Kari Karppinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4209766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kari Karppinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kari |
| FAMILY NAME | Karppinen |
| SIGNATURE | KARPPINEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6394-367X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alustojen valta, käyttäjien vastuu
Artikkeli tarkastelee, miten suomalaiset kansanedustajat hahmottavat sosiaalisen median yhteiskunnallisia haittoja ja millaiset ongelmanmäärittelyt heidän puheessaan korostuvat. Aineistona ovat kansanedustajien sosiaalista mediaa koskevat puheenvuorot eduskunnan täysistunnoissa vuosina 2006–2024. Teoreettinen lähestymistapamme kytkeytyy sosiaalisten representaatioiden teoriaan, ja analyyttisena kehikkona toimii WPR-lähestymistapa, joka erottelee …
Platform Values and Strategic Positioning
As large digital platforms are criticized for lacking accountability to lawmakers, stakeholders, and publics, their discourse on values has become a strategic positioning to showcase their fidelity to the public good. The Chinese short-video platform TikTok, which has proved both popular and controversial since its emergence in 2018, serves as an example of how platforms employ values to respond to external demands. Drawing from positioning theor…
What Democracy Are We Talking About
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has recently been associated with numerous concerns about its impact for democracy. This article aims to assess this debate from the perspective of different normative conceptions of democracy. This article argues that a more theoretically grounded discussion is needed to guide current efforts to understand and regulate GenAI. By systematically reviewing the emerging literature on GenAI and democracy, th…
Framing Nordic public service media
This article analyses how the role and remit of public service media (PSM) and its relationship to current media and societal developments are framed in recent media policy discourses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, countries often described as Media Welfare States (MWS). Employing the framework of discursive (media) institutionalism and frame analysis as a method, we analyse policy documents covering a 10-year period to identify differe…
Uudet oikeudet internetissä
Erityisesti sosiaalisen median alustojen vallan ja haittavaikutusten seurauksena on tapahtunut niin sanottu internetin sääntelykäänne. Sillä tarkoitetaan muutosta, jossa internetin vapautta korostavasta politiikasta on siirrytty tiukempaan sääntelyyn. Osana tätä keskustelua niin tutkimuksessa kuin kansalaisjärjestöissä on käyty vilkasta keskustelua uusista periaatteista ja oikeuksista, joihin sääntelyn pitäisi pohjautua. Tässä katsauksessa tarkas…
Operationalizing exposure diversity
The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social gro…
Four Discourses of Digital Rights
The notion of digital rights has recently generated a number of political declarations and civil society initiatives across the world. By critically examining these declarations and academic debates on digital rights, this article asks: Why is it that information policy issues are increasingly framed in terms of individual rights? And on what understandings of rights do various political, corporate, and civil society declarations of digital right…
Exposure diversity as a design principle for recommender systems
Personalized recommendations in search engines, social media and also in more traditional media increasingly raise concerns over potentially negative consequences for diversity and the quality of public discourse. The algorithmic filtering and adaption of online content to personal preferences and interests is often associated with a decrease in the diversity of information to which users are exposed. Notwithstanding the question of whether these…
Freedom Without Idealization
This article discusses the normative perspectives that guide debates on freedom of communication and media, from the perspective of the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theories. In political theory, ideal theories are often criticized as being detached from actual, existing social conditions and real-world problems. Similarly, it can be argued that abstract and idealized models of freedom of communication and media do not provide the most…
The Limits of Empirical Indicators
As the chapters in this book illustrate, the notion of media pluralism has become an increasingly central, yet contested, part of media policy debates in both academic discourse and policy practice around the world. The reasons for the topicality of media pluralism as a policy issue are many, ranging from political and ideological trends to changes in the media landscape itself. Apart from the inherent value of pluralism and diversity as key noti…
Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China , by Daniela Stockmann Freedom from the Press
Following the global trend of media marketization, many authoritarian societies have opened their previously state-controlled media systems to market forces. But should marketization be seen as a d
Framing the Newspaper Crisis
This article argues that discourses of a newspaper “crisis” should not be regarded simply as descriptions of the actual state of the press but also as a means by which strategic actors frame the situation. The emerging frames can have substantial consequences for media policy making. The study identifies four key frames used to portray the newspaper “crisis” and discusses their relevance for public debates in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the …
What We Talk about When We Talk about “The Market”
How would media policy discourse benefit from more precise use of the ambiguous term “the market”? The term's economic and metaphorical constructions are often conflated, say the authors. For example, the metaphor can be used ideologically to obscure private political and economic interests. While there is no single uncontroversial definition of the term, greater clarity about the difference between its empirical and normative uses, according to …
Policy streams and public service media funding reforms in Germany and Finland
On 1 January 2013, Germany and Finland made the switch from the traditional broadcasting licence fee tied to television-set ownership to a compulsory excise duty collected from all citizens, households and places of business. This article compares the changes in these countries’ public service media funding arrangements on the basis of John Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams’ framework of public policy-making which, to date, has been rather neglected in…
Guiding Principles for Internet Policy
The governance of the Internet on the global level has attracted much attention. In the process the importance of the national context has gotten downplayed. We argue that understanding of the national context is a necessary complement to research on global governance for an understanding of the dynamics of Internet development. We spotlight the importance of the national context by showing that seemingly global principles have varying import and…
Rethinking Media Pluralism
Contends that the notions of media pluralism and diversity have been reduced to empty catchphrases or conflated with consumer choice and market competition.
A Critique of “Media Governance”
Die Beiträge in diesem Band behandeln Kommunikations- und Medienpolitik in der Ära des Internets aus zwei Perspektiven: Theorien und Prozesse. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei erstens die Frage, wie sich politische Prozesse in diesem Politikbereich bedingt durch technische Neuerungen und damit verbundene soziale und ökonomische Entwicklungen verändern. Wie diese vielschichtigen Veränderungen mithilfe ausgewählter theoretischer Ansätze untersucht werden…
Translating diversity to Internet governance
This paper examines the emergence of diversity as a guiding principle of Internet governance. This paper compares how diversity is being interpreted and applied in Internet governance discourse and related research with its interpretation and application in traditional communications policy-making and policy research. As this paper illustrates, a somewhat more narrow conceptualization of diversity has developed within the Internet governance cont…
Against naïve pluralism in media politics
Framing the Newspaper Crisis
This article argues that discourses of a newspaper “crisis” should not be regarded simply as descriptions of the actual state of the press but also as a means by which strategic actors frame the situation. The emerging frames can have substantial consequences for media policy making. The study identifies four key frames used to portray the newspaper “crisis” and discusses their relevance for public debates in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the …
Freedom Without Idealization
This article discusses the normative perspectives that guide debates on freedom of communication and media, from the perspective of the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theories. In political theory, ideal theories are often criticized as being detached from actual, existing social conditions and real-world problems. Similarly, it can be argued that abstract and idealized models of freedom of communication and media do not provide the most…
Policy streams and public service media funding reforms in Germany and Finland
On 1 January 2013, Germany and Finland made the switch from the traditional broadcasting licence fee tied to television-set ownership to a compulsory excise duty collected from all citizens, households and places of business. This article compares the changes in these countries’ public service media funding arrangements on the basis of John Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams’ framework of public policy-making which, to date, has been rather neglected in…
What We Talk about When We Talk about “The Market”
How would media policy discourse benefit from more precise use of the ambiguous term “the market”? The term's economic and metaphorical constructions are often conflated, say the authors. For example, the metaphor can be used ideologically to obscure private political and economic interests. While there is no single uncontroversial definition of the term, greater clarity about the difference between its empirical and normative uses, according to …
Framing Nordic public service media
This article analyses how the role and remit of public service media (PSM) and its relationship to current media and societal developments are framed in recent media policy discourses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, countries often described as Media Welfare States (MWS). Employing the framework of discursive (media) institutionalism and frame analysis as a method, we analyse policy documents covering a 10-year period to identify differe…
Operationalizing exposure diversity
The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social gro…
Four Discourses of Digital Rights
The notion of digital rights has recently generated a number of political declarations and civil society initiatives across the world. By critically examining these declarations and academic debates on digital rights, this article asks: Why is it that information policy issues are increasingly framed in terms of individual rights? And on what understandings of rights do various political, corporate, and civil society declarations of digital right…
Against naïve pluralism in media politics
Against naïve pluralism in media politics
Rethinking Media Pluralism
Contends that the notions of media pluralism and diversity have been reduced to empty catchphrases or conflated with consumer choice and market competition.
A Critique of “Media Governance”
Die Beiträge in diesem Band behandeln Kommunikations- und Medienpolitik in der Ära des Internets aus zwei Perspektiven: Theorien und Prozesse. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei erstens die Frage, wie sich politische Prozesse in diesem Politikbereich bedingt durch technische Neuerungen und damit verbundene soziale und ökonomische Entwicklungen verändern. Wie diese vielschichtigen Veränderungen mithilfe ausgewählter theoretischer Ansätze untersucht werden…
Translating diversity to Internet governance
This paper examines the emergence of diversity as a guiding principle of Internet governance. This paper compares how diversity is being interpreted and applied in Internet governance discourse and related research with its interpretation and application in traditional communications policy-making and policy research. As this paper illustrates, a somewhat more narrow conceptualization of diversity has developed within the Internet governance cont…
What We Talk about When We Talk about “The Market”
How would media policy discourse benefit from more precise use of the ambiguous term “the market”? The term's economic and metaphorical constructions are often conflated, say the authors. For example, the metaphor can be used ideologically to obscure private political and economic interests. While there is no single uncontroversial definition of the term, greater clarity about the difference between its empirical and normative uses, according to …
Policy streams and public service media funding reforms in Germany and Finland
On 1 January 2013, Germany and Finland made the switch from the traditional broadcasting licence fee tied to television-set ownership to a compulsory excise duty collected from all citizens, households and places of business. This article compares the changes in these countries’ public service media funding arrangements on the basis of John Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams’ framework of public policy-making which, to date, has been rather neglected in…
Guiding Principles for Internet Policy
The governance of the Internet on the global level has attracted much attention. In the process the importance of the national context has gotten downplayed. We argue that understanding of the national context is a necessary complement to research on global governance for an understanding of the dynamics of Internet development. We spotlight the importance of the national context by showing that seemingly global principles have varying import and…
The Limits of Empirical Indicators
As the chapters in this book illustrate, the notion of media pluralism has become an increasingly central, yet contested, part of media policy debates in both academic discourse and policy practice around the world. The reasons for the topicality of media pluralism as a policy issue are many, ranging from political and ideological trends to changes in the media landscape itself. Apart from the inherent value of pluralism and diversity as key noti…
Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China , by Daniela Stockmann Freedom from the Press
Following the global trend of media marketization, many authoritarian societies have opened their previously state-controlled media systems to market forces. But should marketization be seen as a d
Framing the Newspaper Crisis
This article argues that discourses of a newspaper “crisis” should not be regarded simply as descriptions of the actual state of the press but also as a means by which strategic actors frame the situation. The emerging frames can have substantial consequences for media policy making. The study identifies four key frames used to portray the newspaper “crisis” and discusses their relevance for public debates in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the …
Exposure diversity as a design principle for recommender systems
Personalized recommendations in search engines, social media and also in more traditional media increasingly raise concerns over potentially negative consequences for diversity and the quality of public discourse. The algorithmic filtering and adaption of online content to personal preferences and interests is often associated with a decrease in the diversity of information to which users are exposed. Notwithstanding the question of whether these…
Freedom Without Idealization
This article discusses the normative perspectives that guide debates on freedom of communication and media, from the perspective of the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theories. In political theory, ideal theories are often criticized as being detached from actual, existing social conditions and real-world problems. Similarly, it can be argued that abstract and idealized models of freedom of communication and media do not provide the most…
Four Discourses of Digital Rights
The notion of digital rights has recently generated a number of political declarations and civil society initiatives across the world. By critically examining these declarations and academic debates on digital rights, this article asks: Why is it that information policy issues are increasingly framed in terms of individual rights? And on what understandings of rights do various political, corporate, and civil society declarations of digital right…
Operationalizing exposure diversity
The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social gro…
Uudet oikeudet internetissä
Erityisesti sosiaalisen median alustojen vallan ja haittavaikutusten seurauksena on tapahtunut niin sanottu internetin sääntelykäänne. Sillä tarkoitetaan muutosta, jossa internetin vapautta korostavasta politiikasta on siirrytty tiukempaan sääntelyyn. Osana tätä keskustelua niin tutkimuksessa kuin kansalaisjärjestöissä on käyty vilkasta keskustelua uusista periaatteista ja oikeuksista, joihin sääntelyn pitäisi pohjautua. Tässä katsauksessa tarkas…
Alustojen valta, käyttäjien vastuu
Artikkeli tarkastelee, miten suomalaiset kansanedustajat hahmottavat sosiaalisen median yhteiskunnallisia haittoja ja millaiset ongelmanmäärittelyt heidän puheessaan korostuvat. Aineistona ovat kansanedustajien sosiaalista mediaa koskevat puheenvuorot eduskunnan täysistunnoissa vuosina 2006–2024. Teoreettinen lähestymistapamme kytkeytyy sosiaalisten representaatioiden teoriaan, ja analyyttisena kehikkona toimii WPR-lähestymistapa, joka erottelee …
Platform Values and Strategic Positioning
As large digital platforms are criticized for lacking accountability to lawmakers, stakeholders, and publics, their discourse on values has become a strategic positioning to showcase their fidelity to the public good. The Chinese short-video platform TikTok, which has proved both popular and controversial since its emergence in 2018, serves as an example of how platforms employ values to respond to external demands. Drawing from positioning theor…
What Democracy Are We Talking About
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has recently been associated with numerous concerns about its impact for democracy. This article aims to assess this debate from the perspective of different normative conceptions of democracy. This article argues that a more theoretically grounded discussion is needed to guide current efforts to understand and regulate GenAI. By systematically reviewing the emerging literature on GenAI and democracy, th…
Framing Nordic public service media
This article analyses how the role and remit of public service media (PSM) and its relationship to current media and societal developments are framed in recent media policy discourses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, countries often described as Media Welfare States (MWS). Employing the framework of discursive (media) institutionalism and frame analysis as a method, we analyse policy documents covering a 10-year period to identify differe…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)