Research director at COMET / COMETin tutkimusjohtaja
Phone: 050-3969682
email: katja.valaskivi[at]uta.fi
Room: Main Building E 319
Research interests: hybrid media events, media and the nation, nation branding, media and social theory, circulation in media society, media and religion, innovationism, Japanese media and popular culture, gender.
Some recent publications:
Hybrid Media Events. The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Gobal Circulation of Terrorist Violence. Emerald 2018
Cool Nations. Media and the Social Imaginary of the Branded Country. London: Routledge. 2016
#JeSuisCharlie. Towards a Multi-Method Study of Hybrid Media Event. Media and Communication. Together with Johanna Sumiala, Minttu Tikka and Jukka Huhtamäki. 2016.
Crashing a National Media Event. Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland. In Mitu and Poulakidakos (eds.) (2015) Media Events. A Critical Contemporary Approach. Palgrave. Together with Taneli Heikka and Turo Uskali.
Mass Media in Japan. In James D. Babb (2015) The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies.
Shinkou toshite no ”inobeeshon” [Innovaatiousko] Teoksessa Noritoshi Furuichi & Tuukka Toivonen (2015) (toim.) Kokka ga yomigaeru toki: motazaru kuni de aru Finrando ga nandomo saisei dekita riyuu (国家がよみがえるとき―持たざる国であるフィンランドが何度も再生できた理由) [Muuttuva kansakunta: Miksi Suomi on onnistunut uudistumaan?] Tokyo: Magazine House 2015. (In Japanese)
Introduction: Circulating social imaginaries – a theoretical and methodological perspective. European Journal of Cultural Studies, special issue on Circulation of power/Power of Circulation ed. Katja Valaskivi & Johanna Sumiala. Online First Nov 15, 2013 DOI: 10.1177/1367549413508741
A brand new future? Cool Japan and social imaginary of the branded nation. Japan Forum Jan 31, 2013.
Japanin media. (Media in Japan) In Ullamaija Kivikuru and Jukka Pietiläinen (eds.) Maailman media. (The World of Media) Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2014. 192-204. (in Finnish)
Brändikansakunnan kulttuuri. (Culture in the Branded Nation). In Mikko Lehtonen, Katja Valaskivi & Hanna Kuusela: Tehtävä kulttuurille. (Mission for culture) Tampere: Vastapaino. 2014 (In Finnish)
Yhteisöt liikkeessä – Innovaatiouskon kiertoa jäljittämässä. (Fluid communities – Tracing the circulation of innovationism.) Co-written with Johanna Sumiala. In Mikko Lehtonen: Liikkuva maailma (Fluid world). Tampere: Vastapaino. (2013, in Finnish)
Dimensions of Innovationism. In Peter Nynäs, Mika Lassander and Terhi Utriainen (eds.) Post Secular Society London: Transaction, 2012.
Autenttisuutta osmoosilla – japanilainen populaarikulttuuri osana elämää. (Authenticity through osmosis – Japanese popular culture in the everyday life) In Mikko Salasuo, Pauli Komonen & Janne Poikolainen: Katukulttuuri.Nuorisoesiintymiä 2000-luvun Suomessa. (Street culture. Youth fads in contemporary Finland.) Helsinki: Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, 2012.
”Everything is there” – Internet in the lives of Japanese popular culture fans in Finland. In Sonja Kangas (ed.) Digital Pioneers. Tracing the cultural drivers of future media culture. Nuorisotutkimusseura verkkojulkaisuja 49, 2011.
Personal history: Previously I have worked as the vice-dean for the Faculty of Communcation Sciences at UTA, Director for The Finnish Institute in Japan (2002-2005), Visiting Fellow in Media and Communication at the Goldsmiths College of University of London (2012), Visiting Researcher at The National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2007) and The Sophia University in Tokyo (1997). I worked as the Head of Communications and Media Relations at Tampere University of Technology 2005-2007. I’ve also worked as a journalist.