As part of my efforts as co-director of Nordicom, a centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg, I have been leading the digital community site of NordMedia Network since it was established in…
During the past two years, I have been a lot more involved in the minority politics of the national minority language of Finnish in Sweden than I had ever imagined. I had been attending the…
This year’s first issue of the journal Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural Studies), which I’m an editor-in-chief of, has been sent for printing (yes, it is still published as a printed journal, along with the digital open access…
Since I started the blog section on this website in 2016 – that I later decided to call News and announcements – I haven’t been writing many posts. Now, I decided to revive this section. However,…
Below is the cover image of the brand new upper-secondary-school textbook Jukola that will come out at SanomaPro later this month. This course book will start a new series in the discipline of the Finnish language and literature at upper secondary schools….
Recently, some colleagues of mine discussed the preconditions of academic publishing in Finnish in the programme Apinalaatikko at the local radio station Moreeni. This has been a topical issue to me lately too, as I have been…
A couple of terms ago, I organised a webinar on journalist interns’ learning experiences in co-operation with an other journalism education institution in Finland. The idea was to gather speakers from two universities, Tampere and Jyväskylä, to tell…
It is that time of the year that journalism students are furiously seeking an internship. My job is to gather a list of employers, typically about 80–90 newsrooms, and to help each student to find the…
There are many convincing reasons for why academics should blog (you can see some arguments here, here and here), tweet (see here, here and here), be available at LinkedIn (here, here and here), or Academia.edu, or…