Heikki Heikkilä
Biographic Data
| ID | 4499511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heikki Heikkilä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heikki |
| FAMILY NAME | Heikkilä |
| SIGNATURE | HEIKKILÄ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tampere |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8457-9766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond Moral Coupling
The article calls into question the prevailing discursive construction in contemporary debate on privacy and surveillance. At the core of this discourse is a moral coupling wherein surveillance is perceived as enemy and privacy as friend. Even if this binary approach renders arguments for democratising data more persuasive, a political cost accompanies it. As this discourse situates political struggle at the level of digital infrastructure and po…
Journalism and the Nsa Revelations
How effective is media self-regulation? Results from a comparative survey of European journalists
This article presents key results of a comparative journalists’ survey on media accountability, for which 1762 journalists in 14 countries had been interrogated online. The article explores how European journalists perceive the impact of old versus new media accountability instruments on professional journalistic standards – established instruments like press councils, ethics codes, ombudsmen and media criticism, but also more recent online instr…
The Relevance of Journalism
The media-saturated nature of everyday life is well acknowledged in current audience research, but the role of journalism for people living in this digitalised environment remains less clear. To provide a better understanding of the role of journalism and news in everyday life, this article states the case for combining two complementary analytical perspectives in cultural audience research that draw on the framework of practice theory. We need t…
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…
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…
Beyond 'In so far as' Questions
■ Sociological analysts of the European public sphere (EPS) are not great believers in the assumption that an EPS will emerge. The argument stems from cumulative empirical evidence stating that contemporary communication structures and practices do not live up to the ideals of the public sphere; not even in their moderate forms. While this line of analysis is useful, it runs the risk of ignoring the fact that the public sphere is not a fixed, but…
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
The Relevance of Journalism
The media-saturated nature of everyday life is well acknowledged in current audience research, but the role of journalism for people living in this digitalised environment remains less clear. To provide a better understanding of the role of journalism and news in everyday life, this article states the case for combining two complementary analytical perspectives in cultural audience research that draw on the framework of practice theory. We need t…
How effective is media self-regulation? Results from a comparative survey of European journalists
This article presents key results of a comparative journalists’ survey on media accountability, for which 1762 journalists in 14 countries had been interrogated online. The article explores how European journalists perceive the impact of old versus new media accountability instruments on professional journalistic standards – established instruments like press councils, ethics codes, ombudsmen and media criticism, but also more recent online instr…
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…
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
Beyond 'In so far as' Questions
■ Sociological analysts of the European public sphere (EPS) are not great believers in the assumption that an EPS will emerge. The argument stems from cumulative empirical evidence stating that contemporary communication structures and practices do not live up to the ideals of the public sphere; not even in their moderate forms. While this line of analysis is useful, it runs the risk of ignoring the fact that the public sphere is not a fixed, but…
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
Beyond 'In so far as' Questions
■ Sociological analysts of the European public sphere (EPS) are not great believers in the assumption that an EPS will emerge. The argument stems from cumulative empirical evidence stating that contemporary communication structures and practices do not live up to the ideals of the public sphere; not even in their moderate forms. While this line of analysis is useful, it runs the risk of ignoring the fact that the public sphere is not a fixed, but…
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…
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…
The Relevance of Journalism
The media-saturated nature of everyday life is well acknowledged in current audience research, but the role of journalism for people living in this digitalised environment remains less clear. To provide a better understanding of the role of journalism and news in everyday life, this article states the case for combining two complementary analytical perspectives in cultural audience research that draw on the framework of practice theory. We need t…
How effective is media self-regulation? Results from a comparative survey of European journalists
This article presents key results of a comparative journalists’ survey on media accountability, for which 1762 journalists in 14 countries had been interrogated online. The article explores how European journalists perceive the impact of old versus new media accountability instruments on professional journalistic standards – established instruments like press councils, ethics codes, ombudsmen and media criticism, but also more recent online instr…
Journalism and the Nsa Revelations
Beyond Moral Coupling
The article calls into question the prevailing discursive construction in contemporary debate on privacy and surveillance. At the core of this discourse is a moral coupling wherein surveillance is perceived as enemy and privacy as friend. Even if this binary approach renders arguments for democratising data more persuasive, a political cost accompanies it. As this discourse situates political struggle at the level of digital infrastructure and po…
Sociology (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Journalism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (3 works) · Social science (3 works)