Programme

Here you can find the up-to-date programme of the conference. The programme of the parallel sessions will be published in September.
Thursday, 24 October 2024

9.15-

Registration 

Language Centre, in front of the Festive Hall (3rd floor)

9:45-10:00

Welcoming words

Mervi Pantti & Risto Kunelius 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

10:00-10:45

Hilde Van Den Bulck (Drexel University):

Epistemic Welfare and the Public Sphere: A Framework to Tackle the Epistemic Crisis

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

11:00-12:30 (12:45)

Session 1:

Media Accountability Between Commercial and Political Pressures 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Session 2:

Audiences, Citizens and Users: Epistemic Needs for Democratic Practices   

Language Centre, S406 (4rd floor)

Note! This session ends at 12:45.

12:30-13:30

Lunch break 

Please note that the lunch will be self-funded. 

13:30-15:15

Session 3:

Communication Policy and the Public Good 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Note! This session ends at 15:15.

Session 4:

Media Accountability and Epistemic Harms

 Language Centre, S406 (4rd floor)

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

Language Centre, in front of the Festive Hall (3rd floor)

15:30-17:00

Special Session: Freedom of Speech and Platforms

Tarlach McGonagle (University of Amsterdam) 

Anni Carlsson (Swedish Defence University) 

Riku Neuvonen (University of Helsinki) 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Session 5: Epistemic Wellbeing: Theories and Empirical Conditions 

Language Centre, S406 (4rd floor)

17:30-19:00

Reception 

Main Building, Christina (Unioninkatu 34, U2085, 2nd floor)

Friday, 25 October 2024

9:30-10:15

Eugenia Siapera (University College Dublin)

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

10:30-12:00

Session 6:

Diversity in Journalism 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Session 7:

Platforms and Democracy

Language Centre, S406 (4rd floor)

12:00-13:00

Lunch 

Please note that the lunch will be self-funded. 

13:00-13:45

Adrienne Russell (University of Washington):

How Big Tech shapes our understandings and responses to the climate crisis and how we might change that

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

14:00-15:30 (15:45)

Session 8:

Politics of Climate Knowledge: Journalists, Platforms and Expertise 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Session 9:

Journalism: Profession, AI and Epistemic Challenges

Language centre, S406 (4rd floor)

Note! This session ends at 15:45.

15:30-16:00

Coffee

Language Centre, in front of the Festive Hall (3rd floor)

16:00-16:45

Mike Ananny (University of Southern California)

How is Generative AI Made a Public Problem?

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

16:45-17:00

Concluding words

Hannu Nieminen 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)