in: Social ForcesAbstractWe know that parenthood has different consequences for men’s and women’s careers. Still, the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a conseque

Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968–2010

Research report 2014/2, 78 p. This report studies child poverty, and changes in such poverty both by analyzing the family economy, and directly by using surveys with children themselves. It also compar

Social Policy & Administration issn 0144–5596. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00796.x. Vol. 45, No. 7, December 2011, pp. 806–825 AbstractThis article reports findings about Swedes’ attitudes toward

Demography Abstract We examine the prevalence of gender transitions in Sweden over time and document the sociodemographic characteristics of people transitioning in different periods. Using administrati

Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT As a potentially antifragile system, the stre

Collective Animal Behavior

2010. Princeton University Press.

Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.ABSTRACTIn the 2000s, the New Public Governance (NPG) became prominent and this article takes s

Anna Näslund

I am professor of Art History at Stockholm University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My research focuses on visual culture, picture theory and digitization.  The project Selling Pic traces the genealogy of contemporary AI-generated image hype over 200 years of promoting technologies for the production, reproduction, and circulation of pictures on a mass scale. It aims to understand the historical role of pictures not merely as commodities but as agents of commerce. The project focuses on emerging picture techniques in the 1820s, 1920s, and 2020s, examining iconographic and discursive patterns in pictures of mass reproduction (metapictures) and comparing vernacular picture theories—expressed in advertising copy and trade journalism—with canonical picture theories. Rooted in historical material practices, the project seeks to clarify and expand our understanding of how and why pictures play a central role in the work of selling in modern and contemporary societies.

Selling pictures. Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020

This project will place the current discussions concerning AI-generated images in a historical context, comparing it to two previous technological breakthroughs that have affected the use of pictures for commercial purposes. 

2010. Annual Review of Sociology 36: 49–67.