Health Discipline in the Media of the Society of Control
Discusses the hegemonic health discipline and its socio-cultural conditions in today’s popular media.
Conciliatory Journalism
An action research project on covering and mediating conflict-sensitive issues.
Views of Violence in a Changing Media Landscape (ViVi) (2017–2018)
The project explores from what sources people derive their notions about the quantity, trend and patterns of violence, and how the reception of mediated information is transformed into the contemporary experience of violence and risk.
Supportive Communication in Al-Anon Self-help Groups
Examines the types and effects of supportive communication in the context of selfhelp groups for friends and family of alcoholics.
Health Communication in Social Media
The objective of the study is to find out how the social media is used by the people seeking and producing information.
School Massacres in Journalism – a comparison of the media treatment of the events in Jokela and in Kauhajoki
The aim of this study is to compare the treatment of two school shootings in the Finnish media. The spring 2008 Jokela Project provides a starting point for the study.