M-Scopes – Mediated Significations of Finance is a collaborative research initiative focusing on the ways in which economic phenomena and mechanisms are visually reproduced in multimodal electronic news media. M-Scopes is founded by Yrjö Tuunanen, doctoral student from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Media and Heidi Hirsto, DSc (Econ.) from Aalto University School of Economics, Department of Communication and seed funded by Professor Philip Dean, and Project Manager Juhani Tenhunen, Aalto Media Factory, http:/mediafactory.aalto.fi. The Visualizing Finance Lab/Parsons The New School for Design/NY, the Multimodal Analysis Lab/Interactive Digital Media Institute/National University of Singapore, News and Current Affairs/Broadcasting Company YLE, Kauppalehti/Alma Media and Kulosaari Secondary School are also part of our international collaborative network.
