Veikko Pietilä
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veikko Pietilä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veikko |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietilä |
| SIGNATURE | PIETILÄ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tampere |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ideological Powers and Resistance
Perspectives on our past
There are by now several different outlines of the history of Anglo‐American mass communication studies. This essays argues that most of them can be reduced to three: mass communication research (MCR), the New Left and the cultural version. The description of how these three versions (re)shaped the field's history is anchored in the view that besides being efforts to pursue the past, they represent a stand taken on the situations and constellatio…
Beyond the News Story
The article discusses newspaper news stories in terms of linguistic and literary narratology. It regards the news as a discursive composition, which is produced by the journalist-mobilized news narrator, singling out relevant pieces of information from the discourses of real-life actors, ordering them into definite relationships and binding them together in a linking discourse. The article presents a detailed analysis of the properties of the nar…
Theoretical Convergences and Contrasts
Inspired by an increasing interest in the history and theory of mass communication studies, the case of Finland is presented in five consecutive stages, which partly reflect features specific to the country and partly more universal developments. A crucial turn took place in the late 1960s, stimulated by policy developments in the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), and leading to a unique paradigm and to debates with proponents of paradigms prod…
Alienation and Use of the Mass Media
A general assumption is that alienation correlates with consumption of escape-type content from the mass media. In the study reported here this was not observed. In order to interpret this result alienation was considered as a process beginning with difficulties in situation definitions. Assumedly the 'heavy' information of the mass media offers such definitions. In the beginning of the alienation process people thus feel difficulties in defining…
Immediate Versus Delayed Reward in Newspaper Reading
Perspectives on our past
There are by now several different outlines of the history of Anglo‐American mass communication studies. This essays argues that most of them can be reduced to three: mass communication research (MCR), the New Left and the cultural version. The description of how these three versions (re)shaped the field's history is anchored in the view that besides being efforts to pursue the past, they represent a stand taken on the situations and constellatio…
Ideological Powers and Resistance
Beyond the News Story
The article discusses newspaper news stories in terms of linguistic and literary narratology. It regards the news as a discursive composition, which is produced by the journalist-mobilized news narrator, singling out relevant pieces of information from the discourses of real-life actors, ordering them into definite relationships and binding them together in a linking discourse. The article presents a detailed analysis of the properties of the nar…
Alienation and Use of the Mass Media
A general assumption is that alienation correlates with consumption of escape-type content from the mass media. In the study reported here this was not observed. In order to interpret this result alienation was considered as a process beginning with difficulties in situation definitions. Assumedly the 'heavy' information of the mass media offers such definitions. In the beginning of the alienation process people thus feel difficulties in defining…
Immediate Versus Delayed Reward in Newspaper Reading
Theoretical Convergences and Contrasts
Inspired by an increasing interest in the history and theory of mass communication studies, the case of Finland is presented in five consecutive stages, which partly reflect features specific to the country and partly more universal developments. A crucial turn took place in the late 1960s, stimulated by policy developments in the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), and leading to a unique paradigm and to debates with proponents of paradigms prod…
Immediate Versus Delayed Reward in Newspaper Reading
Alienation and Use of the Mass Media
A general assumption is that alienation correlates with consumption of escape-type content from the mass media. In the study reported here this was not observed. In order to interpret this result alienation was considered as a process beginning with difficulties in situation definitions. Assumedly the 'heavy' information of the mass media offers such definitions. In the beginning of the alienation process people thus feel difficulties in defining…
Theoretical Convergences and Contrasts
Inspired by an increasing interest in the history and theory of mass communication studies, the case of Finland is presented in five consecutive stages, which partly reflect features specific to the country and partly more universal developments. A crucial turn took place in the late 1960s, stimulated by policy developments in the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), and leading to a unique paradigm and to debates with proponents of paradigms prod…
Beyond the News Story
The article discusses newspaper news stories in terms of linguistic and literary narratology. It regards the news as a discursive composition, which is produced by the journalist-mobilized news narrator, singling out relevant pieces of information from the discourses of real-life actors, ordering them into definite relationships and binding them together in a linking discourse. The article presents a detailed analysis of the properties of the nar…
Perspectives on our past
There are by now several different outlines of the history of Anglo‐American mass communication studies. This essays argues that most of them can be reduced to three: mass communication research (MCR), the New Left and the cultural version. The description of how these three versions (re)shaped the field's history is anchored in the view that besides being efforts to pursue the past, they represent a stand taken on the situations and constellatio…
Ideological Powers and Resistance
Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Field (mathematics (2 works) · History (2 works)