Eetu Mäkelä
Biographic Data
| ID | 286874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eetu Mäkelä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eetu |
| FAMILY NAME | Mäkelä |
| SIGNATURE | MÄKELÄ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2521-7241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Frictional memory
This article investigates the digital afterlives of lynching, how its memory is invoked, refracted, and contested on Twitter. Drawing on a hybrid methodological approach that combines computational analysis of tweet corpora with interpretive readings, the research examines how histories of racial violence circulate within the algorithmically mediated space. While lynching remains a central symbol of anti-Black terror in the United States, its mea…
Poetic Faiths
Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art, Volume I, by Tony Wolf (ed.). Sky Meadow Press, 2025. Pb. 164 pp. £15.99. ISBN: 9798990363359
Mothers in Eroding Welfare State Welfare Reforms, Citizenship and Autonomy in 2000s and 2010s Finland
Bridging Northern and Southern Traditions in the Finnic Corpus of Oral Poetry
Historical Finnic oral poetry - called runolaulu, regilaul, or Kalevalaic poetry - makes a versatile corpus across several related languages, representing numerous genres from epic and charms to lyric, ritual poetry, lullabies, and so forth. Despite the first comparative efforts and collaborations already at the end of the nineteenth century, the local traditions in Northern and Southern Finnic languages have mostly been analysed within national …
Eteneminen omalla vastuulla
Historiallisista, Suomen ja Viron kansallisvaltioiden syntyyn liittyvistä syistä johtuen itämerensuomalaista runolaulua (viroksi regilaul) eli niin kutsuttua kalevalamittaista kansanrunoutta on tallennettu, arkistoitu, järjestetty ja digitoitukin poikkeuksellisen paljon. Virolaisessa ERAB-korpuksessa ja suomalaisissa SKVR- ja JR-korpuksissa on tällä hetkellä 283 206 pääosin runolauluun liittyvää tekstiä viron (sis. seto), karjalan, lyydin, inkero…
Emotive, evaluative, epistemic
In this article, we introduce a linguistic approach to studying affectivity as a fundamental feature of news journalism. By reconceptualising affectivity beyond emotive storytelling, intentional stance-taking or evaluative expression, we propose a methodology that highlights how conventions related to mediating, modulating and managing affectivity permeate journalistic genres. Drawing from conversation analysis, Bakhtinian theory of language as d…
Topic Modeling and Text Analysis for Qualitative Policy Research
This paper contributes to a critical methodological discussion that has direct ramifications for policy studies: how computational methods can be concretely incorporated into existing processes of textual analysis and interpretation without compromising scientific integrity. We focus on the computational method of topic modeling and investigate how it interacts with two larger families of qualitative methods: content and classification methods ch…
Kilpailukykyloikasta ruutitynnyriin
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan Juha Sipilän (kesk.) hallituksen kilpailukykysopimusprosessia (2015–2016) koskevaa journalismia kielessä esiintyvien metaforien kautta. Tutkimuksemme etenee laskennallisten menetelmien avulla käsitellystä laajasta aineistosta (HS, YLE, STT ja Iltalehti) rajatumman aineiston laadulliseen lähilukuun. Tutkimus käsittelee sitä, millaisena kilpailukykysopimukseen liittyvä poliittinen prosessi esitettiin kielessä esiintyvien …
Arvutiteaduse kaasamine humanitaarharidusse / Integrating Computation into Humanities Education
Digihumanitaaria-alane haridus peaks keskenduma selgelt määratletud allvaldkondadele, mis on mõttekad kohalikus kontekstis. Otsustasime Helsinki ülikoolis pöörata peatähelepanu interdistsiplinaarse digihumanitaaria valdkonnale. Käesolevas artiklis näitame, et digihumanitaaria-alaste uuringute edukaks läbiviimiseks on oluline interdistsiplinaarsus, ning väidame, et seda on digihumanitaarharidusse kõige parem liita humanitaarteaduslikel ühisuuringu…
‘Impartial Sources’ and the Registration of Religious Communities in Finland
The Freedom of Religion Act in Finland dates to 1922, but before 2003 only one community with no connections with the so-called world religions, 'scientific' Totuuden ystävät, was registered (in 1958). In 2003 an evaluative board was established to supervise registration. The number of rejected applications has been growing since the 1990s. Because these all concern minority movements, the Finnish case can shed light on the worldwide interest in …
Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence
This paper describes ongoing work towards a rich analysis of the social contexts of neologism use in historical corpora, in particular the Corpora of Early English Correspondence , with research questions concerning the innovators, meanings and diffusion of neologisms. To enable this kind of study, we are developing new processes, tools and ways of combining data from different sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary , the Historical The…
Serious parody
Identified as the first ‘invented religion’ [Cusack, Carole M. 2010. Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate], Discordianism was founded in 1957 by college students Gregory Hill (1941–2000) and Kerry Wendell Thornley (1938–1998). According to the anarchic scripture Principia Discordia, Discordianism was the result of a revelation that Hill and Thornley had in an all-night bowling alley, in which the…
Topic Modeling and Text Analysis for Qualitative Policy Research
This paper contributes to a critical methodological discussion that has direct ramifications for policy studies: how computational methods can be concretely incorporated into existing processes of textual analysis and interpretation without compromising scientific integrity. We focus on the computational method of topic modeling and investigate how it interacts with two larger families of qualitative methods: content and classification methods ch…
Emotive, evaluative, epistemic
In this article, we introduce a linguistic approach to studying affectivity as a fundamental feature of news journalism. By reconceptualising affectivity beyond emotive storytelling, intentional stance-taking or evaluative expression, we propose a methodology that highlights how conventions related to mediating, modulating and managing affectivity permeate journalistic genres. Drawing from conversation analysis, Bakhtinian theory of language as d…
Serious parody
Identified as the first ‘invented religion’ [Cusack, Carole M. 2010. Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate], Discordianism was founded in 1957 by college students Gregory Hill (1941–2000) and Kerry Wendell Thornley (1938–1998). According to the anarchic scripture Principia Discordia, Discordianism was the result of a revelation that Hill and Thornley had in an all-night bowling alley, in which the…
Serious parody
Identified as the first ‘invented religion’ [Cusack, Carole M. 2010. Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate], Discordianism was founded in 1957 by college students Gregory Hill (1941–2000) and Kerry Wendell Thornley (1938–1998). According to the anarchic scripture Principia Discordia, Discordianism was the result of a revelation that Hill and Thornley had in an all-night bowling alley, in which the…
‘Impartial Sources’ and the Registration of Religious Communities in Finland
The Freedom of Religion Act in Finland dates to 1922, but before 2003 only one community with no connections with the so-called world religions, 'scientific' Totuuden ystävät, was registered (in 1958). In 2003 an evaluative board was established to supervise registration. The number of rejected applications has been growing since the 1990s. Because these all concern minority movements, the Finnish case can shed light on the worldwide interest in …
Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence
This paper describes ongoing work towards a rich analysis of the social contexts of neologism use in historical corpora, in particular the Corpora of Early English Correspondence , with research questions concerning the innovators, meanings and diffusion of neologisms. To enable this kind of study, we are developing new processes, tools and ways of combining data from different sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary , the Historical The…
Kilpailukykyloikasta ruutitynnyriin
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan Juha Sipilän (kesk.) hallituksen kilpailukykysopimusprosessia (2015–2016) koskevaa journalismia kielessä esiintyvien metaforien kautta. Tutkimuksemme etenee laskennallisten menetelmien avulla käsitellystä laajasta aineistosta (HS, YLE, STT ja Iltalehti) rajatumman aineiston laadulliseen lähilukuun. Tutkimus käsittelee sitä, millaisena kilpailukykysopimukseen liittyvä poliittinen prosessi esitettiin kielessä esiintyvien …
Arvutiteaduse kaasamine humanitaarharidusse / Integrating Computation into Humanities Education
Digihumanitaaria-alane haridus peaks keskenduma selgelt määratletud allvaldkondadele, mis on mõttekad kohalikus kontekstis. Otsustasime Helsinki ülikoolis pöörata peatähelepanu interdistsiplinaarse digihumanitaaria valdkonnale. Käesolevas artiklis näitame, et digihumanitaaria-alaste uuringute edukaks läbiviimiseks on oluline interdistsiplinaarsus, ning väidame, et seda on digihumanitaarharidusse kõige parem liita humanitaarteaduslikel ühisuuringu…
Emotive, evaluative, epistemic
In this article, we introduce a linguistic approach to studying affectivity as a fundamental feature of news journalism. By reconceptualising affectivity beyond emotive storytelling, intentional stance-taking or evaluative expression, we propose a methodology that highlights how conventions related to mediating, modulating and managing affectivity permeate journalistic genres. Drawing from conversation analysis, Bakhtinian theory of language as d…
Topic Modeling and Text Analysis for Qualitative Policy Research
This paper contributes to a critical methodological discussion that has direct ramifications for policy studies: how computational methods can be concretely incorporated into existing processes of textual analysis and interpretation without compromising scientific integrity. We focus on the computational method of topic modeling and investigate how it interacts with two larger families of qualitative methods: content and classification methods ch…
Eteneminen omalla vastuulla
Historiallisista, Suomen ja Viron kansallisvaltioiden syntyyn liittyvistä syistä johtuen itämerensuomalaista runolaulua (viroksi regilaul) eli niin kutsuttua kalevalamittaista kansanrunoutta on tallennettu, arkistoitu, järjestetty ja digitoitukin poikkeuksellisen paljon. Virolaisessa ERAB-korpuksessa ja suomalaisissa SKVR- ja JR-korpuksissa on tällä hetkellä 283 206 pääosin runolauluun liittyvää tekstiä viron (sis. seto), karjalan, lyydin, inkero…
Bridging Northern and Southern Traditions in the Finnic Corpus of Oral Poetry
Historical Finnic oral poetry - called runolaulu, regilaul, or Kalevalaic poetry - makes a versatile corpus across several related languages, representing numerous genres from epic and charms to lyric, ritual poetry, lullabies, and so forth. Despite the first comparative efforts and collaborations already at the end of the nineteenth century, the local traditions in Northern and Southern Finnic languages have mostly been analysed within national …
Poetic Faiths
Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art, Volume I, by Tony Wolf (ed.). Sky Meadow Press, 2025. Pb. 164 pp. £15.99. ISBN: 9798990363359
Mothers in Eroding Welfare State Welfare Reforms, Citizenship and Autonomy in 2000s and 2010s Finland
Frictional memory
This article investigates the digital afterlives of lynching, how its memory is invoked, refracted, and contested on Twitter. Drawing on a hybrid methodological approach that combines computational analysis of tweet corpora with interpretive readings, the research examines how histories of racial violence circulate within the algorithmically mediated space. While lynching remains a central symbol of anti-Black terror in the United States, its mea…
Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)