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Hannu Nieminen (born February 24, 1952) is a Finnish professor emeritus of media and communications policy at the University of Helsinki, and director of the Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Education
Nieminen was born in Helsinki, Finland. He graduated with a master's degree in social science in 1984 from the University of Tampere, and later earned a licentiate in social science in 1992 at the same university. In 1997, he received a PhD from the University of Westminster in London. For his dissertation, he compared the differing historical accounts of the development of British public life by Jürgen Habermas and Raymond Williams, to conceptualize the role of communication in democracy.

Career
Throughout his career, Nieminen has been employed by various universities. He worked as an assistant professor of communication at the University of Turku from 1996 to 2000, and full professor of communication from 1998-2003. He then worked as a senior lecturer and director of the Communication Research Centre at the University of Helsinki from 2003 to 2006, before briefly rejoining as a professor of communication at the University of Turku in 2005-2006. On August 1, 2006, he became a professor of media and communications policy at the University of Helsinki. As of 2022, he is currently a visiting professor at the London School of Economics in the Department of Media and Communications.