Merja Porttikivi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6715255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merja Porttikivi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merja |
| FAMILY NAME | Porttikivi |
| SIGNATURE | PORTTIKIVI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2422-030X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The magic of investment podcasts: Finfluencers as ideological intermediaries
Investment podcasts have emerged as influential platforms where financial influencers, ‘finfluencers’, shape beliefs and normalize finance as part of everyday life. This study examines three popular Finnish investment podcasts through the lens of ‘magical capitalism’ to analyse how neoliberal ideology is propagated by finfluencers. Finfluencers act as ‘ideological intermediaries’, portraying investing as a route to magical transformation and prot…
Governing with conversation culture – conditioning organizational interaction in a digital social movement
Digital platforms support forms of collective action with varying degrees of organizationality – that is, with organization-like attributes such as identity, actorhood, and decision-making. These forms include seemingly non-organized online groups, which can be easily dismissed as informal chatter. Building on communicative theories of organizing and Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems, we explore the communicative organizationality of a Facebook …
Clowning around a polarized issue: Rhetorical strategies and communicative outcomes of a political parody performance by Loldiers of Odin
For decades, political activist groups have used humor for ridiculing their opponents and attracting media attention. This study analyzed the online presence of the Loldiers of Odin, a clown-disguised activist group created as a parody of the anti-immigration group Soldiers of Odin. By analyzing the rhetorical strategies of Loldiers’ performance, we show how absurd and naïve parody stunts were used to criticize anti-immigration street patrolling,…
Clowning around a polarized issue: Rhetorical strategies and communicative outcomes of a political parody performance by Loldiers of Odin
For decades, political activist groups have used humor for ridiculing their opponents and attracting media attention. This study analyzed the online presence of the Loldiers of Odin, a clown-disguised activist group created as a parody of the anti-immigration group Soldiers of Odin. By analyzing the rhetorical strategies of Loldiers’ performance, we show how absurd and naïve parody stunts were used to criticize anti-immigration street patrolling,…
Clowning around a polarized issue: Rhetorical strategies and communicative outcomes of a political parody performance by Loldiers of Odin
For decades, political activist groups have used humor for ridiculing their opponents and attracting media attention. This study analyzed the online presence of the Loldiers of Odin, a clown-disguised activist group created as a parody of the anti-immigration group Soldiers of Odin. By analyzing the rhetorical strategies of Loldiers’ performance, we show how absurd and naïve parody stunts were used to criticize anti-immigration street patrolling,…
Governing with conversation culture – conditioning organizational interaction in a digital social movement
Digital platforms support forms of collective action with varying degrees of organizationality – that is, with organization-like attributes such as identity, actorhood, and decision-making. These forms include seemingly non-organized online groups, which can be easily dismissed as informal chatter. Building on communicative theories of organizing and Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems, we explore the communicative organizationality of a Facebook …
The magic of investment podcasts: Finfluencers as ideological intermediaries
Investment podcasts have emerged as influential platforms where financial influencers, ‘finfluencers’, shape beliefs and normalize finance as part of everyday life. This study examines three popular Finnish investment podcasts through the lens of ‘magical capitalism’ to analyse how neoliberal ideology is propagated by finfluencers. Finfluencers act as ‘ideological intermediaries’, portraying investing as a route to magical transformation and prot…
Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social media (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affordance (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works)