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GPC Programme Director (interim, 2025–2026) Marko Ampuja is a Senior Lecturer and Docent (Adj. Professor) in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki. Previously, he has worked as an Academy Research Fellow at the Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET) at Tampere University, and as a lecturer at the International MA Programme Media and Global Communication at the University of Helsinki. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies in 2019. He worked as the Director of GPC programme 2016–2017, at the time when the programme was launched.
Ampuja has published on media and social theory, critical theory, media and globalization, information society, history of ICT, political economy of media, and media coverage of economic policies and innovation discourses, among other topics. Ampuja’s PhD thesis (2010) critically examined academic globalization debates from the viewpoint of media and communications. A revised version of the dissertation was published as Theorizing Globalization: A Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory (Brill 2012; Haymarket Books 2013). Ampuja has published, edited and co-authored books on media research in Finnish. His five-year long Academy of Finland research project (2017–2022) focused on policies and media discourses surrounding innovation and entrepreneurship from an ideology-theoretical perspective, of which he is preparing a book.
Besides teaching and directing the GPC Programme, he works presently in an interdisciplinary research project titled The Democratic Epistemic Capacities in the Age of Algorithms (DECA), funded by the Research Council of Finland.
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