J Martikainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 47108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Martikainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Martikainen |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIKAINEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8027-2417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Representation and Emotions in the Context of Dance Observation
Emotions are recognized as key components of social representation. However, their roles and the ways in which emotions are entangled in social representation processes are still insufficiently understood. This study employs a visual arts-based approach to deepen our understanding of this entanglement. Specifically, this study explores how emotions are interwoven with social representations, as 31 participants observed and reflected on two digita…
Unsettled Class: Finnish Young People Navigating Social Class and Classed Identities
Although social class has gained increasing attention in social psychology, discursive approaches remain underutilized. This study explores how Finnish youth make sense of social class, employing a mixed‐methods design grounded in a cultural approach to social class. Factor analysis and correlations revealed patterns of inconsistency in how young people subjectively perceive familial class background. To deepen this understanding, a qualitative a…
Exploring Adolescents’ Perceptions of Cultural Groups: Contents, Structures, and Dynamics of Social Representations of Finnish, Middle Eastern, and Ukrainian People
Global migration has increased ethnic and cultural diversification at the local community level, creating novel, culturally diverse everyday contexts and reshaping understandings of groups with different cultural backgrounds. This study investigates the perceptions that young people from various cultural backgrounds have of each other. We employed a structural approach to social representations utilizing the word associations method. Participants…
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study
This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children ( N = 8). The qualitative approach of the case study combines Actantial analysis with Social representations theory. The aim was to illu…
Drawn Futures: How Finland's Diverse Youth Visualise Tomorrow
In this study, we draw on social representations theory to examine how adolescents (individuals aged 13–19 years) represent their future in the increasingly multicultural Finnish context. The research material consists of drawings and written narratives from 42 adolescents with Finnish, Middle Eastern and Ukrainian backgrounds. The findings show that social representations of the future were structured around three key dimensions: self, relations…
Making Sense of Life in Iran: Afghan Refugee Youths' Social Representations Through an Arts‐Based Approach
This study explores how Afghan refugee children and adolescents living in Iran make sense of their everyday lives through the lens of social representations theory and an arts‐based methodology. Eighty‐five participants ages 10–19 created drawings and written reflections in response to a prompt asking what they would like Iranian people to know about their lives. The data were analysed through qualitative content analysis. Participants shared tho…
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking
Discussions on the body frequently foreground in empirical studies of social representations. However, there is scarce theoretical literature within social representations theory focusing on embodied social representation. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of embodied, sensory experiences as part of social representation. More precisely, it attempts to elaborate how individual, social, bodily, and material layers work together in…
Drawing as a method of researching social representations
This paper explores the possibilities of drawing as a method of researching social representations. The theory of social representations focuses on studying the forms, contents, and functions of socially shared common knowledge. In this paper, we (1) present the central premises of social representations theory, (2) elaborate drawing as a visual research method, and (3) synthesize how the drawing method may promote and diversify our understanding…
Embodied Reflection of Images as an Arts-Based Research Method: Teaching Experiment in Higher Education
This paper discusses a teaching experiment in which 20 university students in Finland participated in the course Critical and Novel Approaches to Management and Organisational Studies , which familiarized them with the method of embodied reflection of images. First, the paper presents the method and the teaching experiment. Then, it presents and discusses the students’ experiences while experimenting with the method. The students’ written reflect…
Sanna, Aren't You Ashamed?’ Affective‐discursive practices in online misogynist discourse of Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin
This research examines online misogynist discourse related to the Finnish prime minister (PM) Sanna Marin's image published in Trendi magazine in October 2020. The affective‐discursive analysis of online commentaries resulted in the identification of four affective‐discursive practices: an immoral woman, incompetent woman, calculating woman and inferior woman. Misogynist discourse related to the PM Marin took the form of a moral act, drew from st…
Boosting nationalism through Covid-19 images: Multimodal construction of the failure of the ‘dear enemy’ with Covid-19 in the national press
Using a multimodal discursive approach, this study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is constructed and used in press reportage to mobilize intergroup relations and national identities. We examine how press reporting about the development of COVID-19 in Sweden is cast as a matter of nationalism and national stereotyping in the Finnish press. The data consist of 183 images with accompanying headlines and captions published in two Finnish national…
Visual (de)humanization: Construction of Otherness in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis
This study examines how Otherness is constructed visually in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis. This visual rhetoric analysis examines the form, content, and function of images and explores the rhetorical strategies deployed in visualizations of the refugee crisis in a mainstream Finnish national newspaper from 2015 to 2016. The data consisted of 1,473 images. The study identified six rhetorical strategies used for dehumanizing refugees…
Myths, the Bible, and Romanticism as ingredients of political narratives in the Finns Party election video
This research set out to examine how ancient myths, Bible stories, and romantic visual imagery were used as discursive devices in the populist communication of the 2019 Finns Party election video. This study draws from systematic functional multimodal discourse analysis and its concepts of intersemiotic texture, co-contextualization, and re-contextualization to examine how different semiotic resources work together in the video. The multimodal an…
How newspaper images position different groups of people in relation to the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A social representations approach
This study examines newspaper photographs related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. Drawing on social representations theory and positioning theory, we explore social representations and identities related to COVID-19 in mass media using a visual rhetoric analysis. More specifically, we focus on how newspaper photographs construct subjects' positions for different age groups. The data consisted of 4,506 photographs of people published in the t…
Membership categorization analysis as means of studying person perception
Membership categorization analysis focuses on studying how people categorize each other in interaction. Even though the role of observation has been acknowledged within this methodological approach, it has mainly been used to analyze oral and written communication. This study focuses on examining how membership categorization analysis can be applied to person perception. It elucidates the procedure with two examples where students in a vocational…
Social representations of teachership based on cover images of Finnish teacher magazine: A visual rhetoric approach
Media plays an important role in the formation of social representations. This study examines the cover images of Finnish Teacher Magazine published by the Trade Union of Education as means of communicating social representations of teachership among its readership consisting of teachers and student teachers. In order to critically discuss the structure of the cover images and their implications in terms of teachers’ professional identity, the st…
Social representations of teachership based on students’ and teachers’ drawings of a typical teacher
This study examines social representations of teachership based on students’ and teachers’ drawings. Fifty-nine students and thirty-nine teachers in upper-secondary education in Finland participated in the research, drawing a picture of a typical teacher and commenting on their drawings verbally. The study focuses on what kinds of social representations of teachership the drawings suggest and how teachers’ and students’ social representations rel…
How newspaper images position different groups of people in relation to the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A social representations approach
This study examines newspaper photographs related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. Drawing on social representations theory and positioning theory, we explore social representations and identities related to COVID-19 in mass media using a visual rhetoric analysis. More specifically, we focus on how newspaper photographs construct subjects' positions for different age groups. The data consisted of 4,506 photographs of people published in the t…
Drawing as a method of researching social representations
This paper explores the possibilities of drawing as a method of researching social representations. The theory of social representations focuses on studying the forms, contents, and functions of socially shared common knowledge. In this paper, we (1) present the central premises of social representations theory, (2) elaborate drawing as a visual research method, and (3) synthesize how the drawing method may promote and diversify our understanding…
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking
Discussions on the body frequently foreground in empirical studies of social representations. However, there is scarce theoretical literature within social representations theory focusing on embodied social representation. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of embodied, sensory experiences as part of social representation. More precisely, it attempts to elaborate how individual, social, bodily, and material layers work together in…
Sanna, Aren't You Ashamed?’ Affective‐discursive practices in online misogynist discourse of Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin
This research examines online misogynist discourse related to the Finnish prime minister (PM) Sanna Marin's image published in Trendi magazine in October 2020. The affective‐discursive analysis of online commentaries resulted in the identification of four affective‐discursive practices: an immoral woman, incompetent woman, calculating woman and inferior woman. Misogynist discourse related to the PM Marin took the form of a moral act, drew from st…
Membership categorization analysis as means of studying person perception
Membership categorization analysis focuses on studying how people categorize each other in interaction. Even though the role of observation has been acknowledged within this methodological approach, it has mainly been used to analyze oral and written communication. This study focuses on examining how membership categorization analysis can be applied to person perception. It elucidates the procedure with two examples where students in a vocational…
Social representations of teachership based on cover images of Finnish teacher magazine: A visual rhetoric approach
Media plays an important role in the formation of social representations. This study examines the cover images of Finnish Teacher Magazine published by the Trade Union of Education as means of communicating social representations of teachership among its readership consisting of teachers and student teachers. In order to critically discuss the structure of the cover images and their implications in terms of teachers’ professional identity, the st…
Myths, the Bible, and Romanticism as ingredients of political narratives in the Finns Party election video
This research set out to examine how ancient myths, Bible stories, and romantic visual imagery were used as discursive devices in the populist communication of the 2019 Finns Party election video. This study draws from systematic functional multimodal discourse analysis and its concepts of intersemiotic texture, co-contextualization, and re-contextualization to examine how different semiotic resources work together in the video. The multimodal an…
Social representations of teachership based on students’ and teachers’ drawings of a typical teacher
This study examines social representations of teachership based on students’ and teachers’ drawings. Fifty-nine students and thirty-nine teachers in upper-secondary education in Finland participated in the research, drawing a picture of a typical teacher and commenting on their drawings verbally. The study focuses on what kinds of social representations of teachership the drawings suggest and how teachers’ and students’ social representations rel…
Social representations of teachership based on cover images of Finnish teacher magazine: A visual rhetoric approach
Media plays an important role in the formation of social representations. This study examines the cover images of Finnish Teacher Magazine published by the Trade Union of Education as means of communicating social representations of teachership among its readership consisting of teachers and student teachers. In order to critically discuss the structure of the cover images and their implications in terms of teachers’ professional identity, the st…
Social representations of teachership based on students’ and teachers’ drawings of a typical teacher
This study examines social representations of teachership based on students’ and teachers’ drawings. Fifty-nine students and thirty-nine teachers in upper-secondary education in Finland participated in the research, drawing a picture of a typical teacher and commenting on their drawings verbally. The study focuses on what kinds of social representations of teachership the drawings suggest and how teachers’ and students’ social representations rel…
Membership categorization analysis as means of studying person perception
Membership categorization analysis focuses on studying how people categorize each other in interaction. Even though the role of observation has been acknowledged within this methodological approach, it has mainly been used to analyze oral and written communication. This study focuses on examining how membership categorization analysis can be applied to person perception. It elucidates the procedure with two examples where students in a vocational…
Boosting nationalism through Covid-19 images: Multimodal construction of the failure of the ‘dear enemy’ with Covid-19 in the national press
Using a multimodal discursive approach, this study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is constructed and used in press reportage to mobilize intergroup relations and national identities. We examine how press reporting about the development of COVID-19 in Sweden is cast as a matter of nationalism and national stereotyping in the Finnish press. The data consist of 183 images with accompanying headlines and captions published in two Finnish national…
Visual (de)humanization: Construction of Otherness in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis
This study examines how Otherness is constructed visually in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis. This visual rhetoric analysis examines the form, content, and function of images and explores the rhetorical strategies deployed in visualizations of the refugee crisis in a mainstream Finnish national newspaper from 2015 to 2016. The data consisted of 1,473 images. The study identified six rhetorical strategies used for dehumanizing refugees…
Myths, the Bible, and Romanticism as ingredients of political narratives in the Finns Party election video
This research set out to examine how ancient myths, Bible stories, and romantic visual imagery were used as discursive devices in the populist communication of the 2019 Finns Party election video. This study draws from systematic functional multimodal discourse analysis and its concepts of intersemiotic texture, co-contextualization, and re-contextualization to examine how different semiotic resources work together in the video. The multimodal an…
How newspaper images position different groups of people in relation to the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A social representations approach
This study examines newspaper photographs related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. Drawing on social representations theory and positioning theory, we explore social representations and identities related to COVID-19 in mass media using a visual rhetoric analysis. More specifically, we focus on how newspaper photographs construct subjects' positions for different age groups. The data consisted of 4,506 photographs of people published in the t…
Embodied Reflection of Images as an Arts-Based Research Method: Teaching Experiment in Higher Education
This paper discusses a teaching experiment in which 20 university students in Finland participated in the course Critical and Novel Approaches to Management and Organisational Studies , which familiarized them with the method of embodied reflection of images. First, the paper presents the method and the teaching experiment. Then, it presents and discusses the students’ experiences while experimenting with the method. The students’ written reflect…
Sanna, Aren't You Ashamed?’ Affective‐discursive practices in online misogynist discourse of Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin
This research examines online misogynist discourse related to the Finnish prime minister (PM) Sanna Marin's image published in Trendi magazine in October 2020. The affective‐discursive analysis of online commentaries resulted in the identification of four affective‐discursive practices: an immoral woman, incompetent woman, calculating woman and inferior woman. Misogynist discourse related to the PM Marin took the form of a moral act, drew from st…
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking
Discussions on the body frequently foreground in empirical studies of social representations. However, there is scarce theoretical literature within social representations theory focusing on embodied social representation. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of embodied, sensory experiences as part of social representation. More precisely, it attempts to elaborate how individual, social, bodily, and material layers work together in…
Drawing as a method of researching social representations
This paper explores the possibilities of drawing as a method of researching social representations. The theory of social representations focuses on studying the forms, contents, and functions of socially shared common knowledge. In this paper, we (1) present the central premises of social representations theory, (2) elaborate drawing as a visual research method, and (3) synthesize how the drawing method may promote and diversify our understanding…
Making Sense of Life in Iran: Afghan Refugee Youths' Social Representations Through an Arts‐Based Approach
This study explores how Afghan refugee children and adolescents living in Iran make sense of their everyday lives through the lens of social representations theory and an arts‐based methodology. Eighty‐five participants ages 10–19 created drawings and written reflections in response to a prompt asking what they would like Iranian people to know about their lives. The data were analysed through qualitative content analysis. Participants shared tho…
Social Representation and Emotions in the Context of Dance Observation
Emotions are recognized as key components of social representation. However, their roles and the ways in which emotions are entangled in social representation processes are still insufficiently understood. This study employs a visual arts-based approach to deepen our understanding of this entanglement. Specifically, this study explores how emotions are interwoven with social representations, as 31 participants observed and reflected on two digita…
Unsettled Class: Finnish Young People Navigating Social Class and Classed Identities
Although social class has gained increasing attention in social psychology, discursive approaches remain underutilized. This study explores how Finnish youth make sense of social class, employing a mixed‐methods design grounded in a cultural approach to social class. Factor analysis and correlations revealed patterns of inconsistency in how young people subjectively perceive familial class background. To deepen this understanding, a qualitative a…
Exploring Adolescents’ Perceptions of Cultural Groups: Contents, Structures, and Dynamics of Social Representations of Finnish, Middle Eastern, and Ukrainian People
Global migration has increased ethnic and cultural diversification at the local community level, creating novel, culturally diverse everyday contexts and reshaping understandings of groups with different cultural backgrounds. This study investigates the perceptions that young people from various cultural backgrounds have of each other. We employed a structural approach to social representations utilizing the word associations method. Participants…
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study
This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children ( N = 8). The qualitative approach of the case study combines Actantial analysis with Social representations theory. The aim was to illu…
Drawn Futures: How Finland's Diverse Youth Visualise Tomorrow
In this study, we draw on social representations theory to examine how adolescents (individuals aged 13–19 years) represent their future in the increasingly multicultural Finnish context. The research material consists of drawings and written narratives from 42 adolescents with Finnish, Middle Eastern and Ukrainian backgrounds. The findings show that social representations of the future were structured around three key dimensions: self, relations…
Social Representations and Identity (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works)