Nils Gustafsson
Nydisputerad doktor
Filosofie doktor
(Mentorskoordinator)
Rum: 224
Tel.: 046-2228932
nils.gustafsson@svet.lu.se
Introduktion
Jag disputerade på min avhandling "Leetocracy: political participation, social network sites and inequality" fredagen den 3 maj. Fakultetsopponent var associate professor Eva Anduiza, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. I betygsnämnden ingick prof Anders Uhlin, Lund (ordf), docent Hanna Bäck, Lund, prof Annette Hill, Lund, prof Lena halldenius, Lund och prof Erik Amnå, Örebro. Här kan man läsa nästan hela avhandlingen: Leetocracy I defended my doctoral dissertation "Leetocracy: political participation, ocial network sites and inequality" Friday 3 May. Faculty examiner was associate professor Eva Anduiza, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Here is the online version of the thesis (excluding two unpublished texts): Leetocracy Aktuellt
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Nils Gustafssons avhandling Leetocracy. Political participation, social network sites and inequality, uppmärksammas i ett stort antal artiklar och reportage i media
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LUPEF och studentförbunden anordnar debatt mellan riksstudentförbundens ordföranden 16/5. Nils Gustafsson från institutionen modererar debatten. Läs mer...
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Nils Gustafsson disputerar idag (3/5) med avhandlingen Leetocracy. Political participation, social network sites and inequality. Läs mer...
Visades från: 2013-04-17
Nils Gustafsson talade om nätaktivism i SVT:s Kulturnyheterna den 17 april
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Nils Gustafsson intervjuas om partiledarnas insatser i sociala medier på SVT:s webb (4/3) med anledning av ett reportage i Agenda Läs mer...
Visades från: 2012-12-04
Nils Gustafsson gästar Sydnytt (4/12) för att ge sina synpunkter på den låga ungdomsrepresentationen i ett flertal kommuner Läs mer...
Forskning
My research interests include the intersection of politics and social network sites: political participation, political communication, and other aspects of the political uses of social network sites. I am also interested in the development of political parties, the development of civil society and political history. My dissertation, Leetocracy (2013), dealt with this. Abstract below. This dissertation is about whether social network sites have the potential to bring about more equal participation. It deals with a phenomenon that has changed the underlying infrastructure of how millions of people communicate. It studies the way the use of social network sites affects communication within existing political organisations in addition to networked campaigns. And it goes beyond digital content analysis to use a broad range of methods in order to capture behaviour and attitudes offline as well as online in a contextual setting.
Social network sites have not brought about any greater equality in political participation. Using social network sites does not in itself lower the thresholds for participation, as increased accessibility does not outweigh the underlying factors of participation and political interest. Political participation is changing, but what is changing is not related to equality of participation. Instead, the existing system is put under pressure by what is referred to in this dissertation as viral politics and the emergence of temporal elites. Rather than resulting in egalitarian democracy, what we actually have is a leetocracy of sorts, where existing hierarchies are supplemented with new ones. This is shown in six distinct articles, each with its own empirical focus, and an introductory essay summarising the articles and presenting the core argument of the dissertation.
An additional goal of this dissertation is to show how the development of political participation in relation to social network sites can be better understood through the framework of competitive elitist democracy than through that of deliberative democratic theory. A methodological goal is to show how a combination of quantitative and several different qualitative methods applied on a set of different empirical cases can be used to yield a fuller illumination of the overarching research aim.
This dissertation is an ambitious attempt to study the effects of social network site use on several different forms of political participation. It contains the first representative study of political participation in social media in Sweden and the first study of intra-party use of social network sites in parliamentary parties in the world.
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Nils Gustafsson har författat artikeln The subtle nature of Facebook politics: Swedish social network site users and political participation som nyligen publicerats i tidskriften New Media & Society Läs mer...
Nils Gustafsson har medförfattat kapitlet Sociala medier och politiskt engagemang i den nya rapporten från SOM-institutet, Lycksalighetens ö Läs mer...
Undervisning
My teaching has mostly been in the areas of Political Communication, Swedish Politics and Public Administration. In addition to teaching in my home department, I have taught at the Lund Institute of Technology, the Department of Communication and Media at Lund university, at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and at Räddningstjänsten Syd (Rescue Service for Malmö area). Spring semester 2013 I teach the following courses: EXTA31 Offentlig organisation och administration (Public management) STVC11 Swedish Politics STVA11 Politik och styrelse (Politics and government) I supervise theses in the following courses: MRSG20 Mänskliga rättigheter, fortsättningsnivå (Human Rights Studies, level 2) STVK02 Statsvetenskap, kandidatkurs (Political Science, Bachelor level) Some of my lecture visuals are available here.
Nedan visas de kurser där Nils Gustafsson undervisat, och som finns inlagda i institutionens databas
vt 2013: EXTA31 - Offentlig organisation och administrationvt 2012: STVA21 - Makt och förvaltning
vt 2011: EXTA30 - Offentlig organisation och administration
vt 2011: STVA11 - Politik och styrelse
vt 2011: STVC11 - Swedish Politics
ht 2010: STVC11 - Swedish Politics
vt 2010: EXTA30 - Offentlig organisation och administration
vt 2010: STVA11 - Politik och styrelse
vt 2010: STVC11 - Swedish Politics
ht 2009: STVC11 - Swedish Politics
ht 2009: TNX075 - Offentlig organisation och administration
vt 2009: EXTA30 - Offentlig organisation och administration
vt 2009: JOUA02 - Politik, samhälle och medier
ht 2008: TNX075 - Offentlig organisation och administration
vt 2008: JOUA02 - Politik, samhälle och medier
vt 2007: JOU002 - Politik, samhälle och medier
CV och publikationslista
Kort introduktion
Jag är fil dr i statsvetenskap och disputerade 2013 på avhandlingen Leetocracy. Political participation, social network sites, and inequality. Utöver min forskning undervisar jag, håller offentliga föreläsningar, bloggar, och skriver lite här och var. Här nedan kan du läsa mer om mig.
Research
My dissertation project, "Viral Politics. Political Mobilisation in Social Media", dealt with how the use of social media (social network sites, blogs, microblogging services, etc.) changes political participation in Sweden - a small country with a relatively homogeneous population and very high levels of participation and social media penetration. In order to understand this, I undertake a series of limited studies using different methods: interviews, social network analysis and variable analysis of survey data. Most of the papers produced so far are listed below and almost all of them can be found in fulltext versions via the LUPP button to the right of this page. The project is a part of Wahlgren Foundation Doctoral Programme generously funded by the Wahlgren Foundation.
Selected work
Gustafsson, Nils, 2013. Leetocracy. Political participation, social network sites and inequality. Lund: Department of Political Science, Lund university. (dissertation)
Gustafsson, Nils, 2013. "Are Social Network Sites Reducing Inequality in Political Participation?" Manuscript under review.
Gustafsson, Nils, 2012. "The Subtle Nature of Facebook Politics: Swedish Social Network Site Users and Political Participation." New Media & Society 14(7), pp. 1111-1127.
Gustafsson, Nils, 2012. "An Awkward Tool. Social Media as a Dispruptive Factor in Intra-Party Competition." Paper presented to the Swedish Political Science Association's Annual Conference, Växjö, Sweden, 26 - 28 September, 2012.
Gustafsson, Nils, 2011. "The Usual Suspects? Swedish Social Media Users and Political Participation." Paper presented to the 6th General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, 25 - 27 August, 2011.
Gustafsson, Nils & Höglund, Lars, 2011. "Sociala medier och politiskt engagemang" in Ekengren Oscarsson, Henrik, Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) Lycksalighetens ö. SOM-rapport nr 52. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet.
Breindl, Yana & Gustafsson, Nils, 2011. "Leetocracy. Networked Political Activism and the Continuation of Elitism in Competetive Democracy." in Araya, Daniel, Breindl, Yana, and Houghton, Tessa (eds.) Nexus. New Intersections in Internet Research. New York: Peter Lang.
Faraon, M., Atashi, S., Kaipainen, M., Gustafsson, N., 2011. "Using circumventing media to counteract authoritarian regimes." Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011 (ICT 2011), Rome, Italy, 24 - 26 July, pp. 251-254.
Askanius, Tina & Gustafsson, Nils, 2010. "Mainstreaming the Alternative: Changing Media Strategies of Protest Movements" in Interface 2(2), pp. 23-41.
Gustafsson, Nils, 2010. "Att dela med sig av det överväldigande" in Boström, Mattias (ed.) SSWC-boken 2010. Stockholm: Bubblan Books.
Gustafsson, Nils, 2010. "This Time It’s Personal. Social Networks, Viral Politics and Identity Management" in Riha, Daniel and Maj, Anna (eds.) Emerging Practices in Social Networking and Cybercultures. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Gustafsson, Nils, 2009. "Viral Politics. Political Mobilisation and Participation in Social Media." Paper presented to the I Workshop of the Network for Studies of Organisations and Communication, Stockholm, Sweden, March 23-24, 2009.
Gustafsson, Nils & Wahlström, Mattias, 2008. "Virtual Mobilisation? Linking On-line and Off-line Political Participation among Swedish Facebook Users: Courtesy and Irritation". Paper presented to the XV Nordic Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Tromsø, Norway, August 5-9, 2008.
Academic service
Reviewer for New Media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; Journal of Information Technology & Politics; and Government Information Quarterly.
Miscellaneous
- I am the coordinator of the mentorship programme at the department.
- Blog: http://nilsgustafsson.blogspot.com
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/nilsgustafsson
- I give lectures on my research field as well as on public management, publicly and for various organisations, such as the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs, the City of Lund, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, Räddningstjänsten Syd (Rescue Service in Malmö area), political parties and youth organisations, and others.
- I am an author of textbooks and learning material for university courses and upper secondary school level, currently affiliated with Studentlitteratur.
- I appear from time to time in the media.