Rantanen, Terhi


Professor Terhi Rantanen  

Department

Position held

Department of Media and Communications

Professor of Global Media and Communications

Experience keywords:

global media; news; media and democracy; transitional media; media history; globalisation

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Professor Rantanen's research interests include global media, global news, post-communist and communist media, media history, and the history of media studies.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and CultureMedia Technology and New Media

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Europe; China; Russia; US

Languages:

Finnish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Swedish [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Russian [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; German [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6401

Publications

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2013

Rantanen, Terhi (2013) Quickening urgency: the telegraph and wire services in 1846-1893. In: Valdivia, Anharad N., (ed.) The international encyclopedia of media studies: volume 1: media history and the foundations of media studies. Wiley-Blackwell, New York, USA. ISBN 9781405193566

2012

Rantanen, Terhi (2012) In nationalism we trust? In: Castells, Manuel and Caraça, Caraça and Cardoso, Gustavo, (eds.) Aftermath: the cultures of the economic crisis. Oxford University Press, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 132-153. ISBN 9780199658411

2011

Rantanen, Terhi (2011) The end of the electronic news cartel, 1927-1934. In: Putnis, Peter and Kaul, Chandrika and Wilke, Juergen, (eds.) International communication and global news networks: historical perspectives. Hampton Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9781612890548

2010

Rantanen, Terhi (2010) Methodological inter-nationalism in comparative media research: flow studies in international communication. In: Roosvall, Anna and Salovaara-Moring, Inka, (eds.) Communicating the nation: national topografies of global media landscapes. Nordicom Publications, Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 25-39. ISBN 9789189471962

2009

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi (2009) News agencies. In: Albertazzi, Daniele and Cobley, Paul, (eds.) The media: an introduction. Pearson, Boston, USA, pp. 233-245. ISBN 9781405840361

Rantanen, Terhi (2009) When news was new. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781405175524

2008

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2008) Global and national news agencies: threats and opportunities in the age of convergence. In: de Beer, Arnold and Merrill, John C., (eds.) Global journalism: topical issues and media systems. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, USA, pp. 33-47. ISBN 9780205608119

Rantanen, Terhi (2008) The cosmopolitanization of news. In: Palmer, Michael and Aubert, Aurélie, (eds.) L'information mondialisée. Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, France, pp. 323-346. ISBN 9782296062306

Rantanen, Terhi (2008) Public national news or news for transnational publics? In: Thomas, I. and Almqvist, K., (eds.) The future of public service broadcasting. Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 171-182. ISBN 9789189672215

Rantanen, Terhi (2008) From international communication to global media studies. What next? Nordicom review, 29 (2). pp. 31-34. ISSN 1403-1108

2007

Rantanen, Terhi (2007) A transnational cosmopolitan: an interview with Ulf Hannerz. Global media and communication, 3 (1). pp. 11-27. ISSN 1742-7665

Rantanen, Terhi (2007) The cosmopolitanization of news. Journalism studies, 8 (6). pp. 843-861. ISSN 1461-670X

2006

Rantanen, Terhi (2006) Flows and contra-flows in transitional societies. In: Thussu, Daya K., (ed.) Media on the move: global flow and contraflow. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 163-178. ISBN 9780415354578

Rantanen, Terhi (2006) Digging the global mine: an interview with Saskia Sassen. Global media and communication, 2 (2). pp. 142-159. ISSN 1742-7673

Rantanen, Terhi (2006) A man behind scapes: an interview with Arjun Appadurai. Global media and communication, 2 (1). pp. 7-19. ISSN 1742-7665

Rantanen, Terhi (2006) Foreign dependence and domestic monopoly: the European news cartel and U.S. associated presses, 1861-1932. Media history, 12 (1). pp. 19-35. ISSN 1368-8804

2005

Rantanen, Terhi (2005) Cosmopolitanization - now!: an interview with Ulrich Beck. Global media and communication, 1 (3). pp. 247-263. ISSN 1742-7665

Rantanen, Terhi (2005) The message is the medium: an interview with Manuel Castells. Global media and communication, 1 (2). pp. 135-147. ISSN 1742-7665

Rantanen, Terhi (2005) Giddens and the 'G'-word: an interview with Anthony Giddens. Global media and communication, 1 (1). pp. 63-77. ISSN 1742-7665

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2005) State news agencies - a time for re-evaluation? In: Dorfler, Edith and Vyslozil, Wolfgang, (eds.) The various faces of reality - values in news (agency) journalism. Studien Verlag, Insbruck, Austria, pp. 79-90. ISBN 9783706518222

Rantanen, Terhi (2005) Media and globalization. Sage, London, UK. ISBN 0761973125

2004

Rantanen, Terhi (2004) Global'noe i natsional'noe. Mass-media i kommunikatsii v postkommunichekoi Rossii (translation of The global and the national. Media communications in post-communist Russia). Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo universiteta, Moscow, Russia. ISBN 5-211-04707-9

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2004) News agencies as news sources: a re-evaluation. In: Sreberny, Annabelle and Paterson, Chris, (eds.) Inernational news in 21st century. John Libbey Publishing for University of Luton Press, Eastleigh, UK, pp. 31-46. ISBN 1860205968

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi, (eds.) (2004) Xinwen quanqiuhua (translation of 'The globalization of the news'). Weber Publication International, Taiwan. ISBN 9867830377

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2004) Global and national news agencies: the unstable nexus. In: de Beer, Arnold S. and Merrill, John C., (eds.) Global journalism: topical issues and media systems. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, USA. ISBN 9780801330278

Rantanen, Terhi (2004) European news agencies and their sources in the Iraq war coverage. In: Allan, Stuart and Zelizer, Barbie, (eds.) Reporting war: journalism in wartime. Routledge, London, pp. 301-314. ISBN 0415339979

2003

Rantanen, Terhi and Kivikuru, U. (2003) Uutisvälitys [News transmission]. In: Nordenstreng, K. and Wiio, O. A., (eds.) Suomen mediamaisema [Finnish media landscape]. WSOY, Porvoo, Helsinki, pp. 132-154. ISBN 951-0-25416-9

Rantanen, Terhi (2003) New sense of place in the 19th Century news. Media culture and society, 25 (4). pp. 435-449. ISSN 1460-3675

Rantanen, Terhi and Vartanova, Elena (2003) Empire and communications: centrifugal and centripetal media in contemporary Russia. In: Couldry, Nick and Curran, James, (eds.) Contesting media power: alternative media in a networked world. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, US, pp. 147-162. ISBN 9780742523852

2002

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2002) News agencies: 'Global and national news agencies: opportunities and threats in the age of the Internet'. In: Briggs, Adam and Cobley, Paul, (eds.) The media: an introduction. Longman, Harlow, UK, pp. 57-69. ISBN 9780582423466

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2002) Theorizing the news agencies. In: McQuail, Denis, (ed.) McQuail's reader in mass communication. Sage, London, pp. 215-221. ISBN 9780761972433

Rantanen, Terhi and Ellä, H. and Engblom, L.-Å. and Heinonen, J. and Laaksovirta, T. and Pohjanpalo, L. and Rajamäki, T. and Woodman, J. (2002) Evaluation of media and communication studies in higher education in Finland. Edita Publishing Oy, Helsinki, Finland

Rantanen, Terhi (2002) Global and the national: media and communications in post-communist Russia. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, US. ISBN 0742515672

2001

Rantanen, Terhi (2001) Old and the new: communications technology and globalization in Russia. New media and society, 3 (1). pp. 85-105. ISSN 1461-7315

Rantanen, Terhi and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (2001) State news agencies - a time for re-evaluation? Medien und zeit, 16 (4). pp. 38-45. ISSN 0259-7446

2000

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi (2000) News agency foreign correspondents. In: Tunstall, Jeremy, (ed.) Media occupations and professions. A reader. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 127-143. ISBN 9780198742463

Rantanen, Terhi (2000) The old meets the new: news agencies in post-communist Russia. In: Ekecrantz, Jan and Olofsson, Kerstin, (eds.) Russian reports: studies in post-communist transformation of media and journalism. Almqvist and Wicksell, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 247-273. ISBN 9789189315037

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi (2000) European national news agencies: the end of an era or a new beginning? Journalism: theory, practice and criticism, 1 (1). pp. 86-105. ISSN 1464-8849

Rantanen, Terhi (2000) Tutkija paradigmamyrskyissa (Researcher in changing paradigms). In: Levo-Henriksson, Ritva and Ampuja, Marko, (eds.) Media ja me (Media and us). Yliopistopaino, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 11-15. ISBN 9514590724

Rantanen, Terhi (2000) The future of Nordic media and communication studies: the end of splendid isolation? Nordicom information, 22 (2). pp. 37-41. ISSN 0349-5949

1999

Rantanen, Terhi (1999) From export to import. Russian television in the age of globalization. In: Zassoursky, Yassen N. and Vartanova, Elena, (eds.) Media, communications and the open society. Moscow State University - Faculty of Journalism/IKAR, Moscow, Russia, pp. 173-183. ISBN 9785777600158

1998

Rantanen, Terhi (1998) The struggle for control of domestic news markets. In: Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi, (eds.) The globalization of news. Sage, London, UK, pp. 35-48. ISBN 9780761953869

Rantanen, Terhi (1998) From communism to capitalism. In: Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi, (eds.) The globalization of news. Sage, London, UK, pp. 125-136. ISBN 9780761953869

Palmer, Michael and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi (1998) News agencies in Europe. In: Briggs, Adam and Cobley, Paul, (eds.) The media: an introduction. Longman, Harlow, UK, pp. 52-64. ISBN 0582277981

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi, (eds.) (1998) The globalization of news. Sage, London, UK. ISBN 9780761953869

Rantanen, Terhi (1998) After five o'clock friends: Kent Cooper and Roy W. Howard. Indiana University, Indiana, USA.

Rantanen, Terhi (1998) Globaali uutisvälitys. In: Kivikuru, Ullamaija and Pietiläinen, Jukka, (eds.) Uutisia yli rajojen : ulkomaanuutisten maisema Suomessa. Helsingin yliopiston Lahden tutkimus- ja koulutuskeskus, Lahti, Finland, pp. 44-52. ISBN 9514576780

Palmer, Michael and Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi (1998) Global financial news. In: Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Rantanen, Terhi, (eds.) The globalization of news. Sage, London, UK, pp. 61-78. ISBN 9780761953869

1997

Rantanen, Terhi (1997) Pohjoismainen joukkoviestintä venäläisen tutkijan silmin. Suomen lehdistö : lehdistön viestintäpoliittinen julkaisu, 68 (4). pp. 40-42. ISSN 0039-5587

Rantanen, Terhi (1997) Ensimmäinen väitöskirja journalismin historiasta Virossa. Suomen lehdistö : lehdistön viestintäpoliittinen julkaisu, 67 (11). pp. 12-13. ISSN 0039-5587

Rantanen, Terhi and Ampuja, Marko (1997) Maailman ihmeellisin asia: johdatus viestinnän oppihistoriaan (Of all affairs, communications is the most wonderful - an introduction to the history of communication research). Finnish Open University, Helsinki, Finland. ISBN 9514576667

Rantanen, Terhi (1997) The globalization of news in the 19th century. Media, culture and society, 19 (4). pp. 605-620. ISSN 0163-4437

1996

Rantanen, Terhi (1996) What is to be done? Media in postsocialist countries. Journal of communication, 46 (4). pp. 171-176. ISSN 0021-9916

Rantanen, Terhi and Ampuja, Marko (1996) Miksi historiaa? Tiedotustutkimus, 19 (1). pp. 2-3. ISSN 0357-8070

Rantanen, Terhi (1996) Sanomalehtiopista tiedotusoppiin: miten historia katosi suomalaisesta viestinnän tutkimuksesta. Tiedotustutkimus, 19 (1). pp. 40-52. ISSN 0357-8070

Rantanen, Terhi (1996) Viestinnän opetuksen pioneerina Isossa-Britanniassa: fenomenologi mediahistorioitsijana: Paddy Scannellin haastattelu. Tiedotustutkimus, 19 (1). pp. 66-69. ISSN 0357-8070

1995

Rantanen, Terhi and Vartanova, Elena (1995) News agencies in post-communist Russia: from state monopoly to state dominance. European journal of communication, 10 (2). pp. 207-220. ISSN 1460-3705

1994

Rantanen, Terhi (1994) Tohtoriopiskelijana USA: ssa. Tiedotustutkimus, 17 (1). pp. 77-78. ISSN 0357-8070

Rantanen, Terhi (1994) Yhdestä moneen: viestinnän oppihistorioiden välttämättömyydestä. Tiedotustutkimus, 17 (2). pp. 21-30. ISSN 0357-8070

Vartanova, Elena and Rantanen, Terhi (1994) Ot gosudarstva - k rynku: rossijskie informacionnye agentstva na novom etape. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta (Journal of Moscow University) - seriia zhurnalistika, 1 pp. 76-88. ISSN 0320-8079

Vartanova, Elena and Rantanen, Terhi (1994) Mezhdu gosudarstvom i rynkom. Rossiiskie informatsionnye agentstva na sovremennom etape (Between state and market. Contemporary Russian news agencies). Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta (Journal of Moscow University) - seriia zhurnalistika, 2 ISSN 0320-8079

Rantanen, Terhi (1994) Howard interviews Stalin. How the AP, UP and TASS smashed the international news cartel. Indiana University, Indiana, USA.

Rantanen, Terhi (1994) Lehdistöhistoriasta viestinnän historioihin (From press history to media histories). In: Ihmiset, mediat ja merkitykset (People, media and meanings). Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 81-93. ISBN 9514567765

Rantanen, Terhi and Kivikuru, U. (1994) Uutisvälitys [news gathering and distribution]. In: Nordenstreng, K. and Wiio, O. A., (eds.) Joukkoviestintä Suomessa (Finnish mass media system). Weilin & Göös, Porvoo, Helsinki, pp. 76-91. ISBN 9513558991

1992

Rantanen, Terhi (1992) Mr Howard goes to South America. The United Press Associations and foreign expansion. Indiana Unviersity, Indiana, USA.

1990

Rantanen, Terhi (1990) Foreign news in imperial Russia: The relationship between international and Russian news agencies, 1856-1914. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, Finland. ISBN 951-41-0635

Rantanen, Terhi and Kivikuru, U. (1990) Uutisvälitys [news gathering and distribution]. In: Nordenstreng, K. and Wiio, O. A., (eds.) Suomen viestintäjärjestelmä (Finnish mass communication system). Weilin & Göös, Porvoo, Helsinki. ISBN 9513550303

1989

Rantanen, Terhi and Kivikuru, U. (1989) Uutisvälitys [news gathering and distribution]. In: Suomen kartasto (Finnish atlas). WSOY, Porvoo, Helsinki. ISBN 9513064379

1987

Rantanen, Terhi (1987) 'STT: n uutisia' sadan vuoden varrelta (News from the Finnish news agency, STT: one hundred years). Weilin & Göös, Helsinki, Finland. ISBN 9789513540241

Rantanen, Terhi (1987) Sähköviestinnän kasvu [The growth of electronic communication]. In: Pihkala, E., (ed.) Suomen historia [Finnish history]. Weilin & Göös, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 262-263. ISBN 9513524892

Rantanen, Terhi (1987) Nyhetsbyråerna i Ryssland [News agencies in Russia]. In: Presshistorisk Arsbok [Year book in press history]. Svensk Presshistorisk Förening, Stockholm, pp. 138-144.

1986

Rantanen, Terhi (1986) Kansainväliset uutistoimistot ja Suomi [International news agencies and Finland]. In: Bruun, M. and Koskimies, I. and Tervonen, I., (eds.) Uutisoppikirja [Textbook on news]. Tammi, Helsinki, pp. 98-119. ISBN 9513064379

Rantanen, Terhi and Kivikuru, U. (1986) Suomalainen uutisvälitys [Finnish news gathering and distribution]. In: Nordenstreng, Kaarle and Wiio, O. A., (eds.) Suomen viestintäjärjestelmä [Finnish mass communication system]. Weilin & Göös, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 108-120. ISBN 9513539245

Rantanen, Terhi (1986) Sähkösanomatoimistosta tietotoimistoon [From telegraph agency to news agency]. In: Halila, A. and Rommi, P., (eds.) Suomen historia [Finnish history]. Weilin & Göös, Helsinki, Finland. ISBN 9513524892

1985

Rantanen, Terhi (1985) A historical study of news agencies - the beginning of news agency activity in Russia. Helsinki department of communication, Series (F/8/85). ISSN 0357-5160

Rantanen, Terhi (1985) A historical study of news agencies - the beginning of news agency activity in Russia. Nordicom information, 1 pp. 7-12. ISSN 0349-5949

1984

Holopainen, I. and Kalklinen, M-L. and Sarkkinen, M. and Osterlund, M. and Rantanen, Terhi (1984) "Good evening, our main item tonight is...women". A preliminary study on the role of women in television. Oy Yleisradio Ab.(Finnish Broadcasting Company), Helsinki, Finland

1982

Rantanen, Terhi (1982) Sanomalehtien ulkomaananineisto. Vaikutustutkimuksesta kansainvalisen kultuurin tutkimukseen. Tiedotustutkimus, 1 pp. 35-46. ISSN 0357-8070

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My latest book 'When News Was New' investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments - from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers.

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Awards

Docent, Helsinki University (1996)

 

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