Monographs
(2026, forthcoming). Journalists as media educators: Pedagogies of journalism literacy education. London: Bloomsbury.
(2024). Pedagogical opportunities of the review genre: Learning in cultures of evaluation. London: Routledge.
(2022). Reviewing culture online: Post-institutional cultural critique across platforms. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2021). Media and information literate citizens: Think critically, click wisely! Media & information literacy curriculum for educators and learners. 2nd ed. Paris: UNESCO. (Co-authored with A. Grizzle, C. Wilson, C.K. Cheung, R. Tuazon, J. Lau, D. Gordon, R. Fischer, K. Akyempong, J. Singh, K. Stewart, P.R. Carr, S. Tayie, O. Suraj, G. Thésée, N. Shiel-Rolle and C. Gulston.)
(2015). The contested autonomy of arts and journalism: Change and continuity of the dual professionalism of cultural journalism. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
(2025). “Aesthetics of lifestyle journalism.” In: Hanusch, F. (ed.) The Routledge handbook of lifestyle journalism. London: Routledge, 121–135.
(2025). “Analysing journalism diet through sentiments: A pedagogical approach to entangle the role of emotions in news literacy education.” The Journal of Media Literacy, Conference Reflections Issue, 1.1.2025.
(2025). “Learning by sharing in #Langstagram: Formats of learner-generated content by Finnish-language learners on Instagram.” Digital Culture & Education 15:1, 112–131.
(2025). “No-panic pragmatism: Nordic journalism educators’ preparedness to teach artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024.” Journalistica 19:1. (Co-authored with J. Wiik.)
(2025). “Reflection-AI: Operationalizing positive-constructive pedagogy to artificial intelligence: The 3E model for scaffolding AI technology adoption.” Frontiers in Communication, vol. 10: Teaching and assessing with AI: Teaching ideas, research, and reflections.
(2025). “Our strategy is to maximize the brainprint on society”: The dual climate impact of Nordic commercial news media organizations. MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research. (Co-authored with M.-M. Frig and L. Olkkonen.)
(2024). “Investigating notions of climate change in Nordic journalism education.” Journalism Education 13:2, 15–35. (Co-authored with L. Weldingh, G. Borgen-Eide, H. Bødker and K. Riegert.)
(2023). “Digital performance at the side stage: The communicative practices of classical musicians and music hobbyists on Instagram.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 37:2, 296–308.
(2023). “Capturing the contours of the field of media and information literacy (MIL) research: A systematic literature review of studies conducted at Swedish universities in 2021.” In: Jaakkola, M., Durán-Becerra, T., & Onyancha, O. B. (eds.) Media and information literacy for the public good: UNESCO MILID yearbook 2023. Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO, 159–190.
(2023). ”Community-first criticism: Reviewing of art and culture in local newspapers.” Journalism Studies, published online on April 28, 2023.
(2023). “Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site.” Journal of Consumer Culture, published online on April 17, 2023. (Co-authored with M.-M. Frig.)
(2023). “Reporting like there was no pandemic: Cultural journalism during the COVID-19 in Finland, Sweden and Latvia.” MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research 38:73, 28–49. (Co-authored with I. Skulte.)
(2022). “Content analysis of the research field of cultural coverage.” In: Oehmer, F., Kessler, S. H., Humprecht, E., Sommer, K. & Castro Herrero, L. (eds.) Standardized content analysis in communication research: A handbook. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
(2022). “Domesticating space: Media production pedagogy for the empowerment of marginalized youth.” Journal of Media Literacy Education, published online before print. (Co-authored with L. Sternö and E. Fryk.)
(2022). “Exploring the normative foundation of journalism education: Nordic journalism educators’ conceptions of future journalism and professional qualifications.” Journalism and Media 3:3, 436–452. (Co-authored with P. Uotila.)
(2022). “Public service television as education: Factual programmes and the media and information literacy (MIL) policy discourse.” VIEW: Journal of European Television History & Culture 11:21. (Co-authored with M. Mykkänen.)
(2021). “Kirja-arvostelut alustataloudessa: esimerkkinä käyttäjälähtöiset arvostelut Instagramissa.” [Book reviews in platform economy: Case user-generated reviews on Instagram.] Media & viestintä 44:2, 45–68, special issue on datafication. (Co-authored with T. Räisä.)
(2021). “Reimagining the review: Transmedia possibilities of reviewing in daily newspapers in Finland and beyond.” In: Jurado, M. & Peña Acuña, B. (eds.). Periodismo cultural en el siglo XXI (vol. 2): Tendencias transmedia y perfiles profesionales. Madrid: Editorial Universitas, 167–184.
(2020). ”Young voices, new qualities? Child reviewers and vernacular reviewing of cultural products.” In: Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard & From, Unni & Haastrup, Helle Kannik (eds.) Rethinking cultural critique: New voices in the digital age. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 185–208.
(2020). “Journalists as media educators: Journalistic media education as inclusive boundary work.” Journalism Practice, published online before print 9 November 2020.
(2020). ”Useful creativity: Vernacular reviewing on the video-sharing platform Vimeo.” Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 12:2, 373–392.
(2019). ”Oman lukukokemuksensa visualisoijat: käyttäjälähtöiset kirjallisuusarvostelut Instagramissa.” [Visualizers of their own reading experience: The user-generated literature reviews on Instagram.] Kulttuurintutkimus 36:3, 31–44.
(2019). ”From vernacularized commercialism to kidbait: Toy review videos on YouTube and the problematics of the mash-up genre.” Journal of Children and Media, published online before print 18 November 2019.
(2019). “The boundaries of belonging: Journalist interns’ workplace learning experiences across communities of practice.” Journalism Education 8:1, 27–39.
(2019). “From re-viewers to me-viewers: The #Bookstagram review sphere and the uses of the perceived platform and genre affordances.” Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 10(1–2), 91–110.
(2019). “The literary construction of journalism education: A review of the course literature in the Nordic academic Bachelor’s programmes.” Journalism Practice, published online before print, 22 March 2019. (Co-authored with P. Uotila.)
(2019). “The heterogeneity of the Nordic journalism education: The ’academic’ and the ’professional’ in the Bachelor’s curricula.” The Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies 8:1, 3–24.
(2018). “Circuit training in the writing of art reviews: Discovering the built environment in iterative approaches.” In: Jurado, M. & Peña Acuña, B. (eds.). Periodismo cultural en el siglo XXI: contenidos docentes innovadores. Madrid: Editorial Universitas, 303–320.
(2018). “Journalistic writing and style.” In: Nussbaum, J. (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies.
(2018). “Vernacular reviews as a form of co-consumption: The user-generated review videos on YouTube.” MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research 34:65, 10–30.
(2018). “S(t)imulating journalism in the classroom: A structured comparison of the design of pedagogical newsrooms in Nordic academic journalism training.” Journalism and Mass Communication Educator 73:2, 182–199.
(2017). “From culture wars to combat games: The differentiation and development of culture departments in Finland.” In: Kristensen, N.N. & Riegert, K. (eds.) Cultural journalism in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom. (Co-authored with H. Hellman and R. Salokangas.)
(2016). “More mobile, more flexible: Students’ device ownership and cross-media news consumption, and their pedagogical implications.” In: Hovden, J.F. & Nygren, G. (eds.) Making journalists through journalism education: Nordic perspectives. Gothenburg: Nordicom. (Co-authored with E. Eliasson.)
(2016). “Stable professional ideals, growing criticism towards journalistic practice: Finnish journalism students’ perceptions about the profession.” In: Hovden, J.F. & Nygren, G. (eds.) Making journalists through journalism education: Nordic perspectives. Gothenburg: Nordicom. (Co-authored with H. Zilliacus-Tikkanen and J. Hujanen.)
(2015). “Outsourcing views, developing news: Changes in art criticism in Finnish dailies, 1978–2008.” Journalism Studies 16:3,383–402.
(2015). “Witnesses of a cultural crisis: Representations of media-related metaprocesses as professional metacriticism of arts and cultural journalism.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 18:5, 537–554.
(2015). “More than hitting the ‘publish’ button: A pedagogical framework for supporting learners’ critical relationship with publishing media work.” Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy 15:4, 212–228.
(2015). “Liquid modern journalism with a difference: The changing professional ethos of cultural journalism.” Journalism Practice. Online first July 17, 2015. (Co-authored with H. Hellman, K. Koljonen and J. Väliverronen.)
(2015). “Teacher heutagogy in the network society: A framework for critical reflection.” In: Jandric, P. & Boras, D. (eds.) Critical learning in digital networks. New York: Springer, 163–178.
(2015). “School-context videos in Janus-faced online publicity: Learner-generated digital video production going online.” Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 59:3, 255–274. (Co-authored with L. Palmgren-Neuvonen and R.-L. Korkeamäki.)
(2014). “Dismantling the ‘crisis’ of journalism: Outline of an analytical approach.” Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication 4:2, 1–14.
(2013). “Diversity through dualism: The balancing principle as an organizational strategy in culture departments of newspapers.” Nordicom Review 34:(Special issue December), 89–98.
(2013). “Taidekritiikin muutos suomalaisissa sanomalehdissä 1978–2008.” [The change of arts criticism in the Finnish press 1978–2008.] Kulttuurintutkimus 30:4, 31–45.
(2012). “Promoting aesthetic tourism: Transgressions between the generalist and the specialist subfields in cultural journalism.” Journalism Practice 6:4, 482–496.
(2012). “From aesthetes to reporters: The paradigm shift in arts journalism in Finland.” Journalism: Theory, practice and criticism 13:8, 1–19. (Co-authored with H. Hellman.)
(2009). “Kulttuuritoimitus uutisopissa: Kulttuurijournalismin muutos Helsingin Sanomissa 1978–2008.” [Culture department in news apprenticeship: The change of cultural journalism in Helsingin Sanomat, 1978–2008.] Media & viestintä 32:4–5, 24–42. (Co-authored with H. Hellman.)
Selected non-peer-reviewed reports, articles and book chapters
(2024). ”’Tuotan sen itse, sen punaisen langan’: Suomen kielen oppimateriaalien tuotanto ja käyttö Ruotsissa opettajien kokemina.” [“I produce it by myself, that red thread”: The production and uses of Finnish-language learning materials in Sweden, experienced by teachers.] Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta 15:3.
(2022). Forskning inom medie- och informationskunnighet (MIK): En översikt över 2021. [Research within media and information literacy (MIL): An overview of 2021.] Gothenburg: Akademiskt forum för MIK-forskning, NordMedia Network.
(2019). “Finland: Two academic paths into journalism – the dual model of academic journalism education.” In: Nowak, E. (ed.) Accreditation and assessment of journalism education in Europe. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 13–32.
(2018). “Voicing the young people’s perspective: Media influencing as a form of collaboration between youth work and professional media organizations.” In: Andersson, Y., Dahlquist, U. & Ohlsson, J. (eds.) Youth and news in a digital media environment – Nordic and Baltic perspectives. Nordicom: Gothenburg, 67–78.
(2018). “Finland: en lång tradition av mediefostran. MIK i andra länder: tre exempel.” In: Carlsson, U. (ed.) Medie- och informationskunnighet i den digitala tidsåldern – en demokratifråga: kartläggning, analyser, reflektioner. Göteborg: Nordicom, 187–198.
(2013). “Vastakaikua visertäen: Twitter-osallistuminen toimittajaharjoittelijoiden oppimisyhteisön laajentajana.” [Resonance through tweeting: Twitter engagement as an extension of journalist interns’ learning community.] In: Joutsenvirta, T. & Myyry, L. (eds.) Sulautuva opetus ja oppiminen – luokkahuoneista verkkoon. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 71–79.
(2012). “Pohjoismaisia avauksia kulttuurijournalismin tutkimukseen.” [Nordic openings to the study of cultural journalism.] Media & viestintä 35:4, 137–151.
(2012). “Opettajan sosiaalisen median opetuskäytön osaaminen.” [The teacher’s social media competence.] Kasvatus 43:3, 298–305.
(2010). “Uutisia taiteesta – vaikka väkisin? Katsaus kulttuurijournalismin kriisikeskusteluun.” [News on arts – like it or not? A review of the crisis debate on cultural journalism.] Journalismikritiikin vuosikirja 2010, Media & viestintä 33:1, 127–132.
(2010). “Uuden julkisuuden sääntöjä luomassa: keskustelevat vuorovaikutussuhteet keinona sukupolvien välisen digitaalisen kuilun kaventamiseen.” [Creating rules for the new publicity: Dialogical interaction relationships as a means of briding the digital gap between generations.] In: Meriranta, M. (ed.) Mediakasvatuksen käsikirja. Kuopio: UNIpress, 37–62.
(2010). “Ernst Jandl ja kielen vapauttava kosto.” [Ernst Jandl and the liberating revenge of language.] In: Kähkönen, L. & Meretoja, H. (eds.) Muistijälkiä – esseitä saksalaisesta nykykirjallisuudesta. Helsinki: BTJ Finland, 267–279.
Edited volumes
(2023). (ed.) Reporting on artificial intelligence: A handbook for journalism educators. Paris: UNESCO.
(2023). (ed.) Media and information literacy for the public good: UNESCO MILID yearbook 2023. Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO. (Co-edited with T. Durán-Becerra and O. B. Onyancha.)
(2021). (ed.) MIL cities and MIL citizens: Informed, engaged, empowered by media and information literacy (MIL). MILID Yearbook 2020. (Co-editors: A. Grizzle and T. Durán Becerra.)
(2010) (ed.). Ei Melu tyhjästä syntynyt: Messukylän yhteiskoulun juhlakirja. Tampere: Tampereen kaupunki.
(2008) (ed.). Journalismikritiikin vuosikirja 2008. [The yearbook of journalism criticism 2008.] (Tiedotustutkimus 2:2008.) Tampere: Tiedotusopillinen yhdistys.
Edited journal issues
(2025). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 42:1. A regular issue. Editorial: “Kulttuurintutkimuksellistaminen ja tieteen kätilöinnin taito” [“‘Cultural studies-izing’ and the art of being a midwife of science”].
(2024). (ed.) The digital life of young people in the Nordics. A special issue for the journal Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning – Nordic Journal for Youth Research 2:2024. Editorial: “Living meaningful life with screens: Leveraging young people’s voice in the debates on digital media uses.” (Co-edited with S. Gurdal and L. Andersson.)
(2024). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 41:3. A regular issue. Editorial: “Suomen kieli on tieteen kieli myös Ruotsissa.” [Finnish is the language of science in Sweden, too.]
(2024) (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 41:2. A regular issue. Editorial: “Tarvitsemme tilastojen luomaa tietopohjaa.” [We need the knowledge base created by statistics.]
(2023). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 40:4. A regular issue. (Co-editor: O. Autti.) Editorial: “Kohti keski-iän juhlaa.” [Towards the celebrations of the middle age.]
(2023). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 40:3. A regular issue. (Co-editor: O. Autti.) Editorial: “Kannattaako tiedevilpistä ilmoittaa?” [Does it pay off to report research misconduct?]
(2023). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 40:2: Mittaamisen kulttuurit. [Cultures of measurement.] A special issue. (Co-editors: S. Lappalainen and M. Korhonen.) Editorial: “Mittaamisen mitta.” [The measure of the measurement.]
(2023). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 40:1. A regular issue. (Co-editor: O. Autti.) Editorial: “Määräaikaisen tutkijan päivä.” [The day of a fixed-term researcher.]
(2022). (ed.) Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier 39:3. A regular issue. (Co-editor: O. Autti.) Editorial: “Riittääkö enää pelkkä tutkimuksen julkaiseminen?” [Is publishing research enough anymore?]
(2020). (ed.) Advancing media and information literacy research in the Baltic Sea region. Central European Journal of Communication 13:2. A special issue. (Co-editor: A. Stepinska.)
(2018). (ed.) Nordicom Information 40(2): Norden inifrån och utifrån – The Nordics from within and without. A thematic issue. The last issue in the journal’s history. (Assistant editor: C. Bucht.)
(2018). (ed.) Nordicom Information 40(1): Öppenhet i kommunikation – Openness in communication. A thematic issue. (Assistant editor: B. Holm.)
(2017). (ed.) Nordicom Information 39(2): Video(kultur) – Video (culture). A thematic issue. (Assistant editor: B. Holm.)
(2017). (ed.) Nordicom Information39(1): Medieforskning i samhället – Media research in society. A thematic issue. (Assistant editor: R. Mølster.)
(2016). (ed.) Nordicom Information 38(2): Digitalt berättande – Digital storytelling. A thematic issue. (Co-edited with I. Wadbring; assistant editor: R. Mølster.)
Textbooks
(2024). AI-journalistik: Artificiell intelligens och algoritmer på redaktionen [AI journalism: Artificial intelligence and algorithms in the newsroom]. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (Co-authored with J. Wiik.)
(2024). Academic AI literacy: Artificial intelligence in scholarly writing, editing, and publishing. NordMedia Network Online Educational Resources. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(2022). Joining the scholarly conversation: The basics of writing an academic book review. NordMedia Network Online Educational Resources. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(2016). Jukola – suomen kieli ja kirjallisuus: Tekstit ja vuorovaikutus. Helsinki: SanomaPro. [Jukola – Finnish language and literature: Texts and interaction. A textbook in the Finnish language and literature for the upper secondary school.] (Co-authored with E. Kouki, J. Karhumäki and A.-M. Varjonen.)
(2013). Hyvä journalismi: käytännön opas kirjoittajalle. [Good journalism: A practical guidebook for writers.] Helsinki: Kansanvalistusseura.
Academic theses
(2015). The contested autonomy of arts and journalism: Change and continuity of the dual professionalism of cultural journalism. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 2072. Doctoral thesis in Journalism. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
(2010). Kulttuurispesialistista kulttuurigeneralistiksi: kulttuurijournalistisen professionalismin muutos, esimerkkinä Helsingin Sanomien kulttuuriosaston muutos. Licenciate’s thesis in Journalism (in Finnish). Tampere: University of Tampere.
(2008). Für die Elite oder für die Masse? Eine komparative textlinguistische Studie zum kommunikativen Gebrauch der Textsorten im deutschen Feuilleton und finnischen Kulturressort. Master’s thesis in German Philology (in German). Tampere: University of Tampere.
(2005). Vainuaako opaskoira uutisen? Helsingin Sanomien kulttuuriosaston uutiskulttuurin etnografista tarkastelua organisaatioteoreettisesta näkökulmasta. Master’s thesis in Journalism (in Finnish). Tampere: University of Tampere.