Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki
PL 31000, 00076 Aalto
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Course Organisers
The course is organised and funded as a joint venture between a Danish and a Finnish doctoral school: The Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ), and the Finnish ELOMEDIA Doctoral School of Audiovisual Media. The course vision and the course program have been generated in cooperation between Assistant Professor Francesco Lapenta (Roskilde University,
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Course Objectives
Audiovisual communication and audiovisual literacy are two established modes of expression and perception in contemporary society. The history of image and sound is characterised by separations and reunions; in some periods the two have been artificially divided by technology while in others they are brought together as a rather ‘natural’ fusion. Thus the indivisible relations of technology, sound and image indicate continuous evolution and ever changing cultural significations.
Photography, radio broadcasting and print media all brought about enormous changes in human communication and world perception in the early 20th century. Audiovisual media merged them, thereby creating a fusion of forms, communicative contents and world views. A century later the Internet and digital media are again reshuffling the cards of the communicative and creative palette which in turn again requires renegotiating the relations among pre-existing media and their contents. An unprecedented scale of distribution and circulation of images, videos and texts nurtures the evolution of new media, and their convergence as multimedia. The progressive adoption of new digital technologies has abruptly transformed a community of viewers accustomed to exposure to a select number of contents distributed by a handful of mainly domestic broadcasters and publishers into an active global community of content producers and distributors.
The growth of audiovisual content production and distribution is not the only dominant aspect of this transition. It can also be argued that the tradition of media fusion and juxtaposition characteristic of the audiovisual realm is becoming the key feature of the multimodality that is increasingly typical of all digital forms and contents. There is much to be explored in the emerging convergence of digital media. The history of the moving image and cultural approaches that have studied it have much to contribute to such study.
The aim of this Ph.D. course is to critically engage with this digital convergence of communicative forms, and to question the relevance of some established approaches to audiovisuality by exploring the multimodal nature of digital media convergence. Critical approaches will include aesthetics, semiotics, media and communication theory, cinema studies, audio/visual culture, visual sociology, audio research, media history, studies of technology and media production. We will investigate two core questions: What is the future of audiovisuality in the era of digital convergence? And how can scholars develop theoretically sound approaches to exploit, or to study, the use of audiovisuals in their research?
The Ph.D. course will comprise three main activities. Daily Morning Seminars in which senior scholars will present relevant theories and interpretations. Students presentations, in which students will present a paper in specially dedicated sessions. And Research Group Work in which students will be asked to engage in an onsite research project aimed at the production of a multimedia presentation for the final session of the Ph.D. course.
Course Materials:
All PhD--Stud. Papers.pdf (4.83 MB)
Lecture Abstracts.pdf (86.75 KB)
PhD-stud.abstracts.pdf (489.91 KB)
Reading materials.pdf (5.30 MB)
Course Location and Schedule
Kursuscenter Magleaas
Latest News
Ph.D. Student Papers can be uploaded on this page now.
Feedback to papers will be given by teachers during the course in the connection of the paper presentation. No advance feedback available.
Course Organisers
The course is organised and funded as a joint venture between a Danish and a Finnish doctoral school: The Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ), and the Finnish ELOMEDIA Doctoral School of Audiovisual Media. The course vision and the course program have been generated in cooperation between Assistant Professor Francesco Lapenta (Roskilde University, Tämä sähköpostiosoite on suojattu roskapostia vastaan, tarvitset javascripttituen päälle nähdäksesi osoitteen. ) and Professor Taisto Hujanen (University of Tampere, Tämä sähköpostiosoite on suojattu roskapostia vastaan, tarvitset javascripttituen päälle nähdäksesi osoitteen. ). Enquiries about the academic content of the course should be directed to them.
Course Objectives
Audiovisual communication and audiovisual literacy are two established modes of expression and perception in contemporary society. The history of image and sound is characterised by separations and reunions; in some periods the two have been artificially divided by technology while in others they are brought together as a rather ‘natural’ fusion. Thus the indivisible relations of technology, sound and image indicate continuous evolution and ever changing cultural significations.
Photography, radio broadcasting and print media all brought about enormous changes in human communication and world perception in the early 20th century. Audiovisual media merged them, thereby creating a fusion of forms, communicative contents and world views. A century later the Internet and digital media are again reshuffling the cards of the communicative and creative palette which in turn again requires renegotiating the relations among pre-existing media and their contents. An unprecedented scale of distribution and circulation of images, videos and texts nurtures the evolution of new media, and their convergence as multimedia. The progressive adoption of new digital technologies has abruptly transformed a community of viewers accustomed to exposure to a select number of contents distributed by a handful of mainly domestic broadcasters and publishers into an active global community of content producers and distributors.
The growth of audiovisual content production and distribution is not the only dominant aspect of this transition. It can also be argued that the tradition of media fusion and juxtaposition characteristic of the audiovisual realm is becoming the key feature of the multimodality that is increasingly typical of all digital forms and contents. There is much to be explored in the emerging convergence of digital media. The history of the moving image and cultural approaches that have studied it have much to contribute to such study.
The aim of this Ph.D. course is to critically engage with this digital convergence of communicative forms, and to question the relevance of some established approaches to audiovisuality by exploring the multimodal nature of digital media convergence. Critical approaches will include aesthetics, semiotics, media and communication theory, cinema studies, audio/visual culture, visual sociology, audio research, media history, studies of technology and media production. We will investigate two core questions: What is the future of audiovisuality in the era of digital convergence? And how can scholars develop theoretically sound approaches to exploit, or to study, the use of audiovisuals in their research?
The Ph.D. course will comprise three main activities. Daily Morning Seminars in which senior scholars will present relevant theories and interpretations. Students presentations, in which students will present a paper in specially dedicated sessions. And Research Group Work in which students will be asked to engage in an onsite research project aimed at the production of a multimedia presentation for the final session of the Ph.D. course.
Course Materials:
All PhD--Stud. Papers.pdf (4.83 MB)
Lecture Abstracts.pdf (86.75 KB)
PhD-stud.abstracts.pdf (489.91 KB)
Reading materials.pdf (5.30 MB)
Course Location and Schedule
Kursuscenter Magleaas
DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY, April 22
9 - 12 Check in and Registration
12 -13.15 Lunch
13 - 14 Introduction (Francesco Lapenta, Taisto Hujanen)
14 - 15 Lecture 1 (Arild Fetveit)
15 - 16 Lecture 2 (Pino Losacco)
16 Coffee break
16.30 Lecture 3 (John Thornton Caldwell)
17.30 Group formation
Supervisions by all staff (rotation)
Project definition and Assignment of Supervisors
19:30 Dinner
DAY 2 – THURSDAY, April 23
9 - 10 Lecture 4 (Luc Pauwels)
10 - 11 Lecture 5 (Luc Pauwels)
11 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Lecture 6 (Don Slater)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.45 Group work
19:30 Dinner
DAY 3 – FRIDAY, April 24
9 -10 Lecture 7 (Sarah Pink)
10 - 11 Lecture 8 (John Thornton Caldwell)
11 Coffee break
11.30 Lecture 9 (Eija Timonen)
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 Group work with supervisors
19.30 Dinner
DAY 4 – SATURDAY, April 25
9 - 11 Students presentations.
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30 Students presentations.
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.30 Official presentation of projects to other students and all supervisors. 30 min per group.
15.30 - 16 Good Bye
Course Lecturers
John Thornton Caldwell
Arild Fetveit
Taisto Hujanen
Francesco Lapenta
Pino Losacco
Luc Pauwels
Sarah Pink
Eija Timonen
Dr. John Thornton Caldwell
A media studies scholar and filmmaker (MFA, Cal Arts, PhD, Northwestern University), John Caldwell has authored and edited several books, including "Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television" (Duke Univ. Press, 2008), "Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television" (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995), "Electronic Media and Technoculture" (edited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000), "New Media: Digitextual Theories and Practices" (co-edited with Anna Everett, Routledge, 2003) and the forthcoming "Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries" (co-edited with Vicki Mayer and Miranda Banks, Routledge, 2009).
Caldwell's critical and theoretical writings have been featured in the journals "Television and New Media," "Cinema Journal," "Genre," "Quarterly Review of Film and Video," "Emergences: Journal of Media and Composite Cultures," "Medie Kultur," "Film Quarterly" and "Aura: Journal of Film Studies" and have been published in numerous books, including "The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies" (2008), "The Media/Cultural Studies Reader" (2009), "Film and Television After the DVD" (2008), "The Media Industries Book" (2009), "Television After TV" (2004), "Media/Space: Place, Scale, and Culture in a Media Age" (2004), "The New Media Book" (2002), "Issues in Contemporary Television" (2004), "Film Theory: An Anthology" (2000), "Television: The Critical View" (1999), "Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Media" (1998) and "American Television: History and Theory" (1994).
He has been a keynote and plenary speaker at various institutions and international conferences, including London Metropolitan University, UK (2007); Warwick University, UK (2006); Shanghai University, China (2004); the International Communication Association Annual Conference, U.S. (2003); the "Media and Cultural Development in the Digital Era Conference," Taiwan (2001) and the University of Siegen, Germany (1999). For his film and video productions, Caldwell has also received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979, 1985), Regional Fellowships (AFI/NEA, 1985, 1988) and state arts councils (1984, 1985, 1989). His films have been screened in museums and festivals in Amsterdam, Park City, Paris, Berlin, Toulouse, Mexico City, Taipei, San Francisco, New York, Palm Springs, Santa Cruz, Hawaii and Chicago and have been broadcast on SBS-TV Network/Australia, WTTW-Chicago, WGBH-Boston, WNED-Buffalo and WEIU-TV-Illinois. He is the producer/director of the award-winning documentaries "Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on the Rajpath" (1989), a film about "the migratory pattern of 'hippies' in India and Nepal," and "Rancho California (por favor)" (2002), a troubling look at migrant camps that house indigenous Mixteco workers within the arroyos of Southern California's most affluent suburbs.
Biography and Selected Publications
Professor Taisto Hujanen, Professor of Electronic Media at the University of Tampere (Head of Department 2004-8) and the Chairman of Board at the Finnish Postgraduate School for Audiovisual Media (ELOMEDIA). TaistoHujanen completed his doctoral degree (D.Soc.Sc) in 1986 at the University of Tampere. His main research interests and publications have been in the following areas: the generic history of current affairs programming in television and the digital strategies of public service television. Hujanen has participated in the project “Re-visionary Interpretations of the Public Enterprise” (R.I.P.E), as a co-organizer (2002) and as member of the planning group (2004). He has also been invited to participate in European Science Foundation’s major project between social sciences and the humanities Changing Media – Changing Europe (1999-2004).
Currently, he is the leader of the multidisciplinary INTERMEDIA project, funded by the Academy of Finland. The project explores intermedial relations of different media in Finland from introduction of television to current era of digitalization and aims to map the historically significant economical, technological, societal and cultural structures and processes of intermediality in Finnish media culture.
Selected publications include: The Power of Schedule: Programme Management in the Transformation of Finnish Public Service Television. Tampere University Press, Tampere 2002; Public Service Strategy in Digital Television. In Ib Bondebjerg & Peter Golding (ed.), European Culture and the Media, Intellect Books: Bristol, pp. 233-256, 2004; Chapter 3: Implications for Public Service Broadcasters. In Brown A & Picard R (ed.), Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe, Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, New Jersey, London, pp.57-84, 2005; Public Service Strategy in Digital Television: From Schedule to Content. Journal of Media Practice, Vol. 4, 3, pp. 133-153, 2004; Programming and Channel Competition in European Television. In Dahlgren, P & Murdock, G & Wieten J (ed.), Television in a Changing Europe: A Comparative Introduction, London: Sage, pp. 65-83, 2004; Broadcasting and Convergence: Rearticulating the Future Past. (with Lowe, G) In Lowe G and Hujanen T (ed.), Broadcasting and Convergence: Rearticulations of the Public Service Remit, Gothenburg: Nordicom, pp 9-25, 2003.
Dr. Luc Pauwels
Luc Pauwels is a Full Professor of Visual Culture and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He studied sociology (BA, MA), philosophy (BA) and audiovisual communication (MA) at University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven, and received his PhD. in Social and Cultural Sciences with a dissertation on visual sociology from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1991. Currently he teaches ‘Visual Communication Theory’, ‘Visual Sociology and Anthropology’, ‘Film Aesthetics and Non-Fiction Image Theory’ and a ‘Seminar in Documentary Film Production’. He is also Chair of the Visual Culture Research Centre at Antwerp and Program Director of the Master program in ‘Film Studies and Visual Culture’.
Pauwels is the Chair-Elect of the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), former Vice-President of the IVLA (International Visual Literacy Association), a Board Member of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA), and on the Editorial Board of ‘Visual Studies’ (Routledge), The ‘Journal of Visual Literacy’ (IVLA) and ‘The Open Communication Journal’ (Bentham Publishers).
As a visual sociologist and communication scientist, he wrote extensively on visual research methodologies, visual ethics, family photography, web site analysis, anthropological filmmaking, visual corporate culture, and scientific visualisation, in peer reviewed international journals such as Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology, Visual Studies, New Cinemas, Journal of Visual Literacy, Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Epidemiology, Visual Communication Quarterly and Acta Academia. His latest book in English ‘Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communications’ (2006) was published by University Press of New England / Dartmouth College Press.
Reading materials from Pauwels.pdf
Dr. Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink joined the Department in 2000 as a member of the Sociology group. While her work is rooted in Social and Visual Anthropology, She is interested in working with anthropological and ethnographic approaches in projects that have interdisciplinary and sometimes applied implications. Her work usually involves using visual methods and media. Since the 1990s her research has included theoretical, methodological and substantive interests in gender, media, place, practice, home, the senses, material and visual culture, urban social movements and most recently migration and workplace cultures.
In most of her research Sarah Pink has paid special attention to visual and media cultures. She uses video and photography as a research method and is interested in the use of video, hypermedia or printed photography as well as writing in ethnographic representation.
Reading materials from Pink.pdf
Dr. Eija Timonen
Eija Timonen, Doctor of Arts, Phil.lic., professor of Media Studies at the University of Lapland, Docent at The University of Art and Design (UIAH), the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design (in the field of research of narrativity in media forms), andat the University of Lapland (in the field of Children’s Media Culture). Timonen is also a Fiction Writer for Children. She has written several children’s books, manuscripts for still-picture animations and cd-roms. Timonen is heading research project “TheAristotle in Change” (AinC). Her research interests are intertwined with the problematics of screenwriting. Her background is in folkloristics and her working experience includes a previous career as principal teacher in the area of cultural management in the Humanities Polytechnic, and in the management of several Art Universities in Finland. Recently, Timonen, on the basis of her many roles as a writer, focuses on the question how to modify themes in traditional myths into modern literary works, audiovisual performances and interactive media.
Ph.D-Students
Fatima Aziz
Doctorante en Sociologie Visuelle
Lhivic, Ehess, Paris
Tina Askanius
Department of Media and Communication Studies
Lund University
Thommy Eriksson
Chalmers University of Technology
Alexandre Fleury
Multimedia Information and Signal Processing
Aalborg University
Ates Gursimsek
Roskilde University
Ilona Hongisto
Media Studies
University of Turku
Sanna Härmä
Media Studies
University of Turku
Heidin Keinonen
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Tampere
Oranit Klein-Shagrir
Journalism and Communication Department
Hebrew University
Tomi Knuutila
University of Lapland
Petri Kola
Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard
Akademiet for Æstetikfaglig Forskeruddannelse
Nordisk Institut
Århus Universitet
Anneli Lehtisalo
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Tampere
Sanna Marttila
ARKI Research Group
Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Antti Nykyri
Department of Lightning and Sound Design
Theatre Academy Helsinki
Peter Ole Pedersen
Aarhus University
Thomas Mosebo Simonsen
Aalborg University
Inge Ejby Sørensen
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Film and Media Studies
Casper Høeg Radil
Film- og Medievidenskab
Københavns Universitet
Course Lecturers
John Thornton Caldwell
Arild Fetveit
Taisto Hujanen
Francesco Lapenta
Pino Losacco
Luc Pauwels
Sarah Pink
Eija Timonen
Dr. John Thornton Caldwell
A media studies scholar and filmmaker (MFA, Cal Arts, PhD, Northwestern University), John Caldwell has authored and edited several books, including "Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television" (Duke Univ. Press, 2008), "Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television" (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995), "Electronic Media and Technoculture" (edited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000), "New Media: Digitextual Theories and Practices" (co-edited with Anna Everett, Routledge, 2003) and the forthcoming "Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries" (co-edited with Vicki Mayer and Miranda Banks, Routledge, 2009).
Caldwell's critical and theoretical writings have been featured in the journals "Television and New Media," "Cinema Journal," "Genre," "Quarterly Review of Film and Video," "Emergences: Journal of Media and Composite Cultures," "Medie Kultur," "Film Quarterly" and "Aura: Journal of Film Studies" and have been published in numerous books, including "The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies" (2008), "The Media/Cultural Studies Reader" (2009), "Film and Television After the DVD" (2008), "The Media Industries Book" (2009), "Television After TV" (2004), "Media/Space: Place, Scale, and Culture in a Media Age" (2004), "The New Media Book" (2002), "Issues in Contemporary Television" (2004), "Film Theory: An Anthology" (2000), "Television: The Critical View" (1999), "Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Media" (1998) and "American Television: History and Theory" (1994).
He has been a keynote and plenary speaker at various institutions and international conferences, including London Metropolitan University, UK (2007); Warwick University, UK (2006); Shanghai University, China (2004); the International Communication Association Annual Conference, U.S. (2003); the "Media and Cultural Development in the Digital Era Conference," Taiwan (2001) and the University of Siegen, Germany (1999). For his film and video productions, Caldwell has also received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979, 1985), Regional Fellowships (AFI/NEA, 1985, 1988) and state arts councils (1984, 1985, 1989). His films have been screened in museums and festivals in Amsterdam, Park City, Paris, Berlin, Toulouse, Mexico City, Taipei, San Francisco, New York, Palm Springs, Santa Cruz, Hawaii and Chicago and have been broadcast on SBS-TV Network/Australia, WTTW-Chicago, WGBH-Boston, WNED-Buffalo and WEIU-TV-Illinois. He is the producer/director of the award-winning documentaries "Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on the Rajpath" (1989), a film about "the migratory pattern of 'hippies' in India and Nepal," and "Rancho California (por favor)" (2002), a troubling look at migrant camps that house indigenous Mixteco workers within the arroyos of Southern California's most affluent suburbs.
Biography and Selected Publications
Professor Taisto Hujanen, Professor of Electronic Media at the University of Tampere (Head of Department 2004-8) and the Chairman of Board at the Finnish Postgraduate School for Audiovisual Media (ELOMEDIA). TaistoHujanen completed his doctoral degree (D.Soc.Sc) in 1986 at the University of Tampere. His main research interests and publications have been in the following areas: the generic history of current affairs programming in television and the digital strategies of public service television. Hujanen has participated in the project “Re-visionary Interpretations of the Public Enterprise” (R.I.P.E), as a co-organizer (2002) and as member of the planning group (2004). He has also been invited to participate in European Science Foundation’s major project between social sciences and the humanities Changing Media – Changing Europe (1999-2004).
Currently, he is the leader of the multidisciplinary INTERMEDIA project, funded by the Academy of Finland. The project explores intermedial relations of different media in Finland from introduction of television to current era of digitalization and aims to map the historically significant economical, technological, societal and cultural structures and processes of intermediality in Finnish media culture.
Selected publications include: The Power of Schedule: Programme Management in the Transformation of Finnish Public Service Television. Tampere University Press, Tampere 2002; Public Service Strategy in Digital Television. In Ib Bondebjerg & Peter Golding (ed.), European Culture and the Media, Intellect Books: Bristol, pp. 233-256, 2004; Chapter 3: Implications for Public Service Broadcasters. In Brown A & Picard R (ed.), Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe, Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, New Jersey, London, pp.57-84, 2005; Public Service Strategy in Digital Television: From Schedule to Content. Journal of Media Practice, Vol. 4, 3, pp. 133-153, 2004; Programming and Channel Competition in European Television. In Dahlgren, P & Murdock, G & Wieten J (ed.), Television in a Changing Europe: A Comparative Introduction, London: Sage, pp. 65-83, 2004; Broadcasting and Convergence: Rearticulating the Future Past. (with Lowe, G) In Lowe G and Hujanen T (ed.), Broadcasting and Convergence: Rearticulations of the Public Service Remit, Gothenburg: Nordicom, pp 9-25, 2003.
Dr. Luc Pauwels
Luc Pauwels is a Full Professor of Visual Culture and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He studied sociology (BA, MA), philosophy (BA) and audiovisual communication (MA) at University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven, and received his PhD. in Social and Cultural Sciences with a dissertation on visual sociology from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1991. Currently he teaches ‘Visual Communication Theory’, ‘Visual Sociology and Anthropology’, ‘Film Aesthetics and Non-Fiction Image Theory’ and a ‘Seminar in Documentary Film Production’. He is also Chair of the Visual Culture Research Centre at Antwerp and Program Director of the Master program in ‘Film Studies and Visual Culture’.
Pauwels is the Chair-Elect of the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), former Vice-President of the IVLA (International Visual Literacy Association), a Board Member of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA), and on the Editorial Board of ‘Visual Studies’ (Routledge), The ‘Journal of Visual Literacy’ (IVLA) and ‘The Open Communication Journal’ (Bentham Publishers).
As a visual sociologist and communication scientist, he wrote extensively on visual research methodologies, visual ethics, family photography, web site analysis, anthropological filmmaking, visual corporate culture, and scientific visualisation, in peer reviewed international journals such as Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology, Visual Studies, New Cinemas, Journal of Visual Literacy, Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Epidemiology, Visual Communication Quarterly and Acta Academia. His latest book in English ‘Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communications’ (2006) was published by University Press of New England / Dartmouth College Press.
Reading materials from Pauwels.pdf
Dr. Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink joined the Department in 2000 as a member of the Sociology group. While her work is rooted in Social and Visual Anthropology, She is interested in working with anthropological and ethnographic approaches in projects that have interdisciplinary and sometimes applied implications. Her work usually involves using visual methods and media. Since the 1990s her research has included theoretical, methodological and substantive interests in gender, media, place, practice, home, the senses, material and visual culture, urban social movements and most recently migration and workplace cultures.
In most of her research Sarah Pink has paid special attention to visual and media cultures. She uses video and photography as a research method and is interested in the use of video, hypermedia or printed photography as well as writing in ethnographic representation.
Reading materials from Pink.pdf
Dr. Eija Timonen
Eija Timonen, Doctor of Arts, Phil.lic., professor of Media Studies at the University of Lapland, Docent at The University of Art and Design (UIAH), the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design (in the field of research of narrativity in media forms), andat the University of Lapland (in the field of Children’s Media Culture). Timonen is also a Fiction Writer for Children. She has written several children’s books, manuscripts for still-picture animations and cd-roms. Timonen is heading research project “TheAristotle in Change” (AinC). Her research interests are intertwined with the problematics of screenwriting. Her background is in folkloristics and her working experience includes a previous career as principal teacher in the area of cultural management in the Humanities Polytechnic, and in the management of several Art Universities in Finland. Recently, Timonen, on the basis of her many roles as a writer, focuses on the question how to modify themes in traditional myths into modern literary works, audiovisual performances and interactive media.
Ph.D-Students
Fatima Aziz
Doctorante en Sociologie Visuelle
Lhivic, Ehess, Paris
Tina Askanius
Department of Media and Communication Studies
Lund University
Thommy Eriksson
Chalmers University of Technology
Alexandre Fleury
Multimedia Information and Signal Processing
Aalborg University
Ates Gursimsek
Roskilde University
Ilona Hongisto
Media Studies
University of Turku
Sanna Härmä
Media Studies
University of Turku
Heidin Keinonen
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Tampere
Oranit Klein-Shagrir
Journalism and Communication Department
Hebrew University
Tomi Knuutila
University of Lapland
Petri Kola
Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard
Akademiet for Æstetikfaglig Forskeruddannelse
Nordisk Institut
Århus Universitet
Anneli Lehtisalo
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Tampere
Sanna Marttila
ARKI Research Group
Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Antti Nykyri
Department of Lightning and Sound Design
Theatre Academy Helsinki
Peter Ole Pedersen
Aarhus University
Thomas Mosebo Simonsen
Aalborg University
Inge Ejby Sørensen
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Film and Media Studies
Casper Høeg Radil
Film- og Medievidenskab
Københavns Universitet