Browsing by Subject "visuaaliset aineistot"

The aim of this study is to look at landscape postcards as performers and builders of the Finnish national landscape. The traditional symbols of a nation are its own language, flag, money and landscape. They have been used to build national identity all over the world. In Finland, geographers played a role in the creation of the concept of landscape at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1992, a working group set up by the Ministry of the Environment selected 27 national landscapes that best reflect Finnish nature, environment and culture in different parts of our country. Both natural and urban landscapes were included, which could be considered as the most representative shots of the features of their areas. I studied the Koli national landscape and postcards depicting it as my research subject. There were three research questions: What kind of image of Finland has been produced with postcards? What kind of stories do Koli postcards convey in pictures and texts? What kind of image of Finland does the sender of postcards himself create and share? The research material was 72 postcards sent from Koli. Geographical research has always included visual materials, both as the subject of research and as its illustrator. The map is, of course, the most common and familiar example of this, but geographers quickly adopted photographs as well. Landscape postcards are therefore well suited as research material. Content analysis was originally developed for written materials, but it is also used for pictorial materials. It was used to categorize the most common themes and categories from postcards.