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Title of the presentation:
Media in crisis? Epistemic, financial, and professional aspects
Short abstract of the presentation:
There is much talk of the crisis of the media today. For some, it is first and foremost the crisis of journalism which is seen increasingly commercialized and trivialized. For some, it is the crisis in newspaper readership as young people turn more and more to alternative sources of information, internet and social media. For some others, it is an economic crisis of the whole media industry as advertising is moving away from the traditional media. The global recession has made things even worse. However, the predicament of the media industry can be only partly explained by technological and economic factors. I will argue that these developments are linked to a much deeper cultural change which has been coming for a long time and which concerns especially all institutions that deal with the production and dissemination of information and knowledge. I call this change an epistemic turn. In my lecture I will sketch out a three level analysis of the crisis of the media. I will call these levels epistemic, economic, and professional
Short biography:
Hannu Nieminen (hannu.nieminen@helsinki.fi) is professor of media policy and director of the Communication Research Centre CRC at the Department of Communication, University of Helsinki, Finland. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 in the University of Westminster, London. His research interests include media and democracy, theories of the public sphere and media and communication policy. His latest publication is Russian Media 2008: the View from Outside (2009, co-edited with Elena Vartanova and Minna-Mari Salminen). His monographs include People Stood Apart: the Constitution of the National Public Sphere in Finland 1809–1917 (2006, in Finnish), Hegemony and the Public Sphere (2000), and Democracy and Communication: Habermas, Williams, and the British Case (1997). (For a fuller cv, see http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hanniemi/cv/ ; for more publications, see http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hanniemi/publications/ .)
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