Magdalena Jaakkola
Biographic Data
| ID | 236684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magdalena Jaakkola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magdalena |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaakkola |
| SIGNATURE | JAAKKOLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9979-6157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Challenges of kin-state textbooks
This article inquires into the uses and production of teaching and learning materials(TLM) among the teachers of the national minority language (NML) of Finnish in Sweden.In educational policies, textbooks are identified as a central factor for equal tuition, butwe know little about the minority language didactics and usage of TLM. The aim of thestudy is to explore how NML teachers use TLM. A representative survey among Finnishteachers, the large…
Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities
open access
Operationalizing positive-constructive pedagogy to artificial intelligence
This reflective essay outlines a positive-constructive pedagogy as an approach to enhancing AI literacies of different types, with a focus on the individual’s personal relationship to AI technologies. It is argued that personal relationships with emerging technologies are crucial for a successful implementation of AI in society, as understanding of AI needs a personal contact with the technology and tacit knowledge about it to develop. AI thus po…
Language-friendliness as minority governance
Older people belonging to a national minority perceive language friendliness as a central dimension of the age-friendly city policy prononounced by the World Health Organization (WHO). • For older city residents, being able to speak their language that is considered as a heritage language and protected by legislation is not only a right but a factor contributing to their feeling of inclusion and sense of wellbeing. • To successfully fulfill the a…
The dual climate impact of news media
This article examines the challenges that arise as news media organizations address the climate crisis as commercial journalistic organizations. Following a communicative constitution of organization (CCO) approach, we analyze how Nordic commercial news media organizations navigate the climate crisis through the dynamics between words (“talking”) and actions (“walking”). Using a combination of document data and interview data, we examine such tal…
New perspectives on educational resources
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption
This article examines the representation of sustainability on the online lifestyle site Goop as a case study of how promotional media deal with environmental and social concerns. Specifically, the paper presents how promotional intermediaries address or conceal a tension between (1) the promotion of conspicuous consumption and (2) the advocacy of sustainable living. The paper contributes to cultural intermediary scholarship by showing how promoti…
Community-First Criticism
This article explores community-conforming criticism published in local or community newspapers. Currently, professional cultural criticism is largely focused on capital-based and regional newspapers, as well as cultural magazines, implying the specialisation of work and compartmentalisation of content, while local newspapers cover a wide variety of societal issues and dedicate attention to culture in genres other than the review. The article ana…
Digital performance at the side stage
This paper examines musically active individuals’ communication work online as part of post-professional platformized cultural production, inquiring into classical musicians’ and music hobbyists’ strategic communication practices on the visual mobile app Instagram. The sample consists of pianists’, violinists’ and cellists’ (N = 269) personal but public Instagram accounts. Described as unpaid, visibility, relational and aspirational labour, profe…
Reporting like there was no pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both a widespread public health crisis and a global economic crisis, disrupting every aspect of our lives, health, education, jobs, and social life. To provide the public with trustworthy and continuously updated information and stories during uncertain times, newsrooms have made pandemic coverage a priority. Conducting a content analysis of Norwegian news and debate programs on radio and television throughout 202…
Public Service Television as Education
This article examines factual programmes in public service television as a specific means of education, exploring and underscoring its educational function within the framework of media and information literacy (MIL) policy discourse. Factual programming forms a multi-stakeholder genre category that has gained relevance in times of democratic insecurities. It traditionally presents a source for cultivating cultural citizenship crucial to democrac…
Kirja-arvostelut alustataloudessa – esimerkkinä käyttäjälähtöiset arvostelut Instagramissa
Kulttuurituotteita eivät sosiaalisen median aikakaudella enää arvostele julkisesti vain perinteisen median ammattikriitikot, vaan myös tavalliset ihmiset osallistuvat teosten julkiseen arvottamiseen erilaisilla digitaalisilla alustoilla. Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa kirjallisuusarvosteluja osana alustoitunutta kulttuurituotantoa esimerkkinämme käyttäjälähtöiset kirja-arvostelut erityisesti kuvasovellus Instagramissa. Instagramiin on vakiintun…
From vernacularized commercialism to kidbait
Children’s entertainment has grown massively on YouTube in recent years, and the channels with the most subscriptions and views host content designed for children. This article investigates the toy review genre as present in YouTube videos targeting children. This topic has been discussed previously, most notably in regard to digital parenting and child infringement scandals. This analysis aims to more deeply understand the forms and functions of…
The Literary Construction of Journalism Education
This article investigates the course literature in the curricula of 12 major journalism schools at Northern European universities. This analysis of the course literature listed in documentation of bachelor programmes traces how journalism education institutions constitute their knowledge base on journalism. It is found that Nordic journalism students are required to read almost four books per study credit on average. Undergraduate academic journa…
Journalists as Media Educators
This article locates media literacy both theoretically and empirically in the public practices carried out by journalists and journalistic actors in the case of Finland. In the theoretical section, the paper discusses the activities under the frameworks of non-formal education and strategic audience development as part of media organisations’ work. In the empirical section, central journalistic actors and their typical best practices are identifi…
Useful Creativity
This article intends to cast light on the phenomenon of non-institutionalised or vernacular reviewing by studying the review videos published on the video-sharing platform Vimeo. The data were automatically retrieved by searching for videos provided with the hashtag #review. The majority of these review videos (N = 1,273) were related to the technical equipment of filming and produced by filmmakers and enthusiastic amateurs interested in camera e…
Vernacular reviews as a form of co-consumption
Reviews of arts and culture are typically focused on legitimate forms of art rather than popular and consumer culture. Looking beyond such institutionalized reviews, this article inquires into the online-native, bottom-up forms of reviewing. The aim is to identify user-generated reviews of popular cultural objects, defined through the user reviewers’ position as cultural consumers and the size of their audiences. The objects of study are YouTube …
Liquid Modern Journalism with a Difference
Reflecting a change from high to liquid modern culture, journalism is said to be encountering a transformation from high towards liquid modernity. Cultural journalism, however, has been found to be “journalism with a difference”. Due to this distinctive character, the principles of general journalism do not directly apply to cultural journalism. Consequently, the manifestations and consequences of the high and liquid modern ethos appear different…
Outsourcing Views, Developing News
Reviewers, as specialist writers legitimized as arbiters of taste by the artistic fields, form a distinct subculture within cultural journalism. The change in their status in the journalistic hierarchy is due to changes in the in-house policies of newsrooms. This paper outlines some key developments of reviews in Finnish dailies comparing changes in criticism with other journalistic genres. A quantitative analysis of the culture departments of fi…
Witnesses of a cultural crisis
Arts and cultural journalism have been found in numerous debates during recent decades to struggle in the midst of a crisis. This article traces the recorded discourse of professionalism that considers cultural journalism to be in a state of decline. A literature review on academic research and contributions in public debates provides an insight into the ‘crisis talk’ of the last two decades and unveils general controversies in the development of…
Promoting Aesthetic Tourism
Cultural departments in newspapers are reported to be encountering increasing pressures towards the production of news and more “journalistic” expression. However, journalistic values do not fit unproblematically into the dualistic professionalism of cultural journalism. The article elaborates an insight into the practice of arts journalism as an act of framing between the epistemic paradigms of journalistic and aesthetic tradition. The tradition…
From aesthetes to reporters
The crisis of cultural journalism has recently been a topical issue in many countries. In Finland, too, it has been claimed that arts pages, previously dominated by aesthetically oriented critics, have been shrinking and become more news oriented and entertaining. In this article, we explore the change of structures, values and ideals of arts reporting as friction between two opposing paradigms, the aesthetic and the journalistic, and analyse how…
Perceived Discrimination, Social Support Networks, and Psychological Well-being Among Three Immigrant Groups
The authors addressed the specific role of and contradictory results previously obtained regarding ethnic versus host support networks in influencing directly and/or buffering the impact of perceived discrimination on the well-being of immigrants. A nationwide adult probability sample ( N= 2,360) included Finnish repatriates and Russian and Estonian immigrants in Finland from Russia, Estonia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Percei…
Diglossia and Bilingualism Among Two Minorities in Sweden
Perceived Discrimination, Social Support Networks, and Psychological Well-being Among Three Immigrant Groups
The authors addressed the specific role of and contradictory results previously obtained regarding ethnic versus host support networks in influencing directly and/or buffering the impact of perceived discrimination on the well-being of immigrants. A nationwide adult probability sample ( N= 2,360) included Finnish repatriates and Russian and Estonian immigrants in Finland from Russia, Estonia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Percei…
From aesthetes to reporters
The crisis of cultural journalism has recently been a topical issue in many countries. In Finland, too, it has been claimed that arts pages, previously dominated by aesthetically oriented critics, have been shrinking and become more news oriented and entertaining. In this article, we explore the change of structures, values and ideals of arts reporting as friction between two opposing paradigms, the aesthetic and the journalistic, and analyse how…
Liquid Modern Journalism with a Difference
Reflecting a change from high to liquid modern culture, journalism is said to be encountering a transformation from high towards liquid modernity. Cultural journalism, however, has been found to be “journalism with a difference”. Due to this distinctive character, the principles of general journalism do not directly apply to cultural journalism. Consequently, the manifestations and consequences of the high and liquid modern ethos appear different…
Witnesses of a cultural crisis
Arts and cultural journalism have been found in numerous debates during recent decades to struggle in the midst of a crisis. This article traces the recorded discourse of professionalism that considers cultural journalism to be in a state of decline. A literature review on academic research and contributions in public debates provides an insight into the ‘crisis talk’ of the last two decades and unveils general controversies in the development of…
Promoting Aesthetic Tourism
Cultural departments in newspapers are reported to be encountering increasing pressures towards the production of news and more “journalistic” expression. However, journalistic values do not fit unproblematically into the dualistic professionalism of cultural journalism. The article elaborates an insight into the practice of arts journalism as an act of framing between the epistemic paradigms of journalistic and aesthetic tradition. The tradition…
Outsourcing Views, Developing News
Reviewers, as specialist writers legitimized as arbiters of taste by the artistic fields, form a distinct subculture within cultural journalism. The change in their status in the journalistic hierarchy is due to changes in the in-house policies of newsrooms. This paper outlines some key developments of reviews in Finnish dailies comparing changes in criticism with other journalistic genres. A quantitative analysis of the culture departments of fi…
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption
This article examines the representation of sustainability on the online lifestyle site Goop as a case study of how promotional media deal with environmental and social concerns. Specifically, the paper presents how promotional intermediaries address or conceal a tension between (1) the promotion of conspicuous consumption and (2) the advocacy of sustainable living. The paper contributes to cultural intermediary scholarship by showing how promoti…
Vernacular reviews as a form of co-consumption
Reviews of arts and culture are typically focused on legitimate forms of art rather than popular and consumer culture. Looking beyond such institutionalized reviews, this article inquires into the online-native, bottom-up forms of reviewing. The aim is to identify user-generated reviews of popular cultural objects, defined through the user reviewers’ position as cultural consumers and the size of their audiences. The objects of study are YouTube …
Journalists as Media Educators
This article locates media literacy both theoretically and empirically in the public practices carried out by journalists and journalistic actors in the case of Finland. In the theoretical section, the paper discusses the activities under the frameworks of non-formal education and strategic audience development as part of media organisations’ work. In the empirical section, central journalistic actors and their typical best practices are identifi…
Diglossia and Bilingualism Among Two Minorities in Sweden
Perceived Discrimination, Social Support Networks, and Psychological Well-being Among Three Immigrant Groups
The authors addressed the specific role of and contradictory results previously obtained regarding ethnic versus host support networks in influencing directly and/or buffering the impact of perceived discrimination on the well-being of immigrants. A nationwide adult probability sample ( N= 2,360) included Finnish repatriates and Russian and Estonian immigrants in Finland from Russia, Estonia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Percei…
From aesthetes to reporters
The crisis of cultural journalism has recently been a topical issue in many countries. In Finland, too, it has been claimed that arts pages, previously dominated by aesthetically oriented critics, have been shrinking and become more news oriented and entertaining. In this article, we explore the change of structures, values and ideals of arts reporting as friction between two opposing paradigms, the aesthetic and the journalistic, and analyse how…
Promoting Aesthetic Tourism
Cultural departments in newspapers are reported to be encountering increasing pressures towards the production of news and more “journalistic” expression. However, journalistic values do not fit unproblematically into the dualistic professionalism of cultural journalism. The article elaborates an insight into the practice of arts journalism as an act of framing between the epistemic paradigms of journalistic and aesthetic tradition. The tradition…
Outsourcing Views, Developing News
Reviewers, as specialist writers legitimized as arbiters of taste by the artistic fields, form a distinct subculture within cultural journalism. The change in their status in the journalistic hierarchy is due to changes in the in-house policies of newsrooms. This paper outlines some key developments of reviews in Finnish dailies comparing changes in criticism with other journalistic genres. A quantitative analysis of the culture departments of fi…
Witnesses of a cultural crisis
Arts and cultural journalism have been found in numerous debates during recent decades to struggle in the midst of a crisis. This article traces the recorded discourse of professionalism that considers cultural journalism to be in a state of decline. A literature review on academic research and contributions in public debates provides an insight into the ‘crisis talk’ of the last two decades and unveils general controversies in the development of…
Liquid Modern Journalism with a Difference
Reflecting a change from high to liquid modern culture, journalism is said to be encountering a transformation from high towards liquid modernity. Cultural journalism, however, has been found to be “journalism with a difference”. Due to this distinctive character, the principles of general journalism do not directly apply to cultural journalism. Consequently, the manifestations and consequences of the high and liquid modern ethos appear different…
Vernacular reviews as a form of co-consumption
Reviews of arts and culture are typically focused on legitimate forms of art rather than popular and consumer culture. Looking beyond such institutionalized reviews, this article inquires into the online-native, bottom-up forms of reviewing. The aim is to identify user-generated reviews of popular cultural objects, defined through the user reviewers’ position as cultural consumers and the size of their audiences. The objects of study are YouTube …
From vernacularized commercialism to kidbait
Children’s entertainment has grown massively on YouTube in recent years, and the channels with the most subscriptions and views host content designed for children. This article investigates the toy review genre as present in YouTube videos targeting children. This topic has been discussed previously, most notably in regard to digital parenting and child infringement scandals. This analysis aims to more deeply understand the forms and functions of…
The Literary Construction of Journalism Education
This article investigates the course literature in the curricula of 12 major journalism schools at Northern European universities. This analysis of the course literature listed in documentation of bachelor programmes traces how journalism education institutions constitute their knowledge base on journalism. It is found that Nordic journalism students are required to read almost four books per study credit on average. Undergraduate academic journa…
Journalists as Media Educators
This article locates media literacy both theoretically and empirically in the public practices carried out by journalists and journalistic actors in the case of Finland. In the theoretical section, the paper discusses the activities under the frameworks of non-formal education and strategic audience development as part of media organisations’ work. In the empirical section, central journalistic actors and their typical best practices are identifi…
Useful Creativity
This article intends to cast light on the phenomenon of non-institutionalised or vernacular reviewing by studying the review videos published on the video-sharing platform Vimeo. The data were automatically retrieved by searching for videos provided with the hashtag #review. The majority of these review videos (N = 1,273) were related to the technical equipment of filming and produced by filmmakers and enthusiastic amateurs interested in camera e…
Kirja-arvostelut alustataloudessa – esimerkkinä käyttäjälähtöiset arvostelut Instagramissa
Kulttuurituotteita eivät sosiaalisen median aikakaudella enää arvostele julkisesti vain perinteisen median ammattikriitikot, vaan myös tavalliset ihmiset osallistuvat teosten julkiseen arvottamiseen erilaisilla digitaalisilla alustoilla. Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa kirjallisuusarvosteluja osana alustoitunutta kulttuurituotantoa esimerkkinämme käyttäjälähtöiset kirja-arvostelut erityisesti kuvasovellus Instagramissa. Instagramiin on vakiintun…
Public Service Television as Education
This article examines factual programmes in public service television as a specific means of education, exploring and underscoring its educational function within the framework of media and information literacy (MIL) policy discourse. Factual programming forms a multi-stakeholder genre category that has gained relevance in times of democratic insecurities. It traditionally presents a source for cultivating cultural citizenship crucial to democrac…
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption
This article examines the representation of sustainability on the online lifestyle site Goop as a case study of how promotional media deal with environmental and social concerns. Specifically, the paper presents how promotional intermediaries address or conceal a tension between (1) the promotion of conspicuous consumption and (2) the advocacy of sustainable living. The paper contributes to cultural intermediary scholarship by showing how promoti…
Community-First Criticism
This article explores community-conforming criticism published in local or community newspapers. Currently, professional cultural criticism is largely focused on capital-based and regional newspapers, as well as cultural magazines, implying the specialisation of work and compartmentalisation of content, while local newspapers cover a wide variety of societal issues and dedicate attention to culture in genres other than the review. The article ana…
Digital performance at the side stage
This paper examines musically active individuals’ communication work online as part of post-professional platformized cultural production, inquiring into classical musicians’ and music hobbyists’ strategic communication practices on the visual mobile app Instagram. The sample consists of pianists’, violinists’ and cellists’ (N = 269) personal but public Instagram accounts. Described as unpaid, visibility, relational and aspirational labour, profe…
Reporting like there was no pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both a widespread public health crisis and a global economic crisis, disrupting every aspect of our lives, health, education, jobs, and social life. To provide the public with trustworthy and continuously updated information and stories during uncertain times, newsrooms have made pandemic coverage a priority. Conducting a content analysis of Norwegian news and debate programs on radio and television throughout 202…
Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities
open access
Operationalizing positive-constructive pedagogy to artificial intelligence
This reflective essay outlines a positive-constructive pedagogy as an approach to enhancing AI literacies of different types, with a focus on the individual’s personal relationship to AI technologies. It is argued that personal relationships with emerging technologies are crucial for a successful implementation of AI in society, as understanding of AI needs a personal contact with the technology and tacit knowledge about it to develop. AI thus po…
Language-friendliness as minority governance
Older people belonging to a national minority perceive language friendliness as a central dimension of the age-friendly city policy prononounced by the World Health Organization (WHO). • For older city residents, being able to speak their language that is considered as a heritage language and protected by legislation is not only a right but a factor contributing to their feeling of inclusion and sense of wellbeing. • To successfully fulfill the a…
The dual climate impact of news media
This article examines the challenges that arise as news media organizations address the climate crisis as commercial journalistic organizations. Following a communicative constitution of organization (CCO) approach, we analyze how Nordic commercial news media organizations navigate the climate crisis through the dynamics between words (“talking”) and actions (“walking”). Using a combination of document data and interview data, we examine such tal…
New perspectives on educational resources
Challenges of kin-state textbooks
This article inquires into the uses and production of teaching and learning materials(TLM) among the teachers of the national minority language (NML) of Finnish in Sweden.In educational policies, textbooks are identified as a central factor for equal tuition, butwe know little about the minority language didactics and usage of TLM. The aim of thestudy is to explore how NML teachers use TLM. A representative survey among Finnishteachers, the large…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Journalism (7 works)