Katja Valaskivi: 3 books
Cool Nations
Media and the Social Imaginary of the Branded Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Nation branding is the most recent feature of imagined nation-making in the history of nations. Facing global competition, national decision-makers aim to distinguish their countries from others by means of branding. Quite a few nations have considered the term ‘cool’ suitable for describing some...
Traces of Fukushima
Global Events, Networked Media and Circulating Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion. Through an ambitious and innovative combination of theoretical and methodological approaches, the book discusses how meanings, emotions and interpretations...
Hybrid Media Events
The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global Circulation of Terrorist Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what kind of purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these questions by re-thinking media events in the contemporary digital media environment saturated by intensified circulation of radical violence. The empirical analyses...