John Grönvall is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki and lecturer in Media and Film studies at Arcada University of Applied Science. His PhD project focuses on the dialectic of Public Service media in the Nordic media welfare states. His focus is on the discourse and framing of the agency, duties and steering of the national public service media in the Nordic countries. John is currently involved in The Media for Democracy Monitor project led by Prof. Josef Trappel and the Euromediagroup. John has previously studied engineering, he has a M.Sc. in Computer Graphics programming from Middlesex University in London.