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Presidential speeches and the online politics of belonging : Affective-discursive positions toward refugees in Finland and Estonia
2019
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 the other, the comparative analysis highlights both similarities and differences in how emotional expressions are employed in these two countries with very different experiences of taking refugees. Despite employing common discursive elements in thei…
“Cute Goddess is Actually an Aunty”: The Evasive Middle-Aged Woman Streamer and Normative Performances of Femininity in Video Game Streaming
2022
In this paper the focus is on the representations of “middle-aged” or “aging” women streamers in western media. I analyze discussions in Western online media around a case of Chinese DouYu live-streamer. “Qiaobiluo Dianxia,” as her streamer name goes, became a topic in Western media after a glitch in her live stream revealed her to be a middle-aged woman, rather than young woman she was assumed to be. The discussions are analyzed with critical discourse analysis. It is argued that the aging bodies of women, both their presence and absence, should be read and understood through toxic gaming culture and geek masculinity and the hegemonic discourse they constitute.
Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life Change
2018
In 2017, a publicly funded, nationwide campaign called the Scale Rebellion set out to address fatness through body positivity and fat activism in Finland, with a fat woman named Jenny Lehtinen havi...
Weaving the threads of international criminal justice: The double dialogicity of law and politics in the ICC al-Mahdi case
2021
International audience; In this paper, we examine the international criminal trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a Malian Islamist who appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, charged with the destruction of Islamic shrines during the 2012 jihadist occupation of Timbuktu. Our objective is to analyze the so-called 'al-Mahdi case' as a dialogical network (the destructions occurred in the context of an asynchronous translocal press-mediated exchange between jihadists and the international community) and as an event unfolding at a dialogical site (when the commander responsible for the destructions was referred to the ICC four years later). These two dialogical orders e…
Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2011, Vasara (212)
2011
Contents: “ZVAIGŽŅOTĀ DEBESS” FORTY YEARS AGO: A.Balklavs. Extremely Distant New Objects of Metagalaxy (abridged) ; Newspaper „Literaturnaja Rossija” 9 April 1971. Astronautics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (abridged) ; CONFERENCE “The VIEW from SPACE. FIRST MANNED SPACE FLIGHT – 50”: M.Gills. Conference on the Eve of Human Space Flight Anniversary ; J.Ekmanis, S.Negrejeva. Mstislav Keldysh and Golden Age of Soviet Science ; T.Millers. Contribution of Scientists of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry to the Development of Space Technologies and Materials ; G.Vilka. Remembrance of Friedrich Zander in Rīga ; O.Plepis. My Contribution to the Development of Space Medicine ; J.Stradiņš. Latvia’s …
Millaista demokratiaa? : diskurssianalyysi tavoitellun kuntaliitoksen (Oulainen-Vihanti) keskusteluista vuosina 2011-2014
2014
Demokratian kehitys on huolestuttanut suomalaisia pitkään. Alenevat äänestysprosentit ja vaisu osallistuminen yhteisten asioiden hoitoon ovat saaneet aikaan sen, että Suomen valtiohallinnossa on paneuduttu voimakkaasti demokratian ongelmien kartoittamiseen ja suotuisan kehityksen aikaansaamiseen. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää kuntaliitosargumentaatiota vuosien 2011–2014 ajalta entisen Vihannin kunnan valtuuston pöytäkirjoista, paikallislehdistä ja kuntalaisten kommenteista sosiaalisessa mediassa. Ensiksi tarkastelun kohteena ovat argumentaatiot puolesta ja vastaan, kun kyseessä on Vihannin eteläosien liittäminen Oulaisten kaupunkiin. Toiseksi pureudutaan siihen, millaisena dem…
Ārpusstundu nodarbības dendroloģijas apguvē
2016
Ārpusstundu nodarbības ar katru gadu kļūst aktuālākas ne tikai lauku skolās, bet arī pilsēta skolās. Darba aktualitāte bija noskaidrot kā ārpusstundu nodarbības ietekmē dendroloģijas apguvi skolā. Darba mērķis bija noskaidrot, kā ārpusstundu nodarbību izmantošana ietekmē dendroloģijas apguvi. Tika izstrādāts dendroloģijas kurss, kuru izmantotu ne tikai skolas, bet visi respondenti, kuriem interesē apgūt kaut ko jaunu. Tika aptaujāti ar anketas palīdzību trīs respondentu grupas ( skolēni, skolotāji, studenti). Lai noskaidrotu par dendroloģijas kursa nepieciešamību. Tika izmantotas vairākas pētījuma metodes: gadījuma pētījums, izmantojot datu ieguves metodes anketēšanu un interviju, kā arī ve…
“Diagnosing” the Need or in “Need” of a Diagnosis? Reconceptualizing Educational Need
2017
This chapter is based on compulsory school experiences of students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their parents in the educational context of Finland. Located in the theoretical framework of Disability Studies, the chapter aims to contribute to theory of inclusive education by initiating a new dialogue on conceptual foundations of inclusive schooling. In this regard, the chapter first deconstructs the concept of educational need that stems from the field of traditional special education as contradictory to the original ideals of inclusive education. It then moves on to reconstruct the concept of educational need in accordance with the foundational values …
Hybrid Engagement: Discourses and Scenarios of Entrepreneurial Journalism
2018
Although the challenge posed by social media and the participatory turn concerns culture and values at the very heart of journalism, journalists have been reluctant to adopt participatory values and practices. To encourage audience participation and to offer journalism that is both trustworthy and engaging, journalists of the future may embrace a hybrid practice of journalistic objectivity and audience-centred dialogue. As innovative and experimental actors, entrepreneurial journalism outlets can perform as forerunners of such a culture. By analysing discourses in the “About Us” pages of 41 entrepreneurial journalism outlets, the article examines the emerging journalistic ethos of entrepren…
Stalinismi musiikissa : narodnost-käsite Neuvostoliiton musiikkipolitiikan diskursseissa 1930-luvulla
2016
Tässä maisterintutkielmassa tarkasteltiin yhden sosialistisen realismin alakäsitteen, narodnostin, merkitystä ja asemaa Neuvostoliiton musiikkipolitiikassa 1930-luvulla. Narodnost-käsitteen merkitystä selvitettiin suhteessa 1930-luvun Neuvostoliiton laajempiin poliittisiin diskursseihin, mikä toi esille Neuvostoliiton virallisen taidesuuntauksen muotoutumisen yhteyden tuon ajan historialliseen ja poliittiseen kontekstiin. Käsitteen määrittelyssä hyödynnettiin kahta historian ja kielen suhdetta tarkastelevaa teoreettista viitekehystä, diskurssintutkimusta ja käsitehistoriaa. Näiden teorioiden pohjalta luotiin lähestymistapa, jossa käsitteiden nähdään muodostuvan diskursseista. Näin ollen käs…