I am a Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm university. My research broadly concerns the role of news and documentary images and image practices in the social and cultural (re)production of meaning, power, and memory, especially in times of war and crisis. In recent years, my research has revolved around the increasingly important role that digital mobile cameras and online platforms play in the communication and conduct of war, political conflict and protest. I have published several ethnographically-based studies of how the current explosion of activist and citizen-created eyewitness imagery is recasting the production, reception and recollection of national and global crisis news; and of how new digital forms and practices of camera-mediated activism in the Middle East contributes to produce and contest political power.
At the Institute for Future Studies I head the project Eyewitness video and Human Rights Practice that examines how the proliferating forms and practices of digital eyewitness video are reshaping ways of doing and understanding human rights.
Andén-Papadopoulos, K. (2020): The “Image-as-Forensic-Evidence” Economy in the Post-2011 Syrian Conflict: The Power and Constraints of Contemporary Practices of Video Activism. International Journal of Communication 14(2020), 5072–5091.
Andén-Papadopoulos, K. (2020): Producing Image Activism After the Arab Uprisings (Introduction to themed issue). International Journal of Communication 14(2020), 5010–5020.
Andén-Papadopoulos, K. (2017): ”Imaging Human Rights: On the ethical and political implications of picturing pain”. In: Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights. London and New York: Routledge.
Andén-Papadopoulos, K. (2013) “Citizen Camera-Witnessing. Crisis testimony in the age of ‘mediated mass self-communication’”, New Media and Society, May 1: pp.117-133.
Andén-Papadopoulos, K. & Pantti, M. (2013) ”Re-imagining crisis reporting: Professional ideology of journalists and citizen eyewitness images”, Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism, 14(7): pp. 960-977.
Andén-Papadopoulos, K. & Pantti, M (Eds.) (2011) Amateur Images and Global News. Oxford: Intellect Ltd.
