Sanna Malinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 219616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanna Malinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Malinen |
| SIGNATURE | MALINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2203-7464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Planting the seeds of cultural restoration through connection with place
Place is a bedrock for many cultural identities and is central to wellbeing. This is particularly important for many Indigenous communities, for whom place-based practices are critical expressions of self. Here, we examine the impact of a Future Leaders programme for Indigenous rangatahi (youth) on their identity and wellbeing. Using the Rangatahi Tumeke (RT) programme in New Zealand as a case study, we interviewed 54 rangatahi and their family. …
Political Trust and Aspirations to Influence Social Media During a Crisis
This study investigated how political trust shaped citizens' aspirations to influence others on social media during a COVID‐19 pandemic. Using four‐wave longitudinal survey data (2017–2021; N = 2172) collected from 543 citizens in Finland, we first analysed how political trust moderated the temporal development of individuals' aspirations to influence others online. We then examined how trust and influence aspirations jointly contributed to citiz…
Politicisation and polarisation of health during Covid-19
This article explores how public health information was contested on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through digital ethnography of four Finnish alternative health influencers, we examine their role in politicising and polarising health attitudes and pandemic governance, and how these dynamics evolved from the early to later stages of the crisis. Drawing on social media content from three key periods – early pandemic (January–June 2020…
Exploring the Normative Structure of Finnish Soldiers’ Home Association
This article focuses on creating understanding of Finnish Soldiers’ Home Association (SODE) as an auxiliary organization. Drawing on the concept of organizations as normative structures, we explore how individual volunteer values contribute to shaping the functioning and actions within SODE. We took a novel approach that involved examining the values of SODE volunteers to understand the nature of the organization. We adopted an interpretivist len…
Shouldering the burden
Social-ecological mismatches in scale limit the recovery of ecosystems from environmental degradation, severely impacting the diverse groups who rely on them. Identifying scale mismatches across cultural groups provides insights into underlying social and structural inequities affecting the management, recovery, and use of natural ecosystems. It can also present pathways to remediate mismatches and inequities. Here, we investigated the nature of …
The dynamics of cross-sector collaboration in disasters
Purpose This study examines challenges to cross-sector collaboration in disasters. The authors use Malaysian flooding as the context for the study and offer a framework to understand different types of collaborators in disaster settings. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected with semi-structured interviews, complemented with secondary data from government documents and news reports. The authors interviewed a total of 30 participants inc…
The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration
Employee resilience (ER) is often needed to face demands inherent in public sector work. Some types of demands, however, may hinder its development, rather than provide the type of challenging adversity from which resilience can develop. Public sector job demands have been a long‐standing issue for public workplaces and employees but are also growing in salience as organisations face an increasingly variable, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous env…
Boundary Control as Gatekeeping in Facebook Groups
Facebook groups host user-created communities on Facebook’s global platform, and their administrative structure consists of members, volunteer moderators, and governance mechanisms developed by the platform itself. This study presents the viewpoints of volunteers who moderate groups on Facebook that are dedicated to political discussion. It sheds light on how they enact their day-to-day moderation work, from platform administration to group membe…
Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management
The unprecedented level of threat facing many of the world's natural and cultural systems calls for the collaboration of multiple interest groups to engage in aligned environmental action. Understanding interest groups' relational values (i.e. values in relation to an ecosystem and its people), and the constraints they experience in enacting those values, can contribute to enhance cross‐cultural understanding and facilitate intergroup collaborati…
The voice of distrust? The relationship between political trust, online political participation and voting
In this article, we examine how political trust is associated with participation in political discussions on social media and voting activity. We explore whether social media can provide platforms for those who are passive in terms of formal political participation. Our data were derived from a representative survey based on a sample collected in 2017 from the Finnish population register (N = 2470). Our key findings were that online and offline p…
Undercurrents of echo chambers and flame wars
In this study, we examine how political party preference and politically active social media use associate with social media behaviors - namely, conformist, provocative, and protective - in the context of the current political sphere in Finland. In our empirical analysis, we use a nationally representative dataset collected from 3,724 Finnish citizens in 2018. Our research confirms the assumption that there are notable differences in the social m…
The owners of information
Volunteer moderators play a key role when making judgements about which online content should be accepted and which should be removed. As such, their work fundamentally shapes the digital social and political spheres. Using the data obtained from 15 Facebook group moderator interviews as research data, this study focused on the content curation work by the middle-level gatekeepers of Finnish political discussion groups on Facebook. The findings s…
Building people up
Public services face increasing and more varied demands, but public service managers often lack the resources to develop their staff to effectively deal with them. This paper identifies how public sector line managers can support their subordinates to not just cope with challenges, but also to grow and develop in the midst of them. It primarily draws on employee attributions of leader effectiveness, to identify growth‐oriented leadership behaviou…
Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples’ Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand
The global emphasis on stakeholder engagement in protected area management has increased over the last three decades. Here we present key values of statutory and non-statutory stakeholder groups as they relate to their relationship with the former Te Urewera National Park (NP), New Zealand, which is now recognised as “a legal entity” with “all the rights , powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” Non-statutory stakeholders conveyed a c…
Imaging Real-Time Tactile Interaction With Two-Person Dual-Coil fMRI
Studies of brain mechanisms supporting social interaction are demanding because real interaction only occurs when persons are in contact. Instead, most brain imaging studies scan subjects individually. Here we present a proof-of-concept demonstration of two-person blood oxygenation dependent (BOLD) imaging of brain activity from two individuals interacting inside the bore of a single MRI scanner. We developed a custom 16-channel (8 + 8 channels) …
Influencers and targets on social media
This study identifies social media users who aim to influence others and those who have experienced influencing behavior targeted at them. It investigates how influential users and targets of influence differ with respect to their demographic backgrounds and how the perceived group identification, network homogeneity, and size of the social network affect online influence. The data was based on a large-scale survey of Finnish people (N=2,761). We…
The Relevance of Self-Determination for Corporate Volunteering Intentions
Corporate volunteering programs are increasingly used to bolster community involvement, address social issues and improve the reputation of organisations. Despite this growing trend, our understanding of what motivates corporate volunteers is scant. Drawing on self-determination theory, this study investigates motivational differences among employees engaging in different corporate volunteering types and in independent volunteering, and examines …
Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations
Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits org…
Business and Post-disaster Management
This Chapter presents research that examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes on cultural service providers (for example, museums, art galleries) in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand
Volunteer Engagement
Retaining engaged volunteers is crucial to many non-profit organizations. However, research on volunteer engagement is limited, and the distinction between job and organizational engagement in volunteers remains to be investigated. In this paper, we examine both organizational- and job-level engagement, and specifically, whether perceived organizational support would enhance volunteer engagement and associated attitudes. We surveyed 221 volunteer…
Understanding user participation in online communities
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Journal Article "Leave Your Comment below": Can Biased Online Comments Influence Our Own Prejudicial Attitudes and Behaviors? Get access Mark Hsueh, Mark Hsueh 1Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kumar Yogeeswaran, Kumar Yogeeswaran 1Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand, 1Corresp…
The effects of emotional stimuli on target detection
Seeking a Better Work-Life Balance
The retention of immigrant employees has been long recognized as a challenge. Understanding immigrants' expectations and work-related experiences is important in the development of interventions to retain immigrant employees. The reported research investigated recent immigrants' reasons for migration, and their work-related attitudes and perceptions of New Zealand's work-related practices. The immigrants' responses were compared to individuals wh…
Leave Your Comment Below”
Journal Article "Leave Your Comment below": Can Biased Online Comments Influence Our Own Prejudicial Attitudes and Behaviors? Get access Mark Hsueh, Mark Hsueh 1Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kumar Yogeeswaran, Kumar Yogeeswaran 1Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand, 1Corresp…
Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations
Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits org…
Volunteer Engagement
Retaining engaged volunteers is crucial to many non-profit organizations. However, research on volunteer engagement is limited, and the distinction between job and organizational engagement in volunteers remains to be investigated. In this paper, we examine both organizational- and job-level engagement, and specifically, whether perceived organizational support would enhance volunteer engagement and associated attitudes. We surveyed 221 volunteer…
The voice of distrust? The relationship between political trust, online political participation and voting
In this article, we examine how political trust is associated with participation in political discussions on social media and voting activity. We explore whether social media can provide platforms for those who are passive in terms of formal political participation. Our data were derived from a representative survey based on a sample collected in 2017 from the Finnish population register (N = 2470). Our key findings were that online and offline p…
Undercurrents of echo chambers and flame wars
In this study, we examine how political party preference and politically active social media use associate with social media behaviors - namely, conformist, provocative, and protective - in the context of the current political sphere in Finland. In our empirical analysis, we use a nationally representative dataset collected from 3,724 Finnish citizens in 2018. Our research confirms the assumption that there are notable differences in the social m…
Building people up
Public services face increasing and more varied demands, but public service managers often lack the resources to develop their staff to effectively deal with them. This paper identifies how public sector line managers can support their subordinates to not just cope with challenges, but also to grow and develop in the midst of them. It primarily draws on employee attributions of leader effectiveness, to identify growth‐oriented leadership behaviou…
Seeking a Better Work-Life Balance
The retention of immigrant employees has been long recognized as a challenge. Understanding immigrants' expectations and work-related experiences is important in the development of interventions to retain immigrant employees. The reported research investigated recent immigrants' reasons for migration, and their work-related attitudes and perceptions of New Zealand's work-related practices. The immigrants' responses were compared to individuals wh…
The owners of information
Volunteer moderators play a key role when making judgements about which online content should be accepted and which should be removed. As such, their work fundamentally shapes the digital social and political spheres. Using the data obtained from 15 Facebook group moderator interviews as research data, this study focused on the content curation work by the middle-level gatekeepers of Finnish political discussion groups on Facebook. The findings s…
The Relevance of Self-Determination for Corporate Volunteering Intentions
Corporate volunteering programs are increasingly used to bolster community involvement, address social issues and improve the reputation of organisations. Despite this growing trend, our understanding of what motivates corporate volunteers is scant. Drawing on self-determination theory, this study investigates motivational differences among employees engaging in different corporate volunteering types and in independent volunteering, and examines …
The effects of emotional stimuli on target detection
Seeking a Better Work-Life Balance
The retention of immigrant employees has been long recognized as a challenge. Understanding immigrants' expectations and work-related experiences is important in the development of interventions to retain immigrant employees. The reported research investigated recent immigrants' reasons for migration, and their work-related attitudes and perceptions of New Zealand's work-related practices. The immigrants' responses were compared to individuals wh…
Understanding user participation in online communities
Leave Your Comment Below”
Journal Article "Leave Your Comment below": Can Biased Online Comments Influence Our Own Prejudicial Attitudes and Behaviors? Get access Mark Hsueh, Mark Hsueh 1Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kumar Yogeeswaran, Kumar Yogeeswaran 1Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand, 1Corresp…
Business and Post-disaster Management
This Chapter presents research that examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes on cultural service providers (for example, museums, art galleries) in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand
Volunteer Engagement
Retaining engaged volunteers is crucial to many non-profit organizations. However, research on volunteer engagement is limited, and the distinction between job and organizational engagement in volunteers remains to be investigated. In this paper, we examine both organizational- and job-level engagement, and specifically, whether perceived organizational support would enhance volunteer engagement and associated attitudes. We surveyed 221 volunteer…
The Relevance of Self-Determination for Corporate Volunteering Intentions
Corporate volunteering programs are increasingly used to bolster community involvement, address social issues and improve the reputation of organisations. Despite this growing trend, our understanding of what motivates corporate volunteers is scant. Drawing on self-determination theory, this study investigates motivational differences among employees engaging in different corporate volunteering types and in independent volunteering, and examines …
Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations
Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits org…
Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples’ Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand
The global emphasis on stakeholder engagement in protected area management has increased over the last three decades. Here we present key values of statutory and non-statutory stakeholder groups as they relate to their relationship with the former Te Urewera National Park (NP), New Zealand, which is now recognised as “a legal entity” with “all the rights , powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” Non-statutory stakeholders conveyed a c…
Imaging Real-Time Tactile Interaction With Two-Person Dual-Coil fMRI
Studies of brain mechanisms supporting social interaction are demanding because real interaction only occurs when persons are in contact. Instead, most brain imaging studies scan subjects individually. Here we present a proof-of-concept demonstration of two-person blood oxygenation dependent (BOLD) imaging of brain activity from two individuals interacting inside the bore of a single MRI scanner. We developed a custom 16-channel (8 + 8 channels) …
Influencers and targets on social media
This study identifies social media users who aim to influence others and those who have experienced influencing behavior targeted at them. It investigates how influential users and targets of influence differ with respect to their demographic backgrounds and how the perceived group identification, network homogeneity, and size of the social network affect online influence. The data was based on a large-scale survey of Finnish people (N=2,761). We…
Boundary Control as Gatekeeping in Facebook Groups
Facebook groups host user-created communities on Facebook’s global platform, and their administrative structure consists of members, volunteer moderators, and governance mechanisms developed by the platform itself. This study presents the viewpoints of volunteers who moderate groups on Facebook that are dedicated to political discussion. It sheds light on how they enact their day-to-day moderation work, from platform administration to group membe…
Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management
The unprecedented level of threat facing many of the world's natural and cultural systems calls for the collaboration of multiple interest groups to engage in aligned environmental action. Understanding interest groups' relational values (i.e. values in relation to an ecosystem and its people), and the constraints they experience in enacting those values, can contribute to enhance cross‐cultural understanding and facilitate intergroup collaborati…
The voice of distrust? The relationship between political trust, online political participation and voting
In this article, we examine how political trust is associated with participation in political discussions on social media and voting activity. We explore whether social media can provide platforms for those who are passive in terms of formal political participation. Our data were derived from a representative survey based on a sample collected in 2017 from the Finnish population register (N = 2470). Our key findings were that online and offline p…
Undercurrents of echo chambers and flame wars
In this study, we examine how political party preference and politically active social media use associate with social media behaviors - namely, conformist, provocative, and protective - in the context of the current political sphere in Finland. In our empirical analysis, we use a nationally representative dataset collected from 3,724 Finnish citizens in 2018. Our research confirms the assumption that there are notable differences in the social m…
The owners of information
Volunteer moderators play a key role when making judgements about which online content should be accepted and which should be removed. As such, their work fundamentally shapes the digital social and political spheres. Using the data obtained from 15 Facebook group moderator interviews as research data, this study focused on the content curation work by the middle-level gatekeepers of Finnish political discussion groups on Facebook. The findings s…
Building people up
Public services face increasing and more varied demands, but public service managers often lack the resources to develop their staff to effectively deal with them. This paper identifies how public sector line managers can support their subordinates to not just cope with challenges, but also to grow and develop in the midst of them. It primarily draws on employee attributions of leader effectiveness, to identify growth‐oriented leadership behaviou…
Shouldering the burden
Social-ecological mismatches in scale limit the recovery of ecosystems from environmental degradation, severely impacting the diverse groups who rely on them. Identifying scale mismatches across cultural groups provides insights into underlying social and structural inequities affecting the management, recovery, and use of natural ecosystems. It can also present pathways to remediate mismatches and inequities. Here, we investigated the nature of …
The dynamics of cross-sector collaboration in disasters
Purpose This study examines challenges to cross-sector collaboration in disasters. The authors use Malaysian flooding as the context for the study and offer a framework to understand different types of collaborators in disaster settings. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected with semi-structured interviews, complemented with secondary data from government documents and news reports. The authors interviewed a total of 30 participants inc…
The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration
Employee resilience (ER) is often needed to face demands inherent in public sector work. Some types of demands, however, may hinder its development, rather than provide the type of challenging adversity from which resilience can develop. Public sector job demands have been a long‐standing issue for public workplaces and employees but are also growing in salience as organisations face an increasingly variable, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous env…
Exploring the Normative Structure of Finnish Soldiers’ Home Association
This article focuses on creating understanding of Finnish Soldiers’ Home Association (SODE) as an auxiliary organization. Drawing on the concept of organizations as normative structures, we explore how individual volunteer values contribute to shaping the functioning and actions within SODE. We took a novel approach that involved examining the values of SODE volunteers to understand the nature of the organization. We adopted an interpretivist len…
Planting the seeds of cultural restoration through connection with place
Place is a bedrock for many cultural identities and is central to wellbeing. This is particularly important for many Indigenous communities, for whom place-based practices are critical expressions of self. Here, we examine the impact of a Future Leaders programme for Indigenous rangatahi (youth) on their identity and wellbeing. Using the Rangatahi Tumeke (RT) programme in New Zealand as a case study, we interviewed 54 rangatahi and their family. …
Political Trust and Aspirations to Influence Social Media During a Crisis
This study investigated how political trust shaped citizens' aspirations to influence others on social media during a COVID‐19 pandemic. Using four‐wave longitudinal survey data (2017–2021; N = 2172) collected from 543 citizens in Finland, we first analysed how political trust moderated the temporal development of individuals' aspirations to influence others online. We then examined how trust and influence aspirations jointly contributed to citiz…
Politicisation and polarisation of health during Covid-19
This article explores how public health information was contested on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through digital ethnography of four Finnish alternative health influencers, we examine their role in politicising and polarising health attitudes and pandemic governance, and how these dynamics evolved from the early to later stages of the crisis. Drawing on social media content from three key periods – early pandemic (January–June 2020…
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works)