The NordMedia23 Doctoral Pre-Conference in mid-August marked the end of my summer vacation. Admittedly, I had nothing against continuing my holidays, but I must say that the day we spent together with the Nordic junior…
When I was commissioned by UNESCO and the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) to edit a handbook on reporting about artificial intelligence (AI), the general awareness of AI was rather low. It is amazing how…
What a nice surprise! I had totally forgotten a manuscript that I had submitted to a Taylor & Francis journal in media and cultural studies in 2021. It had been stuck in the peer review…
The most recent special issue of Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier, the leading Finnish multicultural journal in cultural studies that I’m currently an editor-in-chief of, deals with quantification and measurability – it is called “the cultures of…
My textbook in journalism, Hyvä journalismi [Good journalism], turns 10 years this year. It’s hard to believe that I wrote it already a decade ago – and, at the same time, it was only ten…
A couple of months ago, I made a post about my relationship to minority politics that could have been regarded as a closure of a chapter. Well, it was, but a new chapter opened sooner…
Last week, having delivered a keynote lecture on artificial intelligence and academic publishing in my hotel room in Finland, I got a comment regarding my approach. The commentator said that this was the first time…
This year’s intensive course for Swedish and Finnish journalism students had energy journalism as its theme. The intensive course, organized at Hanaholmen, the cultural centre for Sweden and Finland, is part of a course programme…
Cultural journalism has a long tradition in daily newspapers and cultural magazines, but it has been systematically neither produced nor studied in local newspapers. This marked the starting point for a recent study that examined…
During the ongoing academic year 2022–2023, we have experimented with virtual writing retreats at NordMedia Network. The purpose has been to organize half-day writing workshops for Nordic media scholars to offer them a couple of…
Finnish language is one of the national minority languages in Sweden. The number of speakers has, however, decreased during the past decades. After the governmental initiatives of language revitalization – of which the most visible…
Recently, the special issue of the Nordic media studies journal MedieKultur that dealt with “pandemedia”, journalistic reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, included an article written by me and my Latvian colleague Ilva Skulte, titled Reporting like…