In this series of interviews with scholars I am a fan of a conversation with Stina Bengtsson, professor of Media and Communication Studies at  Södertörn University (Sweden), and Karin Fast, Associate Professor in  Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University (Sweden), and  researcher at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the  University of Oslo (Norway).  

We discuss their important work on media and everyday life, and the  unique (and perhaps impossible) role of media scholarship in a time of  pervasive and ubiquitous media. This conversation is also inspired by their joint publication (in 2020) of the research paper "Media and basic  desires: An approach to measuring the mediatization of daily human life" (also co-authored with André Jansson and Johan Lindell) in the  academic journal Communications.  

As Stina beautifully articulates near the end of our conversation: the coronavirus crisis offers an opportunity to collectively look at and study the media - not because media have broken down, but because  everything else has broken down...  

This podcast is based on the vlog version, recorded October 11, 2020, which is available on YouTube (as part of the #deuzevlog series of interviews with media scholars). Thanks for listening! Please like and subscribe, and share with your friends, students and colleagues.