Erling Bjurström
Professor, Cultural Research, Tema Q, Linköping University, Sweden
Brief career history:
Research manager, State Youth Council
PhD in media and communication studies
Associate professor, National Institute for Working Life
Professor, Cultural Research, Linköping University
Research interests:
• Cultural studies
• Taste sociology and philosophy
• Popular culture
• Media and communication
• Youth culture
• Musicology
• Children and advertising
Relevant publications:
• Generationsupproret. Ungdomskultur, ungdomsrörelser och tonårsmarknad från 50-tal till 80-tal (The uprising of generations: Youth culture, youth movements and the teen age market from the 50s to the 80s), Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand 1980.
• RastafarI och reggae (RastafarI and reggae), Stockholm: Glacio 1988.
• Livsstilsreklam. Vad är det? (Lifestyle marketing. What's that?), Stockholm: Konsumentverket 1991.
• Sälj det i toner. Om musik och TV-reklam (Sell it with sounds.
On music and TV advertising), Stockholm: Konsumentverket 1993 (written
together with Lars Lilliestam).
• Children and television advertising: A critical study of international research concerning the effects of TV commercials on children, Stockholm: The institute for media and social research/The national Swedish board for consumer policies 1994.
• Högt och lågt. Smak och stil i ungdomskulturen (High and low: Taste and style in youth culture), Umeå: Boréa 1997.
• Det kommunikativa handlandet. Kulturella perspektiv på medier och kommunikation (Communicative action: Cultural perspectives on media and consumption), Lund: Nya Doxa 2000 (written together with Johan Fornäs and Hillevi Ganetz).
• Passager. Medier och kultur i ett köpcentrum (Passages: Media and culture in a shopping mall), Lund: Nya Doxa 2001 (edited together with Karin Becker, Johan Fornäs and Hillevi Ganetz).
• Medier och människor i konsumtionsrummet (Media and people in the space of consumption), Lund: Nya Doxa 2002 (edited together with Karin Becker, Johan Fornäs and Hillevi Ganetz).
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