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Master's Degree Programme in Cultural Policy

Karina Horsti

 

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Dr. Karina Horsti is Senior Lecturer and Academy of Finland Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2016). She has 15 years of research experience focusing on qualitative and critical media studies in the contexts of migration, race/ethnicity, and humanitarian action. Her current research examines public remembering of forced migration and the commemoration of border related death in Europe. In addition, she has published on anti-immigration movements, multicultural policies, and the representation of migrants from media and cultural studies perspectives. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals: New Media & Society, Memory Studies, Citizenship Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and other journals. Horsti has delivered invited plenary talks at New York University, Tulane University, University of Tübingen, and University of Naples Federico II. She has served as expert evaluator for several institutions and publishers such as European Commission, COST (European cooperation in science and technology), Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Oxford University Press, and Routledge. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Communication, Culture & Critique, a journal of the International Communication Association (ICA).

Recent blog posts Border Criminologies, Re-configuring Ruins, Finnland-Institut Berlin.

 

Contact: karina.horsti@jyu.fi

See publications at: https://jyu.academia.edu/KarinaHorsti


Research interests:

  • Mediatization of migration
  • Critical border studies
  • Humanitarian communication
  • Nation, ethnicity/race and difference in media culture
  • Identities and cultural memory in a mediated society
  • New media practices
  • Discourse and frame analysis in media studies
  • European multicultural media policies

Current research projects:

Mediterranean sea is a border zone where thousands of people have drowned in the past 20 years. My present project examines how contemporary forced migration and border related deaths are publicly remembered in Europe—and what kinds of implications memory performances have for social equality and cultural identities.

  • Borderscapes, Memory and Migration, 2016 - 2017 (Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils, project leader: Karina Horsti)

This project address how forced migration is represented in cultural productions and media in the Nordic region by bringing two theoretical approaches - critical border studies and memory studies - into conjuncture with research on mediation. Three workshops bring together 12 senior and junior scholars from Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish academia.

Past research projects:

  • Structures of Compassion: Media, Migration, and the Politics of Emotion. The project is directed by Prof. Ullamaija Kivikuru, University of Helsinki and funded by Academy of Finland 2010-2013. Horsti's contribution to the project continues to scrutinize mediatisation of undocumented migration and refugees in Europe. Since the late 1990s she has studied news media’s role and ethical implications of news coverage in the context of European migration control.
  • Humanitarian narratives: Critical perspectives on humanitarian action, human rights, and development. This project is part of the Humanitarian Action Initiative, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University and Horsti was a member during her stay at NYU in 2011-2012. The project rethinks and reformulates the systems in the humanitarian field by analyzing emerging and historical humanitarian narratives. This multiyear project builds a network of international scholars and practitioners in the field of humanitarian action.
  • Framing immigration and integration in changing journalism. This project analyzed the ways in which opinions in and around journalism have increased in Finland, and how this change has contributed to the rising populist politics. This project scrutinized changes in immigration related opinionated journalism, like blogs, editorials, and columns. Funded by Academy of Finland post-doctoral fellow grant, University of Helsinki, 2010-2012. The project connects to an international network "Citizenship and journalistic practices" which brings together academics and practitioners from the UK, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The network is ongoing and hosted by the City University of London.
  • Project leader. MigraNord: Nordic researcher network for media, migration and society. Funded by Nordforsk and hosted by CEREN, University of Helsinki, 2007-2010. The network brought together some 90 Nordic academics and doctoral students in seminars, conference panels, working groups, and joint publications. The network continues in a new form as TheoryNord: Re-developing international theories of media and migration in a Nordic context, hosted by the Roskilde University in Denmark.
  • Multicultural media policy in public service broadcasting. This project analysed a shift from multicultural discourse to cultural diversity discourse in media policies at national and European levels. The results were presented in an invited symposium at the University of Stanford, News and Inclusion: Journalism and the politics of diversity. The project was funded by the University of Helsinki Post Doctoral Researcher programme 2007-2009.

Recent publications

2017 ”Communicative memory of irregular migration: the re-circulation of news images on You Tube.” Memory Studies, available as online first.

2016 ”Digital islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness”, New Media & Society, available as online first.

2016 "Imagining Europe’s borders: Commemorative art on migrant tragedies". In Lynda Mannik (ed.) Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival, pp. 83 - 100. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2016 ”Visibility without voice: Media witnessing irregular migrants in BBC online news journalism”, Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies (37)1: 1 - 20.

2015 ”Conditions of cultural citizenship: Intersections of gender, race and age in public debates on family migration.” Citizenship Studies (19)6-7: 751 - 767, co-authored with Saara Pellander.

2015 ”Techno-cultural opportunities: Anti-immigration movement in the Finnish media environment.” Patterns of Prejudice, (49)4: 343 – 366.

2014 ”National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe. An Introduction.” In K. Horsti, G. Hultén & G. Titley (eds.) National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe, pp. 3 – 18. Bristol: Intellect.

2014 ”The cultural diversity turn: policies, politics and influences at the European level”, in K. Horsti, G. Hultén & G. Titley (eds.) National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe, pp. 43 – 60. Bristol: Intellect.

2014 ”The politics of a multicultural mission: Finland’s YLE in a changing society”, in K. Horsti, G. Hultén & G. Titley (eds.) National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe , pp. 167 – 183. Bristol: Intellect.

2013 “The ethics of hospitality in changing journalism: The response to the rise of the anti-immigrant movement in Finnish media publicity”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(4): 489 - 504, co-authored with Kaarina Nikunen.

2013 “De-ethnicized victims: Mediatized advocacy for asylum seekers”, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 14(1): 78 – 95.

2013 “Maahanmuuttajat mediamaisemassa” [Immigrants in the media scape] in T. Martikainen, P. Saukkonen & M. Säävälä (eds.) Muuttoliikkeet, etnisyys ja monikulttuurisuus. [Migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism], pp. 301 – 317. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. (In Finnish.)

2012 “Humanitarian discourse legitimating migration control: FRONTEX public communication”, in M. Messier, R. Wodak & R. Schroeder (eds.) Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 297 – 308. Vienna: Springer Science & Business Media.

 

Teaching: recent courses

*Media and globalization, International Master’s degree program in Cultural Policy, University of Jyväskylä, fall 2015, fall 2014, fall 2013, 5 ECTS, in English.

*ERASMUS lectures, Sociology of Culture and Communication, Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, fall 2014.

*Master’s thesis seminars, International Master’s degree program in Cultural Policy, University of Jyväskylä, fall and spring 2013, 5 ECTS, in Finnish and English.

*Kansainvälinen kulttuuripolitiikka II, (International Cultural Policy II), International Master’s degree program in Cultural Policy, University of Jyväskylä, spring 2013, 5 ECTS, in Finnish.

*Media and identity, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, spring 2012, 5 credits.

*Introduction to human communication, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, fall 2011, 5 credits.