PhD Jukka Jouhki
University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology

SOUTH KOREAN MEDIA CULTURE: TOWARDS A UBIQUITOUS MEDIASCAPE

The project (2006-2009) has approached the current status, consumption and cultural significances of South Korean mediascape, especially in the new media. The research foci have included the future visions of media, mediated education and new media, the nationalist configurations of news media and Internet as well as the value of new media in youth culture.

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Dr. Inka Salovaara-Moring
University of Helsinki, Department of Social Studies

Media System, Puplic Knowledge and Democracy

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D. Pol. Sc Janne Matikainen
University of Helsinki, Communication Research Centre CRC

In the Borderline of the Traditional and Social Media 

The goal of the project is to study the views of the public (both as users and readers/viewers) towards the web contents and services created in the social media and the traditional media. Traditional media means journalistic web services whose contents are produced mainly by professionals and whose users can be best described as consumers. By contrast, social media represent such web services whose form and contents are produced for a major part by the users.

The study focuses on trust and the motives of use in both traditional media and social media. The ultimate goal is to elucidate the relationship between the future of (mass) media and the model of social media. Research questions in this comparative combination are: How are traditional and social media consumed? What motivates people to use traditional and social media and what motivates users to generate content? How do people trust traditional and social media web-services?

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Docent Ville Pernaa, researchers Ville Pitkänen and Mari K. Niemi
University of Turku, Center for Parliamentary Studies

The Current State of Political Journalism in Finland

The scope of the Finnish political journalism is wider than before, but the emphasis and the hierarchy of the political reporting is still based on a rather traditional set of norms and values. This was the conclusion reached by a research project on the current state of Finnish political journalism conducted by the University of Turku. The material of the project consisted of a large sample of Finnish daily newspapers, periodicals as well as electronic media including the internet.

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University of Helsinki, Institute of International Economic Law (KATTI), Director Docent Pia Letto-Vanamo and Researcher Group

New Dimensions of Freedom of Speech

The research is focused on current legal problems concerning freedom of speech
in the new communication environment. Today, the mass communication is commercializing, crossing boarders and facing profound technological changes. This development affects also the legal framework concerning the media.Freedom of speech will be studied in the relationship to other legal freedoms and rights, e.g. freedom of trade, freedom of competition,and intellectual property rights. Also the current trends of international communication policy and regulation will be
analyzed, especially from the EU point of view.
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DECODE 

Youth Media DNA 

This study is part of a global program of research initiated by the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers to investigate the news and information needs of young people. 

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Annikka Mutanen
Journalist Fellow 2008 - 2009
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
University of Oxford

To do, or not to do God - Faith in British and Finnish journalism

Michaelmas, Hilary & Trinity Terms 2008 – 2009

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Dr. Vilma Luoma-aho, Post-doc Researcher
Visiting Scholar (H-star Institute)
Innovation Journalism Program
Standford University, California, USA 

Final Report of the Academic Year 1.8.2008 - 31.7.2009

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Kimmo Lundén
Journalist Fellow 2008 - 2009
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
University of Oxford

Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms 2008 - 2009

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The Death of Print. The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Print Media on the Web

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Article publsihed in Baltic Rim Economies Review (starting from page 34) by Pan European Institute, Turku School of Economics.

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Salla Nazarenko
Journalist Fellow 2008 - 2009
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
University of Oxford 

Michaelmas, Hillary and Trinity Terms 2008 - 2009

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Jenni Mäenpää and Anssi Männistö
University of Tampere, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication  

When All Video All, Web Video for Newspapers.

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M. Pol. Sc. Tomi Lindblom
University of Helsinki, Department of Communication

History of New Media in the Three Largest Media Companies in Finland

Dissertation
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University of Tampere,
Journalism Research and Development Centre
Pentti Raittila

The Kauhajoki School Shooting in the Media

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Special researcher Katja Valaskivi
University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre

Pokemon´s Inheritors. Japanese  Popular Culture in Finland.

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University of Helsinki, Communication Research Centre CRC
Elena Vartanova, Hannu Nieminen & Minna-Mari Salminen (Eds.)

Russian Media 2007: Convergence and Competition

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Viljakainen Anna, Bäck Asta & Lindqvist Ulf

Media and Advertisement from Now to 2013

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