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6.3.2024

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28.11.2024

Podcasts on Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media

A two-part podcast series on the topics discussed at the Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media Conference have now been published on DECA's SoundCloud page.

3.9.2024

Registration is open: Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media conference, October 24-25

Registration is now open for the Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media conference, taking place on 24-25 October 2024 at the University of Helsinki.

19.8.2024

Blog: Language and identity - Ukrainians dealing with choosing the language abroad

In her blog post Karina Adamusik explores the complexities of language choices for Ukrainians in Finland and elsewhere and how these decisions reflect their evolving sense of self and integration into Finnish society.

19.4.2024

Workshop: Exploring Epistemic Dimensions in Social Psychology and beyond, May 16

This engaging event, co-organised by the DECA project is part of the Social Psychology Days at University of Helsinki, and it's designed to illuminate the rich epistemic layers underlying various societal problems and research areas in social psychology.

11.4.2024

New book publication! The Future of the Nordic Media Model: A Digital Media Welfare State?

DECA’s Hannu Nieminen, Minna Horowitz, Reeta Pöyhtäri, Katja Lehtisaari, and Riku Neuvonen are among the writers of the new book entitled The Future of the Nordic Media Model: A Digital Media Welfare State? that delves into the intricacies of the Nordic media landscape.

4.4.2024

Blog: AI and Epistemic Rights

AI is everywhere and has been working quite successfully for a while. In this blog, Hannu Nieminen, Kirsi Hantula and Minna Horowitz discusses Ai development from the viewpoint of epistemic rights. They state that ensuring epistemic rights is only effective with sufficient AI literacy and, relatedly, people’s opportunities to decide what kind of AI they want.

6.3.2024

Epistemic Rights Webinar, Friday 5 April

In this webinar, we introduce selected key themes and approaches of a new, open-access book ‘Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption (Palgrave MacMillan, IAMCR book series).

5.3.2024

DECA took part in organizing a joint course on Disinformation and Digital Information Literacy

The course offers tools and new perspectives on digital information literacy. In this article, that was originally published on the webpage of DECA's partner Faktabaari, three researchers give their less-discussed angles.

4.3.2024

The Extreme Public Sphere: Political and Regulatory Dilemmas - Guest lecture by Eugenia Siapera 26.3.

Our visiting professor Eugenia Siapera will hold a guest lecture titled “The Extreme Public Sphere: Political and Regulatory Dilemmas” as part of The New Research Culture lecture series organized by Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities.

28.2.2024

Call for abstracts: Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media

Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media Conference takes place 24-25 October 2024 at the University of Helsinki. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is April 12, 2024.

12.2.2024

Blog: Epistemic Orders and the Crisis of Epistemic Institutions in Finland

Knowledge-producing epistemic institutions and authorities across Western countries have faced a mounting attack that aims to undermine citizens’ trust in them. Why is this happening now? In this blog Marko Ampuja of DECA reflects in the Finnish context the reasons why epistemic institutions have been subjected to increasing political contestation and external pressures on many fronts.

9.1.2024

Minna Horowitz discussing on how media is perceived nowadays in Finland in "Giaco Discovering Finland" podcast

The podcast episode focuses on trust in the media, fake news, and future prospects of the Finnish media, and it is freely available on Spotify.

14.12.2023

Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media - International Conference in Helsinki on 24-25 October 2024

The two-day conference seeks to address the relations between knowledge production, technologies and inequalities in a datafied and polarised communication landscape.

7.12.2023

Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption - book release in January!

This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. The volume is edited by Minna Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D’Arma.

4.12.2023

What Do Citizens Trust in the Nordics? Minna Horowitz of DECA presented findings on the Nordic audience survey at Nordic Democracy Day

Hanaholmen’s annual Nordic Democracy Day focused on the current challenges concerning freedom of expression and democracy. The presenters included the editors-in-chief of four large Nordic newspapers and the Chair of the Nordic think tank for tech and democracy. DECA’s representative Minna Horowitz reported on the Nordic audience survey, a study conducted together with the NORDIS media observatory and co-funded by the C.V. Åkerlund Media Foundation.

24.10.2023

Webinar: From value to contributions: Rethinking the societal role of public service media, 27 November

DECA co-organizes a webinar based on the edited volume, Public Service Media's Contribution to Society: RIPE@2021, together with IAPMR and Nordicom, 27 November. Registration is now opened.

24.10.2023

DECA participates Nordic Democracy Day 1.12.

DECA will participate Nordic Democracy Day that will be held December 1st at Hanaholmen. DECA's researcher Minna Horowitz will give a presentation on What do citizens trust in the Nordics? Facts from an ongoing NORDIS/DECA research-project.

7.9.2023

Platforms, media and public service conference

DECA research project and Tampere University Public Law are organizing a one-day conference. The theme is Platforms, media and public service. The speakers are Professor Andrew Kenyon, Matthias Kettemann, Henna Virkkunen and Hannu Nieminen. Register for the event by 3 October

1.9.2023

Report from the Migrant Rights X Finnish Immigration Policies event

A public forum to discuss the effects of the proposed immigration laws in the government programme on the rights of diverse migrant groups in Finland was organized August 25 at the Oodi Library in Helsinki. DECA's Minna Horowitz participated the event and prepared a summary report on it.

31.8.2023

Blog: What are TikTok’s values?

What are the values of TikTok? If TikTok doesn’t fit the ‘American values,’ where can it fit? With these questions in mind Yang Xu, a doctoral student in Social Sciences, looked into TikTok’s official discourses (policy documents, press releases, and user guides) over the years with the following research question: What values have TikTok articulated in its official discourses?

13.7.2023

How does propaganda appear in the present digital era?

In the new podcast episode DECA’s co-director professor Risto Kunelius discusses the history of and recent developments in the research of propaganda.

12.7.2023

New podcast series on epistemic rights

What are epistemic rights and why do we need them? DECA’s researchers discussing the theme in the new podcast series.

5.7.2023

A European Public Digital Platform?

ActNow!, a network to innovate for a pan-European, independent, and non-commercial platform met at the University of Vienna in June 2023 to discuss opportunities and future collaborations. While the global tech giants' impact is evident, there is an urgent need to envision alternatives to foster democracy, social cohesion, and citizenship.

5.7.2023

DECA at EuroDIG

DECA researchers contributed to the European Dialogue on Internet Governance EuroDIG organized in Tampere and online, 19-21 June 2023. The conference theme is “Internet in troubled times: risks, resilience, hope”.

25.5.2023

Great variety of DECA-themed podcasts on SoundCloud

DECA has a channel on SoundCloud that is filled with interesting podcasts on project's themes.

3.5.2023

Videos on digital information literacy

In collaboration with DECA and EDMO Nordis -consortium Faktabaari has produced two videos on digital information literacy.

10.5.2023

DECA took part in designing a course on disinformation and digital information literacy

A Bachelor-level course on Disinformation and Digital Information Literacy (DIL) has been piloted at the University of Helsinki during the Spring semester 2023. DECA’s Minna Aslama is one of the designers and teachers of the course.

19.4.2023

Think tank recommendations: The Nordic countries must defend digital democracy

The the Nordic countries should be at the forefront of demanding and implementing democratic and transparent principles regarding how tech giants can influence societies and democracies – both in the Nordics, Europe, and globally.

Epistemic Rights Webinar, Friday 5 April

When? Friday 5 April, 2024 @10h00 UTC / 11h00 London / 12h00 Paris / 13h00 Nairobi / 15h30 Kolkata / 18h00 Beijing.

Where? The meeting will take place on Zoom. Pre-registered participants will receive personal invitations 24 hours before the webinar begins. Pre-registration is required by 3 April. Register here.

Who can participate? The webinar is open to all IAMCR members but space is restricted. A limited number of guest invitations for non-members may be available. Fill out this form to request being added to the guest list. Not sure if you're a member? Check the membership directory. If you are not a member of IAMCR, you can join here.

Description

In today’s complex era of digital disruption, i it is not enough to simply speak about communication rights or even digital rights. We need a more comprehensive term to grasp the multifaceted challenges for the current situation to citizens, organizations, and democratic structures as a whole. In a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of societal importance. This claim includes a further claim that citizens have equal access to all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation.

In this webinar, we introduce selected key themes and approaches of a new, open-access book ‘Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption (Palgrave MacMillan, IAMCR book series). The volume is intended as a first holistic response to an urgent need to address epistemic rights pertaining to communication as a central public policy issue, as an academic analytical concept, as well as a central theme for informed public debates.

After short comments about the concept of epistemic rights and empirical case studies, we open the floor to the general discussion about the ‘epistemic turn’ in media and communication studies.

Listen to this 5-minute introduction to the book

The book is available for open access on the publisher's site.

Chair and foreword: Claudia Padovani

Speakers:

Lani Watson - What are epistemic rights?
Hannu Nieminen - Why do we need the concept of epistemic rights in communication research?
Tendai Chari - Case of analysing epistemic rights: Authoritarianism and Epistemic Rights in the Global South: Unpacking Internet Shutdowns in Zimbabwe
Philip Napoli - Case of analysing epistemic rights: Epistemic Rights, Information Inequalities, and Public Policy
Kirsi Hantula - Commentary: Using the framework of epistemic rights in AI policy work

Q&A Moderators: Minna Aslama Horowitz and Katja Lehtisaari

Convened by: IAMCR Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies and Global Media Policy Working Groups, in cooperation with The Democratic Epistemic Capacities in the Age of Algorithms (DECA) research consortium, Communication Rights in the Age of Digital Disruption (CORDI) research consortium, and Tampere Research Centre for Russian and Chinese Media (TaRC).

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