Ekaterina Kalinina Associate Professor

I teach courses in Media and Communication Studies at both bachelor's and master's levels.

At the bachelor's level, I teach courses like Media in Time and Space, which examines the historical development of media and their political, economic, and regulatory conditions; Strategic Communication, focusing on propaganda, public relations, political communication, and organisational communication; and Media, Culture and Society, which introduces key theoretical perspectives on the relationship between media, culture, power, identity, and social change.

At the master's level, I teach course Global Media Studies, which explores the relationship between media and globalisation, with particular attention to transnational media flows, digital communication, political and cultural identities, and the transformation of public spheres.

Across these courses, my teaching emphasises critical engagement with media theories and includes practical tasks which help students to prepare for the job market.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. My research examines the intersections of media, memory, and political transformation in contemporary Russia, with a specific focus on post-Soviet nostalgia, digital cultures, and the evolution of civic engagement.

In my work I analysed construction of Soviet memory in television documentaries and digital platforms such as Instagram. I am also interested in modern cultural spaces and their role in shaping interactive urban environments. My recent research evolves around understanding of practices of resilience and adaptation of civil society actors, focusing on the ways Russian civic initiatives navigate growing digital repression and authoritarian pressure.

Kalinina, E. (2014). Mediated post-Soviet nostalgia. Södertörn University.

Kalinina, E. (2014). Multiple faces of the Nostalgia Channel in Russia. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(5), 108–118.

Voronova, L., & Kalinina, E. (2015). Introduction: Gender and post-Soviet discourses. Baltic Worlds, 8(1–2), 36–37.

Kalinina, E. (2016). The flow of nostalgia: Experiencing television from the past. International Journal of Communication, 10, 5324–5341.

Kalinina, E. (2016). What do we talk about when we talk about media and nostalgia? medien & zeit, 31(4), 6–15.

Kalinina, E., & Menke, M. (2016). Negotiating the past in hyperconnected memory cultures: Post-Soviet nostalgia and national identity in Russian online communities. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 12(1), 59–74. 

Gurova, O., Kalinina, E., Labov, J., & Strukov, V. (2017). Patriotic (Non) Consumption: Food, Fashion and Media. An Introduction. Digital Icons Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, 16, 1-7. http://www.digitalicons.org/issue16/introduction/

Kalinina, E. (2017). Beyond nostalgia for the Soviet past: Interpreting documentaries on Russian television. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(3), 285–306.

Kalinina, E. (2017). Becoming patriots in Russia: Biopolitics, fashion, and nostalgia. Nationalities Papers, 45(1), 8–24.

Seits, I., & Kalinina, E. (2017). Introduction: Influences of the Russian Revolution in art and aesthetics. Baltic Worlds, 10(3), 33–34.

Kalinina, E. (2017). Breakin' Revolution. Baltic Worlds, 10(3), 72–73.

Menke, M., & Kalinina, E. (2019). Reclaiming identity: GDR lifeworld memories in digital public spheres. In N. Maurantonio & D. W. Park (Eds.), Communicating Memory & History (pp. 243–260). Peter Lang. 

Kalinina, E. (2020). Making ruins great again: Documentation and participation on Instagram. S. Davydov (Ed.), Internet in Russia: A Study of the Runet and Its Impact on Social Life (pp. 281–294). Springer.

Kalinina, E. (2020). Affordances of digital archives: The case of the Prozhito archive of personal diaries. In D. Gritsenko, M. Wijermars, & M. Kopotev (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies (pp. 371–387). Palgrave Macmillan.

Kalinina, E. (2020). Difficult choices: Application of feminist ethics of care in action research. In S. Jeppesen & P. Sartoretto (Eds.), Media activist research ethics: Global approaches to negotiating power in social justice research (pp. 193–218). Palgrave Macmillan.

Kalinina, E. (2021). The Janus of Russian modernization: Discussions at the 3rd Cultural Forum of the regions of Russia. Baltic Worlds, 14(1–2), 57–68.

Kalinina, E. (2023). Let the right one in: Building relationship of trust. Baltic Worlds, (3), 78–82. 

Ingvarsson, S. & Kalinina, E. (2024). Is civil society still alive in Russia? (SCEEUS Report No. 12). Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies.

Kalinina, E., et al. (2024). Moral dilemmas: Russian researchers between Scylla and Charybdis. Baltic Worlds, 2024(3), 31–44.

Kalinina, E. (2026). Transformation of civic engagement in Russia after 2022. Baltic Worlds, 19(2), 8-21.

Kalinina, E., & Ingvarsson, S. (2026). Still holding on amidst growing digital repression? Conditions for civic engagement in Russia (SCEEUS Report No. 4). Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies.

Kalinina, E. (2026). From people's house to cultural cluster: GES-2 and the mythology of the third place in contemporary Russia. In M. Engström & A. Semenenko (Eds.), Soviet myth in post-Soviet Russia (pp. 144–162). Routledge.

Kalinina, E., & Sartoretto, P. (2026). Communicative solidarity: Networked resistance to neoliberalism and authoritarianism in urban spaces. Urban Planning, 11. Urban Futures in Times of Disruption.