Specialisation course 1: Geomedia, culture, and everyday life

Education facts

Code: MKA101

The course focuses on the mediatisation of culture and everyday life in relation to spatiality and mobility. Students are provided with tools for understanding how media shape our everyday lives and the spaces where they are lived, but also how our daily media use is determined by the specific properties of these spaces. Examples of spaces range from our workplaces, homes, and residential areas to public transport, shops, gyms, and social media. Students practise analysing the consequences of mediatisation in terms of social categories such as class, gender, and ethnicity. Special emphasis is placed on the increasing significance of media for working life and the social consequences of this development, including for instance blurred boundaries between work and leisure, the growing mobility of work, new forms of work, labour markets, and workplaces, and new forms of control and surveillance. The course also covers methodology relevant for the area of study and prepares students for the planning, documentation, realisation, and analysis of a limited study of the mediatisation of culture and everyday life in relation to spatiality and mobility.

Entry requirements

90 ECTS credits of Human Geography or Media and Communication Studies, including at least 30 ECTS credits at the G2F level and a degree project/essay of at least 15 ECTS credits at the advanced level, or equivalent, plus upper secondary school level English B/6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Specialisation course 1: Geomedia, culture, and everyday life

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 5 October 2026

  End date: 8 November 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %