Ongoing Research

• Digital Threats: Investigating vulnerabilities arising from cyber threats, disinformation, and platform dependencies. This work includes a comprehensive study mapping digital risks to political parties across five European democracies.
• Digital Campaigning: Analyzing the use of AI and data analytics in election campaigns, with a focus on how party dynamics function in multi-party systems.
• Online Hostility: Exploring how marginalized groups are represented in online political discourse and the implications of these representations for democratic equality.

Key Publications

• Sandberg, L., Dahlberg, S., & Ivarsflaten, E. (2023). The Online Hostility Hypothesis: Representations of Muslims in Online Media. Social Influence.
• Sandberg, L., Jacobs, K., & Spierings, N. (2022). Populist MPs on Facebook: Adoption and Emotional Reactions. Scandinavian Political Studies.
• Dutceac Segesten, A., & Sandberg, L. (2024). Data-driven campaigning in data-dense small multiparty systems. Media and Communication.

For a complete list of publications, please see below.

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Segesten, A., & Sandberg, L. (2024). Data-Driven Campaigning in Data-Dense Small Multiparty Systems: A Party-Level Analysis. Media and Communication, 12, Article 8634. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.8634

Linn Sandberg, Stefan Dahlberg & Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (2023)The online hostility hypothesis: representations of Muslims in online media, Social Influence, 18:1, DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2023.2266235

Sandberg, L. Digital parties. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics (pp. 147-151). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Sandberg, L., & Segesten, A. D. (2022). Online political hostility. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics (pp. 244-248). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Sandberg, L., Jacobs, K., & Spierings, N. (2022) Populist MPs on Facebook: Adoption and emotional reactions in Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden Scandinavian Political Studies, 1– 25. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12239

Sandberg, L (2021). Socially mediated issue ownership, https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2020-0020 

Jacobs, K., Sandberg, L., & Spierings, N. (2020). Twitter and Facebook: Populists’ double-barreled gun?. New Media & Society, 22(4), 611-633.

Sandberg, L..C., Bjereld, U., Bunyik, K., Forsberg, M., & Johansson, R. (2019). Issue Salience on Twitter During Swedish Party Leaders’ Debates, Nordicom Review, 40(2), 49-61. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0033

Sandberg, Linn & Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2019). Start Sharing the News: Exploring the Link Between Right-wing Alternative Media and Social Media During the Swedish 2018 Election Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 121 (3).

Blombäck, Sofie & Sandberg, Linn (2018). Sociala medier har blivit en självklarhet. I Nord, L., Grusell, M., Bolin, N. & Falasca, K. (red.) Snabbtänkt - reflektioner från valet 2018 av ledande forskare. Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet, DEMICOM.

Bjereld, Blombäck, Demker & Sandberg (2018) Digital demokrati? Partierna i en ny tid. Bokförlaget Atlas.

Sandberg, Linn (2018) Väljarnas användning av sociala medier i valet 2014. Valforskningsprogrammets arbetsrapport 2018:3. Göteborgs universitet: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.

Sandberg, L. A. C., & Öhberg, P. (2017). The role of gender in online campaigning: Swedish candidates’ motives and use of social media during the European election 2014. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2017.1369918

Sandberg, Linn (2016) Ingrid Lønrusten Rogstad: "Politisk kommunikasjon i et nytt medielandskap" Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 56(03):325-328. 

Sandberg, Linn & Bjereld, Ulf (2015) "Politiskt deltagande och engagemang i en digital kontext" i Annika Bergström, Bengt Johansson, Henrik Oscarsson och Maria Oskarson (red) Fragment. Göteborgs universitet: SOM-institutet.

Sandberg, Linn & Demker, Marie (2014) ”Starkare oro för främlingsfientlighet än för invandring” i Annika Bergström & Henrik Oscarsson (red) Mittfåra & marginal. Göteborgs universitet: SOM-institutet.

Sandberg, Linn & Demker, Marie (2013) ”Ökat motstånd mot flyktingar men starkt stöd för skäl till uppehållstillstånd” i Lennart Weibull & Henrik Oscarsson och Annika Bergström (red) Vägskäl. Göteborgs universitet: SOM-institutet.