Projects going on since year 

2013

• Worlds of Journalism Study
  The international comparative research project investigates the conditions, limitations and social functions of journalism as well as the professional orientations of journalists worldwide.
  

2012

• From Broadsheet to Tabloid
  The study explores how the change of page format affects newspaper’s content and editorial work. It also explores the reception of the format change among the audience and the advertisers.
• Aggressive Discussion in Social Media and Journalism – Restricting Freedom of Speech?
  This project examines, how aggressive speech in media alters public discussion and journalistic and internet practices.
• Media Systems in Flux: The Challenge of BRICS Countries
  This four-year project funded by the Academy of Finland examines the role of media and journalists in the new coalition of global politics formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
• The Network Society as a Paradigm for Legal and Societal Thinking (NETSO)
  Project generates basic knowledge of the theoretical foundations and context of the network society development.
• Online Presence and Credibility of Journalists in Social Media
  The research will investigate how the early adapters in newsrooms use social media and what are the roles that journalists assume in different arenas of social media.
• Survey on Advertising in the Finnish Television (2012)
  The purpose of the survey is to analyze the placing and duration of commercials on three television channels.

2011

• The Changing Professional Identity and Expertise of Young Journalists
  The study explores how young journalists understand their work, position and professional identity within the changing media environment.
• Covering Religion - Challenge of Globalization in the Finnish Newspapers
  The aim of this research project is to increase awareness about the changes in the social and cultural role of religion and the possible outcomes of these changes in Finnish newspapers in the age of globalization.
• Health Communication in Social Media
  The objective of the study is to find out how the social media is used by the people seeking and producing information.
• Journalist´s Freedom (and Obligation) of Speech
  The study examines the extent of journalists' personal freedom of speech and their opportunities to influence their media's political content or values.
• Tablet Journalism – Now
  State-of-the-art review of expert debate at the dawn of tablets.
• Transparency to Journalism Management
  The project elucidates the role of journalistic organizations’ middle management in organizing journalistic work, in particular concerning the development of editorial control systems.
• Ubiquitous Computing in News Media (Ubi)
  The research project aims at enlarging our understanding of innovation journalism in Finland and internationally.
• Wikileaks and Journalism in the New Information Ecosystem
  The research project compares established journalistic media and online leak sites such as Wikileaks, and investigates the relations between the two.

2010

• CAPCULT, Capitalizing Culture - Transnational Re-articulations of Economy and Culture
  The project is tracing the mechanisms of cultural capitalization and re-articulations of economy and culture through several cases.
• Experiencing Political Publicity
  The study examines what factors make public participation meaningful and what kinds of risks it involves.
• Mapping and Understanding Sustainable Business Models for Journalism
  Project creates an emerging data archive of journalistic business models which could track the actually existing, evolutionary change of journalistic business solutions.
• MediaAct
  MediaAcT is a comparative research project on media accountability systems in EU member states as indicators for media pluralism in Europe.
• New Reading Communities, New Modes of Reading
  The project investigates how contemporary forms of reading, reception of texts and readerly production transform into new reading. 
• Next Media Transforming the Media Experience
  The Next Media research programme (2010-2013) aims at innovations which by means of new business models, concepts and technology, meet people's insatiable need for engaging and activating media experiences.

2009 and before

• Annual Monitoring of News Media (2007 - 2012)
  The project has developed into an observation system with which to annually survey news media output and indicate ongoing trends in the Finnish news media.
• Towards Engaging Journalism
  The project aims to analyze the relevance of journalism from the perspective of social networks. How does journalism engage its readers and how does journalism maintain public’s sense of connection to the public sphere. 
• Russia in the Finnish Media
• VICOMM Visual Commons -Social Dialog through Visual Knowledge Dissemination
  The project contributes empirical knowledge about the evolving modes of visual communication, the changing work processes in media production and its interaction with citizen communities.

Doctoral dissertation projects

• Approaches to Future in Journalism
• Culture Industry and Dialectics
  The dissertation focuses on the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno and especially on his theory of the culture industry. Its main goal is to foreground Adorno’s research method and explicate its central premises.
• News Blogging in Russia
  This doctoral dissertation project is about citizen journalism of Russian blogs and its impact on news media.
• The Post-human Condition - from Media as Extensions to Digital Singularity
  I'm involved in questions concerning our (human) relationship with technologies (broadly defined as 'media').
• Supportive Communication in Al-Anon Self-help Groups
  The doctoral dissertation examines the types and effects of supportive communication in the context of self-help groups for friends and family of alcoholics.
• Working Class Risky Bodies or Female-mannered Health Citizens? Health Discipline in the Media of the Society of Control.
  This study discusses how ’proper’ citizenship and the hegemonic health discipline are constructed in popular health communication, and how the mediated health discipline constitutes gender and class.