Amanda Lagerkvist, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, is awarded Honorary Doctorate for having founded the research field existential media studies.
Amanda Lagerkvist, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) for having founded the research field existential media studies.
Amanda Lagerkvist founded the field of existential media studies through the appointment as Wallenberg Academy Fellow back in 2014-2019.
“After that, the continued support from the Wallenberg Foundations, through WASP-HS, was for me instrumental for taking this young conversation in new urgent directions,” says Amanda Lagerkvist.
Nominated by the Faculty of Humanities at SDU Amanda received an Honorary Doctorate for her groundbreaking work. The award citation is as follows:
“Amanda Lagerkvist is a professor of media and communication studies at Uppsala University. She is internationally recognised for her original contributions to research on digital media and has been the driving force behind the development of existential media studies as a prominent international field of research. Through her work, Lagerkvist has developed a theoretical framework that connects media theory with existential philosophy and sheds light on how digital technologies shape people’s experiences of vulnerability, meaning, relationships and life’s limit situations.”
We extend our warm congratulations to Amanda Lagerkvist!