This book consists of the intellectual work of the 2017 European Media and Communication Doctoral... more This book consists of the intellectual work of the 2017 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into three sections: “Intertwining public spheres”, “Trajectories of participation”, “From traditional media to networks”.
Contributors are: Aida Martori Muntsant, Alvaro Oleart, Annamaria Pulga, Bart Cammaerts, Binakuromo Ogbebor, Erika Theissen Walukiewicz, Fausto Colombo, François Heinderyckx, Hannu Nieminen, Ignacio Bergillos, Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, Laura Peja, Leif Kramp, Lorleen Farrugia, Maria Francesca Murru, Michael Skey, Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Reinhard Anton Handler, Simone Tosoni, Simone Tosoni, Valentina Turrini, Victor Navarro-Remesal and Zsofia Nagy. The book additionally contains abstracts of 42 doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2017 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School. This, and other Summer School books are also available to download at http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/
The topic “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is dedicated to the fundamental question... more The topic “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How is media change related to the everyday agency and sense making practices of the people in Europe? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2013 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into four sections: “Dynamics of Mediatization”, “Transformations”, “Methods”, and “The Social”.
Media and Communication Studies Interventions and Intersections : The Intellectual work of the 20... more Media and Communication Studies Interventions and Intersections : The Intellectual work of the 2010 ECREA European media and communication doctoral summer school
Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies
The rise of the internet and the subsequent global reach of digital platforms has provided entire... more The rise of the internet and the subsequent global reach of digital platforms has provided entirely new participatory opportunities for citizens and created new types of content and services in both national and global media landscapes. At the same time, we have witnessed serious new challenges to individuals, organizations, and society, including political polarization, rampant and viral mis- and disinformation, diminishing trust in knowledge institutions, and the like. In this article, we introduce a citizen-centric model of four communication rights as a normative-evaluative framework for assessing the impact of this so-called platformization as it pertains to small nations, with the case of Finland as an empirical illustration.
Ever since the launch of the World Press Freedom Index almost 20 years ago, Finland has always be... more Ever since the launch of the World Press Freedom Index almost 20 years ago, Finland has always been among the top fi ve countries of that index. According to the annual Reuters Digital News reports, Finnish people also have the highest level of trust in the news media and one of the highest levels of press readership in the EU. Most of the media companies are doing quite well, while Google and Facebook have a much less dominant role in the advertising market than elsewhere in Europe. In this context, you might expect Finland to have a comprehensive and visionary media and communications policy to support democracy. However, our meta-study of Finnish media and communications policy based on two recent reports
This article addresses the gap between media reform movements and support for public service medi... more This article addresses the gap between media reform movements and support for public service media (PSM). It argues that the “critical juncture” created by the challenges of digitalization has shifted the focus from diversity to communication rights as a central aim for media reform. It posits that rights-based approach would position PSM in the framework of different media reform movements, and hence foster new alliances by connecting it to media freedom and digital rights discourses. In addition, it suggests that media reform movements would benefit from supporting PSM as a tool for achieving democratic communication rights.El siguiente artículo aborda la distancia existente entre los movimientos que defienden la reforma de los medios y el propio apoyo a los medios públicos. En él, se defiende que el “momento crítico” que se ha generado a partir del reto de la digitalizacion ha acabado por desplazar el foco del tema de la diversidad a la concepción de la comunicación como derecho ...
This book consists of the intellectual work of the 2017 European Media and Communication Doctoral... more This book consists of the intellectual work of the 2017 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into three sections: “Intertwining public spheres”, “Trajectories of participation”, “From traditional media to networks”.
Contributors are: Aida Martori Muntsant, Alvaro Oleart, Annamaria Pulga, Bart Cammaerts, Binakuromo Ogbebor, Erika Theissen Walukiewicz, Fausto Colombo, François Heinderyckx, Hannu Nieminen, Ignacio Bergillos, Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, Laura Peja, Leif Kramp, Lorleen Farrugia, Maria Francesca Murru, Michael Skey, Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Reinhard Anton Handler, Simone Tosoni, Simone Tosoni, Valentina Turrini, Victor Navarro-Remesal and Zsofia Nagy. The book additionally contains abstracts of 42 doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2017 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School. This, and other Summer School books are also available to download at http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/
The topic “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is dedicated to the fundamental question... more The topic “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How is media change related to the everyday agency and sense making practices of the people in Europe? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2013 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into four sections: “Dynamics of Mediatization”, “Transformations”, “Methods”, and “The Social”.
Media and Communication Studies Interventions and Intersections : The Intellectual work of the 20... more Media and Communication Studies Interventions and Intersections : The Intellectual work of the 2010 ECREA European media and communication doctoral summer school
Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies
The rise of the internet and the subsequent global reach of digital platforms has provided entire... more The rise of the internet and the subsequent global reach of digital platforms has provided entirely new participatory opportunities for citizens and created new types of content and services in both national and global media landscapes. At the same time, we have witnessed serious new challenges to individuals, organizations, and society, including political polarization, rampant and viral mis- and disinformation, diminishing trust in knowledge institutions, and the like. In this article, we introduce a citizen-centric model of four communication rights as a normative-evaluative framework for assessing the impact of this so-called platformization as it pertains to small nations, with the case of Finland as an empirical illustration.
Ever since the launch of the World Press Freedom Index almost 20 years ago, Finland has always be... more Ever since the launch of the World Press Freedom Index almost 20 years ago, Finland has always been among the top fi ve countries of that index. According to the annual Reuters Digital News reports, Finnish people also have the highest level of trust in the news media and one of the highest levels of press readership in the EU. Most of the media companies are doing quite well, while Google and Facebook have a much less dominant role in the advertising market than elsewhere in Europe. In this context, you might expect Finland to have a comprehensive and visionary media and communications policy to support democracy. However, our meta-study of Finnish media and communications policy based on two recent reports
This article addresses the gap between media reform movements and support for public service medi... more This article addresses the gap between media reform movements and support for public service media (PSM). It argues that the “critical juncture” created by the challenges of digitalization has shifted the focus from diversity to communication rights as a central aim for media reform. It posits that rights-based approach would position PSM in the framework of different media reform movements, and hence foster new alliances by connecting it to media freedom and digital rights discourses. In addition, it suggests that media reform movements would benefit from supporting PSM as a tool for achieving democratic communication rights.El siguiente artículo aborda la distancia existente entre los movimientos que defienden la reforma de los medios y el propio apoyo a los medios públicos. En él, se defiende que el “momento crítico” que se ha generado a partir del reto de la digitalizacion ha acabado por desplazar el foco del tema de la diversidad a la concepción de la comunicación como derecho ...
Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs, 2022
Ever since the launch of the World Press Freedom Index almost 20 years ago, Finland has always be... more Ever since the launch of the World Press Freedom Index almost 20 years ago, Finland has always been among the top fi ve countries of that index. According to the annual Reuters Digital News reports, Finnish people also have the highest level of trust in the news media and one of the highest levels of press readership in the EU. Most of the media companies are doing quite well, while Google and Facebook have a much less dominant role in the advertising market than elsewhere in Europe. In this context, you might expect Finland to have a comprehensive and visionary media and communications policy to support democracy. However, our meta-study of Finnish media and communications policy based on two recent reports
In the development of modern states, the media’s role has been fundamental, as the organisation o... more In the development of modern states, the media’s role has been fundamental, as the organisation of national interests was their central function. From this viewpoint, the media and its pivotal role in the construction of “imagined communities” can be compared with other major nation-building institutions, such as the education system, churches, national army and civil service. These can be characterised as epistemic institutions, creating and reproducing a form of knowledge that is centrally constructed around national concepts and symbols. When thinking how to revitalise democracy and create conditions for a new, transnational political agency, we have to address the ways and means by which the media are regulated today. If we accept the idea that informed and active citizenship is at the core of functioning democracy, we need to ask the role of the media in its production. The problem is that all criteria promoting and providing democratic citizenship are already stipulated in a number of international agreements and conventions as well as in national constitutions; what is missing is a binding global regulatory framework that would guarantee that they are not only formally adapted to national and international laws, but also enforced in practice.
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Contributors are: Aida Martori Muntsant, Alvaro Oleart, Annamaria Pulga, Bart Cammaerts, Binakuromo Ogbebor, Erika Theissen Walukiewicz, Fausto Colombo, François Heinderyckx, Hannu Nieminen, Ignacio Bergillos, Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, Laura Peja, Leif Kramp, Lorleen Farrugia, Maria Francesca Murru, Michael Skey, Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Reinhard Anton Handler, Simone Tosoni, Simone Tosoni, Valentina Turrini, Victor Navarro-Remesal and Zsofia Nagy. The book additionally contains abstracts of 42 doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2017 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School.
This, and other Summer School books are also available to download at http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/
Papers by Hannu Nieminen
Contributors are: Aida Martori Muntsant, Alvaro Oleart, Annamaria Pulga, Bart Cammaerts, Binakuromo Ogbebor, Erika Theissen Walukiewicz, Fausto Colombo, François Heinderyckx, Hannu Nieminen, Ignacio Bergillos, Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, Laura Peja, Leif Kramp, Lorleen Farrugia, Maria Francesca Murru, Michael Skey, Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Reinhard Anton Handler, Simone Tosoni, Simone Tosoni, Valentina Turrini, Victor Navarro-Remesal and Zsofia Nagy. The book additionally contains abstracts of 42 doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2017 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School.
This, and other Summer School books are also available to download at http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/