Areas of expertise:

Andres Kõnno started working in the university in 2018 as a lecturer and researcher at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University. He defended PhD thesis "The Modelling of Communication and its Applications in a Longitudinal Research: Examples of Estonian, Finnish and Russian Journalism in the 20th Century" in 2015, he also has a background in semiotics and cultural theory (BA and MA). Before starting work in the university he was employed as a data analyst and consultant at the Baltic Media Monitoring Group based in Tallinn. His current research project focuses on the creation of additional metadata layers for the Estonian PSMs (ERR) archive. This research provides better quality for the understanding and interpretation of the Estonian public sphere for the wider audience, but it also will provide knowledge on the interoperability of all public (and possibly also private) archives. He also teaches and supervises journalism students on BA and MA levels and works as a curator of the contemporary media MA curriculum.

Ongoing projects:

• Speech-to-text synthesis, NER-based generation of metadata and topic modelling on ERR's audiovisual archive from 2003 to 2021 (EKKD84),

• The Public Value Chains of Cultural Open Data Solutions (PRG1641)