RESEARCH PROJECTS
The role of media in Chavez’s Venezuela (working title). Academic dissertation. Media and Communication Studies, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki. To be completed in 2016.
Venezuelan media murroksessa – Keväällä 2007 käydyn mediakeskustelun kehystäminen. Master’s thesis. Development Studies, University of Helsinki. 2008.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (Selected)
Values and interests of media actors in the political conflict of President Chavez’s Venezuela in 2010-2012. Media & Governance in Latin America conference. University of Sheffield, 25.–26.6.2015.
Mediatized politics or politicized media – The role of media in the political conflict of President Chavez’s Venezuela. Nordic Latin American Research Network (NOLAN) conference, University of Helsinki, 11.–13.6.2015.
State, private companies and citizens as media actors: The use of power and social sphere in Venezuelan society. Development Research Day 2015. University of Helsinki, 12.–13.2.2015.
“Here came the people to stay forever” – Constructing the people in Venezuelan populist newspapers. Media & Governance in Latin America conference. University of Sheffield, England, 13.–14.5.2014.
The theory of populism as a theoretical frame: The case of Chavez’s media policies. Esitys ja paperi Nordic Research Network in Journalism Studiesin seminaarissa Jyväskylän yliopistolla 6.–8.4.2011.
”Kansa tuli jäädäkseen” – Populististen sanomalehtien kuvitus Venezuelassa. Mediatutkimuksen päivät, University of Vaasa, 4.–5.4.2014.
Construction of populism in newspaper images – A case study of Venezuelan newspapers. Photographic Powers: What is the Role of Images? workshop. Aalto University, Helsinki, 25.3.2014.
Civil Society and the media in Venezuela – How citizen activists experience the “media war”. Development Research Day. University of Helsinki, 8.2.2013.
Visual Representations of Political Leaders. Poster together with M.Phil Heli Lehtelä. ECREA 2012 conference. Istanbul, Turkey, 24.–27.10.2012.
Freedom of Expression in Transition – Freedom of expression in Venezuela under President Chavez’s rule. ECREA 2010 conference. Hamburg, Germany, 12.–15.10.2010.
TEACHING AND GUEST LECTURING
K6 Viestinnän analyysi (Communication analysis) (5 ects). PBL-ryhmän ohjaaja. Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, 19.01.2016 -04.03.2016.
Populismi, politiikka ja media (Populism, politics and media) (5 ects). Course in Media and Communication Studies, Social Psychology, Political Science, and Political History. Open University of Helsinki, 20.5.-10.6.2015.
Who gets to define freedom of expression? Guest lecturing. Freedom of expression in challenged democracies course. University of Helsinki, 10/2014.
Tarinoita kulta-ajalta. Producing educational material for high school students about a movie on Romanian history, democracy and freedom of expression. Koulukinoyhdistys, 2/2010.
NON ACADEMIC TEXTS
Venezuelan opposition vaalit. Published in several newspapers such as Kaleva, Keskisuomalainen, Turun Sanomat and Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, 29.1.2012.
Kissansyöjiä ja salsarytmejä. Magazine article about Venezuelan music. Published in Inferno, 8/2011.
Chavezin paluu. Published in several newspapers such as Kaleva, Keskisuomalainen, Turun Sanomat and Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, 7.7.2011.
Venezuelan oppositio nostaa päätään. Published in several newspapers such as Kaleva, Keskisuomalainen, Turun Sanomat and Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, 28.6.2011.
Chavezin Venezuelassa arki on erilainen ja kansa jakaantunut. Published in Turun Sanomat, 25.7.2007.