Ulrika Olausson

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Presentation Publications

Research

Ulrika Olausson's research is about the role of communication in establishing deep sustainability. Her latest book in Swedish Dualismens tyranni: Nio etiska principer för hållbar kommunikation (The Tyranny of Dualism: Nine Ethical Principles for Sustainable Communication ) is an example of this approach. Ulrika is currently working on the book The Ethics of Sustainable Communication: Overcoming the World of Opposites commissioned by the academic publisher Peter Lang, and with a number of anthology chapters and journal articles on the same theme.

Ulrika's research has been published in renowned international journals, e.g. Public Understanding of Science, Environmental Communication, Journalism Studies and European Journal of Communication and she has led a number of externally funded research projects, for example, “Nature meets network society: Citizens' social representations of nature in social media,” funded by the research council Formas. Ulrika is also a member of the editorial boards of the journals Environmental Communication and Frontiers in Communication: Science and Environmental Communication.

Biography

Ulrika served as Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the School of Education and Communication in Jönköping between 2013 and 2022, of which five years as research leader, when she initiated the research program Sustainable Journalism/Communication.

She defended her dissertation in Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University in 2005, Medborgarskap och globalisering: Den diskursiva konstruktionen av politisk identitet (Citizenship and Globalization: The Discursive Construction of Political Identity), and was appointed Associate Professor in 2009 and Professor in 2012 at the same university. Since obtaining her PhD, Ulrika has been involved in several research projects and she is frequently commissioned as expert for international journals, research councils and conferences. She also has many assignments outside academia, where her research on sustainable communication has received significant attention.

Article

Lakew, Y., Olausson, U. (2023). When We Don’t Want to Know More: Information Sufficiency and the Case of Swedish Flood Risks Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 6(1), 65-89. More information
Abalo, E., Olausson, U. (2023). An environmental problem in the making: how media logic molds scientific uncertainty in the production of news about artificial turf in Sweden Journal of Science Communication, 22(1). More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2023). Climate irresponsibility on social media: A critical approach to “high-carbon visibility discourse” Social Semiotics, 33(5), 1011-1025. More information
Olausson, U., Uggla, Y. (2021). Celebrities celebrifying nature: the discursive construction of the human-nature relationship in the ‘Nature Is Speaking’ campaign Celebrity Studies, 12(3), 353-370. More information
Olausson, U. (2020). Making Sense of the Human-Nature Relationship: A Reception Study of the "Nature Is Speaking" Campaign on YouTube Nature and Culture, 15(3), 272-295. More information
Olausson, U. (2019). Meat as a matter of fact(s): the role of science in everyday representations of livestock production on social media Journal of Science Communication, 18(6). More information
Lakew, Y., Olausson, U. (2019). Young, sceptical, and environmentally (dis)engaged: do news habits make a difference? Journal of Science Communication, 18(04) Trieste: Sissa Medialab . More information
Olausson, U. (2018). “Stop Blaming the Cows!”: How Livestock Production is Legitimized in Everyday Discourse on Facebook Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 12(1), 28-43. More information
Olausson, U. (2018). The celebrified journalist: Journalistic self-promotion and branding in celebrity constructions on Twitter Journalism Studies, 19(16), 2379-2399. More information
Olausson, U. (2017). The Reinvented Journalist: The Discursive Construction of Professional Identity on Twitter Digital Journalism, 5(1), 61-81. More information
Mörner, C., Olausson, U. (2017). Hunting the Beast on YouTube: The framing of nature in social media Nordicom Review, 38(1), 17-29. More information
Olausson, U. (2014). The diversified nature of “domesticated” news discourse: The case of climate change in national news media Journalism Studies, 15(6), 711-725. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2014). The post-political condition of climate change: an ideology approach Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 25(1), 54-71. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2014). Media and climate change: Four long-standing research challenges revisited Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 8(2), 249-265. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2014). Media Research on Climate Change: Where have we been and where are we heading? Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 8(2), 139-141. More information
Uggla, Y., Olausson, U. (2013). The enrollment of nature in tourist information: framing urban nature as "€˜the other"€™ Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 7(1), 97-112. More information
Lidskog, R., Olausson, U. (2013). To spray or not to spray: the discursive construction of contested environmental issues in the news media Discourse, Context & Media, 2(3), 123-130. More information
Olausson, U. (2013). Theorizing global media as global discourse International Journal of Communication, 7, 1281-1297. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2013). "Klimatfrågans död till stor del mediernas fel" Svenska Dagbladet. More information
Olausson, U. (2011). "We’re the ones to blame": Citizens' representations of climate change and the role of the media Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 5(3), 281-299. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2011). Intentional and unintentional transnationalism: two political identities repressed by national identity in the news media National Identities, 13(1), 35-49. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2011). Miljön, forskningen - och så medie- och kommunikationsforskningen Nordicom Information, 33(3), 83-86. More information
Olausson, U. (2010). Towards a European identity?: The news media and the case of climate change European Journal of Communication, 25(2), 138-152. More information
Berglez, P., Eriksson, G., Ekström, M., Moberg, U., Olausson, U. (2010). Pressen sviker sin roll Nerikes Allehanda. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2010). Stor risk att allt fler kommer att strunta i klimatfrågan Dagens Nyheter. More information
Olausson, U. (2009). Global Warming - Global Responsibility? Media Frames of Collective Action and Scientific Certainty Public Understanding of Science, 18(4), 421-436. More information

Book

Olausson, U. (2023). The ethics of sustainable communication: Overcoming the world of opposites. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group More information
Olausson, U. (2022). Dualismens tyranni: nio etiska principer för hållbar kommunikation. Göteborg: Lassbo Förlag More information
Olausson, U. (2002). Vi kommer bara ihåg våldsamheterna: medborgare om Göteborgskravallerna och medierapporteringen. Stockholm: Styrelsen för psykologiskt försvar More information
Olausson, U. (1999). Saddam Hussein från Gulfkrig till Gulfkrig: Sverige och USA: utrikespolitik och och nyhetsrapportering. Örebro: Ö–rebro universitetsbibliotek More information

Doctoral thesis

Olausson, U. (2005). Medborgarskap och globalisering: den diskursiva konstruktionen av politisk identitet (Doctoral thesis, Örebro: Örebro universitetsförlag). More information

Book chapter

Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2019). Global journalism. In: Tim P. Vos & Folker Hanusch (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of journalism studies Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U., Ots, M. (2017). What is Sustainable Journalism?: An introduction. In: What Is Sustainable Journalism?: Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism (pp. 11 -26). More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2016). Media and Climate Change: Four Long-standing Research Challenges Revisited. In: Olausson, Ulrika & Berglez, Peter (Ed.), Media Research on Climate Change: Where have we been and where are we heading? (pp. 111 -127). More information
Olausson, U., Djerf-Pierre, M. (2015). Miljöjournalistik. In: Karlsson, Michael & Strömbäck, Jesper (Ed.), Handbok i journalistikforskning (pp. 243 -261). More information
Olausson, U. (2011). Explaining global media: a discourse approach. In: Piotr Pachura (Ed.), The systemic dimension of globalization (pp. 135 -148). Rijeka, Croatia: Intech Open Access Publisher More information
Höijer, B., Olausson, U. (2010). The role of the media in the transformation of citizens' social representations of suffering. In: Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander (Ed.), Education, professionalization and social representations: on the transformation of social knowledge (pp. 200 -217). London: Routledge More information
Olausson, U. (2010). The 'climate threat' and constructions of identity in Swedish news media. In: Stig-Arne Nohrstedt (Ed.), Communicating risks: towards the threat society (pp. 97 -114). Göteborg: Nordicom More information
Olausson, U. (2010). Klimatet i medierna: ett tillrättalagt drama?. In: Birgitta Johansson (Ed.), Sverige i nytt klimat: våtvarm utmaning (pp. 103 -116). Stockholm: Formas More information
Olausson, U. (2009). Identitet. In: Peter Berglez, Ulrika Olausson (Ed.), Mediesamhället: centrala begrepp (pp. 137 -155). Lund: Studentlitteratur More information
Olausson, U., Uggla, Y. (2009). Offentlig kommunikation om klimatförändring. In: Ylva Uggla, Ingemar Elander (Ed.), Global uppvärmning och lokal politik (pp. 43 -62). Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press More information
Berglez, P., Höijer, B., Olausson, U. (2009). Individualisation and nationalisation of the climate issue: two ideological horizons in Swedish news media. In: Tammy Boyce, Justin Lewis (Ed.), Climate change and the media (pp. 211 -223). New York: Peter Lang Publishing More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2008). Kritisk diskursanalys. In: Mats Ekström (Ed.), Mediernas språk (pp. 121 -138). Malmö: Liber More information
Olausson, U. (2007). The ideological horizons of citizenship: national media as discursive bridge. In: Ideological horizons in media and citizen discourses: theoretical and methodological approaches (pp. 51 -73). Göteborg: Nordicom More information
Olausson, U. (2003). "Sanningen har ju alltid två sidor": svenska medborgare om medierna och Kosovokonflikten. In: Norska och svenska medborgare om medierna och Kosovokonflikten (pp. 87 -198). Örebro: Örebro universitet More information
Olausson, U. (2000). Ungdomar i Göteborg berättar om branden. In: Larsåke Larsson, Stig Arne Nohrstedt (Ed.), Göteborgsbranden 1998: en studie om kommunikation, rykten och förtroende (pp. 121 -155). Stockholm: Styrelsen för psykologiskt försvar More information
Olausson, U. (1996). Bard eller brygga? De nationella medierna i globaliseringen. In: Mediernas vi och dom: mediernas betydelse för den strukturella diskrimineringen (pp. 309 -338). Stockholm: Fritzes More information

Conference paper

Ots, M., Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2019). Sustainable news media: Organizational reconciliation of economic, democratic, and environmental challenges in media firms. 6th RME Research Conference, 1-3 oct 2019 Jönköping. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2016). Towards a research agenda for sustainable journalism. Prague: Czech-In, The 6th European Communication Conference (ECREA). More information
Olausson, U., Mörner, C. (2013). Elk hunting on YouTube. Conference on Communication and Environment 2013. More information
Olausson, U. (2013). The Diversified Nature of "Domesticated" News Discourse: The Case of Climate Change in National News Media. NordMedia2013. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2013). Towards a renewed Research Agenda for Media Studies on Climate Change. The 12th Biennal Conference on Communication and Environment, 6-10 June 2013, Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2013). Towards a renewed agenda for media research on climate change. Conference on Communication and Environment 2013. More information
Olausson, U., Georgii-Hemming, E. (2012). Mobile identities: adults’ use of music in digital media. International symposium on Mobile Communication: Mobile Internet, Locative Media, Mobility and Place. More information
Olausson, U., Lidskog, R. (2012). To spray or not to spray: A comparative study of human-nature clashes in the news media. The 4th European Communication Conference. More information
Olausson, U., Berglez, P. (2012). Towards a renewed research agenda for media research on climate change. International symposium on the future of media research on climate change. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2010). The 'climate threat' as ideology: interrelations between citizen and media discourses. Communicating Climate Change II - Global Goes Regional, 11-12 October, 2010, University of Hamburg, Germany. More information
Olausson, U. (2009). Threat conceptions of climate change and constructions of political identity. 19th Nordic Conference on Media and Communication Studies, 13-15 August, 2009, Karlstad, Sweden. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2008). Individualization and nationalization of the climate issue: two ideological horizons in Swedish news media. Second European Communication ECREA Conference, Barcelona 25-28 November, 2008. (Science & Environment Communication Section). More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2007). Intentional and unintentional transnationalism: two political identities repressed by national media. Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and Perceptions, University of Minho, Portugal, November 19-20, 2007. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2007). The structural repression of the transnational: social representations of the nation-state in the news media. Symposium on Cosmopolitanism and the Media, Försvarshögskolan (Defence College), Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-13, 2007. More information
Berglez, P., Olausson, U. (2007). Social representations of climate change in the media and among citizens. Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and Perceptions, University of Minho, Portugal, November 19-20, 2007. More information
Olausson, U., Höijer, B. (2006). The role of the media in the transformation of citizens' social representations of suffering. VIII International Conference on Social Representations, Media & Society. More information

Report

Adjin-Tettey, T. Garman, A. Krüger, F. Olausson, U. Berglez, P. Tallert, L. , ... Fritzon V. (2021). Towards sustainable journalism in sub-Saharan Africa: Policy brief. Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute More information

Collections

(2017). What Is Sustainable Journalism?: Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism. More information
(2016). Media research on climate change: Where have we been and where are we heading?. London: Routledge More information
(2009). Mediesamhället: Centrala begrepp. Lund: Studentlitteratur More information