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Drawing from interviews with 31 young leading climate activists from 23 countries across the world this article aims to capture the contribution of the recent youth climate movement to communicating climate science and politics. We show that from the point of view of the youth activists, the movement powerfully connects personal and local experiences and emotions with climate science. This has enabled the activists to construct an authentic, generational and temporal identity that has helped them to carve out an autonomous position and voice with considerable moral authority among existing climate policy actors. Claiming to represent the future generation, we conclude that activists have offered an important added value to climate science as new ambassadors for scientific consensus and climate mitigation. The youth movement and the added value it brings communicating climate science is an example of the dynamics of the formation of "relational publics" and emphasizes the need to understand better the networked communication landscape where climate politics is debated. ; Open access funding provided by OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. ; publishedVersion

Taking the global climate-change summits (the COP process and particularly the Copenhagen 2009 COP15 summit) as a point of departure, this article looks at the dynamics of a momentarily articulated transnational journalistic field. Based on a comparative study of summit coverage across the world, the article identifies two broad positions shared by many journalists and newspapers. On one hand, journalists took an active part in constructing and mediating a normatively based, cosmopolitan discourse that demanded a conclusive, multilateral agreement. On the other hand, journalism produced a detached and partly nationally grounded discourse of power realism. This article also looks at how these shared and rival positions opened space and opportunities for journalists to criticize and scrutinize their domestic political actors on the issue of climate change. Finally, the study argues that despite its cosmopolitan moments and reflexivity, journalism was part of a potential change of tone in climate-change coverage in which the plausibility of a multilateral agreement and the legitimacy of transnational organizations (such as the UN) may have been seriously undermined, at least in the short run. ; Copyright © 2012 (Risto Kunelius & Elisabeth Eide.) Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org.

This article looks at the role of media in political decision making by making use of Parson's concept of political power. It enables a look at how media is both an essential resource of political power and a crucial factor in the environment in which political power works. Drawing on a qualitative interview sample of 60 elite decision makers and an elite survey (N = 419), Finnish decision making is found to be quite thoroughly mediatized. Mediatization is differentiated in distinct actor profiles found with Latent Class Analysis of the survey data. The most prominent pattern seems to be that mediatization correlates with other power resources. Those who have official status and are actively involved in policy networks also make use of media resources, and to differing extents adapt their actions to the demands of the media. However, there are also groups of decision makers who still seem to be quite independent of the media. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Inc.]

Taking the global climate-change summits (the COP process and particularly the Copenhagen 2009 COP15 summit) as a point of departure, this article looks at the dynamics of a momentarily articulated transnational journalistic field. Based on a comparative study of summit coverage across the world, the article identifies two broad positions shared by many journalists and newspapers. On one hand, journalists took an active part in constructing and mediating a normatively based, cosmopolitan discourse that demanded a conclusive, multilateral agreement. On the other hand, journalism produced a detached and partly nationally grounded discourse of power realism. This article also looks at how these shared and rival positions opened space and opportunities for journalists to criticize and scrutinize their domestic political actors on the issue of climate change. Finally, the study argues that despite its cosmopolitan moments and reflexivity, journalism was part of a potential change of tone in climate-change coverage in which the plausibility of a multilateral agreement and the legitimacy of transnational organizations (such as the UN) may have been seriously undermined, at least in the short run. ; publishedVersion

Taking the global climate-change summits (the COP process and particularly the Copenhagen 2009 COP15 summit) as a point of departure, this article looks at the dynamics of a momentarily articulated transnational journalistic field. Based on a comparative study of summit coverage across the world, the article identifies two broad positions shared by many journalists and newspapers. On one hand, journalists took an active part in constructing and mediating a normatively based, cosmopolitan discourse that demanded a conclusive, multilateral agreement. On the other hand, journalism produced a detached and partly nationally grounded discourse of power realism. This article also looks at how these shared and rival positions opened space and opportunities for journalists to criticize and scrutinize their domestic political actors on the issue of climate change. Finally, the study argues that despite its cosmopolitan moments and reflexivity, journalism was part of a potential change of tone in climate-change coverage in which the plausibility of a multilateral agreement and the legitimacy of transnational organizations (such as the UN) may have been seriously undermined, at least in the short run.

This article looks at the role of media in political decision making by making use of Parson's concept of political power. It enables a look at how media is both an essential resource of political power and a crucial factor in the environment in which political power works. Drawing on a qualitative interview sample of 60 elite decision makers and an elite survey (N = 419), Finnish decision making is found to be quite thoroughly mediatized. Mediatization is differentiated in distinct actor profiles found with Latent Class Analysis of the survey data. The most prominent pattern seems to be that mediatization correlates with other power resources. Those who have official status and are actively involved in policy networks also make use of media resources, and to differing extents adapt their actions to the demands of the media. However, there are also groups of decision makers who still seem to be quite independent of the media.

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Joulun alla 2017 Helsingin Sanomat (HS) julkaisi vuodettuihin salaisiin asiakirjoihin pohjautuneen jutun Puolustusvoimien Viestikoekeskuksen harjoittamasta tiedustelusta. Laura Halmisen ja Tuomo Pietiläisen kirjoittama juttu nostatti kiihkeän keskustelun julkisuudessa. Se keräsi satoja kommentteja Helsingin Sanomien verkkolehdessä ja oli muutaman päivän ajan Suomen keskustelluin aihe Twitterissä. Tässä artikkelissa analysoidaan uutiskommenteista ja sosiaalisesta mediasta kerättyä aineistoa. Sisällön erittelystä käy ilmi, että HS sai verkossa enimmäkseen kylmää kyytiä. Enemmistö kommentoijista kritisoi lehteä jutun julkaisemisesta. Jyrkimpien kannanottojen mukaan toimittajat vaaransivat kansallisen turvallisuuden ja syyllistyivät maanpetokseen. Huomattavan harva kantaa ottaneista asettui julkisesti puolustamaan tietojen julkaisemista. Artikkelia varten tehdyssä diskurssianalyysissä kannanottojen erot palautuvat yhtäältä yhteiskunnallisiin puhuja-asemiin politiikan verkostoissa sekä toisaalta erilaisiin käsityksiin turvallisuuden ja yksilönvapauksien asemasta demokratiassa. Tietovuotoa koskevan keskustelun analyysi antaa vihjeitä siitä, miten valtion ja median suhteet rakentuvat hybridin mediajärjestelmän oloissa.

Introduction: Tracing the Meanings of Fukushima -- Part I - Time -- Dealing with the Disaster – The Live Media Event -- Temporal Affordances in the Networked Remembering of Fukushima -- Part II – Space -- Towards a Geography of Mediated Affect: Discursive Spaces and Emotional Dynamics -- Social Media and Ambient Social Distance -- Part III –Emotion -- The Global Circulation of Affect – The Case of Iodide Tablets -- Affective Entanglements of Expertise – The Finnish Case -- Conclusion: Time, Space and Emotion in Tracing Fukushima

This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key element in the transnational communication infrastructure of climate politics. It examines variations of coverage in different countries and locations all over the world. It looks at how IPCC scientists review the role of media, reflects on how media relate to decision-making structures and cultures, analyzes how key journalists reflect on the challenges of covering climate change, and shows how the message of IPCC was distributed in the global networks of social media