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A hundred years ago in July, thanks to the advancement of medical technology, the first human received the vaccine Bacille Calmette-Guérin—or BCG—to prevent tuberculosis (TB), a disease that killed at least 20% of the European population during the 19th century. Since then, hundreds of millions of lives have been saved by BCG, as well as other vaccinations for dangerous diseases. However, although TB is quite preventable and curable, it remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent in the world. It is an example of how humans can invent technologies to improve and save lives but fail to do so because of unevenly distributed resources, lack of media coverage, and other economic, political, and sociological realities that determine the uses and targets of technologies. ; nonPeerReviewed

Online poker, like gambling in general, is predominantly a male activity. Thus, poker ads most often depict men as their protagonists. According to Jean Baudrillard, advertising can be seen as a 'plebiscite whereby mass consumer society wages a perpetual campaign of self- endorsement.' Ads often use stereotypical imagery for establishing a shared experience of identification with the consumer, and since their role is to sell rather than to portray the realities of life, they often have an exaggerated and monolithic – or, hyperreal – way of representing gender. This article offers an analysis of the ways in which men are portrayed in the ads of Poker Magazine Finland in the volume of 2009 (all six issues), at the peak of the so-called online poker boom.Theoretically, the article draws on postmodern theorists such as Jean Baudrillard and particularly on his concept of hyperreality (exaggerated and media-saturated reality) to analyze the way males are portrayed in the ads in question.

Analysoin artikkelissani Helsingin Sanomien pääkirjoitusaukeaman tekstejä vuodelta 2014 ja selvitän, millaisen kuvan ne rakentavat länsimaista. Pohdin myös, millä tavalla Ukrainan kriisi ja Venäjän osallisuus siinä osaltaan vahvistavat näkemystä länsimaista kaikessa heterogeenisuudessaan yhtenäisenä toimijana. Artikkelini osoittaa, että maantieteellisestä laajuudestaan ja poliittisesta epäyhtenäisyydestään huolimatta (tai sen vuoksi) länsimaat on hyvä esimerkki Benedict Andersonin ja Michael Billigin kuvailemasta median, sananvalintojen ja pienten arkipäiväisten käytäntöjen avulla ylläpidetystä kuvitellusta yhteisöstä. Se on yhteisö, jonka olemassaololle on tärkeää, että siihen uskotaan ja sitä yhtenäisenä entiteettinä käsitteleviä narratiiveja toistetaan. Analyysini paljastaa myös, että Ukrainan kriisin käsittely pääkirjoituksissa luo osaltaan pohjaa oksidentalismille, länsiuskolle. Pääkirjoituksissa länsimaat esitetään "luonnollisena" ja yhtenäisenä kokonaisuutena, jonka jäseniä yhdistävät kulttuuriset, sosiaaliset ja geopoliittiset tekijät.

1. Introduction: Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen, Jukka Jouhki -- 2. Beyond Liberal Empire and Peace — Declining Hegemony of the West?: Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen -- 3. Crises of the West — Liberal Identities and Ontological (In)Security: Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen -- 4. From Identification to Division — Contesting the Unity of the West from Within: Johanna Vuorelma -- 5. The West — Divided in Freedom and Fear?: Ville Sinkkonen, Henri Vogt -- 6. Coming Out Against Islam — The Weaponisation of Tolerance in the Liberal West: Roderick McGlynn -- 7. The Contested Open Society — German Political Establishment and the New Right: Ann-Judith Rabenschlag -- 8. Imagining the West in the Era of America First: Henna-Riikka Pennanen, Anna Kronlund -- 9. Resilience of the Humanitarian Narrative in United States Foreign Policy: Noora Kotilainen -- 10. Confrontational Civilizational Identity in the Making? The New Turkey and the West:Toni Alaranta -- 11. Russian Radical Conservative Challenge to the Liberal Global Order: Jussi Backman -- 12. A Non-World — Chinese Perceptions of the Western International Order: Matti Puranen -- 13. Balancing Between Narratives of the West and Hindu Nationalism in Emerging India: Jukka Jouhki

This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving that emotional contagion happens also in online environments. However, the experiment caused ethical concerns within and outside academia mainly for two intertwined reasons, the first revolving around the idea of research as manipulation, and the second focusing on the problematic definition of informed consent. The article concurs with recent research that the era of social media and big data research are posing a significant challenge to research ethics, the practice and views of which are grounded in the pre social media era, and reflect the classical ethical stances of utilitarianism and deontology.