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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…