A Good Concept Should Be both Very Concrete and Very Abstract.”

Abstract

You are Professor of Comparative Literature at the Linnaeus University in Sweden with an impressive research output, comprising several books, edited books, articles and book chapters written both in English and Swedish, some also translated into Portuguese and several other languages (listed in detail on the webpage of the university: https://lnu.se/en/staff/lars.ellestrom/). Besides several important articles, at least two of your books can be considered as real milestones regarding the theory of intermediality published in English: the edited collection of essays, resulting from an international conference that you organized in Växjö, 1 This interview was made within the framework of the Exploratory Research Project, Rethinking Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema: Changing Forms of In-Betweenness, PN-III-ID-PCE-2016-0418, funded by a grant of the UEFISCDI (Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation), Romania.

Immediacy as news experience: exploring its multiple dimensions in print and online contexts

“…Support for the use of real newspapers can be found in medium-centered studies (e.g. Opgenhaffen and d'Haenens, 2015; Pethő, 2018), which compared news consumption of different media formats. In this study experiment, there were no directions given on news selection.…”