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Professor
- Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail pelle.snickarskultur.luse
Mobile +46 73 047 35 18
Room LUX:C446
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am professor of digital cultures. I have worked within the cultural heritage sector as Head of Research at Sweden's National Media Archive and at the National Library of Sweden, and as a professor of media and communication studies with a focus on the digital humanities at Umea University. I am a media studies scholar with a contemporary and historical interest, mainly oriented towards digital cultural heritage and digital media history. I am in charge of two research projects: Welfare State Analytics. Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & Culture, 1945-1989 and Modern Times 1936 – which both use digital methods to explore historical source material in new ways. I have published in journals such as Media History, Digital Humanities Quaterly and Journal of Documentation. In 2019 MIT Press publishedSpotify Teardown. Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music. During autumn 2022 McGill-Queen University Press will publish From Big Bang to Big Data. A History of the Media.
Research
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Articles (3)
- Snickars, P. (2022). 100 miljoner ord : Reflektioner kring forskningsarbete med storskaliga dataset som historisk empiri. Historisk Tidskrift, 142, 320-352. Svenska historiska föreningen.
- Snickars, P. (2022). Från chiffer till klartext? : Temamodellering av statliga offentliga utredningar 1945–1989. Scandia, 88. Stiftelsen Scandia.
- Snickars, P. (2022). Modeling Media History : On topic models of Swedish media politics 1945–1989. Media History, 28, 403-424. Routledge.
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Teaching

Professor
- Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail pelle.snickarskultur.luse
Mobile +46 73 047 35 18
Room LUX:C446
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30