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Annette Hill is a Professor of Media and Communication at Lund University and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. Her research focuses on audiences and popular culture, with interests in media engagement, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures of viewing. She is the author of eight books, and many articles and book chapters which address varieties of engagement with reality television, news and documentary, television drama, entertainment formats, live events and sports entertainment, film violence and media ethics.

Maren Hartmann is professor for communication and media sociology at the University of the Arts in Berlin and a member of the Academia Europaea. Her research focuses on media appropriation in everyday life, but also on cyberculture, the urban, mobile media and mobilities. She recently finished a research project on time and (mobile) media and is now conducting one on homelessness and media use (DFG, 2019-2022). Her most recent book is the edited collection on Mediated Time (2019, Palgrave).

Magnus Andersson is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. His research is within the field of media and cultural studies with a particular interest in questions related to mediation, media practices and spatial practices in the context of everyday life. He has conducted research projects on transnational migration, digitalization of work life and within rural media studies.