PanelMedia, economy and democracy / Media, ekonomi och demokrati / Media, talous ja demokratia
Chair: Anu Kantola Media systems have characteristically been an elementary part of national democracies and national power systems. Forces of economic globalisation and market driven reforms have however challenged the nationally grounded democracies as well as media institutions and practises. The panel "Media, economy and democracy" aims to discuss and compare the changing societal and political role of the media in the contemporary Nordic societies. The panellists have all done research in the area and are invited to reflect it in the light of their own research. How has media's role changed in the Nordic societies with regard to democracy, political system and political power? Has there been a change from a national democracy and public sphere towards market driven institutions and media practises, or do the national institutions and practises still hold power? How has media's role changed due to for example economic or cultural globalisation, Europeanization, commercialisation or mediatisation of politics? Has the media evolved to an isolated centre or to various dispersed centres of power or is it still linked with the national democratic structures and institutions? Can one talk about powerful media and in what sense? What are the most interesting challenges and changes likely to take place in the future in the relations between media, economy and democracy? Anu Kantola
Lene Hansen
In the summer of 2001, Lene Hansen held a two month Social Science Research Council Fellowship in "Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security" at the University of California, Berkeley. From February to August 2004, she was a visiting researcher in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Lene Hansen is the co-editor of European Integration and National Identity: the Challenge of the Nordic States (Routledge 2002) and the author of Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War (Routledge, 2006). She has published a series of book chapters as well as articles in Millennium, Journal of Peace Research, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Cooperation and Conflict. She is a member of the editorial board of Security Dialogue and has given guest lectures at Columbia University, University of Southern California, Brown University, American University in Washington, Edinburgh University and London School of Economis. Tore Slaatta
Mats Ekström
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Dr Anu Kantola is university lecturer at the Department of Communication, University of Helsinki. She has been engaged with research on journalism, globalisation and political communication. Her recent research project was Globalisation and public sphere -project funded by the Academy of Finland. Her recent studies on transnational public sphere, political elites, market oriented governance and citizenship have appeared in edited books and in Javnost, European Journal of Cultural Studies and Tiedotustutkimus. She is the author of Markkinakuri ja managerivalta (Market discipline and managerial power - Governing the Finnish economic crisis of the 1990s) and Freedom of Speech at Stake: Media Developments and Democracy in Central Asia. She is co-author of Maailman tila ja Suomi (State of the World and Finland) and Hyvinvoinnin valinnat (Choices of Welfare) and she has co-edited Journalismia! Journalismia? (Journalism! Journalism?) and Media-analyysi: Tekstistä tulkintaan (Media analysis: from text to interpretation). Currently she is starting a project Power elites and the concepts of power: governing the Finnish Market regime linked with a research program Power in Finland by the Academy of Finland.
Lene Hansen, Ph.D., is an associate professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Her field of research covers identity and foreign policy, gender and international relations, the theory and methodology of discourse analysis, and the Internet and the politics of identity. Empirically, she has written on the Danish debate on European integration and the Western response to the Bosnian war.
Tore Slaatta (1957) is Dr.polit and Professor at Deparment of Media and Communicaiton at the University of Oslo. Slaatta was responsible for the media research in the Norwegian Research Program on Power and Democracy (1998-2003) and director of the research project "Symbolic Power in the Economic and the Political fields", published in Den norske medieorden (The Norwegian Media Order) (2003). In addition he edited and published Digital makt (Digital Power) (2002), an anthology particularly focusing on increasing convergence and digitalization of the media order and wrote several articles on media research and the concept of power. His doctoral dissertation from 1999 was a study of Norwegian news media's different responses to European Integration after the referendum in 1994(Europeanisation and the Norwegian News Media (1999) and his recent publications vary from analysis of business journalism and the relationship between the economic field and the media, to work on cultural theory, media discourse, art, museums and architecture.
