Maja Klinga

Doktorand|Doctoral Student

Bakgrund

BA in Sociology, Uppsala University, 2018
MA in Gender Studies - Intersectionality and Change, Linköping University, 2020

Forskningsområden

My research focus on understandings and experiences of disinformation in a Swedish context. I am interested in how understandings of disinformation are shaped by social position, trust, and prior experiences of risks and crises.

Undervisning

I teach undergraduate sociology in the Psychologist program and the Risk and crisis management program. I have experience of supervising undergraduate theses.

In 2023, I was awarded the Student Unions Pedagogical Prize.

Övrigt

I am a board member of The Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty research network, RN22, of the European Sociological Association. 

Publikationer

Artiklar i tidskrifter

Klinga, M. & Lundgren, M. (2024). Making Sense of Disinformation in the Swedish Heterogenous Society : Understandings, Experiences, and Vulnerabilities. International Journal of Crisis and Risk Communication Research, vol. 7: 1, ss. 140-163.    

Giritli Nygren, K. , Klinga, M. , Olofsson, A. & Öhman, S. (2021). The language of risk and vulnerability in covering the covid-19 pandemic in swedish mass media in 2020 : Implications for the sustainable management of elderly care. Sustainability, vol. 13: 19    

Konferensbidrag

Klinga, M. (2024). Disinformation : A risk and/or a crisis?. Paper presented at the 60th Workshop: Innovating for an Imagined Disaster Future, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, United States, May 2-5, 2024

Klinga, M. (2024). Disinformation and risk perception : An intersectional approach. Paper presented at the Åre Risk Event: Krisberedskap i en föränderlig värld, Åre, 16-18 april, 2024

Klinga, M. (2024). Risk perception and disinformation. Paper presented at the 16th ESA Conference 2024 - Tension, Trust and Transformation, Porto, Portugal, August 27th to 30th, 2024

Klinga, M. & Lundgren, M. (2023). Understandings of disinformation in the Swedish heterogeneous society : experiences and vulnerabilities. Paper presented at the ESA RN22 & ISA TG04 Midterm Conference 2023, Danish Sociological Association, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark October 26-27, 2023

Rapporter

Lundgren, M. , Klinga, M. & Filippova, O. (2024). Risk- och kriskommunikation före och under krig: En kunskapsöversikt. Östersund : Mid Sweden University (RCR Working Paper Series 2024:4).  

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