Samuel Merrill, Docent in Sociology has won a research grant of 5.3MSEK from the Swedish Research Council, for the project The radicalization of Sweden’s Image: A study of how radical right groups in other countries depict Sweden online. The project will study how Sweden is depicted visually and textually on radical right webpages, blogs, social media accounts and online forums, and analyze how these depictions are reproduced in news media. The cases studied in the project are USA, Germany, India and China. Ralph Schroeder, Professor in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute will be a collaborator on the project.