27.3. Information ecosystem and troubled democracy: Global outlooks and lessons for Finland
Time: March 27, 10:30-16:00
Place: Faculty Hall, Unioninkatu 37, room 1066
Sign up by March 20 using this form. Lunch will be provided for those who participate in both the morning and afternoon sessions.
The International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID) is a global research-to-policy interface gathering scientific evidence to inform future-proofed policies and empower appropriate civic action. In January 2025, the Observatory published its first global “information climate” report, providing a critical assessment of the role of information ecosystems in the Global North and Global Majority World.
The report addresses three thematic areas with a cross-cutting theme of mis- and disinformation:
Media, Politics and Trust;
Artificial Intelligence, Information Ecosystems and Democracy;
and Data Governance and Democracy.
In this one-day seminar, we have the opportunity to hear about the report's key insights from the editor, Professor Robin Mansell (London School of Economics, Professor Emerita).
We will then hear from six scholars about their research and, from that vantage point, their reflections on the report.
Programme
10:30 Robin Mansell’s keynote on the essential takeaways from the OID report
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Three short presentations:
Pauliina Penttilä (University of Tampere): Dominant Metrics, Residual Professionalsim and Emergent Individualism – An Ethnographic Study of Newsroom Culture in the Finnish tabloid Iltalehti
Tuija Aalto (University of Tampere): Shared Visibility Practices - Social Media Influencers Collaborating with Legacy Media— Evidence from Finland
Stefanie Sirén-Heikel (University of Helsinki): Messy realities of managing journalism in the era of AI:Centralized governance of generative AI in consolidated Nordic legacy media
14:00 Coffee break
14:15 Three short presentations:
Salla Tuomola (University of Tampere): The Disinformation Discourse in Public Debate: A Critical Review of the Experience of Low-Trusting Citizens
Outi Puukko (University of Helsinki): Whose digital future? UN Global Digital Compact and alternative socio-technical imaginaries
Tuomas Heikkilä (University of Helsinki): Rethinking the problems of mis- and disinformation
15:15 Panel discussion: Hannu Nieminen (moderator and contributor), Robin Mansell, Marko Ampuja, and the presenters.
The event is organized by The Democratic Epistemic Capacities in the Age of Algorithms (DECA) project.
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