I have been teaching my entire adult life; I started as a media teacher at an upper secondary school when I turned 20. Still, I have always strictly identified myself as a media, journalism and…
This year, we have been putting together the fifth yearbook for media and information literacy research, the UNESCO MILID Yearbook 2023. With “we” I mean my Colombian colleague Tomás Durán-Becerra, South African colleague Bosire Onyancha…
There are not many working days left until the seasonal holidays, but I managed to squeeze in a small trip to the Baltics in my schedule. UNESCO invited me to be a keynote speaker at…
Yesterday, I was invited to attend two panel discussions, first one at the Human Rights Days (MR-dagarna) in Helsingborg and another at the inaugural event of a newly established local media hub in Gothenburg. Both…
I just came back from Bergen, Norway, that I revisited three months after the NordMedia23 conference. My actual revisit was, however, a decennial: it was precisely ten years ago I visited the city for the…
Today, it’s the educational materials day in Sweden – in Swedish: Läromedlets dag! It’s a theme day initiated by The Swedish Association of Educational Writers. I’m one of their 1,700 members. (Besides, I’m also a…
Week 43 is officially the Global Media and Information Literacy Week (24–31 October) coordinated by UNESCO. The topic of this year’s edition focuses on digital platforms, with the title “Media and Information Literacy in Digital…
Last week, my intensive week in Stockholm culminated with the opportunity to announce a new thesis competition for students in higher education. The Sweden-Finnish Delegation introduced a thesis competition, with an amount of 10 000…
Our scientific journal Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier (Cultural Studies) is currently running the competition for the quality journal of the year in Finland. The competition, organized by Kultti ry, the Association for Cultural, Scientific and Advocacy…
Great news: ECREA, the European Communication Research and Education Association, now hosts a new temporary working group focussing on media literacies! Our proposal for the new temporary working group (TWG) Media Literacies and Communication Competencies…
Yesterday, I had a different task as a webinar moderator from the usual. We organized a memorial webinar in honour of the linguistic researcher Tove Skutnabb-Kangas who passed away in May. With all personal stories, it…
The last week of September is always very bookish in Gothenburg. The Gothenburg Book Fair, which was arranged from 28 September to 1 October, has become an institution as part of the cultural offerings in…