Person

Senior Lecturer, Researcher, Supervisor, Teaching Staff
- Media and Communication Studies
- Department of Communication and Media
Contact information
E-mail tobias.linnekom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 41 64
Room SOL:A131
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I hold a Ph.D. in sociology and am currently employed as assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Media, where I teach at all levels of undergraduate education in media and communication studies.
Since spring of 2012 I am course leader for the course Critical Animals Studies. Animals in Society, Culture and the Media.
During 2013 and 2014 I was coordinator for the research theme “Exploring ‘the Animal Turn’: Changing perspectives on human-animal relations in science, society and culture”, funded by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University.
I spring 2016 I co-founded the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (see link to the right)
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Den sociala betydelsen av äldre skogsägares förtrogenhetskunskaper
- Animals as Food in the Media: Climate, Ethics and Health (research leader)
- The Protein Shifts: Knowledge gaps, obstacles and opportunities - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
- Legitimizing the ESS: Big Science as collaborations across boundaries - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
Books (3)
- Sellerberg, A. M., Leppänen, V. & Linné, T. (2019). Produktion med passion : En intervjuundersökning med femtio äldre skogsägare. Bokbox förlag.
- Linné, T. (2011). Skogens framtid. En sociologisk undersökning av skogsägares uppfattningar.
- Linné, T. (2008). Digitala pengar : Nya villkor i det sociala livet. Lund Dissertations in Sociology, 83. Lund University. Dissertation.
Editorships (1)
Articles (7)
- Linné, T. (2021). Varför behandlas grisar så illa?. Gränsløs: med fokus på gränser, regioner och Öresund, 54-66. Centrum för Öresundsstudier, Lunds universitet.
- Jönsson, E., Linné, T. & McCrow Young, A. (2019). Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution. Science as Culture, 28, 70-97. Taylor & Francis.
- Gambert, I. & Linné, T. (2018). From Rice Eaters to Soy Boys : Race, Gender, and Tropes of ‘Plant Food Masculinity’. Animal Studies Journal, 7, 129-179. Australasian Animal Studies Association..
- Linné, T. & Sellerberg, A. M. (2018). The forest as a taskscape: seeing through the good forest owner’s eyes. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 33, 91-97. Taylor & Francis.
- Linné, T. & Pedersen, H. (2017). Med omsorg om kor och kärlek till mjölk. Fronesis. Tidsföreningen Fronesis.
- Linné, T. (2016). Cows on Facebook and Instagram : Interspecies Intimacy in the Social Media Spaces of the Swedish Dairy Industry. Television and New Media, 17, 719-733. SAGE Publications.
- Young, A. M., Linné, T. & Potts, A. (2015). Framing Possums : War, sport and patriotism in depictions of brushtail possums in New Zealand print media. Animal Studies Journal, 4, 29-54. Australasian Animal Studies Association..
Book chapters (8)
- Linné, T. & Young, A. M. (2017). Plant Milk : From Obscurity to Visions of a Post-Dairy Society. Making Milk : The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Linné, T. (2016). Tears, Connections, Action! Teaching Critical Animal and Media Studies. In Almiron, N., Cole, M. & Freeman, C. P. (Eds.) Critical Animal and Media Studies : Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy (pp. 251-264). Routledge.
- Linné, T. & Pedersen, H. (2016). With care for cows and a love for milk : Affect and performance in dairy industry marketing strategies. In Potts, A. (Ed.) Human-Animal Studies, Meat Culture (pp. 109-128), 17. Brill.
- Linné, T. & Askanius, T. (2015). Sweden. In Berry, M., Garcia-Blanco, I. & Moore, K. (Eds.) Press Coverage of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in the EU : A Content Analysis of Five European Countries (pp. 236-251). United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
- Linné, T. (2014). Grazing the Green Fields of Social Media. In Lönngren, A.-S., Jennbert, K., Björck, A. & Andersson-Cederholm, E. (Eds.) Exploring the Animal Turn : Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture (pp. 19-31). Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet.
- Linné, T. & Pedersen, H. (2014). Expanding my universe : Critical Animal Studies Education as Theory, Politics and Practice. In Sorenson, J. (Ed.) Critical Animal Studies : Thinking the Unthinkable (pp. 268-283). Canadian Scholars' Press Inc..
- Linné, T. (2013). The ESS in Local News Media: Expectations, investigations and mobilization. In Kaiserfeld, T. & O'dell, T. (Eds.) Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as collaboration across boundaries. Nordic Academic Press.
- Linné, T. (2011). Inledning. In Sellerberg, A.-M. (Ed.) Efter stormen. En sociologisk undersökning av skogsägarfamiljer.
Conference contributions (6)
- Linné, T. (2016). Cows on Facebook and Instagram : Interspecies Intimacy in the Social Media Spaces of the Swedish Dairy Industry.
- Lekebjer, C., Arvidsson, V., Hildebrand, Ä., Lindqvist, A., Linné, T., Novén, M. & Pobiega, J. (2015). Normkritisk pedagogik : samtal om normer och förändringsmöjligheter i högre utbildning.
- Linné, T. & Canavan, J. (2015). Gender and Critical Animal Studies : Potentials and Possible Tensions.
- Linné, T. (2014). Sexy Girls, Caring Mothers : Gendered representations of cows in dairy industry advertising.
- Linné, T. (2012). 'An Olympic Campaign of Physics' The ESS in Local News Media.
- Linné, T. (2012). Happy Milk. The Voices of Animals in the Swedish Dairy Industry’s Communication.
Newspaper articles (3)
- Linné, T. & Ramsay, G. (2016). Djurförsök är inte nödvändiga eller etiskt motiverade. Universitetsläraren. Stockholm : Sveriges universitetslärarförbund (SULF).
- Linné, T., Pedersen, H., Svärd, P.-A., Jande, P.-A. & Paulsson, J. (2015). Byt ut mjölken mot växtmjölk i skolorna. Aftonbladet. Aftonbladet Hierta AB.
- Linné, T. & Pedersen, H. (2014). Problemet är att komjölk inte är avsedd för människor. Sydsvenskan. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
2017- Member of The Vegan Society UK Research Advisory Committee
2016- Member of EACAS (European Association for Critical Animal Studies)
2015- Associate Editor, Politics and Animals
2015 Visiting research fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2014- Associate research fellow of the Centre for Human Animal Studies, Edge Hill University Ormskirk, United Kingdom.
2014- Associate research fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2014-2016 Director for postgraduate education at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University.
2013- Excellent Teaching Practitioner at The Teaching Academy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.
2009-2010 Director of Studies at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University.
2006-2008 International coordinator at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University.

Senior Lecturer, Researcher, Supervisor, Teaching Staff
- Media and Communication Studies
- Department of Communication and Media
Contact information
E-mail tobias.linnekom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 41 64
Room SOL:A131
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Links
- Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media
- Exploring ‘the Animal Turn’: Changing perspectives on human-animal relations in science, society and culture
- Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network
- New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies
- Politics and Animals
- The network for anti-oppressive pedagogy