John’s University, as well as research fellow at Aalto University’s Media Lab, Learning Environments research group. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki and has taken part in several international research activities in the past decade, currently conducting comparative work based on the Open Society Foundation’s global Mapping Digital Media project. From 2008 to 2009, she served as the Program Officer for the Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere of the Social Science Research Council, New York. Her recent research includes new conceptualizations of ‘participation’, public service media in a global context and educational media technologies in development work. In addition, she is especially interested in new forms of media justice, media reform and Internet