A Cultural Community in the Making: Sport, National Imagery andHelsingin Sanomat, 1912–36

Tervo, Mervi

doi:10.1080/1461098042000222243

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“…Sports media as a tool of influence has been recently studied by Connell (2018), Correia et al (2021), Dubinsky (2018), Hasbani et al (2021), Schler and Dubinsky (2020), as well as Yoon and Wilson (2016), to name a few. The nation-branding of Finland through sports media has been extensively studied by Tervo (2001Tervo ( , 2002Tervo ( , 2003Tervo ( , 2004. For Finland, sport was arguably the most influential tool to differentiate itself from the Russian empire before gaining independence (Viita, 2003).…”

Section: Soft Power and (Sports) Journalismmentioning

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Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League

Särkivuori,

Laine

2024

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One of the major franchises in Finland’s top division in men’s ice hockey (Liiga), Jokerit Helsinki, sold its home arena and half of its shares to Finnish-Russian oligarchs in 2013. Jokerit also switched to the Russian-led Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and competed there from 2014 to 2022. Russia’s KHL project and its expansion to the West can be viewed as a form of soft power. This study delves into the journalistic coverage of Jokerit during two specific periods: Its early days in the KHL and its later stages when exiting the league. These periods coincide with critical geopolitical events, such as Russia’s annexation of Crimea (2014), Belarusian protests (2020–2021), and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (2022). Our data consists of Jokerit-related articles in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat as well as interviews of the journalists who followed the team closely. We explore the critical socio-political coverage of Jokerit in Helsingin Sanomat during these periods and investigate whether the sports journalists recognized the broader geopolitical context of the KHL project and, if so, how this influenced their reporting. Utilizing the framing theory, we identified five frames under which to divide the articles: (a) sports events, (b) international relations, (c) power and governance, (d) business, and (e) unity. The sports event frame predominated during the early KHL era, whereas international relations and power and governance frames only emerged later. These shifts were not initiated by sports journalists but resulted from the efforts of journalists in other fields and increased the societal scrutiny of ties to Russia.

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Section: Soft Power and (Sports) Journalismmentioning

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Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League

Särkivuori,

Laine

2024

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“…Sense of humor and the manners of using it differ between nations (Vucetit, 2004). Finnish humor has been described as dark/heavy, boorish, forthright, weird and self-ironic, with jokes often capitalizing on well-known (gender specific) stereotypes of the Finnish character: the Finn is represented as introverted, unsocial, lower class (male), not overly smart, violent, interested mostly in sauna and vodka (Häkli, 2005; Tervo, 2004). According to Luostarinen (1997: 118–119), Finnish jokes often downplay and ridicule the nation, which is seen to be a sign of a national lack of self-esteem.…”

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“…This conceptualization surfaces on many levels: in Finnish popular culture and national art, the ideal Finn has traditionally been equated with attributes such as poverty, diligence and austerity (e.g. Stark, 2011; Tervo, 2004). Ironically, through his parody Stig thus comes to strengthen these traditional conceptualizations of Finland and the Finns, even if his appearance may be understood as contrary to this goal.…”

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Humor and parody in Finnish rap music videos

Tervo

Ridanpää

2016

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article, we discuss Finnish rap music by dissecting its relations to various forms of humor and spatiality. While there exists a stereotypical understanding of the rap scene as a continuum of the heritage of a serious, masculine and even aggressive African-American ghetto culture, our purpose is to show how humor and parody have also prevailed within the scene. Through dissecting spatiality, contextuality and humor in Finnish music videos, we first focus on how the tradition of Americanism and African-American hip hop identity is parodied in Finnish rap visualizations. Second, we discuss how rap is localized in humorous ways to fit Finnish conceptual and aesthetic categories. Third, we show how humor allows artists to create temporary hybrid identities for themselves and mix fantasy and foreign cultural influences in their rap videos. The research material consists of Finnish rap videos that were screened at the Oulu Music Video Festival during 2000-2010.

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“…Like most other Finns and Helsinkians, Sörkka lads observed the success stories of national sports heroes (and heroines) in the Olympic Games and other events through newspapers, telegrams, cinema newsreels and radio (mid-1920s−). 36 Nonetheless, the whereabouts of their own competitions were substantially affected by the splitting-up of the organizational field of sports in Finland into right-and leftwing societies, both practising intensive recruitment of youngsters on their respective territories. 37 Sörkka, in particular, became known for its 'red' sport clubs (e.g.…”

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Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki

2009

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The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900-39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang both eroded (in uniting bilingual male juvenile groups) and strengthened (as with providers and teachers, workingclass girls, upper-class urbanites and rural newcomers) existing socio-spatial boundaries. Unlike in the late nineteenth century Stockholmska slang studied by Pred, openly irreverent toponymic expressions vis-à-vis the hegemonic conceptions of urban space were relatively few in early Helsinki slang. 2 E.g. D. Garrioch, 'House names, shop signs and social organization in Western European cities', Urban History, 21 (1994), 20-48; M. Azaryahu, 'The power of commemorative street names', Environment and Throughout the article, we utilize the following etymological key to indicate which language(s) each slang toponym mentioned apparently stemmed from, as well as a decade of its first known usage: S = Swedish, F = Finnish, R = Russian, E = English, O = other language; 1800 = prior to twentieth century, 00 = 1900s, 10 = 1910s, 20 = 1920s, 30 = 1930s. Aström, Samhällsplanering och Regionsbildning i Kejsartidens Helsingfors (Helsingfors, 1957), 42-316; Waris, Työläisyhteiskunnan, 13-29, 108-22.

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A Cultural Community in the Making: Sport, National Imagery andHelsingin Sanomat, 1912–36

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Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League

Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League

Humor and parody in Finnish rap music videos

Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki

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