Markus Ojala
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Ojala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Ojala |
| SIGNATURE | OJALA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7784-8179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Upholding neoliberal dogmas
This study reinterprets market discipline within European economic governance as a neoliberal idea and rhetorical tool rather than merely a mechanism for constraining national fiscal policies. It examines how market discipline is employed in discussions surrounding the eurozone’s economic challenges before, during, and after the euro crisis, drawing on literature about neoliberal resilience and the rhetorical function of ideas in policymaking. An…
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 …
Where is the public of ‘networked publics’? A critical analysis of the theoretical limitations of online publics research
The study of online media use has been elemental in shaping the research on publics within communication and media studies in the last few decades. This article takes a critical view of this research by asking to what extent it has been informed by the long history of theoretical work on the concept of the public. Reviewing the literature on ‘networked publics’ as an illustrative example, we demonstrate how the lack of public-theoretical engageme…
Heikentynyttä vai eriytynyttä? Suomalaisten luottamus uutismediaan
Artikkeli tarkastelee suomalaisten ilmaisemaa luottamusta uutismediaan ja journalismiin vuosina 2007 ja 2019 toteutettujen kyselytutkimusten avulla. Pyrkimyksenä on syventää muiden viimeaikaisten tutkimusten tuottamaa kuvaa aiheesta havainnoimalla yleisöjen suoraan ilmaiseman luottamuksen lisäksi epäsuorasti ilmaistua luottamusta. Se tulee ilmi, kun yleisöt arvioivat median ja journalismin suoriutumista niihin kohdistuvista odotuksista. Tavoittee…
The Multidimensionality of Trust
Finland provides an interesting case study on trust in the media in the digital era. The country is known to exhibit the greatest levels of trust in the political establishment and the government, as well as the media. In the Finnish “digital welfare state,” the news is an inseparable part of the mechanism, producing a high level of social trust within the welfare state system, and Finland features the highest level of media freedom and literacy …
Is the Age of Impartial Journalism Over? The Neutrality Principle and Audience (Dis)trust in Mainstream News
This exploratory study addresses the relationship between audience trust in the news media and the ideal of neutrality in journalism. It starts from the premise that, at a time when national conservatism is on the rise as a political movement in Western societies, journalism is less and less recognised as a neutral actor in politics. Therefore, efforts to present itself as such may be damaging journalism’s credibility and trustworthiness among it…
The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s, Martin Herzer (2019)
Review of: The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s , Martin Herzer (2019) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 357 pp., ISBN 978-3-03028-777-1, h/bk, €82.49, ISBN 978-3-03028-778-8, e/bk, €64.19
Doing Away with the Sovereign
This article proposes a critical reading of market discipline and its limitations as a mechanism in European economic governance. Consistent with neoliberal beliefs about market-based governance, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is premised on the functioning of the government bond market as a fiscal-policy discipliner. However, the operation of market discipline requires that neither governments nor their private creditors can rely on an au…
Refugee debate and networked framing in the hybrid media environment
In this article, we analyse how the debate on the ‘refugee crisis’ has been constructed in Finnish news media and social media by using big data analytics. The study applies big data with the aim of exploring the dynamics between the mainstream news media and social media and the ways in which these dynamics shape and strategically amplify different understandings of the refugee crisis. The research highlights over-emphasis of crime and threat-or…
Presidential speeches and the online politics of belonging
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has added urgency to the social dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. This study explores how emotions figure in this politics of belonging by studying their discursive mobilization in Finnish and Estonian public debates on asylum seekers. Focusing on presidential speeches addressing the refugee issue, on the one hand, and their reception by online commenters on popular tabloid news sites, on th…
Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries
Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist approach to journalistic roles, the study examines how Finnish journalists conceived of their professional roles when covering asylum issues during the…
Networked publics as agents of accountability
This study examines how citizens made use of online platforms to direct diverging critiques and demands at the Finnish Immigration Service during what has come to be known as the refugee crisis in Europe. Focusing on peak periods of debate, identified using big data, we closely observe how public scrutiny of the immigration service occurred in the interactions between online users, the news media and the agency itself. Our analysis indicates that…
Caught between sympathy and suspicion
Personal stories in news reports serve multiple purposes, but at their core lie efforts at illustrating and authenticating a social or political issue through human experience, an illustration that is compelling in its affective appeal. Telling the personal stories of people belonging to minority groups may work as a potent journalistic vehicle in countering negative stereotypes and prejudices against them. This article examines how Finnish journ…
Naturalising the new cold war
The conflict in Ukraine has prompted analyses about the return of cold war divisions to Europe. This study focusses on the role the news media plays in the conflict by examining how the visual and textual practices of news framing help constitute geopolitical rationality and legitimise foreign policy. We analyse how the framing of the conflict in Die Welt, Dagens Nyheter, Helsingin Sanomat and The Guardian developed through four key events betwee…
Mediating the German Ideology
The German Government has played a leading role in the Eurozone crisis management, largely characterised by a commitment to fiscal austerity and supply-side structural reforms. The legitimation of these measures in the European policy arenas as well as in the public domain has partly rested on an ordoliberal economic policy framing, which has presented the Eurozone crisis as one of public indebtedness and loss of competitiveness. To study the pub…
Professional role enactment amid information warfare
War correspondents work within a networked media environment characterised not only by an explosion of information but also a wide range of actors producing competing narratives and viewpoints. This study examines the ways in which war correspondents enact their professional roles when tweeting from within a conflict zone. The analysis sheds light on the conditions of modern information warfare in the context of reporting from within the Ukraine …
Mediating Global Imaginary
This article addresses the role of journalism in the construction and mediation of global imaginary. I suggest that the notion of global journalism helps us understand how the image of an interconnected world becomes embedded in the news. The operation of global journalism is illustrated with a qualitative content analysis of the coverage of President Obama's “Address to the Muslim World” in quality British, German and Spanish newspapers. The ana…
Naturalising the new cold war
The conflict in Ukraine has prompted analyses about the return of cold war divisions to Europe. This study focusses on the role the news media plays in the conflict by examining how the visual and textual practices of news framing help constitute geopolitical rationality and legitimise foreign policy. We analyse how the framing of the conflict in Die Welt, Dagens Nyheter, Helsingin Sanomat and The Guardian developed through four key events betwee…
Is the Age of Impartial Journalism Over? The Neutrality Principle and Audience (Dis)trust in Mainstream News
This exploratory study addresses the relationship between audience trust in the news media and the ideal of neutrality in journalism. It starts from the premise that, at a time when national conservatism is on the rise as a political movement in Western societies, journalism is less and less recognised as a neutral actor in politics. Therefore, efforts to present itself as such may be damaging journalism’s credibility and trustworthiness among it…
Refugee debate and networked framing in the hybrid media environment
In this article, we analyse how the debate on the ‘refugee crisis’ has been constructed in Finnish news media and social media by using big data analytics. The study applies big data with the aim of exploring the dynamics between the mainstream news media and social media and the ways in which these dynamics shape and strategically amplify different understandings of the refugee crisis. The research highlights over-emphasis of crime and threat-or…
Networked publics as agents of accountability
This study examines how citizens made use of online platforms to direct diverging critiques and demands at the Finnish Immigration Service during what has come to be known as the refugee crisis in Europe. Focusing on peak periods of debate, identified using big data, we closely observe how public scrutiny of the immigration service occurred in the interactions between online users, the news media and the agency itself. Our analysis indicates that…
Professional role enactment amid information warfare
War correspondents work within a networked media environment characterised not only by an explosion of information but also a wide range of actors producing competing narratives and viewpoints. This study examines the ways in which war correspondents enact their professional roles when tweeting from within a conflict zone. The analysis sheds light on the conditions of modern information warfare in the context of reporting from within the Ukraine …
Mediating the German Ideology
The German Government has played a leading role in the Eurozone crisis management, largely characterised by a commitment to fiscal austerity and supply-side structural reforms. The legitimation of these measures in the European policy arenas as well as in the public domain has partly rested on an ordoliberal economic policy framing, which has presented the Eurozone crisis as one of public indebtedness and loss of competitiveness. To study the pub…
Caught between sympathy and suspicion
Personal stories in news reports serve multiple purposes, but at their core lie efforts at illustrating and authenticating a social or political issue through human experience, an illustration that is compelling in its affective appeal. Telling the personal stories of people belonging to minority groups may work as a potent journalistic vehicle in countering negative stereotypes and prejudices against them. This article examines how Finnish journ…
Doing Away with the Sovereign
This article proposes a critical reading of market discipline and its limitations as a mechanism in European economic governance. Consistent with neoliberal beliefs about market-based governance, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is premised on the functioning of the government bond market as a fiscal-policy discipliner. However, the operation of market discipline requires that neither governments nor their private creditors can rely on an au…
Mediating Global Imaginary
This article addresses the role of journalism in the construction and mediation of global imaginary. I suggest that the notion of global journalism helps us understand how the image of an interconnected world becomes embedded in the news. The operation of global journalism is illustrated with a qualitative content analysis of the coverage of President Obama's “Address to the Muslim World” in quality British, German and Spanish newspapers. The ana…
Where is the public of ‘networked publics’? A critical analysis of the theoretical limitations of online publics research
The study of online media use has been elemental in shaping the research on publics within communication and media studies in the last few decades. This article takes a critical view of this research by asking to what extent it has been informed by the long history of theoretical work on the concept of the public. Reviewing the literature on ‘networked publics’ as an illustrative example, we demonstrate how the lack of public-theoretical engageme…
Presidential speeches and the online politics of belonging
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has added urgency to the social dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. This study explores how emotions figure in this politics of belonging by studying their discursive mobilization in Finnish and Estonian public debates on asylum seekers. Focusing on presidential speeches addressing the refugee issue, on the one hand, and their reception by online commenters on popular tabloid news sites, on th…
Mediating Global Imaginary
This article addresses the role of journalism in the construction and mediation of global imaginary. I suggest that the notion of global journalism helps us understand how the image of an interconnected world becomes embedded in the news. The operation of global journalism is illustrated with a qualitative content analysis of the coverage of President Obama's “Address to the Muslim World” in quality British, German and Spanish newspapers. The ana…
Mediating the German Ideology
The German Government has played a leading role in the Eurozone crisis management, largely characterised by a commitment to fiscal austerity and supply-side structural reforms. The legitimation of these measures in the European policy arenas as well as in the public domain has partly rested on an ordoliberal economic policy framing, which has presented the Eurozone crisis as one of public indebtedness and loss of competitiveness. To study the pub…
Professional role enactment amid information warfare
War correspondents work within a networked media environment characterised not only by an explosion of information but also a wide range of actors producing competing narratives and viewpoints. This study examines the ways in which war correspondents enact their professional roles when tweeting from within a conflict zone. The analysis sheds light on the conditions of modern information warfare in the context of reporting from within the Ukraine …
Naturalising the new cold war
The conflict in Ukraine has prompted analyses about the return of cold war divisions to Europe. This study focusses on the role the news media plays in the conflict by examining how the visual and textual practices of news framing help constitute geopolitical rationality and legitimise foreign policy. We analyse how the framing of the conflict in Die Welt, Dagens Nyheter, Helsingin Sanomat and The Guardian developed through four key events betwee…
Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries
Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist approach to journalistic roles, the study examines how Finnish journalists conceived of their professional roles when covering asylum issues during the…
Networked publics as agents of accountability
This study examines how citizens made use of online platforms to direct diverging critiques and demands at the Finnish Immigration Service during what has come to be known as the refugee crisis in Europe. Focusing on peak periods of debate, identified using big data, we closely observe how public scrutiny of the immigration service occurred in the interactions between online users, the news media and the agency itself. Our analysis indicates that…
Caught between sympathy and suspicion
Personal stories in news reports serve multiple purposes, but at their core lie efforts at illustrating and authenticating a social or political issue through human experience, an illustration that is compelling in its affective appeal. Telling the personal stories of people belonging to minority groups may work as a potent journalistic vehicle in countering negative stereotypes and prejudices against them. This article examines how Finnish journ…
Refugee debate and networked framing in the hybrid media environment
In this article, we analyse how the debate on the ‘refugee crisis’ has been constructed in Finnish news media and social media by using big data analytics. The study applies big data with the aim of exploring the dynamics between the mainstream news media and social media and the ways in which these dynamics shape and strategically amplify different understandings of the refugee crisis. The research highlights over-emphasis of crime and threat-or…
Presidential speeches and the online politics of belonging
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has added urgency to the social dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. This study explores how emotions figure in this politics of belonging by studying their discursive mobilization in Finnish and Estonian public debates on asylum seekers. Focusing on presidential speeches addressing the refugee issue, on the one hand, and their reception by online commenters on popular tabloid news sites, on th…
The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s, Martin Herzer (2019)
Review of: The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s , Martin Herzer (2019) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 357 pp., ISBN 978-3-03028-777-1, h/bk, €82.49, ISBN 978-3-03028-778-8, e/bk, €64.19
Doing Away with the Sovereign
This article proposes a critical reading of market discipline and its limitations as a mechanism in European economic governance. Consistent with neoliberal beliefs about market-based governance, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is premised on the functioning of the government bond market as a fiscal-policy discipliner. However, the operation of market discipline requires that neither governments nor their private creditors can rely on an au…
The Multidimensionality of Trust
Finland provides an interesting case study on trust in the media in the digital era. The country is known to exhibit the greatest levels of trust in the political establishment and the government, as well as the media. In the Finnish “digital welfare state,” the news is an inseparable part of the mechanism, producing a high level of social trust within the welfare state system, and Finland features the highest level of media freedom and literacy …
Is the Age of Impartial Journalism Over? The Neutrality Principle and Audience (Dis)trust in Mainstream News
This exploratory study addresses the relationship between audience trust in the news media and the ideal of neutrality in journalism. It starts from the premise that, at a time when national conservatism is on the rise as a political movement in Western societies, journalism is less and less recognised as a neutral actor in politics. Therefore, efforts to present itself as such may be damaging journalism’s credibility and trustworthiness among it…
Heikentynyttä vai eriytynyttä? Suomalaisten luottamus uutismediaan
Artikkeli tarkastelee suomalaisten ilmaisemaa luottamusta uutismediaan ja journalismiin vuosina 2007 ja 2019 toteutettujen kyselytutkimusten avulla. Pyrkimyksenä on syventää muiden viimeaikaisten tutkimusten tuottamaa kuvaa aiheesta havainnoimalla yleisöjen suoraan ilmaiseman luottamuksen lisäksi epäsuorasti ilmaistua luottamusta. Se tulee ilmi, kun yleisöt arvioivat median ja journalismin suoriutumista niihin kohdistuvista odotuksista. Tavoittee…
Where is the public of ‘networked publics’? A critical analysis of the theoretical limitations of online publics research
The study of online media use has been elemental in shaping the research on publics within communication and media studies in the last few decades. This article takes a critical view of this research by asking to what extent it has been informed by the long history of theoretical work on the concept of the public. Reviewing the literature on ‘networked publics’ as an illustrative example, we demonstrate how the lack of public-theoretical engageme…
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 …
Upholding neoliberal dogmas
This study reinterprets market discipline within European economic governance as a neoliberal idea and rhetorical tool rather than merely a mechanism for constraining national fiscal policies. It examines how market discipline is employed in discussions surrounding the eurozone’s economic challenges before, during, and after the euro crisis, drawing on literature about neoliberal resilience and the rhetorical function of ideas in policymaking. An…
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (5 works)