Risto Kunelius
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 292073 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Risto Kunelius |
| NOMBRES | Risto |
| APELLIDO | Kunelius |
| FIRMA | KUNELIUS R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tampere |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3511-3710 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Kahden lännen välissä
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan rajaturvallisuuslaista käytyä keskustelua suomalaisessa uutismediassa (Helsingin Sanomatja Ilta-Sanomat) ja poliittisessa lehdistössä (Demokraatti, Kansan Uutiset, Nykypäivä, Suomenmaa, Suomen Uutiset, Verde). Tutkimuksen teoreettis-metodologinen viitekehys ammentaa rajan käsitteestä ja länsimaiden diskursiivista rakentumista tarkastelevasta kriittisestä tutkimusperinteestä ja hyödyntää uutistekstien analyysissä e…
The Legacy of the Sociology of News Paradigm
The sociology of news (SoN) paradigm laid out the foundations for journalism studies, a growing, dynamic, global and multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It is opportune to reassess its validity and influence, especially considering massive transformations in news and journalism, as well as recent trends in academic scholarship. In this paper, we argue that the SoN remains influential, despite major transformations in the journalism industry and t…
Media and power in times of hegemonic crisis
During moments of hegemonic crisis, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of media power. This article identifies key structural forces and disruptive tendencies that are factors in a current crisis of the neoliberal hegemonic order. This intellectual background underpins an empirical analysis of Twitter data collected during the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26). We identify large attention clusters around established political a…
Niche climate news sites and the changing context of covering catastrophe
One of the most significant and understudied changes in climate journalism in recent years, and the focus us this study, is the establishment of new niche sites. These sites, which are dedicated exclusively to covering climate-related issues, are now some of the most important sources of climate information. Drawing on interviews with site founders and editors, we explore the experiences and knowledge of these climate journalism innovators to gle…
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld
For the Habermasian theory of the “public sphere” to make sense in the 2020s, it must be able to address the modern tendency toward global systemic crises. To examine the relevance of the Habermasian public sphere to today’s deeply interconnected digital world, this article provides a selective reading of Habermas’ writings on the public sphere, examining how he developed the concept from its conceptual core (1962) through his Legitimation Crisis…
The return of propaganda
In this introductory article, we discuss the rise of the “classical” theories of propaganda, starting with an historical exposé of the concept, which traces its roots and trajectory through the field of academic analysis. Propaganda is then discussed in relation to other adjacent concepts such as soft power, public diplomacy, nation branding, fake news, and so on. In a third section, the concept of propaganda is discussed in relation to the prese…
The Journalism in Climate Change Websites
Survey results from news consumers around the world suggest that specialist or niche websites covering climate change are now one of the most important sources of climate information. However, there is very little detailed scholarship about these sites. We carried out semi-structured interviews with senior representatives of 14 online information sites, based in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, which prioritize the provision…
The difference between “alarmist” and “alarming”
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Media and the Climate Crisis
Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis . This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the “crisis” frame. It also briefly reviews the state…
On the Overlap of Systemic Events
Covid-19 represents a systemic event-a state of emergency-that disrupts the routines of societies from the level of individuals to institutions, nations, and global interaction. Revealing the vulnerability of the intensively interconnected world suggests a juxtaposition with another systemic crisis: the climate emergency. Drawing on some key literature on the different aspects of 'events'-as heightened political semiosis (Wagner-Pacifi), as (poss…
The Transformation of Communicative Power Into Political Power
This article examines Jürgen Habermas’ concept of communicative power and describes how it transforms into political power in actual decision-making. For this purpose, the article develops the use of Habermas’ typology of validity claims in communicative action as a framework for analysis. This means analyzing how public performances invoking these validity claims affect actors’ authority, which is then capitalized in policymaking. The article th…
Traces of Fukushima
A forced opportunity
Media and Global Climate Knowledge
This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the s
Journalism and the Nsa Revelations
Changing Power of Journalism
Current conceptualizations of mediatization, particularly the mediatization of politics, stem largely from the imaginaries of the mass media era. This article questions the validity of these conceptualizations in the contemporary, more diffuse media environment. It argues that we are entering a new phase of mediatization in which journalism—as a core institution of the media—itself struggles with the effects of mediatization. Bringing together th…
Media in Political Power
This article looks at the role of media in political decision making by making use of Parson’s concept of political power. It enables a look at how media is both an essential resource of political power and a crucial factor in the environment in which political power works. Drawing on a qualitative interview sample of 60 elite decision makers and an elite survey (N = 419), Finnish decision making is found to be quite thoroughly mediatized. Mediat…
From Credibility to Relevance
Uncertainty about the future of journalism and what may be expected from the news media have generated special interest in how news organisations connect with the audience. In this paper three analytical approaches are described: institutional connection, market connection and public connection. While the two former approaches are more familiar to the media industry, it is argued that the latter seems theoretically and empirically more useful. Fu…
Stories of a public
One of the recurrent findings of journalism research has been that access to the news and public discussion is severely structurally limited. Elite speakers tend to appear as ‘primary definers’ while ordinary people play the subordinate role of ‘symbol people’. Less attention has been paid to how ‘ordinary people’ could be represented differently. This article offers a close reading of two journalistic experiments in which journalists tried to br…
Journalism as robust secular drama
Mapping Professional Imagination
Journalism research has a long tradition of making sense of professional practices from the perspective of the everyday routines of news work. This article seeks to make a contribution to this literature by mapping out how the professional community of journalists interprets the current change and future challenges of their trade. The paper uses the conceptual framework offered by Bourdieu's field theory, but moves beyond it by suggesting that sy…
Ambivalent ambassadors and realistic reporters
The European Union represents an emerging transnational political system for mainstream professional journalism. As a developing and enlarging system of power, expertise and a field of negotiation for compromises it provides a new horizon for journalism and journalists who have been strongly shaped by national discourses about politics, democracy and the public sphere. This article tackles this broad challenge in three steps. First, a synthetic a…
Good Journalism
Journalism as a genuinely public profession is facing serious economic, cultural, political and professional challenges. There is a growing need for journalism criticism that would help the profession of journalism to retain its relevance in late modern media societies. This article argues that such criticism must be sensitive to the experiences and viewpoints of people and organizations outside the traditional professional community of journalis…
Conversation
Conversation" has become a fashionable metaphor for thinking about journalism and its role in social life, particularly with the rise of the public journalism movement. This article reports the findings from an experiment in which the metaphor was taken as a practical model for producing more citizen-oriented content for reporting. Experiences from citizen focus groups acting as the source of reporting are analysed and their challenges for journa…
Public Journalism and Its Problems a Theoretical Perspective
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeikki HeikkiläHeikki Heikkilä and Risto Kunelius are research fellows at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, PO Box 607, FIN-33101 Tampere
Mapping Professional Imagination
Journalism research has a long tradition of making sense of professional practices from the perspective of the everyday routines of news work. This article seeks to make a contribution to this literature by mapping out how the professional community of journalists interprets the current change and future challenges of their trade. The paper uses the conceptual framework offered by Bourdieu's field theory, but moves beyond it by suggesting that sy…
Good Journalism
Journalism as a genuinely public profession is facing serious economic, cultural, political and professional challenges. There is a growing need for journalism criticism that would help the profession of journalism to retain its relevance in late modern media societies. This article argues that such criticism must be sensitive to the experiences and viewpoints of people and organizations outside the traditional professional community of journalis…
Changing Power of Journalism
Current conceptualizations of mediatization, particularly the mediatization of politics, stem largely from the imaginaries of the mass media era. This article questions the validity of these conceptualizations in the contemporary, more diffuse media environment. It argues that we are entering a new phase of mediatization in which journalism—as a core institution of the media—itself struggles with the effects of mediatization. Bringing together th…
A forced opportunity
Media in Political Power
This article looks at the role of media in political decision making by making use of Parson’s concept of political power. It enables a look at how media is both an essential resource of political power and a crucial factor in the environment in which political power works. Drawing on a qualitative interview sample of 60 elite decision makers and an elite survey (N = 419), Finnish decision making is found to be quite thoroughly mediatized. Mediat…
Stories of a public
One of the recurrent findings of journalism research has been that access to the news and public discussion is severely structurally limited. Elite speakers tend to appear as ‘primary definers’ while ordinary people play the subordinate role of ‘symbol people’. Less attention has been paid to how ‘ordinary people’ could be represented differently. This article offers a close reading of two journalistic experiments in which journalists tried to br…
From Credibility to Relevance
Uncertainty about the future of journalism and what may be expected from the news media have generated special interest in how news organisations connect with the audience. In this paper three analytical approaches are described: institutional connection, market connection and public connection. While the two former approaches are more familiar to the media industry, it is argued that the latter seems theoretically and empirically more useful. Fu…
Media and the Climate Crisis
Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis . This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the “crisis” frame. It also briefly reviews the state…
Ambivalent ambassadors and realistic reporters
The European Union represents an emerging transnational political system for mainstream professional journalism. As a developing and enlarging system of power, expertise and a field of negotiation for compromises it provides a new horizon for journalism and journalists who have been strongly shaped by national discourses about politics, democracy and the public sphere. This article tackles this broad challenge in three steps. First, a synthetic a…
Public Journalism and Its Problems a Theoretical Perspective
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeikki HeikkiläHeikki Heikkilä and Risto Kunelius are research fellows at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, PO Box 607, FIN-33101 Tampere
Traces of Fukushima
Journalism as robust secular drama
The Journalism in Climate Change Websites
Survey results from news consumers around the world suggest that specialist or niche websites covering climate change are now one of the most important sources of climate information. However, there is very little detailed scholarship about these sites. We carried out semi-structured interviews with senior representatives of 14 online information sites, based in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, which prioritize the provision…
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld
For the Habermasian theory of the “public sphere” to make sense in the 2020s, it must be able to address the modern tendency toward global systemic crises. To examine the relevance of the Habermasian public sphere to today’s deeply interconnected digital world, this article provides a selective reading of Habermas’ writings on the public sphere, examining how he developed the concept from its conceptual core (1962) through his Legitimation Crisis…
The return of propaganda
In this introductory article, we discuss the rise of the “classical” theories of propaganda, starting with an historical exposé of the concept, which traces its roots and trajectory through the field of academic analysis. Propaganda is then discussed in relation to other adjacent concepts such as soft power, public diplomacy, nation branding, fake news, and so on. In a third section, the concept of propaganda is discussed in relation to the prese…
On the Overlap of Systemic Events
Covid-19 represents a systemic event-a state of emergency-that disrupts the routines of societies from the level of individuals to institutions, nations, and global interaction. Revealing the vulnerability of the intensively interconnected world suggests a juxtaposition with another systemic crisis: the climate emergency. Drawing on some key literature on the different aspects of 'events'-as heightened political semiosis (Wagner-Pacifi), as (poss…
The Legacy of the Sociology of News Paradigm
The sociology of news (SoN) paradigm laid out the foundations for journalism studies, a growing, dynamic, global and multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It is opportune to reassess its validity and influence, especially considering massive transformations in news and journalism, as well as recent trends in academic scholarship. In this paper, we argue that the SoN remains influential, despite major transformations in the journalism industry and t…
Conversation
Conversation" has become a fashionable metaphor for thinking about journalism and its role in social life, particularly with the rise of the public journalism movement. This article reports the findings from an experiment in which the metaphor was taken as a practical model for producing more citizen-oriented content for reporting. Experiences from citizen focus groups acting as the source of reporting are analysed and their challenges for journa…
Order and Interpretation
I take as my starting point John Dewey's often quoted notion that society exists not only ` by communication' but also ` in transmission, in communication' (Dewey, 1916: 5). From this James Carey (1975) created a definition of communication as a form of society, `a process whereby reality is created, shared, modified and preserved'. Here we have a definition of communication that articulates and combines the historical experiences of rapidly deve…
Public Journalism and Its Problems a Theoretical Perspective
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeikki HeikkiläHeikki Heikkilä and Risto Kunelius are research fellows at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, PO Box 607, FIN-33101 Tampere
Conversation
Conversation" has become a fashionable metaphor for thinking about journalism and its role in social life, particularly with the rise of the public journalism movement. This article reports the findings from an experiment in which the metaphor was taken as a practical model for producing more citizen-oriented content for reporting. Experiences from citizen focus groups acting as the source of reporting are analysed and their challenges for journa…
Good Journalism
Journalism as a genuinely public profession is facing serious economic, cultural, political and professional challenges. There is a growing need for journalism criticism that would help the profession of journalism to retain its relevance in late modern media societies. This article argues that such criticism must be sensitive to the experiences and viewpoints of people and organizations outside the traditional professional community of journalis…
Mapping Professional Imagination
Journalism research has a long tradition of making sense of professional practices from the perspective of the everyday routines of news work. This article seeks to make a contribution to this literature by mapping out how the professional community of journalists interprets the current change and future challenges of their trade. The paper uses the conceptual framework offered by Bourdieu's field theory, but moves beyond it by suggesting that sy…
Ambivalent ambassadors and realistic reporters
The European Union represents an emerging transnational political system for mainstream professional journalism. As a developing and enlarging system of power, expertise and a field of negotiation for compromises it provides a new horizon for journalism and journalists who have been strongly shaped by national discourses about politics, democracy and the public sphere. This article tackles this broad challenge in three steps. First, a synthetic a…
Journalism as robust secular drama
From Credibility to Relevance
Uncertainty about the future of journalism and what may be expected from the news media have generated special interest in how news organisations connect with the audience. In this paper three analytical approaches are described: institutional connection, market connection and public connection. While the two former approaches are more familiar to the media industry, it is argued that the latter seems theoretically and empirically more useful. Fu…
Stories of a public
One of the recurrent findings of journalism research has been that access to the news and public discussion is severely structurally limited. Elite speakers tend to appear as ‘primary definers’ while ordinary people play the subordinate role of ‘symbol people’. Less attention has been paid to how ‘ordinary people’ could be represented differently. This article offers a close reading of two journalistic experiments in which journalists tried to br…
Media in Political Power
This article looks at the role of media in political decision making by making use of Parson’s concept of political power. It enables a look at how media is both an essential resource of political power and a crucial factor in the environment in which political power works. Drawing on a qualitative interview sample of 60 elite decision makers and an elite survey (N = 419), Finnish decision making is found to be quite thoroughly mediatized. Mediat…
Changing Power of Journalism
Current conceptualizations of mediatization, particularly the mediatization of politics, stem largely from the imaginaries of the mass media era. This article questions the validity of these conceptualizations in the contemporary, more diffuse media environment. It argues that we are entering a new phase of mediatization in which journalism—as a core institution of the media—itself struggles with the effects of mediatization. Bringing together th…
Media and Global Climate Knowledge
This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the s
Journalism and the Nsa Revelations
A forced opportunity
The Transformation of Communicative Power Into Political Power
This article examines Jürgen Habermas’ concept of communicative power and describes how it transforms into political power in actual decision-making. For this purpose, the article develops the use of Habermas’ typology of validity claims in communicative action as a framework for analysis. This means analyzing how public performances invoking these validity claims affect actors’ authority, which is then capitalized in policymaking. The article th…
Traces of Fukushima
On the Overlap of Systemic Events
Covid-19 represents a systemic event-a state of emergency-that disrupts the routines of societies from the level of individuals to institutions, nations, and global interaction. Revealing the vulnerability of the intensively interconnected world suggests a juxtaposition with another systemic crisis: the climate emergency. Drawing on some key literature on the different aspects of 'events'-as heightened political semiosis (Wagner-Pacifi), as (poss…
The difference between “alarmist” and “alarming”
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Media and the Climate Crisis
Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis . This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the “crisis” frame. It also briefly reviews the state…
The Journalism in Climate Change Websites
Survey results from news consumers around the world suggest that specialist or niche websites covering climate change are now one of the most important sources of climate information. However, there is very little detailed scholarship about these sites. We carried out semi-structured interviews with senior representatives of 14 online information sites, based in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, which prioritize the provision…
Niche climate news sites and the changing context of covering catastrophe
One of the most significant and understudied changes in climate journalism in recent years, and the focus us this study, is the establishment of new niche sites. These sites, which are dedicated exclusively to covering climate-related issues, are now some of the most important sources of climate information. Drawing on interviews with site founders and editors, we explore the experiences and knowledge of these climate journalism innovators to gle…
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld
For the Habermasian theory of the “public sphere” to make sense in the 2020s, it must be able to address the modern tendency toward global systemic crises. To examine the relevance of the Habermasian public sphere to today’s deeply interconnected digital world, this article provides a selective reading of Habermas’ writings on the public sphere, examining how he developed the concept from its conceptual core (1962) through his Legitimation Crisis…
The return of propaganda
In this introductory article, we discuss the rise of the “classical” theories of propaganda, starting with an historical exposé of the concept, which traces its roots and trajectory through the field of academic analysis. Propaganda is then discussed in relation to other adjacent concepts such as soft power, public diplomacy, nation branding, fake news, and so on. In a third section, the concept of propaganda is discussed in relation to the prese…
Media and power in times of hegemonic crisis
During moments of hegemonic crisis, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of media power. This article identifies key structural forces and disruptive tendencies that are factors in a current crisis of the neoliberal hegemonic order. This intellectual background underpins an empirical analysis of Twitter data collected during the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26). We identify large attention clusters around established political a…
The Legacy of the Sociology of News Paradigm
The sociology of news (SoN) paradigm laid out the foundations for journalism studies, a growing, dynamic, global and multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It is opportune to reassess its validity and influence, especially considering massive transformations in news and journalism, as well as recent trends in academic scholarship. In this paper, we argue that the SoN remains influential, despite major transformations in the journalism industry and t…
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