Fredrik Norén

Fredrik Mohammadi Norén is senior research assistant at Humlab – the digital humanities center at Umeå University – focusing on computational text analysis, media history, and strategic communication. In 2019, he received a PhD in media and communication at Umeå University on a thesis about the formation of governmental information in Sweden 1965–1975. Besides Modern Times 1936, Mohammadi Norén is involved in four major research projects geared towards digital humanities: Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of linked open data (PI, Riksbankens jubileumsfond, 2023–2026), Welfare State Analytics (Swedish Research Council, 2019–2025, westac.se/en), and International Ideas at UNESCO (Swedish Research Council, 2020–2023, inidun.github.io). He has published in journals such as Media History, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Scandinavian Journal of History.