Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)
IMS is an interdisciplinary research centre that takes a broad media-oriented perspective on questions of narration, meaning making, learning, and truthfulness in art and communication.
IMS responds to the challenges of mediatized society and develops foundational concepts of mediation. Most of our research is organised around four clusters: IMS Green, IMS News, IMS Memory, and IMS Literacy.
IMS was founded by Lars Elleström.
Our Research Profile, Clusters and Projects
Intermediality and multimodality are concepts that describe an experience of media as transforming and mixing in different ways. At Linnaeus University Centre (Lnuc) for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), we study intermedial and multimodal aspects of media in relation to our four core themes: Meaning Making, Narration, Learning, and Truthfulness. We also strive to address the societal challenges of a mediatized society via four clusters: IMS Green, IMS News, IMS Memory, and IMS Literacy.
About Intermediality and Multimodality
At the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) we explore human communication as multimodal and intermedial. All communication is multimodal, as it integrates distinct semiotic modes such as text, images, sounds, and even colours and gestures in complex multimodal meaning-making processes. All communication is intermedial as different media products relate to each other and bear traces of other media, just like narratives and ideas travel across different media types.
Intermediality and multimodality have developed independently as separate approaches to address the ‘mixedness’ of media. In IMS, we strive to explore and make use of these approaches as complementary frameworks. We believe that a combined understanding of multimodal simultaneity and intermedial interrelations provide a fruitful friction with great potential for media studies in the broad sense. With this double awareness, we aim to contribute to the development of more holistic media analyses where fine-grained analysis of the mixedness of human communication can be complemented with a view of the role of media as social infrastructure and institutions.
In our research, we particularly focus on the development of four interrelated areas, which you can read more about and see examples of in the menu below.
Meaning Making: Projects
Different media create meaning in different ways using different resources such as colour, sound, text, image, and sound. In IMS, we explore the influence of medial combination and transformation on generating (new) knowledge and information, in interaction with active recipients and social contexts, and we explore how creativity may take part in this process through analysis and artistic research.
Meaning making is fundamental to most aspects of media studies in the broad sense of the topic, but below we have listed the IMS projects that most specifically deal with questions of meaning making.
IMS projects focused on meaning making
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Project: Multilingual students' meaning making in the school subjects biology and physics The overall purpose of the project was to attain a deeper understanding of how science content in biology and…
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Project: Potentials for students' and teachers' meaning making through different resources This interdisciplinary project aims at attaining a deeper understanding of how content can be mediated…
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Project: Transformations of transformations. An interdisciplinary study of pupils' meaning-making through transformations of representations in science classes The aim of this developmental and…
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: A model for norm-critical and inclusive multi-modal communication for users with a foreign mother tongue This project works with developing and testing a norm-creative method for making…
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Doctoral project: Musicalised Characters: A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation This PhD thesis discusses how music and characters in popular,…
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Project: Conceptualising the Aurora: An exploration of performative understanding through interactive art This project was an artistic project based on the multimodal and interactive art installation…
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Project: Gender Aspects of Screen Adaptations of the British Nineteenth-Century Female Literary Canon Contemporary popular culture is increasingly reliant on adaptation and other derivative types of…
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Project: Multispecies Storytelling in an Intermedial Perspective This environmental humanities project was done to seek new constellations inside and outside conventional academic and artistic circles…
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Project: Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene The dominant global diet is a major contributor to the climate crisis. A transformation faces considerable practical problems, but is also a major…
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Project: Luxury consumption and online reviewer discourse – the construction of knowledge, values and identities This project focuses on online reviews of luxury consumption, specifically reviews of…
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Project: Regpress 2 Providing quality and gaining efficiencies in regional press in the digital era.
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Project: The Greatest Story Ever Told: Evolution’s journey across mediascapes The theory of evolution has been a scientific milestone in our understanding of humankind’s relationship to the rest of…
Narration in Different Media: Projects
Narration is one important and specific form of making meaning. Not only are narratives popular in different media, in literature, film, games, and social media: narratives are important cognitive tools that enhance our understanding of processes of the court, in teaching, in ideology, politics, and in science. In IMS we study how the basic workings of narration are shaped in different media and how they are used in different communicative contexts.
Below are the IMS projects that most specifically deal with questions of narration.
IMS projects focused on narration
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Project: Representation of Trials in other Media In this project, we investigate how questions of truth production are mediated when trials appear in literature, film, and news media.
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Project: Gender Aspects of Screen Adaptations of the British Nineteenth-Century Female Literary Canon Contemporary popular culture is increasingly reliant on adaptation and other derivative types of…
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Project: Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene The dominant global diet is a major contributor to the climate crisis. A transformation faces considerable practical problems, but is also a major…
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Project: New Developments in Eastern European Film This project examines new developments in Eastern European film, especially what has come to be called New Romanian Cinema.
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Doctoral Project: The art of repeating oneself: Self-adaptation in the migratory context This doctoral project is a study of migrant authors who have adapted their own books into films, crossing…
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Project: Crossing Narrative Boundaries: Film and the Other Media This project analyzes novel and creative approaches in film and mediality at large. We aim to contribute to the reflection on media…
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Project: Multispecies Storytelling in an Intermedial Perspective This environmental humanities project was done to seek new constellations inside and outside conventional academic and artistic circles…
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Project: Cinema between Media: Intermediality and the analysis of narrative film What happens if cinema is considered to be a mixed medium? How should one approach film analysis based on…
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
Learning Through Media: Projects
In education, media transformation and combination is constantly present. At IMS we explore how learning content and concepts are narrativized or transformed within and between different media, such as when chemical processes are both illustrated using mathematical concepts, diagrams, and psychical experiments. Non-verbal resources can make visible what is absent, and they can be used to visualize abstract concepts. Understanding multimodal and intermedial aspects of communication are therefore necessary for developing and evaluating different methods of learning.
Below are the IMS projects that most specifically deal with questions of learning.
IMS projects focused on learning
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Project: Learning to focus – How Stockholm and Skåne Swedish children produce and comprehend contrastive intonation Speakers make use of speech melody or intonation in order to highlight the most…
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Project: Multilingual students' meaning making in the school subjects biology and physics The overall purpose of the project was to attain a deeper understanding of how science content in biology and…
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Project: Intermediality as a Part of Reading Improvement Activities in Swedish Upper Secondary School The aim of the project is to improve the pupils’ reading and writing competences in upper…
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: Conceptualising the Aurora: An exploration of performative understanding through interactive art This project was an artistic project based on the multimodal and interactive art installation…
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Project: Potentials for students' and teachers' meaning making through different resources This interdisciplinary project aims at attaining a deeper understanding of how content can be mediated…
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Doctoral project: Musicalised Characters: A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation This PhD thesis discusses how music and characters in popular,…
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
Truthfulness in Communication: Projects
Truthfulness in mediation, and truth claims of media, are in dire need of multimodal and intermedial exploration. In IMS we investigate truthfulness in media transformation and how truth claims are constructed in different media. We explore how to approach the pressing questions of fake beyond the undermined binary of fact and fiction in a time of ‘alternative truths’ and how scientific research is transmediated (in the sense of information being transformed and re-mediated) in poems, novels, games and films. This connects our research to relevant ethical issues in journalism, documentary film, and court communication.
Below are the IMS projects that most specifically deal with questions of truthfulness.
IMS projects focused on truthfulness
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Project: Immigration critical alternative media and public discourse. Comparing Sweden, France and Germany The aim of this research project is to outline the interplay between new and established…
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: Representation of Trials in other Media In this project, we investigate how questions of truth production are mediated when trials appear in literature, film, and news media.
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Project: On Narratives in Criminal Trials The aim of this project is to study narratives in authentic criminal trials and also in fictional contexts where trials are described.
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Project: Information, Desinformation and Media System Change This research project aims to analyze and describe present changes in media and journalism. Given the diversity of the field, the…
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
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Project: Regpress 2 Providing quality and gaining efficiencies in regional press in the digital era.
Research Clusters: Multimodality, Intermediality and Social Challenges
All pressing global challenges are connected to media. It is via media that information – and misinformation – is spreading, that we make sense of the world and communicate, and it is via media that artists push boundaries and create interventions. Transdisciplinary research clusters at IMS explore intermedial and multimodal aspects of current social challenges such as: the ways that media like film, literature and games mediate scientific knowledge about the climate crisis (IMS Green), intermedial and multimodal aspects of journalism and news in a digitized society (IMS News), contested cultural heritage and memory cultures in the digital age (IMS Memory), and the role of media and modes in education (IMS Literacy).
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IMS Green: Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency (MEDEM) Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency (MEDEM) is a transdisciplinary platform for research, education and action related to…
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Intermediality, Multimodality and News (IMS News) This research cluster explores the role of professional journalism and news in a digitized society asking how the flexible combination of modes and…
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Mediating Cultural Memory (IMS Memory) IMS Memory is a transdisciplinary research cluster dedicated to the study of the mediation of cultural memory. Bringing together research from different fields,…
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Intermediality, Multimodality and Learning (IMS Literacy) This group works on intermediality and multimodality in teaching and learning. The group investigates how intermedial and multimodal knowledge…
All Ongoing Research
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Project: A model for norm-critical and inclusive multi-modal communication for users with a foreign mother tongue This project works with developing and testing a norm-creative method for making…
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: Crossing Narrative Boundaries: Film and the Other Media This project analyzes novel and creative approaches in film and mediality at large. We aim to contribute to the reflection on media…
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Project: Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene The dominant global diet is a major contributor to the climate crisis. A transformation faces considerable practical problems, but is also a major…
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Project: Immigration critical alternative media and public discourse. Comparing Sweden, France and Germany The aim of this research project is to outline the interplay between new and established…
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Project: Information, Desinformation and Media System Change This research project aims to analyze and describe present changes in media and journalism. Given the diversity of the field, the…
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
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Project: Learning to focus – How Stockholm and Skåne Swedish children produce and comprehend contrastive intonation Speakers make use of speech melody or intonation in order to highlight the most…
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Project: Luxury consumption and online reviewer discourse – the construction of knowledge, values and identities This project focuses on online reviews of luxury consumption, specifically reviews of…
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Project: New Developments in Eastern European Film This project examines new developments in Eastern European film, especially what has come to be called New Romanian Cinema.
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Project: On Narratives in Criminal Trials The aim of this project is to study narratives in authentic criminal trials and also in fictional contexts where trials are described.
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Project: Potentials for students' and teachers' meaning making through different resources This interdisciplinary project aims at attaining a deeper understanding of how content can be mediated…
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Project: Regpress 2 Providing quality and gaining efficiencies in regional press in the digital era.
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Project: Representation of Trials in other Media In this project, we investigate how questions of truth production are mediated when trials appear in literature, film, and news media.
All Concluded Research
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Doctoral project: Musicalised Characters: A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation This PhD thesis discusses how music and characters in popular,…
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Doctoral Project: The art of repeating oneself: Self-adaptation in the migratory context This doctoral project is a study of migrant authors who have adapted their own books into films, crossing…
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Project: Cinema between Media: Intermediality and the analysis of narrative film What happens if cinema is considered to be a mixed medium? How should one approach film analysis based on…
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Project: Conceptualising the Aurora: An exploration of performative understanding through interactive art This project was an artistic project based on the multimodal and interactive art installation…
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Project: Expecting a child in Arabic and Swedish! Norm-critical innovative design for interactive antenatal care Funding organisation: Vinnova Project description Conditions for health care in Sweden…
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Project: Gender Aspects of Screen Adaptations of the British Nineteenth-Century Female Literary Canon Contemporary popular culture is increasingly reliant on adaptation and other derivative types of…
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Project: Intermediality as a Part of Reading Improvement Activities in Swedish Upper Secondary School The aim of the project is to improve the pupils’ reading and writing competences in upper…
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Project: Multilingual students' meaning making in the school subjects biology and physics The overall purpose of the project was to attain a deeper understanding of how science content in biology and…
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Project: Multispecies Storytelling in an Intermedial Perspective This environmental humanities project was done to seek new constellations inside and outside conventional academic and artistic circles…
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Project: The Art of the Arts: Art-house Cinema Allegories of Creation as Authorial Discourse of a Coenaesthetic Intermedial Nature This research project is based on the idea that cinema is, in terms…
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Project: The Cultural Heritage of Moving Images Project information Project members: Dagmar Brunow Time frame: 2016-2018 More about the project The project "The Cultural Heritage of moving images"…
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Project: The Greatest Story Ever Told: Evolution’s journey across mediascapes The theory of evolution has been a scientific milestone in our understanding of humankind’s relationship to the rest of…
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Project: Transformations of transformations. An interdisciplinary study of pupils' meaning-making through transformations of representations in science classes The aim of this developmental and…
Events and Calendar
IMS regularly organises conferences, research workshops, research seminars and popular talks (our Media Impact series). For most events, it is possible to participate for free via zoom.
You can find more information about our upcoming events in the calendar below. Full details about an event (title of presentation, abstract etc), are typically uploaded ca. a week before the event.
Calendar
Popular Scientific Talks: Our Media Impact Series
Media Impact is a series of talks that give you the chance to take part in current research on how media choice affects communication, knowledge and meaning in art, popular culture, and media.
Learn more about the importance of being surprised, how knowledge is conveyed through computer games, what we do when we sing, how novels, films or poetry communicate the climate crisis, how music affects journalism, and what violence and classical music have in common.
All talks are ca. 15 minutes long and can be found either below under the heading IMS media, or on our YouTube channel (note, not all talks are available in both places).
The talks are intended for everyone with an interest in media, culture and communication.
Open Lecture Series: Meeting Media Minds – Critical Legacies of Lars Elleström
Following Lars Elleström's death in December 2021, we launched a series of online lectures with international scholars to commemorate his work. The invited speakers were asked to talk about and discuss one of Lars Elleström’s concepts in relation to their own work. The lectures will be published in an anthology in due time.
Recent Research Seminars and Lectures
Past Conferences and Workshops
2021
- Conference: "Trust Me!" Truthfulness and Truth Claims across Media", 9-12 March, 2021.
- Workshop: "Från bok till film: Utvandrarna och Aniara." (about screenwriting, screenplay development, and adaptations). https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/kalender/2021/fran-bok-till-film-utvandrarna-och-aniarany-sida/
2019
- Workshop: “Mediation, transmediation and truthfulness II”, 20 Nov, 2019.
- Symposium: Performativity across Media, 3-4 October 2019
- Conference: Sounds of Mass Media: Music in Journalism and Propaganda, 7-9 June 2019, Eleventh meeting of the International Musicological Society (IMS) Study Group Music and Media (MaM)
- Workshop: “Mediation, transmediation and truthfulness I”, 30 Jan, 2019
- Conference: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, 23-25 January 2019
2018
- Workshop: Interrelations among different forms of human communication, 29-31 October 2018
- Conference: Symbiotic Cinema, Confluences between film and other Media, 6-8 September 2018, 24th Sercia Conference
- Workshop: “Transmedial Narration: Current Approaches” with Jan Noël Thon, 11 April, 2018.
2016
- Conference: Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders13-15 October 2016
2013
- Conference: Disturbing Adaptations, 26-27 September 2013, The 8thAnnual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies
2012
- Symposium: New Positions in Adaptation Studies, 8 February 2012
2011
- Conference: Transmedial Interaction: Western/non-Western Media Arts, 8-10 December 2011
- Symposium: Eighth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16-18 June 2011
- Symposium: Adaptation and Media Transformations, 13–14 May 2011
- Symposium: Narration as a Transmedial Phenomenon, 11–12 March 2011
2010
- Symposium: Virtual Space and Time, 8-9 October 2010
2009
- Conference: Childhood and Postcolonialism Symposium, 15-16 December 2009
- Symposium: Bachtin and Intermediality, 3-4 December 2009
- Conference: Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels, as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena, 16–18 April 2009
2008
- Conference: Astrid Lindgren: Internationality and Intermediality, 18-20 September 2008
- Conference: In Frost and in Cold: Nordic Ballad Meeting – Conference for Researchers, Practitioners and Teachers, 26-29 March 2008
2007
- Conference: Imagine Media! Media Borders and Intermediality, 25–28 October 2007
2005
- Conference: Bodies – Arts – Crossroads: The Body and Intermediality, 27–30 October 2005, The 7th NorSIS Conference
News
See the latest news published at lnu.se relating to IMS.
Other News Stories
- Unique conference on media, emotions and conspiracy theories brought together researchers from around the world News
- Four new graduate schools in the humanities and social sciences News
- Seven new PhD students in Global Humanities News
- ‘Star Wars’ composer John Williams brought classical Hollywood music back to life News
- SEK 15 million from Formas to five researchers at Linnaeus University News
- Two cutting-edge research centres get continued funding News
Our Researchers
Find contact details and read interviews with our researchers and affiliates.
Full IMS Members: Contact Details and Links to Staff Pages
- Gilbert Ambrazaitis Associate Professor
- +46 480-44 67 25
- +46 72-594 95 56
- gilbertambrazaitislnuse
- Jørgen Bruhn Professor
- jorgenbruhnlnuse
- Dagmar Brunow Professor
- +46 470-76 78 41
- dagmarbrunowlnuse
- Gunilla Byrman Senior professor
- +46 470-70 84 14
- gunillabyrmanlnuse
- Kristina Danielsson Professor
- +46 470-70 85 20
- kristinadanielssonlnuse
- Helene Ehriander Professor
- +46 470-70 86 94
- heleneehrianderlnuse
- Erik Erlanson Associate senior lecturer
- +46 470-76 72 49
- erikerlansonlnuse
- Kristoffer Holt Professor
- +46 480-49 70 22
- kristofferholtlnuse
- Charlotte Hommerberg Senior lecturer
- +46 470-70 81 20
- +46 72-594 12 01
- charlottehommerberglnuse
- Martin Knust Senior lecturer
- +46 470-70 86 37
- martinknustlnuse
- Liviu Lutas Professor
- +46 470-76 78 59
- liviulutaslnuse
- Niklas Salmose Professor
- +46 470-70 82 82
- niklassalmoselnuse
- Beate Schirrmacher ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- +46 470-70 88 41
- beateschirrmacherlnuse
- Hans Sternudd Professor
- +46 470-76 78 17
- hanssternuddlnuse
Affiliated Researchers
- Emilio Audissino Associate professor
- +46 480-44 63 13
- emilioaudissinolnuse
- Per Bäckström
- perbackstromlnuse
- Renaud de La Brosse Professor
- +46 480-49 70 24
- +46 72-561 21 30
- renauddelabrosselnuse
- Annelie Ekelin senior lecture, head of department
- +46 480-49 77 32
- +46 73-036 27 81
- annelieekelinlnuse
- Nina Ernst Senior lecturer
- +46 470-76 72 53
- ninaernstlnuse
- Anne Holm Senior lecturer
- +46 470-76 78 54
- anneholmlnuse
- Signe Kjaer Jensen Senior lecturer
- signekjaerjensenlnuse
- Corina Löwe Associate Professor, Pro-dean
- +46 470-70 89 26
- corinalowelnuse
- Nafiseh Mousavi
- nafisehmousavilnuse
- Ewa Bergh Nestlog Professor
- +46 470-70 80 24
- +46 72-594 11 63
- ewaberghnestloglnuse
- Ola Ståhl Professor
- +46 470-70 80 66
- +46 72-538 31 77
- olastahllnuse
- Anders Åberg SENIOR LECTURER, VICE DEAN
- +46 470-70 89 04
- andersaberglnuse
PhD Students
- Yagmur Atlar Doctoral student
- yagmuratlarlnuse
- Matilda Davidsson Doctoral student
- matildadavidssonlnuse
- Emma Flodqvist Doctoral student
- emmaflodqvistlnuse
- Maria Hasfeldt Long Doctoral student
- mariahasfeldtlnuse
- Anna Ishchenko
- annaishchenkolnuse
- Martin van der Linden Doctoral student
- martinvanderlindenlnuse
- Felicia Stenberg Doctoral student
- feliciastenberglnuse
Guest Researchers and Postdocs
2022
- Anne Gjelsvik (Lars Elleström Guest Researcher 2022)
- Gibran de Souza (Guest PhD 2022)
- Giulia Bigongiari (Guest PhD 2022)
- Maddalena Carfora (Guest PhD 2022)
2021
- Elena Timplalexi (Guest Researcher 2021)
2020
- Péter Makai (External postdoc 2018-2020)
- Emma Tornborg (Associated researcher and postdoc 2015-2020)
- Lea Wierød (External postdoc 2018-2020)
2019
- Mieke Bal (Visiting Professor 2019)
- Fátima Chinita (External postdoc 2015-2019)
- Ania Gutowska (Marie Curie postdoc 2017-2019)
- Rong Ou (External postdoc 2019)
2018
- Ana Munari (External postdoc 2018)
IMS Expert Panel
IMS has arrangements with several external, internationally acknowledged scholars, referred to as our 'expert panel', working within a range of disciplines of relevance to the developing fields of intermediality and multimodality.
The individual members of the expert panel are for example called upon as advisors when new IMS-founding applications have to be developed, or as guest presenters at our IMS seminars, doctoral courses and internal colloquiums and research workshops.
- Ágnes Pethö: Professor of Film Studies, Sapientia University
- Anne Gjelsvik: Professor of Film Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Asbjørn Grønstad: Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
- Bridgette Wessels: Professor in the Sociology of Inequalities (Sociology), University of Glasgow
- Carey Jewitt: Professor of Learning and Technology, University College London
- Chiel Kattenbelt: Associate Professor, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
- Christina Ljungberg: Titularprofessorin für Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft, University of Zurich
- Claus Clüver: Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
- Crispin Thurlow: Professor of Language and Communication, University of Bern
- Irina Rajewsky: Professor of Comparative Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Jana Holšánová: Associate Professor in Cognitive Science, Lund University
- Jens Schröter: Professor, Medienkulturwissenschaft, Lehrstuhl der Universität Bonn
- João Queiroz: Professor, Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- John A. Bateman: Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen
- Kamilla Elliot: Professor of Literature and Media, Lancaster University
- Katherine Hayles: James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Duke Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
- Kay O'Halloran: Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool
- Klaus Bruhn Jensen: Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
- Marie-Laure Ryan: Literary scholar and critic
- Masako Hiraga: Professor of Linguistics, Rikkyo University
- Mieke Bal: Cultural theorist and critic, Video artist
- Morten Kyndrup: Professor, School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University
- Pentti Haddington: Professor of English Philology, University of Oulu
- Siglind Bruhn: Musicologist
- Sigrid Norris: Professor of Multimodal (Inter)action, Auckland University of Technology
- Thomas Leitch: Professor of English, Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Chair in Writing, University of Delaware
- W. J. T. Mitchell: Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Department of Art History, Department of Visual Arts, The University of Chicago
- Werner Wolf: Professor, Chair of English and General Literature, University of Graz
- Yvonne Spielmann: Professor, Institute of Professional Development
Our Publications
IMS researchers register their publications in the database DiVA. You can find different short cuts to publications in DiVA below.
Newest IMS Publications in DiVA (Conference Papers Excluded)
More IMS Publication Lists in DiVA
- Open-access publications available in DiVA (un-published conference papers excluded). The majority of our open-access publications are to be found here.
- Additional open-access publications available externally to DiVA. A few open-access publications are not uploaded to DiVA, but can be found here instead.
- Publications in English (un-published conference papers excluded).
- All publications and conference papers in English.
- All publications and conference papers in all languages.
Collaborations
At IMS, we are always open to opportunities for collaboration. Below are a few examples of collaborations we are either currently involved in, or have been involved with in the past.
Marie-Curie Post-doc Application Workshop
Come to IMS with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF)
If you work within the research areas of intermediality, multimodality or related fields and are interested in spending one or two years as a researcher at the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), you are welcome to submit a proposal for participating in a workshop at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
The CFP to the workshops open approximately six months prior to the MSCA-IF deadline and will be posted below when active.
The workshop and ensuing contacts with our Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) should lead to an application for funding from MSCA-IF, allowing you to fulfil a research project and participate in the IMS activities.
Read more about the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme at Linnaeus University here.
Read the current call for Expressions of Interest programme for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action - Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2023 here.
Research Visits
The Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) welcomes guest researchers from the Humanities and Social Sciences focusing on different topics relevant to the larger fields of intermediality and multimodality. Via our guest researcher program, it is possible to visit the Centre for a period of between two weeks and three months, and vi invite scholars from all over the world and at all career levels, from PhD candidates to full professors, to contact us about entering the program.
The aim of the guest researcher program is to establish or develop joint research activities between IMS researchers and other Swedish or international scholars. Scholars who are accepted to the guest program will be expected to participate in the activities of the Centre and its research clusters, primarily by presenting at and participating in our regular seminars, but also by being a part of workshops and other activities that might take place. Priority will be given to guest researchers whose work is of high relevance to the Centre and its members.
Scholars who are interested in visiting IMS as guest researchers should preferably be sponsored by an IMS member with whom he or she would like to collaborate. When such a collaboration is possible, the application for a guest researcher visit should be submitted by the IMS researcher in question. Sponsored applications for guest researcher visits can be submitted by a member of the Centre at any time during the year and are normally processed within two months. As an alternative to a sponsored application (where no direct collaboration is possible but a visit can still be mutually beneficial, e.g. for PhD students), an inquiry may be sent to the Director of IMS, Jørgen Bruhn.
The guest researcher positions are non-salaried and presuppose that the visiting researcher has a salary or bursary from his or her home institution. The Centre provides office space and access to the research activities of the Centre: the university library services will be available, too. In special cases, the Centre can provide basic accommodation and funds to cover travel and extra living expenses during the guest research visit.
For more information about the application procedure and conditions for the guest researcher program, please contact the Centre’s Administration Officer Kim Carlborg (kim.carlborg@lnu.se).
National and International Collaborations
Within Linnaeus University
- CHILLL
- Center for Didactic Research (OBS in Swedish)
- Center for Cooperative Palliative for Care
Nationwide
- CERTEC, Faculty of Engineering LTH
- Visual Interpretation in Research and Practice, Lunds UniversityMultimodality. Transformations and Representations in Science Classrooms, Linköpings University
- DART, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- Medium Seminars, Stockholm University
- Mediatization of Culture and Everyday Life, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Within Europe
- University of Edinburgh. Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue
- University of Liège. CIPA - Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée.
- Literature Among Media, Aarhus University
- Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki
- Nordic Network for Literature and Mediality
- Opera in Scandinavia, Sibelius Academy
- Institut für Kirchenmusik und Musikwissenschaft, University of Greifswald
Musik und Gender, Hochschule für Theater, Musik und Medien, Hanover - Research Group in Media Studies, Jan-Noël Thon as Chair, University of Tübingen
- Music and Media, International Musicological Society, Utrecht University
- The RECODE Team, University of Sheffield
- Metaphors in end-of-life care (MELC), Lancaster University
- Research group in Intermediality, Agnes Pethö as Chair, Sapientia University
- Research group in Film and Intermediality, Claudiu Turcus as Chair, Babes-Bolyai University
- The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
Worldwide
- Department for Music and Theatre Studies, Maseno University
- National Institute of Education, Nanayang Technological University
- Iconicity research group, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- Iconicity in Language and Literature
- Inter-Disciplinary.Net
- International Society for the Study of Self Injury
- Screenwriting Research Network
- Word and Music Association Forum
IMS Media: Interviews, Lectures, and More
Researcher Interviews: IMS at a Glance
Get a quick impression of research projects at IMS through these brief interviews with IMS researchers.
IMS Research and Society
IMS Research and Society is a series of ultra-short interviews originally published on Facebook. The intention behind the series has been to provide a quick entry point into what we are doing in IMS and why we are doing it. All the interviews are centred around three questions: (1), what the research is about, (2) why the research is important, and (3) how it engages with challenges in society.
Lars Elleström on Media Relations
Liviu Lutas on transmediality and intermedial ecocriticism
Makai Péter Kristóf on evolution as represented in popular media
Beate Schirrmacher and Corina Löwe on Representation of Trials in other Media
Martin Knust on developing critical perspectives on the evolution of news media
Signe Kjær Jensen on animated films, music, and on listening to children's own voices when researching children's media
Other Researcher Interviews
Martin Knust on Digital music production and getting Kamprad funding
Can you explain what your project is about in 3-5 sentences?
Knust: We aim at investigating the working conditions for producers of digital music in Småland in order to modernize education in music production both in schools and university. For reaching this goal we will interview music producers in the region and implement the results of our investigation into music education, a process that we will document and evaluate continuously and that will be a crucial part of our investigation. Two overarching goals are linked to this: to improve the working conditions for music producers in the region and to define for the first time a theoretical framework for digital music production as it looks like today.
What inspired you to begin this kind of research project?
Knust: Frankly, it was the pandemic. On the one hand, it brought live music to a complete halt. On the other hand, people started leaving the big cities and settled on the countryside. It doesn’t matter anymore where a studio is located. Digital music production is de-centralized – that means files are sent from one music creator to the other and traveling is not necessary – and as a business it turned out to be more robust than live music. Our initial intention was to investigate the effects of this process.
The competition for research funding is hard, what do you think makes your research proposal stand out?
Knust: We have several existing music and pedagogic networks that we can rely on and we want to conduct research that is close to the reality of music entrepreneurs, that means, research that has some value from an economic perspective. Moreover, we want to leave a mark in how music is taught in Sweden in the future for securing the strong position Sweden has as a music exporting nation.
Your project is conceived as a collaboration between Linnaeus University, the educational project ‘Make Music Matter’, Mid Sweden University and Dalarna University. How do you think your research project will benefit from this kind of broad collaboration?
Knust: We have the advantage of having a large group of potential informants and multiplicators for the project. Make Music Matter! approaches active music producers that have impressive artistic records. The Music and sound design program at Linnæus University is a cooperation with Mid Sweden University and Dalarna University. We will implement the results of our project in the courses as we will in the education of music teachers at Linnæus University. This will give the project a major impact.
If you were to give one advice for writing successful grant proposals, what would it be?
Knust: Your application should be easy to understand even for a non-specialist.
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Learn more about Martin Knust here: https://lnu.se/en/staff/martin.knust/
Media Impact Webinars
Here you can watch a few of our recorded popular talks. To see more videos, visit our YouTube page.
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IMS Green: Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency (MEDEM) Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency (MEDEM) is a transdisciplinary platform for research, education and action related to…
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Intermediality, Multimodality and News (IMS News) This research cluster explores the role of professional journalism and news in a digitized society asking how the flexible combination of modes and…
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Mediating Cultural Memory (IMS Memory) IMS Memory is a transdisciplinary research cluster dedicated to the study of the mediation of cultural memory. Bringing together research from different fields,…
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Intermediality, Multimodality and Learning (IMS Literacy) This group works on intermediality and multimodality in teaching and learning. The group investigates how intermedial and multimodal knowledge…
PhD studies
IMS runs the interdisciplinary graduate school MIDWorld in collaboration with the Centre for Research in the Humanities and the research team in Multimodal Communication at Örebro University. The interdisciplinary graduate school MIDWorld provides emerging researchers in the Humanities theories and methods to critically analyse the mix of modes and media in our digital world.
New Master programme: Media Cultures - Intermedial and Multimodal Studies
The Master programme, 120 credits, offers a broad media-oriented perspective on questions of narration, meaning making, learning, and truthfulness in art and communication. We welcome students from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds. The programme is offered online (distance learning) and on campus simultaneously. Several of the courses in the programme combine an intermedial or multimodal perspective with different media. The aim is for you to develop knowledge of relevant, intermedial and multimodal theories and methods, primarily within the fields included in the intermedial research centre (IMS) at the faculty.
Read more about the distance version here.
Read more about the campus version here.
Other Courses and Programmes at Bachelor and Master Levels
If you wish to take an undergraduate or graduate course with us, you can see a list of current and upcoming courses with intermedial or multimodal perspectives taught in another language than Swedish (mainly English) below. Some courses are distance courses with no mandatory on-campus meetings and can be studied from abroad.
For information about courses taught in Swedish, please see our Swedish page.
Relevant links:
- For more information about distance courses, click here.
- For questions about applying for courses in Sweden, please see the University Admissions website, mainly this page with guides and resources, and this FAQ.
- For general information about studying at Linnaeus University, please click here.
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Climate Emergency Studies: Introduction Course 15 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Distance
- Master’s level
- Full-time
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English Language and Literature, Master Programme Programme 120 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Växjö
- Master’s level
- Full-time
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French. Intermediality in Literature Course 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Distance
- Master’s level
- One-quarter-time
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Harry Potter and His Worlds Course 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Växjö
- Bachelor’s level
- Half-time
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Intermedial ecocriticism Course 15 credits
- Spring 2024
- Växjö
- Master’s level
- Half-time
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Intermedial ecocriticism Course 15 credits
- Spring 2024
- Distance
- Master’s level
- Half-time
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Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Master Programme Programme 120 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Distance
- Master’s level
- Full-time
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Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Master Programme Programme 120 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Växjö
- Master’s level
- Full-time
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Media Relations: Literature, Comics, Film and Art Course 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2024
- Växjö
- Bachelor’s level
- Half-time
IMS on Social Media
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