Terhi Rantanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terhi Rantanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rantanen |
| SIGNATURE | RANTANEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5345-6699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Transnational Knowledge, Methodology, and Institutions in Global Media Studies
In this dialogue, Terhi Rantanen traces her intellectual trajectory from early disillusionment with quantitative content analysis through institutional histories of news agencies to the sociology of knowledge in Dead Men’s Propaganda . Drawing on four decades of comparative communications studies, she elaborates a critique of “methodological inter-nationalism” and advances methodological cosmopolitanism by taking cities and transnational flows as…
Toward Hybridity? Nationality, Ownership, and Governance of News Agencies in Europe
This article explores the nationality, ownership, and governance of news agencies in Europe, and suggests that we need to rethink and problematize the categories previously used when studying these. Drawing on recent data from a pan-European study, the article suggests that the concept of hybridity could be applied to analyzing news agencies’ nationality, ownership, and governance. It reviews the concept through different fields: (a) cultural stu…
Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation
The relationship between the ownership form of news agencies and their independence has long figured centrally in debates about the quality of news agency operations. Drawing on a discursive institutional framework, this article explores how national news agency executives in Europe perform a narrated role in the discursive construction of their organizations’ internal and external independence. We set out the concept of independence discourse, w…
Introduction to special section on news agencies in Europe
Media events, spectacles and risky globalization
We review the research conducted to date on media events and media spectacles. We posit that the main phenomena challenging the current conceptualizations of media event and media spectacle are (1) the understanding of risk, (2) the context of disasters and (3) globalization and the mediation of news in the context of transnational and transitional societies. We suggest that more research on disruptive events is needed. In the context of the new …
Ulrich Beck – A cosmopolitan from Munich
The Worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai
In this article we propose an alternative model for comparative communication research. We first make the case for comparing cities, especially worlding cities outside what is traditionally called the “West.” We then explicate what we mean by comparing cultures of communication and why this offers an opportunity to reevaluate methodological nationalism and the cultural dynamics of worlding. We go on to use Shanghai and St. Petersburg as two histo…
A Change of Lens
This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”—in this case the media in China with the media in Russia. We have identified three blind spots in previous comparative media research that have resulted in turning attention away from comparative study of China and Russia. These are: (1) ahistoricism; (2) misunderstand…
A critique of the systems approaches in comparative media research
This article looks critically at the systems approaches in comparative media studies when applied to studying the relationship between media and politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It introduces a concept of methodological systematization consisting of four different components: (1) the relationship between a political and a media system (methodological politicization); (2) the relationship between democracy and a media system (methodol…
Quiet, but not silenced in many languages
“Quickening Urgency”
This chapter argues that the history of wire services cannot only be written in a national context. In order to gain a fuller understanding of the origins of wire services and telegraph and submarine cables in any country, we need to include their relationships with their counterparts in other countries. Wire services, by their very nature, were interwoven with one another through the technology they used and across national boundaries. The chapt…
When News Was New
When News Was New
List of figures and tables. Introduction: When News Was New. 1. Temporalization: How News Became New. 2. Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think. 3. Globalization: When News Became Global. 4. Commodification: How To Sell News. 5. Localization: Places in News. 6. Nationalization: News and the Nation-states. 7. Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday. Bibliography. Index
In memory of Roger Silverstone
The Cosmopolitanization of News
In this article I argue that, in contrast to earlier research on the relationship between “national” and “international” news, news was not originally “national” or “international”, but rather cosmopolitan, between cities rather than nation-states. Introducing cities as a starting point for analysis opens up new ways to understand empirical materials that have previously been theorized by using the national–international framework. I explore the …
A transnational cosmopolitan
An interview with Ulf Hannerz,Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is Sweden’s most famous anthropologist and well known internationally for his contribution to the anthropological study of globalization
Foreign Dependence and Domestic Monopoly
When research on news agencies was carried out in the 1970s and 1980s, they were often used as examples of the primary media resulting in cultural homogenization, westernization or Anglo-Americanization. However, if we study the earlier periods of global news transmission we can see that Anglo-American dominance is relatively new and was preceded by a long-lasting struggle between US and European agencies over the hegemony in world news.
A man behind scapes
Digging the global mine
This article contains an interview with Saskia Sassen who has written extensively on the issues related to globalization, on global cities; inequalities in the world economy; the transnational mobility of people and money; immigration trends and policies; digital technologies and global changes in state power and political sovereignty
The media and globalization
This book offers a clear and accessible overview of globalization and the pivotal role of the media. An introduction to the concepts and theories of globalization, empirical data on the production and consumption of media, a methodology for relating individual, local experiences to the global picture
The Media and Globalization
Theorizing Media and Globalization A History of Mediated Globalization Time, Place and Space Homogenization Heterogenization Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Conclusion
Cosmopolitanization – now
Giddens and the ‘G’-word
The message is the medium
The New Sense of Place in 19th-Century News
In this article the early historical development of the concept of place in news is analyzed. Most news studies concentrate either on the content of news (or on the `event') or, if they pay attention to the geography of news, as in the news flow tradition, they concentrate on the states the news originates from. However, it is places, not states where most news comes from. This article examines how sense of place was constructed in electronic for…
European national news agencies
This article calls for more concerted scholarly attention to the role of national news agencies. The authors argue that the very viability of the institution of national news agency in many parts of Europe is under severe strain. The sources of pressure, however, are identifiably similar to those which have plagued news agencies since their inception, having to do with issues of ownership, relationship to the state, relations with clients, achiev…
A Change of Lens
This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”—in this case the media in China with the media in Russia. We have identified three blind spots in previous comparative media research that have resulted in turning attention away from comparative study of China and Russia. These are: (1) ahistoricism; (2) misunderstand…
A critique of the systems approaches in comparative media research
This article looks critically at the systems approaches in comparative media studies when applied to studying the relationship between media and politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It introduces a concept of methodological systematization consisting of four different components: (1) the relationship between a political and a media system (methodological politicization); (2) the relationship between democracy and a media system (methodol…
The globalization of electronic news in the 19th century
This article contributes to the debate on globalization and the mass media. It argues that news agencies played a key role in globalization, using the early submarine cable networks, as early as the latter half of the 19th century; that manipulation of time and space on a global scale was an essential component in the construction of news as a category and in its commodification. The article then goes on to argue that this new global news space w…
Cosmopolitanization – now
The Cosmopolitanization of News
In this article I argue that, in contrast to earlier research on the relationship between “national” and “international” news, news was not originally “national” or “international”, but rather cosmopolitan, between cities rather than nation-states. Introducing cities as a starting point for analysis opens up new ways to understand empirical materials that have previously been theorized by using the national–international framework. I explore the …
The message is the medium
A transnational cosmopolitan
An interview with Ulf Hannerz,Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is Sweden’s most famous anthropologist and well known internationally for his contribution to the anthropological study of globalization
The Old and the New
In post-Communist Russia, when talking about new communications technology, one has to ask what is `new' and what is `old'. Already in the Communist era increasing availability of new communications technology (for example fax machines and email) amplified cheap `small' technology as an alternative to `big' and expensive technology controlled by the state. New communications technology, at the crossroads of mass and interpersonal communication, w…
A man behind scapes
Giddens and the ‘G’-word
The New Sense of Place in 19th-Century News
In this article the early historical development of the concept of place in news is analyzed. Most news studies concentrate either on the content of news (or on the `event') or, if they pay attention to the geography of news, as in the news flow tradition, they concentrate on the states the news originates from. However, it is places, not states where most news comes from. This article examines how sense of place was constructed in electronic for…
News Agencies in Post-Communist Russia
The transformation of Russian news agencies occurred within the general framework of perestroika and the ongoing economic, political and social turmoil of Russian society. This article focuses on the new competitive situation in the Russian news market, examines the origins of private news agencies and identifies the major changes in the position and functions of state-owned agencies. New relationships between news agencies as suppliers and the R…
What Is to Be Done?1 Media in Postsocialist Countries
The globalization of electronic news in the 19th century
This article contributes to the debate on globalization and the mass media. It argues that news agencies played a key role in globalization, using the early submarine cable networks, as early as the latter half of the 19th century; that manipulation of time and space on a global scale was an essential component in the construction of news as a category and in its commodification. The article then goes on to argue that this new global news space w…
The Globalization of News
The Globalization of News
This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video news and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation …
European national news agencies
This article calls for more concerted scholarly attention to the role of national news agencies. The authors argue that the very viability of the institution of national news agency in many parts of Europe is under severe strain. The sources of pressure, however, are identifiably similar to those which have plagued news agencies since their inception, having to do with issues of ownership, relationship to the state, relations with clients, achiev…
The Old and the New
In post-Communist Russia, when talking about new communications technology, one has to ask what is `new' and what is `old'. Already in the Communist era increasing availability of new communications technology (for example fax machines and email) amplified cheap `small' technology as an alternative to `big' and expensive technology controlled by the state. New communications technology, at the crossroads of mass and interpersonal communication, w…
The New Sense of Place in 19th-Century News
In this article the early historical development of the concept of place in news is analyzed. Most news studies concentrate either on the content of news (or on the `event') or, if they pay attention to the geography of news, as in the news flow tradition, they concentrate on the states the news originates from. However, it is places, not states where most news comes from. This article examines how sense of place was constructed in electronic for…
The media and globalization
This book offers a clear and accessible overview of globalization and the pivotal role of the media. An introduction to the concepts and theories of globalization, empirical data on the production and consumption of media, a methodology for relating individual, local experiences to the global picture
The Media and Globalization
Theorizing Media and Globalization A History of Mediated Globalization Time, Place and Space Homogenization Heterogenization Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Conclusion
Cosmopolitanization – now
Giddens and the ‘G’-word
The message is the medium
Foreign Dependence and Domestic Monopoly
When research on news agencies was carried out in the 1970s and 1980s, they were often used as examples of the primary media resulting in cultural homogenization, westernization or Anglo-Americanization. However, if we study the earlier periods of global news transmission we can see that Anglo-American dominance is relatively new and was preceded by a long-lasting struggle between US and European agencies over the hegemony in world news.
A man behind scapes
Digging the global mine
This article contains an interview with Saskia Sassen who has written extensively on the issues related to globalization, on global cities; inequalities in the world economy; the transnational mobility of people and money; immigration trends and policies; digital technologies and global changes in state power and political sovereignty
In memory of Roger Silverstone
The Cosmopolitanization of News
In this article I argue that, in contrast to earlier research on the relationship between “national” and “international” news, news was not originally “national” or “international”, but rather cosmopolitan, between cities rather than nation-states. Introducing cities as a starting point for analysis opens up new ways to understand empirical materials that have previously been theorized by using the national–international framework. I explore the …
A transnational cosmopolitan
An interview with Ulf Hannerz,Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is Sweden’s most famous anthropologist and well known internationally for his contribution to the anthropological study of globalization
When News Was New
When News Was New
List of figures and tables. Introduction: When News Was New. 1. Temporalization: How News Became New. 2. Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think. 3. Globalization: When News Became Global. 4. Commodification: How To Sell News. 5. Localization: Places in News. 6. Nationalization: News and the Nation-states. 7. Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday. Bibliography. Index
“Quickening Urgency”
This chapter argues that the history of wire services cannot only be written in a national context. In order to gain a fuller understanding of the origins of wire services and telegraph and submarine cables in any country, we need to include their relationships with their counterparts in other countries. Wire services, by their very nature, were interwoven with one another through the technology they used and across national boundaries. The chapt…
A critique of the systems approaches in comparative media research
This article looks critically at the systems approaches in comparative media studies when applied to studying the relationship between media and politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It introduces a concept of methodological systematization consisting of four different components: (1) the relationship between a political and a media system (methodological politicization); (2) the relationship between democracy and a media system (methodol…
Quiet, but not silenced in many languages
Media events, spectacles and risky globalization
We review the research conducted to date on media events and media spectacles. We posit that the main phenomena challenging the current conceptualizations of media event and media spectacle are (1) the understanding of risk, (2) the context of disasters and (3) globalization and the mediation of news in the context of transnational and transitional societies. We suggest that more research on disruptive events is needed. In the context of the new …
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