Social Science Research Council

Program Officer, Media and Democracy

aslama@ssrc.org
Office Phone: Ext.644

Minna Aslama is the Program Officer for the Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Sphere Program at the SSRC. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki and has taken part in several international research activities including The Media Between Culture and Commerce Project by the European Science Foundation, and the research-advocacy project on Global Media Monitoring of news media (GMMP, 1995, 2000, 2005). Prior to her academic career, she worked at the Division of Advancement for Women of the UN Secretariat and at the Finnish Broadcasting Company in the research, training and development unit. She has also served as a consultant for various national and international organizations on research and training, especially with regard to issues of media and gender. Her recent/ongoing research work includes new conceptualizations of media audiences, public service media and content diversity in the digital era, and media policy flows in the globalizing media environment. In addition, she is especially interested in new forms of collaboration emerging in relation to the media justice and reform movements.