Hattivatti Redesign

Speaking of pictures, there will be no more infringement of Tove Jansson's artistic copyright. I am happy to introduce to you: the network logo!

- our own legitimate hattivatti made in Copenhagen by a local (although Swedish) graphic benefactor. These new hattivatti seem somewhat more alert than the Jansson ones, but they have kept their original unfeigned attitude (avoiding the well-tried pensive look).

Tampere today

This is not journalism (research). But it is news: Winter has arrived to Tampere. (It's nice to have some pics in the blog... ;)

Auli

Active Audiences (read all about it)

Following Mats Ekström's lecture in Tampere in September we briefly discussed the question of whether the roles of spectators and listeners could rightfully be considered passive ones. Mats tended to oppose this idea and has kindly supplied me with a list of references concerning active media audiences (and has agreed to my passing it on to the rest of you). Please feel free to make comments or add titles to the list. Here it is:

- Sturken, Marita & Lisa Cartwright (2001) Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

- Schwartz, Vanessa (1998) Spectacular Realities. Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.
University of California Press.

- Abercrombie, Nicholas & Brian Longhurst (1998) Audiences. A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination. London: Sage.

- Alasuutari, Pertti (1999) Rethinking the Media Audience. London: Sage.


And finally (in Norwegian):

- Hagen, Ingunn (1998) Medias Publikum. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.


The notions of spectators and listeners came up with reference to Mats Ekström's article "Information, Story-telling and Attractions: Tv-journalism in three Modes of Communication". Media, Culture and Society 22/4 (2000): 465-492 (cf. also 'TABLE 3: Roles in different modes of communication' in the handout, if you've still got it).

Blogging as News?

A clip from the Danish daily Information (in translation - for your convenience) :

Yahoo: Blogging as News
In the United States the extension of blogs is somewhat greater than in Denmark. For instance, it has been discussed in Congress whether bloggers should enjoy the same rights as journalists. While the search engine Google recently launched a separate blog search (blogsearch.google.com), the competition, Yahoo, tackles the problem in a radically different way. Yahoo has included blogs in their news search (news.yahoo.com), so that private blogs will appear alongside news from the New York Times and other ‘real’ media. It is no matter of surprise that the decision has caused great controversy concerning the difference between private individuals’ interpretation of the news and the work of professional journalists. /nt (Oct. 14, 2005, pp. 14/15).

Hi, and thanks

Greetings from the North American prairie, and thanks for inviting me to join. This is my first blog entry of any sort, which doesn't make it momentous, of course. Didn't Chris say that blogging is sitting alone in a pub, shouting? Well, not alone in this case. I had a wonderful time in Tampere, and learned a great deal, and am happy to be able to keep in touch.

Thanks for the invitation

Hello to everyone from the rain-bedevilled wasteland of Edinburgh. This blog looks good already - some nice photos up there, too. It would be good to have more so I can remember all the great times we had that week - I've never worked so hard in one week in my life. As I said at Tampere, if anyone wants to discuss anything we talekd about at the classes I'm more than happy to. Here's hoping that all the lecturers join us.

Thanks to everyone for making my week in Tampere so special. I hope I was of some use some of the time...

More later,

Chris

Letting the lecturers in

On an eager request we have now invited the lecturers from our week in Tampere to contribute to the weblog too. Bid them welcome!

thanks for the blog

Hello all!

Great work, Gitte and Christine! And also thanks for Andres for posting for the photos. It was great to be in Tampere and meet you all. I really enjoyed it. Now it's time to go back to the dull everyday routines.

I signed in with my old blogger ID. I don't know if my blog shows up on this site but there is not much there... No time to keep it up. Anyway, I thought of sharing with you one of my favorite web pages, which is a marvellous example of a combination of "media and religion". It's not journalism, but once in awhile one has to take a look at the popular culture too.

greetings from merja

ICA conference 2006

BTW,
I'm sure you all know, but to remind you that ICA conference is going to be held next year in Europe (Dresden). The paper deadline is November 1. You'll find call for papers and other information here: http://www.icahdq.org/events/conference/2006/conf2006info.asp
There's also Journalism Studies Group!!

Auli

Nice work!

Thanks to all of you for a great week!
I'm also going to Amsterdam in November, hope to see a lot of you there.

This blog looks like a great way to keep in touch and share information etc.
Well done, Gitte and Christine!



Some more photos to be found on Flickr

Thanks Gitte & Christine!

I think this is going to be an active blog, not one from the hattivattiland (edit: here I am referring to hattivattis' way of being silent and non-communicative) - I was surprised to find out so many contributors to this blog after just a couple of hours of the invitation!
I had already a Blogger account so I guess I have to state that leeveri = Auli :)

And Steen, I'm going to Amsterdam conference as well!

Auli

Blogging a la Tampere

I am pleased to enter and proud to present our collective doctoral students' blog on Media and Journalism research. This is our chance to keep each other informed and alert - by supplying the blog with posts and comments as well as links to related blogs and websites.

In order to make our blog archives as useful as possible, I suggest that we use quite specific, informative titles when we publish new posts; titles which give a hint about the question, topic, theme or the event, book or article which is introduced or brought up for discussion.

On the network website Gitte and I have let the hattivatti/the Hattifatteners of Moominvalley make a prominent appearance. Being Finnish and electric the hattivatti seem fit to remind us all of the place we first met, namely Tampere, home of the first electric light bulb in the Nordic countries (you know). But are the hattivatti supposed to represent us, the doctoral students? Well, at Wikipedia the Hattifatteners are described as

silent and serious, having neither the ability to talk nor to hear. They also seem melancholy in character. The Hattifatteners travel the earth in small boats, meeting every year on a lonely island. Their main interest is in the weather ... Some think they are wicked, but this is due to their strangeness.

Or do they rather represent our common business, the problems of the news media? Well, this might be true insofar as

the Hattifatteners always appear in great hosts. Nobody really knows where they are coming from or where they are going, but their presence can be sensed as electricity in the air

(says the Moominworld Naantali website). Actually, we hope that the network will help prevent such hattifat disorientation in our studies and in our field. So please post your comments, tell us about the conference, the seminar, announce a publication, join the conversation.