Public Spheres and Their Boundaries

University of Tampere 25.-27.5. 2006

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Conference programme

Thursday, May 25th

12.30–14.00 Opening plenary session PINNI B 1100
Prof. Theodor Glasser, Stanford University
Justice and Journalism: On the Importance of a Structurally Diverse Press
  Coffee break
15. 00–17.00 Paper sessions I
19.00 Evening programme

Friday May 26 th

10.15–12.00 Plenary session PINNI B 1100
Dr. Joke Hermes, InHolland University
Hidden debates: rethinking the relation between popular culture and the public sphere
  Lunch
13–15 Paper sessions II
  Coffee
15.30–17.30 Paper sessions III
21.00– Evening programme

Saturday, May 27 th

10–12 Prof. Craig Calhoun, New York University PINNI B 1100
Public Sphere and Solidarity 

 

Paper sessions


Thursday 15–17

 

 

 

The European question  B3109

Chiara Valentini: Constructing public support: EU-communication challenges for the process of integration

Tuomo Mörä: Boundaries of public sphere ideals

Hannu Nieminen: Deliberative or radical democracy? The idea of a European Public Sphere in critical context

 

 

 

Digital Citizenship B3110

Sinikka Sassi: Theoretization around the digital forms of social and political activities

Mei WU: Computer-Mediated Political Talk and Informal Public Sphere: A Study of Chinese Internet Forums

Paula Gabriela Almiron: The passage of Piropo to the web

Rough, Funny Private – and public B3111

Jason Wilson: Rough chuckles: Mourning the public sphere in online comics

Laura Saarenmaa: Private Affair – Public Revenge. Sex Scandal as publicity in the case of Tabe Slioor

Nik Van-Eckmann: Perception, deception and reality

 


Friday 13–15

 

 

 

 

The European question II B3109

 

Leif Dahlberg: The European Comission and European Public Spheres

Heikki Heikkilä & Risto Kunelius: National fundamentalists and cosmopolitan modernists: Mapping the mind and practices of EU-journalists in 10 countries. 

Inka Salovaara-Moring: Beyond East and West: Comparing Public Sphere(s) of New Europe.


 

 

Citizenship and communication B3110

Laura Ruusunoksa: Public journalism and the publc sphere(s). Citizen-oriented public sphere at national, regional and local context

Vicki Ölgod: Growing citizen journalism in the blogosphere 

Yonca Ermutlu: Public Sphere in a multiethnic society.

Tabloid tales in public spheres B3111

Juha Herkman: Popular media, politics and the public sphere

Lee Hsiao-wen: Tabloid tales embed a new public in China

Camilla Haavisto: Tabloid tales of Ethnic Minorities

Marjo Kolehmainen: Politics as confections? Political humour and humour as a political weapon in Finish popular publicity


Friday 15.30–17.30

 

 

 

Transnational theories B3109

Anu Kantola: The order of money: the public spaces of global economy

Kaarin Taipale: From Piazza Navona to Google or from local public place to global public sphere

Mojca Pajnik: Feminist readings of Habermasian Public: Towards transnational conceptualizations

 

 

Modernisation and public spheres B3110 

Jani Marjanen: On Doing Comparative History of te Development of the Public Sphere in Sweden and Finland, 1800-1900

Teemu Taira: Religion in the Public Sphere: Does Differentiation Lead to Privatisation of Religion

Lea Henriksson: Professional identity in the making. 

 

Renegotiating theoretical concepts B3111

Anu Koivunen & Mikko Lehtonen: Rethinking the popular, rehalibitating ‘hegemony'

Kari Karppinen: Against naïve pluralism in media politics: Some implications of the radical-pluralist approach to the public sphere

Peter Csigo: Late modern indvidualisation, cultural integration and media constructed public sphere

 

 

 
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