Jukka started following the work of Jonna Koivisto, University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology.
Jukka started following the work of Anna-Mari Karvonen, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences.
Jukka added a teaching document.
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Papers
Mobile Technology, Gender and Development in India
Presented at Asian Studies Day, Tampere (Finland) on 2 August 2011.
Exhibits author's current research project on mobile telephony as a sociocultural phenomenon in rural India. Part of a larger mobile-for-development project funded by Academy of Finland and lead by professor Laura Stark of University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
See also a Finnish version of the paper presented at the India Researchers' workshop during Finnish Anthropology Conference, October 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5cSnxN-aDjVNTQzMDM2ZTctODE0MC00NWQ5LTgzZDQtMzBiOTYxYmQxN2Yy&hl=en_US
Download (.pdf) Writing against culture with online poker
Published in Suomen Antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society, 1/2011, pp. 79-82 in the section Forum: The value of gambling and its research (see the file for the whole section).
The article discusses how the study of online poker offers one opportunity to bring anthropologists up to speed with understanding recent technological developments, and cultural forms that have sprung up with them. Ethnography, one powerful tool of anthropology, should be expanded to online environments.New, stimulating methodological ponderings and innovation will inevitably follow.
Postmodernin pelimiehen todellisuus - Mediaetnografisia huomioita pokerista kulttuurisena ilmiönä
Published in Finnish in Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2010, pp. 58-68.
IN ENGLISH. The article is based on views generated by a research project focusing on poker culture as well as on observations made by implementing media ethnographical approach in examining the phenomenon. The article concentrates on the phenomenology and cultural system of meaning of poker in online and offl ine worlds. Supported by discussion within postmodern cultural studies, the article further presents observations of the advertising, masculinity and meaning of money related to poker. Moreover, the mode of existence of the representations of poker culture is commented by referring to the concept of hyperreal, among others.
Keywords: online poker, postmodern, media ethnography, hyperreal, cultural system of meaning, male image.
SUOMEKSI. Artikkeli perustuu pokerikulttuuria käsittelevän tutkimusprojektin synnyttämiin näkökulmiin ja ilmiön mediaetnografi seen havainnointiin. Artikkelin kohteena on pokerin fenomenologia ja siihen liittyvä kulttuurinen merkitysjärjestelmä netissä ja offline-maailmassa. Postmodernin kulttuurintutkimuksen keskustelun tukemana kirjoituksessa esitellään myös huomioita pokeriin liittyvästä mainonnasta, maskuliinisuudesta ja rahan merkityksestä. Pokerikulttuurin representaatioiden olemassaolon tapaa kommentoidaan viittaamalla muun muassa hyperreaalin käsitteeseen.
Asiasanat: nettipokeri, postmoderni, mediaetnografi a, hyperreaali, kulttuurinen merkitysjärjestelmä, mieskuva
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The Emotional Technology of Tomorrow: The Visual and Textual Rhetoric of Promoting a Ubiquitous Technology Society in Korea
IADIS International Conference Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008
The purpose of this paper is to examine the visual and textual rhetoric used to promote the vision of a Korean ubiquitous technology society by the Korean government and related industry. This vision is presented in the Ubiquitous Dream Hall, an exhibition arranged by the Korean government and the information technology industry to showcase present and future information technology applications. The vision is encapsulated in the online and printed brochure of the Ubiquitous Dream Hall. The brochure could be regarded as a blueprint that includes the essential elements of the vision of the ubiquitous society, and hence it offers a useful introduction to the rhetoric promoting, justifying and explaining the u-Korea vision to Korean citizens and consumers. In this paper the visual and textual rhetoric of the brochure is described and examined to highlight the core values and premises of Korean ubiquitous technologies in their unique sociocultural context. In particular the relatively rarely used notion of technology producing emotional value will be discussed. This paper is therefore not so much a theoretical analysis of ubiquitous technology as an attempt to encourage discussion and inquiry into the sociocultural aspects of non-Western ubiquitous technology societies, aspects which have received relatively little attention until now.
Orientalism and India
J@rgonia Electronic Publication Series 8/2006
Edward Said's concept of Orientalist discourse applied to India.
Kolonialismin kaikuja: Yasukuni, Japani ja Etelä-Korean kansallisen identiteetin rakentaminen korealaisessa uutismediassa [Echoes of Colonialism: Yasukuni, Japan and the Construction of South Korean National Identity in Korean News Media.]
Published (in Finnish) in Lähde - historiatieteellinen aikakauskirja 4 (2007)
Toisen maailmansodan aikainen Japani herää henkiin yhä uudelleen ja asettaa kuvitellut kansat vastakkain korealaisessa mediassa. Kun Japanin pääministeri vierailee sodassa kuolleiden hengille omistetussa Yasukuni-pyhäkössä, Koreassa asia nähdään ”toisena invaasiona”, militaristisen Japanin kansan piittaamattomuutena Korean kansan historian kärsimyksiä kohtaan. Hetken aikaa Korea on jälleen Japanin miehittämä, historian haavat revitään auki ja nationalismit puhuvat toistensa ohi. Japanin Yasukuni on symbolinen stabilisaatiopiste korealaisuuden rakentamisessa, paradoksaalisesti elintärkeä uhka ja yksi monista työkaluista nykyisyyden ja kansallisen identiteetin hallinnassa toiseuden ja menneisyyden avulla.
[Japan of World War II rises up from the dead again and set the imagined nations against each other in Korean media. When Japanese priminster pays a visit to Yasukuni, the shrine dedicated to the spirits of those who died in war, in Korea it is seen as "the Second Invasion" and ignorance on behalf of the militarist Japanese nation towards the historical suffering of Korean people. For a moment Korea is again occupied by Japan, wounds of history ripped open and nationalism speaking past each other. Yasukuni of Japan is a symbolic point of stabilization in construction Koreanness and, paradoxically, a vital threat and one of many tools in controlling the present and the national identity with Otherness and the past.]
For a shorter version in English, see http://jyu.academia.edu/documents/0013/2104/THE_SECOND_INVASION.pdf
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State of Communication Research in European Countries: Focusing on Estonia, Finland, France and Germany
New Perspective of Media Studies in Digital Era, Conference at Seoul National University, Oct 5-6, 2007
Current state of media research in four European countries: scale, orientation, epistemological questions and state of funding.
Korean matka konfutselaisuudesta kyberaktiivisuuteen
Title in English: "Korean Journey from Confucianism to Cyberactivity"; published in Tiedoksi - the journal of Finnish Information Society Development Centre
Popular article about Korean new media culture, information technology and education.
Finns Making Sense of Korean Hierarchy: How Expatriates from Finland Experience Hierarchy in a Korean Working Environment
Paper for the II International Conference on Intercultural Studies, S. Mamede Infesta, Portugal, May 25-27.Co-authored with Marika Paaso.
Korean culture is often regarded as collectivist, hierarchical and harmony-oriented. In this article we have chosen to focus on hierarchy. More specifically, this article attempts to describe and analyze Korean hierarchy as experienced by Finnish expatriates working in Korea. The expatriates interviewed for the study worked with Koreans either as their superiors, subordinates or peers, or all of the aforementioned. The interviewees were chosen randomly, the only
requirement being nationality (Finnish) and employment (currently working in Korea). The ten interviews conducted in 2007 are qualitatively analyzed. According to the results, Finns experience Korean hierarchy in many different intensities and modes. Hierarchy is mostly experienced in language, use of space and time, freedom of expression, how employees take the initiative and in the status related to age and gender. The article also discusses the cultural change Finns encounter with hierarchy in Korea and the problems of studying experience.
Keywords: Confucianism, Korea, hierarchy, Finns, expatriates, experience
Utopia: paikka ei missään, parhaan maailman puolesta [Utopia: a place nowhere, for the best of worlds.]
In Lähde - historiatieteellinen aikakauskirja 2 (2), 60-77 (2005).
Discusses utopianism in literature, philosophy, politics and community-building (in Finnish).
The Second Invasion: Notes on Korean Reactions to the Yasukuni Shrine Issue
A Paper presented at Asian Political Thought Political Science research seminar at University of Jyväskylä, 8 May 2009.
A short paper on Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi visiting the Yasukuni Jinja in Tokyo and the aftermath of it in Korean online media. For a longer version in Finnish see Jukka Jouhki, 2007: 'Kolonialismin kaikuja: Yasukuni, Japani ja Etelä-Korean kansallisen identiteetin rakentaminen korealaisessa uutismediassa' published in Lähde - historiatieteellinen aikakauskirja 4, or http://jyu.academia.edu/documents/0001/1567/_A__-_Yasukuni_-_2007.pdf.
Contemporary Communication Research in South Korea: Context, Paradigms and Cases
A Report for HS Foundation (Finland), 2007.
Discusses the current (2007) status of Korean communication research. For a summarizing article of the report see Jouhki, Jukka: Korean Communication and Mass Media Research: Negotiating the West’s Influence International Journal of Communication 2 (2008), 253-275.
South Korea: Towards a Ubiquitous Mediascape
DRAFT ONLY, to be included in Media Futures, an edited volume by Turo Uskali
Discusses various cases of Korean mediascape including the following themes:
- Journalism and politics
- Mediated nationalism
- Mobile communication culture
- Educational visions
- Ubiquitous society visions
The manuscript is based on my research during my Korean media culture project (2006-2009).
A Modern Fetish: The Value of the Mobile Phone in South Korean Youth Culture
Best Paper Award, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, 17 – 23 June 2009, Algarve.
This paper attempts to analyze the cultural significance of the mobile phone to the youths living in Seoul. It is based on the observation data produced by a group of communication students at Seoul National University. The paper presents the students’ observations on mobile phone use in the public and urban context of Seoul area as well as the students’ personal reflections on the subject. The paper further discusses the mobile phone as a significant element of Korean youth culture and, further, of the contemporary modern society.
Dokdo Island Dispute: Korean Reconstruction of History and National Identity in User-Created Content Media
In Digital Memories: Exploring Critical Issues, edited by Anna Maj & Daniel Riha, published by Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 179-187.
Japanese colonization of Korea (1910–1945) had an immense impact on Korean society and culture, and on a symbolical level, on what being Korean means today. The traumas of colonialism are still being widely discussed in Korea and there are certain key discursive nodes stemming from the colonial history that present Korea‟s concerns of contemporary Japan-Korea relations.
One of the discursive nodes is Dokdo (which the Japanese call Takeshima), a small and remote rocky island between the two countries in the East Sea (which the Japanese call the Sea of Japan. Both Japan and Korea lay claim to Dokdo, and both claim a long historical and geographical connection with the islets. In addition to traditional media, both have harnessed the cyberspace to support their cause. As both countries seek support from the international audience, the amount of Dokdo-related websites and online news in English is relatively high. Thus, the issue has turned from a small border dispute to a rhetorical fight between two nationalisms that use historical evidence to buttress their claims. The purpose of this paper is to examine how Koreans represent Dokdo, a disputed island in the sea between South Korea and Japan, to an international audience in user-created content media such as YouTube and Facebook. Moreover, the paper analyzes the ways the dispute is further used to reconstruct the history of South Korea and strengthen the national identity of Koreans. Theoretically, the paper refers to Anthony P. Cohen‟s analysis of the symbolism in community making as well as Benedict Anderson‟s thoughts on nations as imagined communities.
Key Words: South Korea, Japan, Dokdo, History, National Identity, Dispute, YouTube, Facebook.
