Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors

Researcher

Fojo Media Institute

andreas.onnerfors@lnu.se

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Associate Professor and promoted full professor in intellectual history. Based on the cultural history of the 18C, I have since 2010 devoted my research to contemporary issues such as radicalization and conspiracy theories. My profile in media research extends from press history to synthetic media and their creating of meaning.

I am currently project leader for the Fact Checking Board at Fojo Mediainstitute, educating Swedish journalists about malign influence operations and disinformation.

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Teaching

Course leader at Fojo Media Institute for courses on malign information influence operations, disinformation and factchecking.

Supervision and examination of BA-theses in media and communcation studies and journalism.

Research

My current project is a book in Swedish summarizing my reesarch into conspiracy theories, their history of ideas, attraction and development over the last years.

My research groups

Linnaeus Media Observatory (LiMO) – Centre for media research, praxis and development Linnaeus Media Observatory (LiMO) – Centre for media research, praxis and development. We unite research, praxis…

My ongoing research projects

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Önnerfors, A. (2025). Den globala statskuppen – konspirationsteorier om näringslivet som dystopisk makt. Organisation & Samhälle.
Status: Published
Jahrehorn Önnerfors, A., Mars, A. (2025). The Dark Side of Ecomedia : Dystopian Imagination of the Sustainable Development Goals in Swedish Doom Metal. Ekphrasis : Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 33 (1). 154-175.
Status: Published
Önnerfors, A. (2024). Singing Theories of Conspiracy – Anti-Corona Songs as Political Protest in Denmark and Sweden. Økonomi & Politik. (2). 19-33.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Ezz El Din, M., Ricknell, E., Önnerfors, A. (2025). Countering the LVU Disinformation Campaign: Strategies and Responses from Swedish Media and Authorities. .
Ezz El Din, M., Ricknell, E., Önnerfors, A. (2025). Between Resilience and Emotional Mobilization : A Case Study of the Swedish LVU Disinformation Camp. .
Holt, K., Hanscam, E., Mohammed, A.T., Milrad, M., Önnerfors, A., et al. (2025). Emotional mobilization and democratic resilience in the hybrid media landscape. . 111-112.
Ezz El Din, M., Ricknell, E., Önnerfors, A. (2024). Twitter Campaign Against the Swedish Social Services : Between Disinformation and Dystopia. Presented at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Conference, Las Vegas, USA, April 13-16, 2024.
Ezz El Din, M., Önnerfors, A., Ricknell, E. (2023). Twitter campaign against the Swedish social services : Between activism and emotional mobilization. Book of abstracts: Media and Emotional Mobilization.

Book (Refereed)

Önnerfors, A. (2003). Svenska Pommern : kulturmöten och identifikation 1720–1815. Lund, Lund University Open Access.

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Önnerfors, A. (2024). Ordering the Social—Socializing the Order. : Navigating Trust between Civil Society and State in the Swedish Realm around 1800.. Cooperation and Confrontation in Nordic Civil Societies since 1800. Routledge. 59-78.
Önnerfors, A. (2022). Folkhemmet : ‘The People’s Home’ as an expression of retrotopian longing of Sweden before the arrival of mass migration. Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press. 60-79.
Önnerfors, A. (2022). Fraternal kingdom? : Freemasonry at the court of Gustav III of Sweden (1772–1792). Enlightenment at court : Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press. 231-256.

Collection (editor) (Refereed)

Önnerfors, A., Krouwel, A. (2021). Europe: A Continent of Conspiracies? : Conspiracy Theories in and on Europe. London, Routledge. 282.

Conference paper (Other academic)

Ezz El Din, M., Ricknell, E., Önnerfors, A. (2023). LVU, koranbränningar och påverkan : hur kan medierna hanteradesinformation om Sverige?. #SweFactCheck 2023 ”Sverigebilden: från underbarn till undergång." 15-17 November 2023, Kalmar, Sverige.

Book (Other academic)

Önnerfors, A. (2024). Konspirationsteorier : meningsskapande berättelser i historia och nutid. Lund, Nordic Academic Press.
Steiner, K., Önnerfors, A. (2024). Enemy images : Emergence, consequences and counteraction. London, Taylor & Francis.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Önnerfors, A., Hamrud, A. (2024). Digitala viskningslekar : Konspirationsteorier och det journalistiska berättandet som ett hot mot demokratin. En ifrågasatt demokrati : Forskare och praktiker i dialog. Göteborg och Stockholm, Makadam Förlag. 121-153.

Report (Other academic)

Önnerfors, A., Ricknell, E., Ezz El Din, M. (2026). Mediernas och myndigheternas motståndskraft : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om LVU-kampanjen. Kalmar, Linnaeus University Press.
Önnerfors, A., Rapacioli, P., Holt, K. (2026). Medieskuggor och lokal demokrati : En vitbok om lokajournalistikens roll i ett hållbart digitalt samhälle. Linnaeus University. 54.

Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Önnerfors, A., Christiansen, S., Frank, A., Haag, C., Juneström, A., et al. (2025). Fact-checking och verifikation som journalistisk metod. Kalmar, Linnaeus University Press. 215.

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Önnerfors, A. (2025). Conspiracy theories as vectors of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). Psychological Defence and Information Influence. Myndigheten för psykologiskt försvar. 117-123.

Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Önnerfors, A. (2021). Conspiracy theories and COVID-19 : the mechanisms behind a rapidly growing societal challenge. Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap. 87.
Önnerfors, A. (2021). Konspirationsteorier och covid-19 : mekanismerna bakom en snabbväxande samhällsutmaning. Stockholm, Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap. 83.