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Alexa Robertson

Ph.D., Associate Professor

E-mail: alexa.robertson@jmk.su.se or alexa.robertson@statsvet.su.se

Phone: 070-590 4318.

Alexa Robertson does research and teaches on the political role of the media, with a focus on Europe and a comparative approach. Her particular interest is the relationship between television news reporting and the cultivation of collective identities, both national and European, and the way news stories are told, rather than the information they contain.

Alexa Robertson won the Stockholm University Pedagogical Prize for the Social Science Faculty in 2004 and was the recipient of a STINT Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in 2006. This enabled her to accept a position as Research Associate at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania 2006/07.

Publications

Robertson, A. (2011a) "Media Cultures and Cosmopolitan Connections" in Gerard Delanty, ed. Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies. Routledge.

Robertson, A. (2011b) "Liberal Education – en kosmopolitisk utbildningsmodell" i A. Burman & P. Mehrens ed. Det goda lärendet. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Robertson, Alexa (2010) "Providing an Insight into the Lives of Others", in Euromed Intercultural Trends 2010. The Anna Lindh Report.

Robertson, Alexa (2010) Mediated Cosmopolitanism. The World of Television News. Malden and Cambridge: Polity Press.

Robertson, Alexa (2010) "Euromedia: integration and cultural diversity in a changing media landscape", in Thomas McPhail, ed. Global Communication, 3rd edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Riegert, Kristina, Hellman, Maria, Mral Birgitte and Robertson, Alexa (2010) Transnational and National Media in Global Crisis: The Indian Ocean Tsunami. NJ: Hampton Press.

Robertson, A. (2008) "Cosmopolitanization and Real Time Tragedy: Television News Coverage of the Asian Tsunami" in New Global Studies, The Berkely Electronic Press, vol. 2, 2008.

Robertson, A. (2005c) “Globalisering”, in Jakob Gustavsson and Jonas Tallberg, eds. Internationell Politik. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Robertson, A. (2005b) “Journalists, Narratives of European Enlargement and the Man-on-the-Sofa” in Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Nr 4/2005 (årgång 107).

Robertson, A. (2005a) “Narrativanalys”, in Göran Bergström and Kristina Boréus, eds. Textens mening och makt. Lund: Studentlitteratur, pp. 219-262.

Robertson, A., J. Hallenberg, B. Nygren (Eds), Transitions In Honour of Kjell Goldmann. Stockholm: Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 2003.

Robertson, A. (2002) "Narrativ analys och identitetsforskning" i Bo Petersson och Alexa Robertson, eds. Identitetsstudier i praktiken. Liber.

Robertson, A. (2001a)"Mediated Threats" in J. Eriksson, ed. Threat Politics: New Perspectives on Security, Risk and Crisis. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Robertson, A. and Anders Mellbourn (2001) "Hot och Medier" i Hotbildernas Politik, J. Eriksson red. Utrikespolitiska Institutionen, Säkerhetspolitiska Rådet.

Robertson, A. (2000a) Depictions of the European Union in 19 Swedish media. Report commissioner by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Robertson, A. (2000b) "Europa erzählt: Erzählananlyse und Fernsehnachrichten über Europa" in J. W. Deth and T. König, eds. Europäische Politikwissenschaft: Ein Blick in die Werkstatt.Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag.

Robertson, A. (1999) "Kommunikation i den globala byn. Massmedierna och internationalisering" i Kjell Goldmann et.al. Politikens internationalisering. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Robertson, A. (1998a) "Through the Looking Glass: a comment on ‘National Self-Images among Russian Politicians’" in Klas-Göran Karlsson, Bo Petersson and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, eds. Collective Identities in an Era of Transformations. Analysing Developments in East and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Lund: Lund University Press.

Robertson, A., ed. (1995) Opinion, the Media and International Politics. A Reader. Stockholm Universitets Statsvetenskapliga institutionens Undervisningsserien 1995:2. Edsbruk: Akademitryck.

Robertson, A. (1992) National Prisms and Perceptions of Dissent. The Euromissile controversy reflected in opinion and the news in the UK and FRG 1980-83. Edsbruk: Akademitryck .

Conference Papers

Robertson, Alexa (2002) "Dancing with Doris. Political Contempt and the Media in Sweden". Paper presented at the workshop on "Antipolitics and the Media", ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Turin, March 2002.

Robertson, A. (2001b) "Us, Them and Television News Narratives". Paper presented at the Arts and Politics Conference on Narrative, Identity and Order at the University of Tampere, 13-15 September 2001.

Hellman, Maria, Lucas Pettersson and Alexa Robertson (2001) "Sweden’s Turn. The EU Presidency on Screen". Paper presented at the ECPR session in Canterbury 6-10 September.

Robertson, Alexa (2000) "Constructing Europe in Television News". Paper presented at the Special Session on Televisual and filmic images and the creation of political realities, IPSA, Québec City, August 2000.

Robertson, Alexa and Anders Mellbourn (2000) "Domesticating the European. Swedish Media and the Challenge of Reporting the EU". Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Copenhagen, April 2000.

Courses

For information on the courses Alexa teaches visit
www.statsvet.su.se/mediarum/mediaindex.html