Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication
Location: Tampere University, City centre campus
Email: firstname.lastname@tuni.fi, unless mentioned otherwise
Mail address: Research Centre COMET, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC), 33014 University of Tampere, FINLAND
Contact: Jasso Lamberg, jasso.lamberg@tuni.fi
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Please contact me for an appointment.
I am a journalism researcher and educator. I have a doctorate (Doctor of Social Sciences) in Journalism and Mass Communication from Tampere University. I am Docent at the University of Helsinki. Here is a short profile video about me.
I am an Associate Professor (tenure track) of journalism studies at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences.
My current project is a five-year (2020-2025) Academy of Finland Research Fellow project called "The Future of Dispersed Journalism: The Power of Start-ups, Metrics Analysis and Event Production" . This project investigates how start-up culture, metrics analysis and event production have become part of journalism in Finland. I also lead a project called "Individual paths of journalists" and it aims to follow the lives and careers of about 40 young journalists for ten years. Another project deals with datafication of journalism and how it shapes the relationship between journalists and audiences. Both projects are funded by Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.
I also act as the associate director of Taru – Research Centre for Communication Sciences.
I also supervise PhD researchers and MA students.
The themes I have been interested in throughout my research career are: (1) the democratic and constructive role of journalism in society, (2), the relationship between journalists and the audience, (3) journalistic work practices, and how to improve them, (4) participation in the media: why and how people use the media so that they sometimes want to take part in producing it, and (5) the changing nature of journalism and its future, and how to theorize it.
Journalism, journalistic work, practice theory, participation, journalism movements (public journalism, conciliatory journalism), audiences, news use, the public sphere.
Taru – Research Centre for Communication Sciences
Communication sciences, media studies, journalism studies.
In 2018-2020 I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advaced Social Research at Tampere University, and before that at Research Centre COMET. There I acted as th e principal investigator in the research project titled "Conciliatory Journalism" (2016-2017). This action research project developed ways how journalism can act as a mediator between conflicting parties in various disputes.
My postdoc research project (2013-2016) analysed how and why the notion of ‘participation’ has become consolidated in European journalism practice. The study concentrated on recognised participatory journalism in Finland, Sweden and Paris/Brussels. My article based on the study was awarded in 2018.
I have also acted as the national coordinator (2012-2017) in Finland for the second wave of Worlds of Journalism Study that assesses the state of journalism throughout the world. A book comparing journalists in 67 countries was released in 2019. I have also worked with the comparative research initiative Journalism Students Across the Globe.
Previously I have worked in research projects dealing with audiences ('Amateur images: A comparative study on how user-generated content is shaping journalism' and 'Towards Engaging Journalism'). My PhD dissertation (2010) analysed forms of public journalism in the Finnish press.
I am currently a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism, and the international editorial borad of Media & Journalismo.
I am also one of the founders of Nordic Forum for Social Responsibility in Journalism, and a board member of Sopiva ry, The Finnish Association for Conciliatory Journalists .
BOOKS
Steen Steensen, Ahva Laura (eds.). (2017). Theories of Journalism in a Digital Age. Abingon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Heikkilä, Heikki; Ahva, Laura, Siljamäki, Jaana & Valtonen, Sanna (2012). Kelluva kiinnostavuus: Journalismin merkitys ihmisten sosiaalisissa verkostoissa. Tampere: Vastapaino. [Co-authored book: Slippery engagement: The relevance of journalism in everyday social networks.]
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Noppari, Elina; Hiltunen, Ilmari & Ahva, Laura. (2019). User profiles for populist counter-media websites in Finland. Journal of Alternative and Community Media 4 (1), 23-37.
Ahva, Laura & Steen Steensen. (2019). Journalism Theory. In The Handbook of Journalism Studies, Second Edition edited by Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin, & Thomas Hanitzsch. New York: Routledge, 38–54.
Hautakangas, Mikko & Ahva, Laura (2018). Introducing a New Form of Socially Responsible Journalism: Experiences from the Conciliatory Journalism Project. Journalism Practice 12: 6, 730–746.
Ahva, Laura; van Dalen, Arjen; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Kolbeins, Guðbjörg Hildur; Löfgren Nilsson, Monica, Morten, Skovsgaard; Väliverronen, Jari (2017). A Welfare State of Mind? Nordic journalists' conception of their role and autonomy in international context. Journalism Studies 18: 5, 595–613.
Ahva, Laura (2017). How is Participation Practiced by “In-betweeners” of Journalism? Journalism Practice 11: 2–3, 142–159.
Ahva, Laura (2017). Practice Theory for Journalism Studies. Journalism Studies 18: 12, 1523-1541.
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Please contact me for an appointment.
I am a journalism researcher and educator. I have a doctorate (Doctor of Social Sciences) in Journalism and Mass Communication from Tampere University. I am Docent at the University of Helsinki. Here is a short profile video about me.
I am an Associate Professor (tenure track) of journalism studies at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences.
My current project is a five-year (2020-2025) Academy of Finland Research Fellow project called "The Future of Dispersed Journalism: The Power of Start-ups, Metrics Analysis and Event Production" . This project investigates how start-up culture, metrics analysis and event production have become part of journalism in Finland. I also lead a project called "Individual paths of journalists" and it aims to follow the lives and careers of about 40 young journalists for ten years. Another project deals with datafication of journalism and how it shapes the relationship between journalists and audiences. Both projects are funded by Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.
I also act as the associate director of Taru – Research Centre for Communication Sciences.
I also supervise PhD researchers and MA students.
The themes I have been interested in throughout my research career are: (1) the democratic and constructive role of journalism in society, (2), the relationship between journalists and the audience, (3) journalistic work practices, and how to improve them, (4) participation in the media: why and how people use the media so that they sometimes want to take part in producing it, and (5) the changing nature of journalism and its future, and how to theorize it.
Journalism, journalistic work, practice theory, participation, journalism movements (public journalism, conciliatory journalism), audiences, news use, the public sphere.
Taru – Research Centre for Communication Sciences
Communication sciences, media studies, journalism studies.
In 2018-2020 I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advaced Social Research at Tampere University, and before that at Research Centre COMET. There I acted as th e principal investigator in the research project titled "Conciliatory Journalism" (2016-2017). This action research project developed ways how journalism can act as a mediator between conflicting parties in various disputes.
My postdoc research project (2013-2016) analysed how and why the notion of ‘participation’ has become consolidated in European journalism practice. The study concentrated on recognised participatory journalism in Finland, Sweden and Paris/Brussels. My article based on the study was awarded in 2018.
I have also acted as the national coordinator (2012-2017) in Finland for the second wave of Worlds of Journalism Study that assesses the state of journalism throughout the world. A book comparing journalists in 67 countries was released in 2019. I have also worked with the comparative research initiative Journalism Students Across the Globe.
Previously I have worked in research projects dealing with audiences ('Amateur images: A comparative study on how user-generated content is shaping journalism' and 'Towards Engaging Journalism'). My PhD dissertation (2010) analysed forms of public journalism in the Finnish press.
I am currently a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism, and the international editorial borad of Media & Journalismo.
I am also one of the founders of Nordic Forum for Social Responsibility in Journalism, and a board member of Sopiva ry, The Finnish Association for Conciliatory Journalists .
BOOKS
Steen Steensen, Ahva Laura (eds.). (2017). Theories of Journalism in a Digital Age. Abingon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Heikkilä, Heikki; Ahva, Laura, Siljamäki, Jaana & Valtonen, Sanna (2012). Kelluva kiinnostavuus: Journalismin merkitys ihmisten sosiaalisissa verkostoissa. Tampere: Vastapaino. [Co-authored book: Slippery engagement: The relevance of journalism in everyday social networks.]
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Noppari, Elina; Hiltunen, Ilmari & Ahva, Laura. (2019). User profiles for populist counter-media websites in Finland. Journal of Alternative and Community Media 4 (1), 23-37.
Ahva, Laura & Steen Steensen. (2019). Journalism Theory. In The Handbook of Journalism Studies, Second Edition edited by Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin, & Thomas Hanitzsch. New York: Routledge, 38–54.
Hautakangas, Mikko & Ahva, Laura (2018). Introducing a New Form of Socially Responsible Journalism: Experiences from the Conciliatory Journalism Project. Journalism Practice 12: 6, 730–746.
Ahva, Laura; van Dalen, Arjen; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Kolbeins, Guðbjörg Hildur; Löfgren Nilsson, Monica, Morten, Skovsgaard; Väliverronen, Jari (2017). A Welfare State of Mind? Nordic journalists' conception of their role and autonomy in international context. Journalism Studies 18: 5, 595–613.
Ahva, Laura (2017). How is Participation Practiced by “In-betweeners” of Journalism? Journalism Practice 11: 2–3, 142–159.
Ahva, Laura (2017). Practice Theory for Journalism Studies. Journalism Studies 18: 12, 1523-1541.
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Asko Lehmuskallio serves as Professor of Visual Studies and is director of the Visual Studies Lab.
Lehmuskallio focuses particularly on the intersection between visual studies and media studies, with a special interest in media anthropology and digital cultures. He is particularly interested in the interrelations between images, bodies and visual technologies, specifically between seeing and knowing.
Lehmuskallio leads the research projects Visions of the City (w. PL Markus Laine (Tampere), Academy of Finland), Image/Knowledge (C.V. Åkerlund Media Foundation) and Trust and Visuality (with PL Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn) and PI's Maria Schreiber (Salzburg) and Gillian Rose (Oxford), EU Chanse). Across all these projects Lehmuskallio's focus is on the interrelations between images and knowledge.
Lehmuskallio studied cultural anthropology at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and image science (Bildwissenschaft) at the Dept. of Art History and Media Theory, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. He received his PhD (YTT) at the School of Communication, Media and Theatre in Tampere, and was awarded in 2016 the Title of Docent in Visual Studies. In addition, he has worked at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, and as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Siegen. After his PhD, Lehmuskallio has held several visiting fellowships abroad, including as Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, US, and at the Sussex Humanities Lab, UK, as Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany and as Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.
Among his publications are the co-edited works Digital Photography and Everyday Life (2016), Mobile Digital Practices (2017), Travelling by Photograph: Representing and reframing migration (2022) and the Finnish-language Entanglements between Bodies and Documents: A History of the Finnish Passport (2020), co-authored with Paula Haara. In addition, he has published in a wide range of journals and edited books, including in Visual Communication, International Journal of Communication, IEEE Pervasive Computing and Journal of Aesthetics and Culture.
Lehmuskallio has also co-curated two well-received exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography, #snapshot (2014-15) and Documenting the body: A history of the Finnish Passport (2020).
ORCID ID 0000-0002-8271-9830, Twitter handle @verlook.
Books and special issues
2022 Travelling by Photograph: Representing and reframing migration, special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 13 (2), guest editors Carolina Cambre and Asko Lehmuskallio.
2020 Ruumiin ja dokumenttien kytkökset: Suomen passin historiaa, Paula Haara & Asko Lehmuskallio, Helsinki: Finnish Museum of Photography. 167 pages. ISBN 978-951-9086-97-2. (Entanglements between bodies and documents: A history of the Finnish passport).
2017 Mobile Digital Practices, special issue of Digital Culture & Society, 3 (2), guest editors Anna Lisa Ramella, Asko Lehmuskallio, Tristan Thielmann and Pablo Abend.
2016 Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on material visual practices. Edgar Gómez Cruz and Asko Lehmuskallio (eds), London/New York: Routledge. 295 pages. ISBN: 978-1-138-89981-0.
2014 #Snapshot. Cameras Amongst Us / #snapshot. Kamerat keskuudessamme. Asko Lehmuskallio and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (eds). Helsinki: Finnish Museum of Photography. 124 pages. ISBN: 9789519086934.
2012 Pictorial Practices in a ‘Cam Era’, Asko Lehmuskallio, Tampere: Tampere University Press. 362 pages. ISBN 978-951-44-8846-7
1999 C. G. Mannerheim in Central Asia 1906–1908. Petteri Koskikallio and Asko Lehmuskallio (eds). Helsinki: National Board of Antiquities.
1999 C. G. Mannerheimin Keski-Aasian matka 1906–1908. Petteri Koskikallio and Asko Lehmuskallio (eds). Helsinki: Museovirasto.
Journal articles and book chapters
2023 The passport as a medium of movement, Asko Lehmuskallio & Paula Haara. In: Eisenmann, Clemens; Englert, Kathrin; Schubert, Cornelius; Voss, Ehler (Eds): Varieties of Cooperation. Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making. Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 137-165.
2022 Representing and reframing migration, Cambre, C and Lehmuskallio, A. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 13 (2), p. 5-22.
2022 Experimental indices: Situational assemblages of facial recognition, Lehmuskallio, A and Meyer, R. The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Special Issue on Automating Visuality: the Image Beyond Representation. https://mast-nemla.org/archive/vol3-no1-2022/Experimental_Indices_Situational_Assemblages_of_Facial_Recognition.pdf
2021 Keeping Distance. Notes on Video-Mediated Communication During the Covid-19 Pandemic. 21: Inquiries into Art, History and the Visual, 3(2021), https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2021.3.83382
2021 Dreams of Ubiquitous Camera Use: Attachment Suggestions in Early Kodak Advertisements, Lehmuskallio A. In: Kruse, Christiane and Mersmann, Birgit. Bildagenten. München: Fink, p. 257-276.
2020 The Camera as a Meeting Place for Decision Making, Lehmuskallio, A. In: Hall, Amy (ed). The Camera as Actor. London/New York: Routledge, p. 17-28.
2019 Material Mediations Complicate Communication Privacy Management: The Case of Wilma in Finnish High Schools, Lehmuskallio A and Lampinen A. International Journal of Communication 13(2019), 5752–5770. (republished 2020 in the Collaborative Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series, 16(2020), 1–15, urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-16248).
2019 Photo use while dating: From forecasted photos in Tinder to creating co-presence using other media, Jänkälä A, Lehmuskallio, A and Takala T. Human Technology, 15 (2), 202-225, https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201906123156
2019 The look as a medium: a conceptual framework and an exercise for teaching visual studies, Lehmuskallio, A. Journal of Visual Literacy, 38 (1-2), 8-21, https://doi.org/10.1080/1051144X.2018.1564607
2018 Photorealistic computer-generated images are difficult to distinguish from digital photographs: A case study with professional photographers and photo-editors, Lehmuskallio A, Häkkinen J and Seppänen J. Visual Communication, Online First, March 4 2018, https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357218759809
2017 Mobile Digital Practices. Situating People, Things, and Data, Ramella, AL, Lehmuskallio, A, Thielmann, T and Abend, P. Digital Culture & Society, 3(2): 5–18, https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2017-0202
2017 Notes on the thin line between the smile and the grimace, Lehmuskallio A. Membrana, 2, 64–67.
2017 Kuva-aktivismin visuaalista antropologiaa, Lehmuskallio A. In: Kupiainen, Jari & Häkkinen, Liisa (eds). Kuvatut kulttuurit. Johdatus visuaaliseen antropologiaan. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. (“A visual anthropology of image activism”, In: Depicted Cultures. An Introduction to Visual Anthropology)
2016 The camera as a sensor among many: The visualization of everyday digital photography as simulative, heuristic and layered pictures, Lehmuskallio A. In: Gómez Cruz, Edgar and Lehmuskallio, Asko (eds). Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on material visual practices. New York/London: Routledge, p. 243–266.
2016 Why Material Visual Practices?, Lehmuskallio A and Gómez Cruz E In: Ibid. (eds). Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on material visual practices. New York/London: Routledge, p. 1–16.
2016 Miten katsoa silmät kiinni?, Seppänen J, Häkkinen J and Lehmuskallio A. 2016. In: Ylikangas, Mikko (ed.). Mielen salat. Helsinki: Helsinki Gaudeamus University Press & Academy of Finland, p. 172–185. (“How to look with one’s eyes closed”, In: Secrets of the mind).
2015 Seeing with special requirements: visual frictions during the everyday, Lehmuskallio, A. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 7 (1), https://doi.org/10.3402/jac.v7.28228
2014 The Clash Between Privacy and Automation in Social Media, Vihavainen S, Lampinen A, Oulasvirta A, Silfverberg S and Lehmuskallio A. IEEE Pervasive Computing, January-March 2014, p. 56-63, https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2013.25
2014 Cameras amongst Us: Why Do People Take Photos? Lehmuskallio A. In: Lehmuskallio, Asko and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (eds.). 2014. #snapshot. Cameras Amongst Us. Helsinki: The Finnish Museum of Photography, p. 7–10.
2014 Photographs That Feel Good! On Digital Photography and Modeling Techniques, Lehmuskallio A. In: Lehmuskallio, Asko and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (eds.). 2014. #snapshot. Cameras Amongst Us. Helsinki: The Finnish Museum of Photography, p. 41–44.
2013 Banning Public Nudity: Images of Bodies as Sites of Contested Moral Values, Lehmuskallio, A. JOMEC Journal. Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies 4(2013): 1-20. http://doi.org/10.18573/j.2013.10255
2013 Näkökulmia valokuviin taiteilijoilta, kuraattoreilta ja tutkijoilta, Kulttuurintutkimus 29(2012): 4.
2011 Immersive settings as specific agent/patient relationships, Lehmuskallio A. In: Menrath, Kiwi and Schwinghammer, Alexander (eds). What Does a Chameleon Look Like? Topographies of Immersion. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, p. 305-322.
2011 Yksityisyyden haasteet sosiaalisessa mediassa, Tamminen S, Lehmuskallio A and Johnson M. In: Silmät auki! Sosiaaliseen mediaan. Toimittanut Terhi Aaltonen-Ogbeide. Helsinki: Parliament of Finland, Committee for the Future. Publication 4/2011. 232-250. (Challenges for Privacy on Social Media/ Parliament of Finland, Committee for the Future)
2011 Katson sinua verkottuneen kameran välityksellä, Lehmuskallio, A. Tiede & edistys, 2 (mediateoria), p. 97-108.
2011 We’re in It Together: Interpersonal Management of Disclosure in Social Network Services, Lampinen A, Lehtinen V, Lehmuskallio A and Tamminen S. CHI ’11 Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems, Vancouver, BC, ACM Press, p. 3217-3226.
2010 Information technologies and transitions in the lives of 55-65 year olds: the case of colliding life interests, Salovaara A, Lehmuskallio A, Hedman L, Löppönen P and Näsänen J. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 68 (11), 803-821.
2010 PRIMA - Privacy Research through the Perspective of a Multidisciplinary Mash up, Bylund M, Johnson M, Lehmuskallio A, Seipel P and Tamminen S. In: Vem reglerar informationssamhället? Nordisk årsbok i rättsinformatik 2006-2008 (Who regulates the information society? The Nordic Yearbook of Law and Informatics 2006-2008). Nordisk årsbok i rättsinformatik (2006). Jure, Stockholm p. 139-160.
2009 Traveling through ‘Damascus’. How do Images tell Us what to do?, Lehmuskallio A. In: Mersmann, Birgit and Schneider, Alexandra (eds). Transmission Image: Visual Translation and Cultural Agency. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 200-223.
2009 Social Media und fotografische Praktiken. Eine Analyse der Auswirkung neuer Kommunikationstechnologien auf Schnappschussgewohnheiten, Lehmuskallio A. In: Müller, Daniel; Ligensa, Annemone and Gendolla, Peter (eds). Leitmedien. Konzepte – Relevanz – Geschichte. Bielefeld: Transcript, p. 267-283.
2009 “A photo is not an extension of me, it’s plain surface.” – Views of users of a Web 2.0 photo-sharing site on photos and privacy, Lehmuskallio A. SPIEL: Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft, Phenomena of Web 2.0 as agents of cultural change, 26 (2007), 2, 271-289.
2009 Mobile media in the social fabric of a kindergarten, Näsänen J, Oulasvirta A, and Lehmuskallio A. CHI ‘09. Proceedings of the 2009 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems. Boston, MA, ACM Press, p. 2167-2176.
2008 Städtische Räume als Bildflächen. Anmerkungen zu visuellen Strategien der Überzeugung und des Widerstandes, Lehmuskallio A. In: Hinterwaldner, Inge; Juwig, Carsten; Klemm, Tanja and Meyer, Roland (eds). Topologien der Bilder. München: Fink, p. 131-146.
2008 Culture jamming: mainonnan kieli ja konfliktin mahdollisuus, Lehmuskallio A. In: Ojajärvi, Jussi and Steinby, Liisa (eds). Minä ja markkinavoimat. Yksilö, kulttuuri ja yhteiskunta uusliberalismin valtakaudella. Helsinki: Avain, p. 259-295.
2008 Culture and Mass-Mediated Pictures: A Processual View, Lehmuskallio A. Kunst und Politik. 10: (Schwerpunkt: Bildwissenschaft und Visual Culture Studies in der Diskussion), p. 73-86.
2008 Snapshot Video. Everyday Photographers Taking Short Video-Clips, Lehmuskallio Asko and Sarvas Risto. NordiCHI ’08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: using bridges. New York: ACM Press, p. 257-265.
2007 Constructing Perceptual Shifts: Notes on Culture Jamming as a Political Tool, Lehmuskallio A. In: Sumiala-Seppänen, Johanna and Stocchetti, Matteo (eds). Images and Communities. The Visual Construction of the Social. Helsinki: Gaudeamus - Helsinki University Press, p. 199-228.
2007 Whose “FEST”: Symbols of Statehood, Rituals of Resistance?, Czyżewska A, Fichtner S, Kreczmar N, Lehmuskallio A and Sokołowski Ł. In: Patzer, Helena; Thiemann, André; Kosmatopoulos, Nico and Kresti, Georgia (eds). Symbols and Rituals of Statehood and Resistance. Warsaw: Warsaw University Printing House, p. 79-88.
2007 Ermächtigender Exhibitionismus und die bildliche Dokumentation des Arbeitsalltags, Lehmuskallio A. In: Reader zur internationalen Forschungskonferenz FAME I HOCH 4 - Interaktivität / Information / Interface / Immersion. Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Universität Frankfurt am Main, p. 77-81.
2007 Visuelle Brüche? Anmerkungen zu kulturellem Widerstand mit werbeähnlichen Methoden, Lehmuskallio A. Kunst und Politik. 9: (Schwerpunkt: Politische Kunst heute), p. 139-158.
2007 Zum Aushorchen der Simulationen, Lehmuskallio A. Munitionsfabrik 17, p. 41-43.
My research explores the ways in which media construct understanding of the world and possibilities of participation: social justice and solidarity are important concepts in my work. I am particularly interested in the ways in which emotions and affect drive solidarity, social movements and participation – and the way emotions are crafted through and with media. This work comes together in my recent book Media Solidarities: Emotions, Power and Justice in the Digital Age (Sage, 2019). My current research focuses on data and inequalities in IDA project (Intimacy in Data Driven Culture). IDA explores explores the ways in which digitalization and datafication affect and shape private, social, occupational, and collective lives and everyday experiences. My other research project HAFFECT (Everyday affective practices online) explores affective production and circuIation of hate speech online.
Imaginations and visions of good data among media professionals and citizens were explored in Fair Data -project, as a part of BIBU (Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation) research funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland. Other past projects focused on issues of racism, emotions and migration in digital media: HYBRA: racism and public communication in the hybrid media system (2016-2019) explored rise of anti-immigrant and racist discourse on social media with politics of irony. Information and emotions in the refugee debate (2016-2018) examined emotional structures and dynamics of the so called refugee crisis in 2015 with computational, qualitative and ethnographic methods. In Structures of Compassion -project I conducted ethnographic research on European refugee politics, geographic imagination and politics of place in the Mediterranean coast, in Southern Italy as well as on affective economy of humanitarian reality shows and journalism of hospitality.
PROJECTS:
IDA: Intimacy in Data Driven Culture
Journalists' experiences of harassment
HYBRA: Racisms and public communications in hybrid media environment (2016-2019)
Authored and edited books
Nikunen, K (2019) Media Solidarities: Emotions, power and justice in the digital age. London: Sage.
Maasilta, M. & Nikunen, K. (2018) (eds.) Pakolaisuus, tunteet ja media. Tampere: Vastapaino.
Nikunen, K. and Eide, E. (2011) (eds) Media in Motion: Cultural complexity and migration in the Nordic Region. London: Routledge.
Paasonen S., Nikunen, K., Saarenmaa, L. (2007) (eds) Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture. Oxford: Berg.
Nikunen, K. (2005) Faniuden aika. Kolme tapausta tv-ohjelmien faniudesta vuosituhannen taitteen Suomessa. Tampere: TUP.
Research articles
Nikunen, K. (2023) Repairing algorithms, rebuilding data paths: material solidarity, the digital infrastructure, and the public. In Parks, Velkova & De Ridder (eds) Media Backends: The Politics of Infrastructure, Clouds, and Artificial Intelligence. University of Illinois Press.
Nikunen, K. & Valtonen, S. (2023) Undocumented and datafied. In K. Leurs & S. Ponzanesi (eds.) Doing Digital Migrant Studies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Nikunen K. (2023) Echo of Experience: a feminist response to racialization of sexual crime in the hybrid media event. International Journal of Communication 17(2023):1348-1364.
Nikunen, K. & Valtonen, S. (2022) Precariousness and hope: Digital everyday life of the undocumented migrants explored through collaborative photography. Media and Communication 10(2)
Laaksonen, S., Hokka, J. & Nikunen, K. (2022) Affective visual rhetoric of the far-right across social media. In Petterson K. & Nortio, E. (eds.)The far-right discourse of multiculturalism in everyday talk: Reproduction and contestation in intergroup interactions. Palgrave McMillan.
Andreassen, R., Kaun, A. & Nikunen, K. (2021) Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication. Nordicom Review 42(2):207-223.
Nikunen, K. (2021) Ghosts of White Methods? Challenges of Big Data Research in Exploring Racism in Digital Context. Big Data & Society Sept 8 2021.
Nikunen, K. & Hokka, J. (2020) Welfare state values and public service media in the era of datafication. Special Issue on Datafication and the Welfare State, edited by Lina Dencik and Anne Kaun. Global Perspectives 1(2).
Nikunen, K., Hokka, J. and Nelimarkka, M. (2021) Affective practice of Soldiering: How sharing images is used to spread extremist and racist ethos on Soldiers of Odin Facebook site. Television and New Media 22(1).
Nikunen, K. (2019) Once a Refugee: Selfie activism, visualized citizenship and the space of appearance. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 17(2): 154-170.
Nikunen, K. (2019) Emotions, Affect and the Media. In Curran J. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) Media & Society. London: Bloomsbury.
Nikunen, K. (2019) Breaking the Silence: From representations of victims and threat towards spaces of voice. In Georgiou, M. Leurs, K., Smets, K. & Witteborn, S. (eds) Sage Handbook of Migration and Media. London: Sage.
Nikunen, K. (2018) From Irony to Solidarity: Affective practice in social media activism. Studies of Transition States and Societies 10(2): 10-21.
Nikunen, K (2016) Doing Good Reality, Masculine Care and Affective Capitalism. Ephemera: theory & politics in organization 16(4):163-184.
Nikunen, K. (2016) Media, Passion and Humanitarian Reality Television European Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (3):265-282.
Nikunen, K. (2015) Politics of Irony as Emerging Sensibility of Anti-Immigrant Debate. In Rikke Andreassen and Katherine Vitus (eds.) Affectivity and Race: Studies from Nordic Contexts. London: Routledge.
Nikunen, K. (2014) Hopes of Hospitality: Media, refugee crisis and the politics of a place. International Journal of Cultural Studies 19(2): 161-176.
Nikunen, K. (2014) Losing My Profession: Age, experience and expertise in the changing newsrooms. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 15(7): 868–888.
Laiho, M. and Nikunen K. (2012) Uhreista parhaat? Lapset Irakin sodan ja Gazan konfliktin uutiskuvissa. Media ja Viestintä 35(4-5):118-136.
Nikunen, K. (2010) Rakastamisen vaikeudesta: Internet, maahanmuutto-keskustelu ja tunteet. Media ja Viestintä 33(4):7–26.
I am currently pursuing my doctoral research in media studies at Tampere University, Finland. My research interests are disinformation, gamification, hate infrastructures, mediatized memories and communal/political violence.
I am also leading the social media research team for the Luce Foundation-funded project – Muslims in India in the time of Hindu Majoritarianism – led by Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot (Science Po, Paris), Prof. Bernard Haykel (Princeton University, US) and Prof. Manan Ahmed (Columbia University, US). I am a former fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University, and SUPRA fellow of Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), University of Copenhagen.
I have been teaching at various Indian universities as guest lecturer (journalism) for several years and I am also a media literacy trainer with the Factshala Initiative in India (supported by Data Leads, Internews and Google News Initiative). I am also a certified media literacy and fact check trainer with the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) headquartered in California, US. So far, I have conducted over 40 media literacy and factcheck trainings in India and Bangladesh. As a fellow of BBC’s Young Reporter India Initiative, I have also provided media literacy training and workshops to school students in India.
As an investigative journalist, I have been covering issues of environmental justice, human rights, disasters, and conflicts in the Indian subcontinent for over 18 years. I have won several prestigious journalism awards including the Kurt Schork Memorial Award for International Journalism 2017, the United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for coverage of Climate Change, 2015, and the best article award for reporting on the fate of victims of armed violence by Press Institute of India and International Committee of Red Cross.
I am a former India editor of the fact check division of Agence France-Presse (AFP), a French private international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. I write extensively on social media hate networks and my comments have appeared in major international media such as the Time Magazine, Financial Times (UK), Reuters, SBS (Australia), Refinery29, and The Diplomat.
Investigative journalism, fact-checking, OSINT, sensory ethnography, netnography
My research interests include social media infrastructure which covers affective social media design, terms of service and content moderation policies and algorithmic determinism. It also includes misinformation, disinformation and fact checking in India.
I am a doctoral researcher currently funded by CV Åkerlund Media Säätio ry for till June 2023 at Tampere University. I am in the Doctoral Programme of Media, Comunication and Performing Arts in the Facultyof Information Technology and Communication.
I see myself as a change maker, an awareness spreader, an educationist trying to inform people about social media platforms and help people to utilise these services to further enrich and democratise the spread of information in the society.
-Strong background in social scieces and clear understanding of societal and hiearchical structures in India
-Experience in teaching students both in middle and High school and university
-Experience in writing, editing and producing podcasts
-Extensive experience in working in multi cultural and diverse team in International setting.
My current research topics include:
- Relation between social media infrastructure and our online behaviour in the consumption of disinformation in social media feeds.
-Role fact checking organisations in Tackling disinformation in India.
-Algorithmic determinism and freedom of expression online
COMET
Google News Initiative- European Journalism Center Fellow 2021 at YLE Kioski
NIAS Supra Scholar 2021
Matti Kortesoja has a Doctor in Social Sciences (Sociology) degree. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland-funded research project Banal Surveillance: Unravelling the Causes of and Remedies for the Privacy Paradox (BANSUR) at the Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET), Tampere University. Matti Kortesoja’s research interests cover social and cultural theory, politics and media. He teaches communication research and analysis and conducts research about society and surveillance.
Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET), Tampere University
Kortesoja, Matti (2023). Power of Articulation: Imagery of Social Structure and Social Change. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33077-3>.
Kortesoja, Matti (2023). Banalisation of Communications Surveillance in the Debate on Finnish Intelligence Legislation. European Journal of Communication. 38(4): 329–344. <https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231221131662 >.
Kortesoja, Matti (2022). Tapaus Vastaamo: Symptomaattinen luenta potilastietosuojan murtumisen yhteiskunnallisista syistä ja seurauksista ["The Vastaamo Case: A Symptomatic Reading of the Social Causes and Consequences of the Data Breach"]. Tutkimus & Kritiikki, 2(1): 9–32. <https://doi.org/10.55294/tk.113346>.
Kortesoja, Matti (2021). Marxismi versus ekonomismi. Johdatus luokkataisteluun teorian alueella ["Marxism versus Economism: Introduction to Class Struggle in Theory"]. Tutkimus & Kritiikki, 1(1), 43–66. <https://doi.org/10.55294/tk.95213 >.
Adkins, Lisa; Kortesoja, Matti; Mannevuo, Mona & Ylöstalo, Hanna (2019). Experimenting with Price: Crafting the New Social Contract in Finland. Critical Sociology 45(4–5): 683–696. <https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920517740614>.
Kortesoja, Matti; Kunelius, Risto & Heikkilä, Heikki (2019). Lyhyt matka epäisänmaallisuuteen: Valtion ja median suhteet HS:n tietovuotoa koskevassa keskustelussa [A Short Step away from Patriotism: Debate over the Revelations on Military Intelligence in Helsingin Sanomat]. Media & Viestintä 42(2): 76–98. <https://doi.org/10.23983/mv.83372>.
Kortesoja, Matti (2015). Articulations of Well-being in Images of Beauty and Health. In Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup (eds.) Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC), Volume 5: Structures of Feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: 235–242. <https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365481 >.
Kortesoja, Matti (2022). Banaali valvonta: tiedustelulainsäädäntö arkipäiväisti sotilas- ja siviilitiedustelun Suomessa. [“Banal surveillance: Intelligence legislation normalised military and civil intelligence in Finland]. Politiikasta. <https://politiikasta.fi/banaali-valvonta-tiedustelulainsaadanto-arkipaivaisti-sotilas-ja-siviilitiedustelun-suomessa/>. (5.12.2022).
Kortesoja, Matti (2020). Koronavilkku banaalin valvonnan välineenä ["COVID tracker as a tool for banal surveillance"]. Alusta! Tampere University: <https://www.tuni.fi/alustalehti/2020/09/03/koronavilkku-banaalin-valvonnan-valineena/ >. (3.9.2020).
Research topics include media business and media policy studies, changing media structures and journalism, with international and comparative orientation. Research on media in e.g. Finland and Russia.
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I am a senior lecturer of public law at Tampere University.
In the past, I have worked as a senior lecturer of public law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki, as a special expert at the Ministry of Justice and in expert positions at the Ministry of Education and Culture. In addition to this, I have worked as a university researcher in several different projects. I am principal investigator of a sub-project of the Strategic Research Council's (STN) Deca research project (link below).
I have degree doctor of laws (LL.D.) and I have the title of docent (or Associate professor) in media law at the University of Helsinki.
At the University of Tampere, I have worked as a fixed-term university lecturer in the years 2015-2020 and as a permanent university lecturer from autumn 2022.
In addition to the academy, I have held various expert positions in legislative work, committees of the Finnish Parliament and in media.
Research, teaching and social interaction in the field of public law.
I am currently teaching a graduate seminar starting in the fall of 2023 and I am in charge of advanced studies in administrative law. I also acted as a supervisor for the doctoral students.
My research profile is focused in media law and constitutional law. I have taught legal theory, copyright law, constitutional law and administrative law. I have cooperated a lot with, for example, researchers from communication studies, but also with literature researchers. My way of doing research is often interdisciplinary and I have been involved in several interdisciplinary research projects. My research topics have also been related to legal theory, legal history, tax law and legal geography.
At the moment, I am particularly interested in questions related to internet platforms from the perspectives of public sphere, regulation and the rule of law.
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I am a doctoral researcher in journalism. In my dissertation, I study the datafication of journalism. I am interested in how journalists and audience members experience the role of audience data in journalism. Currently, I am working on a research project Journalism Shaped by Data in which I study how the readers encounter, make sense of, and experience the impact of audience data in their news consumption.
Audience research, qualitative methods, journalism research.
Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET)
Prior Ph.D., I was a researcher in a project Printed or digital? The significance of user interface for reading habits and choices. In the project, we researched how people read the newspaper in print and digitally.
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Publications after 2018:
Total: 6 publications
Article in the Journal
Pasti, S.; Logunova, O. Davydov, S. (2022) Journalistic Role Performance in the Russian Press: A Post-Soviet Model for the Third Decade, 2012-2022. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 30(2), 211-237.
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https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/publications/f5b145eb-25e5-4eaf-8a42-660332adfe28
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Chapters in the books
Ramaprasad, J.& Pasti, S. 2021. BRICS journalism as a new territory for localizing journalism studies. In D.K. Thussu and K. Nordenstreng (eds.) BRICS Framing a New Global Communication Order? (pp.241-261). London: Routledge.
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https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/publications/8567c39f-809c-4d0b-9d6d-f8b7e961ac9e
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Mellado, C.; Márquez-Ramírez, M.; Humanes, M L; Amado, A.; Mothes, C.; Silke, H.; Stepinska, A.; Szabo, G., Davydov, S.; Mick, J.; Olivera, D.; Panagiotou, N.; Pasti, S.; Raemy, P.; Roses, S.; Schielicke, A-M.; Tandoc, E. 2021. Mapping Professional Roles in News Content Across 18 Countries: A Descriptive Overview. In C. Mellado (ed.) Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. (pp.67-84). NY: Routledge.
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Tandoc, E., Raemy, P., Pasti, S. & Panagiotou, N. 2021. Journalistic Role Performance: A News-story-level Approach. In C. Mellado (ed.) Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. (pp.167-185). NY: Routledge.
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Stepinska, A., Szabo, G., Pasti, S. and Panagiotou, N. 2021. Journalistic Role Performance. A Societal-Level Approach. in C. Mellado (Ed.) 2021, Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. (pp.205-224).NY: Routledge.
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Mellado, C.; Márquez-Ramírez, M.; Humanes, M L; Mothes, C.; Amado, A., Davydov, S.; Mick, J.; Olivera, D.; Panagiotou, N.; Pasti, S.; Raemy, P.; Roses, S.; Schielicke, A-M.; Silke, H.; Stepinska, A.; Szabo, G., Tandoc, E. 2021. Beyond Journalistic Norms: Empirical Lessons on Role Performance in the News. In C. Mellado (ed.) Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. (pp.225-244). NY: Routledge.
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I am a journalism researcher and am particularly interested in journalistic practices. I received a doctorate (Doctor of Social Sciences) in journalism from Tampere University in 2021. My current research career started at the beginning of 2023; earlier, I worked as a journalist for over two decades.
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. Currently, I am working on a research project Journalism Shaped by Data, in which I am doing an ethnotraphic study considering how audience metrics are featured in the everyday newsroom practices at a Nordic tabloid Iltalehti, and how this affects the ways in which audiences are imagined and served with news. In a forthcoming research project in 2024, I will concentrate on the feedback sent by audience members to Finnish newsrooms, and the effects of it on journalistic work.
I am especially interested in journalistic work and its practices, the relations between journalists and audiences, and journalistic professionalism. I have experience in newsroom ethnography, which I have used as a method in both my dissertation and the current research project.
Tutkimuskeskus Comet, https://research.tuni.fi/comet/
In March 2023, I was appointed secretary of The Finnish Association for Media and Communication Studies (Mevi ry). The association keeps in contact with Finnish and international researchers, organizations, and research institutes, publishes the journal Media & viestintä, and organizes conferences, among other things.
Penttilä, P. (2021). Toisto journalismin kentällä. Etnografiseen aineistoon perustuva mallinnus journalismiprofession kentän sisäisestä dynamiikasta. [Repetition on the Field of Journalism. Model of Inner Dynamics of the Field based on Ethnographic Material. Doctoral thesis.] Tampere: Tamperen yliopisto. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1940-3
Penttilä, P. (2021). ”Ufosta” hahmottuu toimittajan valta journalismiin. [From the "UFO," You Can Oversee Journalists' Power over Journalism. Lectio praecursoria.] Media & Viestintä, 44(4), 71–77. https://doi.org/10.23983/mv.112869
Coordinator and responsible researcher, research project "NOW! From anxiety to environmental-political agency", Faculty of Social Sciences (50%)
Media studies, youth studies, visual studies.
Postdoctoral researcher
Pienimäki, Mari & Kotilainen, Sirkku (2020) “Media Education for the Inclusion of Vulnerable Youth”. In: Hoechsmann, Michael; Carr, Paul R. & Thésée, Gina (eds.) Education for Democracy 2.0: Global Voices for Critical Media Literacy. Boston & Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. In print.
Koponen, Minna & Pienimäki, Mari (2020) "Toward the Transcultural Media Competencies of Migrant Young People". In: UNESCO, MILID Yearbook 2017–2018. In print.
Pienimäki, Mari (2019) “Improving the Wellbeing of At-Risk Youth through Media Participation”. Media Practice and Education, 20:4, 364–377. Available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25741136.2018.1541371?journalCode=rjmp21
Kotilainen, Sirkku & Pienimäki, Mari (2019) ”Participation through Public Media: Improving Media Literacy among Vulnerable Youth”. In: Ranieri, Maria; Thevenin, Benjamin & Cappello, Gianna (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy: 2 Volume Set. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1–6.
Pienimäki, Mari (2018) “Facilitating Creative Media Production through the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: A Case Study with Vulnerable Young People”. The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 13:3, 9–20. Available: https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/facilitating-creative-media-production-through-the-pedagogy-of-multiliteracies?category_id=cgrn
Pienimäki, Mari & Kotilainen, Sirkku (2018) ”Youth participation in research on multiliteracies: Ethical perspectives”. Media Education Research, 8:1, 115–132. Available: https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103073
Pienimäki, Mari; Tuominen Jaakko & Kuusisto, Anna-Kaisa (eds.) (2018) #TRUST Kulttuurisia kohtaamisia kasvotusten ja mediassa [#TRUST Cultural encounters face to face and in media]. Learning material for youth. Tampere: TRUST research project (Academy of Finland) and University of Tampere. Available: http://www.transculturaltrust.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/opetusmateriaali.pdf
Pienimäki, Mari (2013) Valokuvien kriittinen tulkitseminen medialukutaitona ja lajityypittely sen kehittäjänä [The critical interpretation of photographs as media literacy and genre typologisation as a tool for its development].In series: Kuvista sanoin 12. Helsinki: Finnish Museum of Photography. (Dissertation, University of Jyväskylä.)
Pienimäki, Mari (2013) ”Valokuvien kriittinen tulkitseminen mediakasvatuksessa”. Kasvatus, 44:1, 44–57.
Pienimäki, Mari (2012) “Tukea journalististen valokuvien tulkintaan. Ehdotus medialukutaitoa edistävästä genremallista” [Support in the interpretation of journalistic photographs. A proposal as a genre design for the enhancement of media literacy]. Media & Viestintä 35: 3–4, 98–117. Available: https://journal.fi/mediaviestinta/article/view/62884
I work as senior research fellow at Tampere University Research Centre for Communication Sciences, Taru (previously research centre COMET). My research concerns challenges of public discourse and journalism in the digital media environment. I am especially interested in questions of freedom of expression, hate speech and online harassment, plurality and dialogue, and human rights/prevention of violence in public discourse.
Research projects
I currently work in several research projects.
I am also affiliated with the following projects:
Previously in 2018-21 I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Jyväskylä (JYU). In 2006-2014 and 2016-2018, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher and doctoral researcher at COMET, University of Tampere (UTA). In 2014-2016, I worked as a research fellow and expert at the Freedom of Expression Section at UNESCO, Paris.
My previous projects:
I am a board member and (vice-)president of the board of The Finnish Foundation for Media and Development, Vikes since 2017.
Please see for recent publications and research activities:
https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/reeta-p%C3%B6yht%C3%A4ri
Reaches interests: health communication, journalism studies, gender studies
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I have held different journalism-related research and teaching positions at Tampere University since 2007.
Currently, I work as a project researcher (50 %) in the project Journalistic Audience Work in the Digital Environment, which is run by our research centre COMET (NB! Link in Finnish only). The collaborative project between researchers, journalists, and journalism students aims to find out what audience work means for journalists, what forms it takes, and how it could be developed in the digital media environment. Concurrently, I am working on my doctoral dissertation that focuses on recent changes in Finnish political journalism.
In my earlier projects, I have investigated, for instance, journalists' professional values and working conditions in the Worlds of Journalism Study, and the media representations of the two school shootings in Finland in 2007-08. Before my academic career, I worked for about three years as a journalist during and after my studies.
In the academic year 2023–24 I will be involved with seven basic and subject study level courses in Journalism (all in Finnish): Journalismi ammattina (Periods 1 & 2), Journalismi ja julkisuus (Period 2), Politiikan journalismi (Period 2, online), Ajankohtaisjournalismi (Periods 3 & 4), Johdatus journalismin tutkimukseen (Period 3), Journalismi tänään (Period 3, online) and Viestinnän etiikka (Period 4, online).
In lifelong education, I work as convenor for the course Journalistic Audience Work in the Digital Environment (NB! Link in Finnish only). This three-year co-operative project between professional journalists, journalism students and journalism researchers focuses on how journalists understand and work with their audiences, and how journalists could improve their audience connection in the digital environment. The project continues until the end of 2023.
In international co-operation, I am part of the University's team working on a Finnish-language version of an EU-wide MOOC that focuses on EU cohesion policy. The aim of the course is to develop journalism students' understanding of EU cohesion policy and improve journalistic reporting on the topic. The project is led by TU Dortmund University.
In addition, I am webmaster and member of the steering group of TaRC (the Tampere Research Centre for Russian and Chinese Media), as well as one the representatives of the ITC faculty in the Digital Mentors network (NB! Link in Finnish only).
Political journalism, journalism change, journalism ethics and accountability, crisis/disaster journalism
Political journalism, journalism change, journalistic practices and professional values
COMET
Media and communication studies
Honorary prize in Tampere University Press's Book of the Year 2010 competition for the volume Journalism and School Shootings in Finland 2007–2008 (co-authored with Pentti Raittila & Kari Koljonen)
Teacher of the Year 2008, chosen by Tampere University journalism students' association Vostok
In my studies, I aim to locate the place of journalism and its changes as a part of society.
Board member, Finnish Association for Media and Communication Studies, 2022-
Board member and publicist, Tampere University Association of Researchers and Teachers, 2012-15
Väliverronen, Jari. (2022). Boundaries in Motion? Finnish Political Journalists’ External and Internal Boundary Work in a Time of Change. Journalism Studies (e-pub ahead of print).
Väliverronen, Jari. (2022). Political Journalism Content in a New Era: The Case of Finnish Newspapers, 1995–2015. European Journal of Communication (e-pub ahead of print).
Ramaprasad, Jyotika; Hanitzsch, Thomas; Lauk, Epp; Harro-Loit, Halliki; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Väliverronen, Jari & Craft, Stephanie. (2019). Ethical Considerations: Journalists' Perceptions of Professional Practice. Teoksessa Hanitzsch, Thomas et al. (toim.) Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures around the Globe. New York: Columbia University Press, 199–232.
Heikkilä, Heikki & Väliverronen, Jari. (2019). Media Accountability in the Era of Fake News: Journalistic Boundary Work and Its Problems in Finland. Teoksessa Eberwein, Tobias; Fengler, Susanne & Karmasin, Matthias (toim.) Media Accountability in the Era of Post-Truth Politics: European Challenges and Perspectives. Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education 15. London: Routledge, 55–68.
Väliverronen, Jari & Heikkilä, Heikki. (2018). Finland: The Empire Renewing Itself. Teoksessa Eberwein, Tobias, Fengler, Susanne & Karmasin, Matthias (toim.) The European Handbook of Media Accountability. London: Routledge, 73–79.
Ahva, Laura; van Dalen, Arjen; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Kolbeins, Guðbjörg Hildur; Löfgren Nilsson, Monica; Skovsgaard, Morten & Väliverronen, Jari. (2017). A Welfare State of Mind? Nordic Journalists' Conception of Their Role and Autonomy in International Context. Journalism Studies 18(5): 595–613.
Fengler, Susanne; Eberwein, Tobias; Alsius, Salvador; Baisnée, Olivier; Bichler, Klaus; Dobek-Ostrowska, Boguslawa; Evers, Huub; Glowacki, Michal; Groenhart, Harmen; Harro-Loit, Halliki; Heikkilä, Heikki; Jempson, Mike; Karmasin, Matthias; Lauk, Epp; Lönnendonker, Julia; Mauri, Marcel; Mazzoleni, Gianpietro; Pies, Judith; Porlezza, Colin; Powell, Wayne; Radu, Raluca; Rodriguez, Ruth; Russ-Mohl, Stephan; Schneider-Mombaur, Laura; Splendore, Sergio; Väliverronen, Jari & Zambrano, Sandra Vera. (2015). How Effective Is Media Self-Regulation? Results from a Comparative Survey of European Journalists. European Journal of Communication 30(3), 249–266.
Jaakkola, Maarit; Hellman, Heikki; Koljonen, Kari & Väliverronen, Jari. (2015). Liquid Modern Journalism with a Difference: The Changing Professional Ethos of Cultural Journalism. Journalism Practice 9(6), 811–828.
Lauk, Epp; Harro-Loit, Halliki & Väliverronen, Jari. (2014). Media Accountability through the Eyes of Journalists: Feedback, Responsiveness, Interaction. Teoksessa Fengler, Susanne et al (toim.) Journalists and Media Accountability: An International Study of News People in the Digital Age. New York: Peter Lang, 83–98.
Väliverronen, Jari; Koljonen, Kari & Raittila, Pentti. (2012). Vital Explanations or Harmful Gossip? Finnish Journalists’ Reflections on Reporting the Interpretations of Two School Shootings. Teoksessa Muschert, Glenn W. & Sumiala, Johanna (toim.) School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age. Bingley: Emerald, 161–180.
You can find all my publications in the TUNICRIS portal.
I'm doing doctoral research on pluralism and diversity in journalism. The topic of my dissertation is Diveristy in Journalism - an Ideal, an Attribute, an Opportunity. I'm also working part time in the Sustainable journalism project 2023-2025. Occupation: Master of Arts, University of Jyväskylä, 2014; Bachelor of Social Sciences, Tampere University, 2009. Career as a journalist.
Doctoral researcher
News Diversity, Media Pluralism, Diversity Metrics, Conciliatory Journalism, Socially responsible journalism, Sustainable journalism
What does the often-used description ‘diverse journalism’ mean? How do Finnish media and journalists understand the concept? Can diversity in journalism be measured and how does such measurement help to improve journalism?
This research plan includes a set of research activities starting from 1) a theoretical and practical framework for the concept of diversity in journalism, 2) a project that aims to develop a data analytics tool utilizing natural language processing methods and 3) ending up testing the News Source Diversity Meter in different newsrooms and exploring the challenges and opportunities of diverse journalism together with journalists.
Developed in a practical environment, the News Source Diversity Meter is a unique measurement and analysis service that answers questions about diversity that media companies have identified themselves but also guides journalists towards new questions and broader considerations of the quality of journalism.
This dissertation research is linked to both journalism and computer science, which are the strong expertise areas of the Faculty of Information Technology and Communications Sciences at Tampere University. The results of the dissertation, which consists of separate projects, benefit not only both fields of research, but also the media field, which is increasingly challenged by pluralism and polarization of the society and various issues of diversity.
Tampere University Research Centre for Communications Sciences TARU
Journalism
Sopiva - a Finnish Association for Conciliatory Journalists