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1. Children’s News Media as a Space for Learning About Difference

Author

Camilla Haavisto, Avanti Chajed, and Rasmus Kyllönen

Subjects
children’s journalism, conviviality, ethnic differences, finland, media literacy education, media for children, racial differences, Communication. Mass media, P87-96
Abstract

In this article, we show how everyday difference is conceptualised in Finland through our analysis of media products for children (HBL Junior, HS Lasten Uutiset, and Yle Mix). We consider media as a part of the “lived curriculum” through which media professionals intentionally or unintentionally reproduce particular discourses of difference and sameness that become part of children’s everyday learning and understanding of multicultural society. Our aim in doing so is to consider what marks these discourses produced specifically for children, and what versions of difference they replicate and advance. We find that children’s media advances discourses of “comfortable conviviality” through the paradigms of colour-blind friendship, the universal experience of childhood, and through a firm belief in social cohesion as the master signifier of Finnish society. Through the lens of inclusiveness, we discuss the implications of these discourses on journalism and media literacy.

Published
2022
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2. Positioning Migrant Physicians as Dr. Horror and Dr. Nice: 'A study of status and affect in online discussion forums'

Author

Camilla Haavisto

Subjects
globalising health-care industry, migrant physicians, online discussion forums, status conflicts and affect, Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration, JV1-9480, Communities. Classes. Races, HT51-1595
Abstract

While ethnic hierarchies and labour market enclaves are commonly discussed at the macro level, this study focuses on a less explored area of research, namely, the study of ethnic and professional hierarchies on the level of mediated discourse. Taking various kinds of online discussion forums as the empirical entry point, this article sets out to answer if and how ethnicity, migrant background and/or language skills emerge as new hierarchical logics beside divisions, such as gender and education, when professional status is assigned online. Drawing on affect theory and the notion of status conflict, this article argues that in Finnish online discussion forums, the high-skilled migrant care worker is envisioned as a paradoxical figure who at the same time is seen as a saviour from abroad and an “affect alien” who causes confusion and discomfort. Both positions, the article argues, are the fruits of a narrow discursive construction of the commodified high-skilled migrant as “a servant” for our needs.

Published
2014
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4. Towards a journalism of hope? Compassion and locality in European mediations of distant suffering

Author

Camilla Haavisto and Mari Maasilta

Subjects
Cultural Studies, business.industry, Communication, media_common.quotation_subject, Gender studies, Compassion, Genocide, 16. Peace & justice, Solidarity, Movie theater, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Compassion fatigue, Journalism, Sociology, business, News media, media_common, Mass media
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Despite the apparent failure of the European news media to create solidarity across geographic and mediated space during the Rwandan genocide and the Second Congo War, humanitarian suffering in the region has recently reached Europe through literature and cinema. Amongst the recent cultural oeuvres dealing with humanitarian issues in the region, we find the autobiography A long way from paradise (2010) by Leah Chishugi and the documentary film Blood in the Mobile (2010) by Frank Poulsen. Drawing on an empirical study encompassing online discussion sites, news media and magazines in three European countries (Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom), we ask how journalists and web commentators relate to these two cultural products in particular, and human suffering on the African continent in general. We are particularly interested in whether and how compassion is verbalised and visualised in online and offline narratives when the African Great Lakes region is discussed. We also ask whether and how ...

Published
2015
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5. Listening to Distant Sufferers: The Kony 2012 Campaign in Uganda and the International Media

Author

Mari Maasilta and Camilla Haavisto

Subjects
business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Context (language use), Development, Public relations, 16. Peace & justice, New media, Newspaper, Politics, Political science, Active listening, Conversation, Social media, business, News media, media_common
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We use the mediated debate on the Kony 2012 campaign as a case study to explore whether and how traditional and new media practices enable sufferers of humanitarian conflicts to find a voice and to be listened to in both the local and international news media. Within the context of political voice, we emphasise political voice as a social process that involves not only speaking, but also the right to be listened to and to be engaged in conversation. The empirical material for this study consists of a selection of Ugandan newspapers and social media platforms, as well as a selection of international newspapers. Media texts related to the Kony 2012 campaign during the 2 months following the launch of the campaign were singled out and studied with the help of qualitative claims-making analysis. Our findings show that the voices of northern Ugandan victims were heard and conveyed through personal testimonies of Ugandan bloggers and via privately owned local news media. Despite Ugandan victims being temporaril...

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2014
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