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On the Dark Side of Lifestyle Blogging – The Case of Negative Anonyms

12.10.2018

The article focuses on the ways negative anonyms influence Finnish lifestyle blogging though their critical comments and the strategies bloggers employ in order to manage critique in the blogosphere.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Monkey in the Self-Portrait – The Non-Human Animal and the Question of Self-Representation

12.10.2018

This article examines what it means when an animal points a camera at itself and takes a picture. The knowledge that the picture of the monkey is taken by the monkey itself urges a thorough re-examine of the agency, power, and embodied consciousness associated with photography and the practices of self-representation.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Romance Gone Mortal – Taboo of Shipping Fictional Movie Monsters

12.10.2018

Shipping is a fan activity, in which the focus is to find romantically charged sub-texts from media texts. In this article I examine the taboo of shipping two fictional movie monsters, Pennywise the Dancing Clown and Babadook, and the way they turned into a celebrated power couple in social media.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Imagi(ni)ng Urban Transformation in Post-Détente Havana

21.6.2018

The article has two foci: It first discusses visual statements on U.S.-Cuba relations, produced by official and online representations. It then examines closer some specific urban imagi(ni)ngs of Havana from the perspective of official and grassroots actors in shared space in Havana.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Urban Murals and the Post-Protest Imagery of Networked Publics: The Remediated Aftermath of Ukraine’s Euromaidan on Instagram

21.6.2018

This article investigates the potential of networked publics and affective meaning-making by examining the remediation of urban murals in post-protest Kyiv, Ukraine, on Instagram.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Hues on a Shell: Cyber-Dystopia and the Hong Kong Façade in the Cinematic City

21.6.2018

This article addresses the visual specificities of the imaginations, “reimaginings”, and interpretations of Hong Kong’s urban space as represented in the American adaptation of Ghost in the Shell (Sanders 2017).

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

The Graffiti Storyline and Urban Planning: Key Narratives in the Planning, Marketing, and News Texts of Santalahti and Hiedanranta

21.6.2018

This article regards urban planning as a form of storytelling and argues that there is significance in whose stories and which storylines are acknowledged to belong to the narrative fabric of a place and how the stories of future districts are communicated to the public through narratives during a planning project.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Building the Post-War Nations – Rome, Open City and Murderers Among Us as Part of the Cultural Heritage Process

10.11.2017

The article focuses on the ways in which Roberto Rossellini’s Italian neorealist film Rome, Open City and Wolfgang Staudte’s German rubble film Murderers Among Us can participate in the cultural heritage process and thereby affect the unity of the nation as a cultural heritage community.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

Superman on the Silver Screen: The Political Ideology of The Man of Tomorrow on Film

10.11.2017

In this article, I examine the political ideology of the Superman films. Through close reading and contextualization, I find elements that represent issues and ideals present that were part contemporary political discourses during the time each film was released.

  • article
  • peer-reviewed

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Kimmo Ahonen (Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto), Veli-Matti Karhulahti (Turun yliopisto), Tero Karppi (University of Toronto), Tomi Knuutila (Lapin yliopisto), Pietari Kääpä (University of Stirling, UK), Janne Matikainen (Helsingin yliopisto), Markku Reunanen (Aalto-yliopisto), Antti Silvast (University of Edinburgh), Jaakko Stenros (Tampereen yliopisto), Pauliina Tuomi (Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto), Riikka Turtiainen (Turun yliopisto), Johanna Ylipulli (Helsingin yliopisto), Anna Sivula (Turun yliopisto)

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