and Media. He serves as the programme coordinator for the international master's programme Digital Media & Society (DIMS). His academic career spans media sociology, cultural studies, and digital media research with a strong theoretical foundation in Bourdieu's sociology.
Lindell's educational background includes a PhD from Karlstad University (2014). His research focuses on media use, fields of cultural production, lifestyles and social stratification, mediatization, and the Nordic media system. He specializes in field theory and the works of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu – applying this framework to understand cultural production in journalistic fields, television production, and scientific fields, as well as media and news consumption patterns in relation to social reproduction and inequality.
His scholarly output reveals strong thematic coherence around social inequality, class distinctions in media consumption, and the application of Bourdieusian theory to contemporary digital media landscapes. Lindell's work demonstrates consistent engagement with questions of how media practices reflect and reinforce social hierarchies, particularly through his exploration of digital news repertoires across class structures and his analysis of symbolic violence in social spaces.
- Top Paper by Philosophy, Theory and Critique-division (2019)
- Top Paper by Philosophy, Theory and Critique-division (2022)
- Top Paper by Journalism Studies-division (2021)
- Wolfgang Donsbach outstanding article of the year-award (2018)
Lindell has established significant international collaborations, particularly with researchers Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt on Nordic media welfare state research. His recent book Bourdieusian Media Studies (Routledge, 2024) represents a major theoretical contribution to the field. His work appears consistently in top-tier journals including European Journal of Communication, Cultural Sociology, Communication Theory, and New Media & Society. He has developed methodological approaches combining qualitative and quantitative techniques to examine the relationship between media practices and social position.
