PAPER: Tuition fees as linguistic games in Finnish newspaper

When journalism and newspapers are seen as a learning environment, editorial policies and the duties of the reporter need to be re-evaluated, asserts Minna Hauhia of University of Tampere in her recent PhD thesis. The thesis, titled Higher Education in Newspaper Language Games. Discourse Analysis of News Coverage on Tuition Fees in Aamulehti from the Perspective of Public Pedagogy analyses … Continued

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Published: 29 May 2015

PROJECT: New audience, new journalistic work

A new research project aims to redefine professional journalism and its value in mass media landscape. Kimmo Mäkilä, Janne Zareff and Jarno Liski have launched several smaller projects that all focus around the theme of journalistic work and its value now and in the near future. As of now their project is divided into three sections. The first … Continued

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Published: 25 May 2015

PAPER: Finnish newspapers as opinion builders

A new PhD dissertation from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been published online. The dissertation is written by Arja Lerssi-Lahdenvesi and is titled Always taking sides on the editorial pages, or …? The role of Finnish nonpartisan newspapers as social opinion builders. In her research Lerssi-Lahdenvesi assesses how eight Finnish newspapers have acted as opinion builders. She focuses … Continued

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Published: 5 May 2015

First Twitter-data analyses of the Finnish election

  The Finnish big data research project Digivaalit 2015 (“Cyber Elections 2015”) analyzed nearly 200 000 tweets concerning the Finnish parliamentary elections held 19th April 2015. The first results show that hashtags have become a valid way of political campaigning. In addition to campaigning candidates, also different organizations take part in the Twitter-conversation. It also seems that … Continued

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Published: 23 Apr 2015

BOOK: Finnish journalists strive for objectivity, admit to interpretation

Finnish journalists admit to their personal interests’ influence on topic selection, write Esa Reunanen and Kari Koljonen, both of University of Tampere. Even more than by the journalists’ personal inclinations their choices were guided by traditional news values, the authors note. They interviewed 30 Finnish journalists and conducted a survey on additional 330. Altogether Finnish … Continued

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Published: 23 Jan 2015

BOOK: Contemporary issues in Central and Eastern European journalism

A new volume in the series Studies in Communication and Politics, published by Peter Lang, is out. Journalism that matters: Views from Central and Eastern Europe features ten chapters detailing the states of contermporary journalism in CEE countries. The book is edited by Michał Głowacki, of University of Warsaw, Epp Lauk, of University of Jyväskylä, … Continued

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Published: 13 Jan 2015