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Leena Ripatti-Torniainen

University Lecturer, yliopistopedagogiikka
Tampere University
leena.ripatti-torniainen [at] tuni.fi (leena[dot]ripatti-torniainen[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358505771506

Main positions of trust

Vice Chair of the Media Education Research Section (MER) at the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2019-2023

Research topics

Theories of the public, participation and inclusion in the public realm, social media nonuse, university education, pedagogical leadership at university, interaction, journalism education

Research unit

Unit of Communication Sciences, Unit of Education, Higher Education in Transition Research Group

Research fields

Media and Communication Studies, Social Sciences, Educational Sciences

Selected publications

Lindén, J., Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Annala, J. (2024). Academic development for tomorrow? Claiming a clearer role for university pedagogy through a holistic framework. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2024.2419510

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. (2024). Toward the Formation of The Public in a Marginalized Communicative Culture: Analyzing The Long Road of Woman's Memory. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Published online 4 June 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2024.43

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Kivimäki, S. (2024). Nurturing journalism students’ research orientation in practical degree programmes: The community of practice view. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education 23 (1), 43-56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/adch_00083_1

Ojala, M. & Ripatti-Torniainen, L. (2023, e-pub ahead of print). Where is the public of ‘networked publics’? A critical analysis of the theoretical limitations of online publics research. European Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231210207

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Stevanovic, M. (2023). University teaching development workshops as sites of joint decision-making: Negotiations of authority in academic cultures . Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 38, 100681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2022.100681

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Mikkola, L. (2023). Journalism education as scientific education: Research university students’ engagement with knowledge . Journalism Studies 23 (2), 270-287. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2022.2157317

Kinnunen, P., Ripatti-Torniainen, L., Mickwitz, Å. & Haarala-Muhonen, A. (2022). Bringing clarity to the leadership of teaching and learning in higher education: A systematic review . Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 16 (1), 265–280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-06-2022-0200

Ripatti-Torniainen, L., Annala, J., Lindén, J., Mälkki, K. & Sandström, N. (2022). Mikä on pedagogisen kehittämisen suhde yliopistojen kokonaisvaltaiseen muutokseen? Korkeakoulupedagogiikka - Ajat, paikat ja tulkinnat . Mäki, K. & Vanhanen-Nuutinen, L. (eds.). Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu, p. 154-169 (Haaga-Helian julkaisut; no. 7/2022).

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. (2022). The transformative public of Jane Addams . Journalism 23 (6), 1171-1394. (e-pub ahead of print was published in Journalism in 2020). DOI: 10.1177/1464884920958583

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Stachyra, G. (2019). The human core of the public realm: Women prisoners' performed 'radio' at the Majdanek concentration camp . Media, Culture & Society 41 (5), 654-669. DOI: 10.1177/0163443719848584

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. (2018). Becoming a public: What the concept of public reveals of the programmatic public pedagogy at the university. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research 75 (6), 1015-1029. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-017-0182-5

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. (2013). Ihminen julkisessa maailmassa. Näkökulmia julkista toimijaa ja julkison muodostumista koskeviin käsityksiin. Akateeminen väitöskirja. Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities 201. Jyväskylän yliopisto. 

Rantala, L. & Ripatti-Torniainen L. (2013). Julkinen pedagogiikka. Käsitteenmäärittelyä ja ilmiökentän hahmottamista. Kasvatus 44 (1), 7–16.   

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Hujanen, J. (2012). Julkisojen keskustelu. Julkisen keskustelun muodostuminen ja dynamiikka Helsingin ja Sipoon rajakiistan alkuvaiheessa. Politiikka 54 (3), 188–204.   

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. (2011). Kykenevä kansalainen ja sivistyvä ihminen. Varhaisen public journalismin sivistysluonne kehityshaasteena kansalaisjournalismille. Media & viestintä 34 (3), 4–22.   

Ripatti-Torniainen, L. & Hujanen, J. (2011). Cultivating the Democratic Mind: The Understated Adult Educational Characteristic of Public Journalism . Javnost–The Public 18 (2), 37–52.