Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 292091 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Salla-Maaria Laaksonen |
| PRENOMES | Salla-Maaria |
| SOBRENOME | Laaksonen |
| ASSINATURA | LAAKSONEN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3532-2387 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Experts’ boundary work on social media
Science-based experts have started to utilize social media to seek direct contact with audiences and social recognition for their expertise. Experts need to balance professional principles and the expectations arising from the changing media landscape. To understand how science-based experts navigate their way on social media, we utilize the concept of boundary work. We analyze how medical doctors enact and expand expertise on Instagram via bound…
Banal entrepreneurialism
We examine the cultural vitality of startup entrepreneurship as a key element of contemporary capitalism by analyzing the media and social media coverage of the Finnish startup event Slush. Startup entrepreneurs and companies have become objects of public idolization, and they are crucial for the cultural legitimation of contemporary capitalism. To assess this development, we employ the concept of startup culture, which refers to the conflux of a…
Reshaping platform governmentality
This research explores the power dynamics between platform owners and online communities, focusing on the Stack Exchange moderation strike against the company’s new policy on AI-generated content. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality, we show how the moderation of AI-generated content revealed tensions and resulted in collective action that made platform governmentality visible. In their strike, moderators resisted the policy by repurposin…
Alustojen valta, käyttäjien vastuu
Artikkeli tarkastelee, miten suomalaiset kansanedustajat hahmottavat sosiaalisen median yhteiskunnallisia haittoja ja millaiset ongelmanmäärittelyt heidän puheessaan korostuvat. Aineistona ovat kansanedustajien sosiaalista mediaa koskevat puheenvuorot eduskunnan täysistunnoissa vuosina 2006–2024. Teoreettinen lähestymistapamme kytkeytyy sosiaalisten representaatioiden teoriaan, ja analyyttisena kehikkona toimii WPR-lähestymistapa, joka erottelee …
Informaatiohäiriöt mediayhteiskunnassa
Informaatiohäiriöistä eli mis-, dis- ja malinformaation luomisesta ja kierrättämisestä digitaalisilla alustoilla on tullut yhä polttavampi yhteiskunnallinen ja tieteellinen kysymys. Tässä Media & viestintä -lehden Informaatiohäiriöt mediayhteiskunnassa teemanumeron johdannossa luomme katsauksen informaatiohäiriöiden tutkimukseen. Tutkimuskentässä on erotettavissa kolme osin päällekkäistä näkökulmaa: 1) ilmiö, sen syntymekanismit ja seuraukset, 2)…
Empowering Voters and Fostering Healthy Political Discourse
The role of digital media platforms as societal actors has been increasingly brought to the fore in recent years. We have also grown to understand how platforms foster actors and media formats not motivated by liberal and democratic norms. Critical scholarship has pointed out the role of platforms in amplifying extreme content and misinformation, allowing for the manipulation of political processes and communication, and intervening in the proces…
Reluctant arbiters of truth
Major digital platforms have long resisted fact-checking their users, even as public concern about misinformation has grown. We explore how they legitimated a change in this policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using blog posts by Meta, YouTube and Twitter, the study contributes to the body of research on content moderation by US-based platforms as they expand their policies into contested areas. Based on the theories of discursive legitimation, …
Challenging and Enhancing Legitimacy Through Humor
A prevalent aspect of contemporary digital campaigning is the use of humor to attract attention, elicit amusement, and mark group boundaries. This study investigates the humor in digital campaigns during two recent Finnish parliamentary elections, focusing on how different styles of humor are used to (de)legitimize political ideas and actors. Our original dataset consists of 125,604 posts by 1262 candidates on Facebook six months before the 2019 …
Triggered by Socialbots
This article examines communicative anthropomorphization, that is, assigning of humanlike features, of socialbots in communication between humans and bots. Situated in the field of human-machine communication, the article asks how socialbots are devised as anthropomorphized communication companions and explores the ways in which human users anthropomorphize bots through communication. Through an analysis of two datasets of bots interacting with h…
Contesting the Covid-19 Consensus
Recent years have witnessed invigorated debate about the contradictions of identity-concealing public participation and its influence on democratic deliberation and policy-making. Some have documented the exploitation of misrepresented identities for manipulation, including the manufacturing and disrupting of political discourses. Others argue that pseudonymous speech fosters less conformist and more secure public spaces for critical social comme…
Post-publication gatekeeping practices
News media share gatekeeping power with social media platforms and audiences in the digital news environment. This means news media is no longer the sole gatekeeper when gatekeeping is viewed post-publication, that is after news content has been published and entered circulation. In this study, we approach interacting and commenting on social media as post-publication gatekeeping practices. This means gatekeeping materialises as and in social int…
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 …
Conversational Gatekeeping—Social Interactional Practices of Post-Publication Gatekeeping on Newspapers’ Facebook Pages
Digital platforms, such as social media networks, have become intertwined in the news ecosystem, leading news media to lose their role as the sole gatekeeper in the public space. This development has given an active voice to audiences and turned journalism more into conversations between journalists and their audiences. The starting observation for this article was that alongside journalists, platforms and audiences play a part in the gatekeeping…
Practical, Not Radical
Recent scholarship has argued for media organizations’ need to radically innovate to ensure their survival in the future. This study deploys the innovative learning culture (ILC) framework to qualitatively study innovation and learning in a legacy public service media organization. While innovation and learning are linked, the learning processes of professional journalists have received only little attention. Through an analysis of a development …
Mediated by the giants
News media are increasingly interwoven with social media platforms. Building on institutional theory, we trace the repercussions of the platform infrastructure inside a media organization by focusing on organizational discourses and practices in connection with the journalistic use of social media. The empirical material includes interviews, field notes, chat logs, and documents collected from a public service media organization during a 6-month …
Branding the “wow-academy
This article examines the branding of the new Tampere University in Finland and the reactions it evoked in Finnish social media and news media between 2018–2020. The merger of the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology into a new foundation-based university provoked considerable public debate and sparked uproar over the communication style and practices of the university’s new management. The main reason for the outcry was tha…
Vaakakupissa vaarat ja vastuu
Sosiaalisen median alustat ovat muovanneet media-alan prosesseja ja käytäntöjä merkittävästi. Alustayritysten toimintaa ohjaavat erilaiset arvot ja tavoitteet kuin mediaorganisaatioita, mikä aiheuttaa toimijoiden välille ristiriitaa. Toimintatavoistaan ja arvoistaan sosiaalisessa mediassa joutuvat neuvottelemaan erityisesti julkisen palvelun mediayhtiöt, joiden peruskivenä ovat julkisen palvelun arvot. Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa suomalaisen…
Rocketing Sheep
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked online discussion in unprecedented volumes, as citizens use social media to share their opinions and concerns regarding the prevention measures, for instance. Much of such activity takes place under real names on popular platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. However, parallel to these platforms more anonymous spaces remain and flourish, including completely anonymous services such as Secret.ly and Ask.fm, or ps…
How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland
Various trendy diets characterize the foodscape today. This paper focuses on the low-carbohydrate (LC) diet, which gained large publicity in Finland in late 2010, affecting eating habits and food sales. In order to understand the factors affecting its emergence, we turned to the internet because it is a key environment where enthusiasts meet and new phenomena are forged. By analyzing the prevalence of keywords on carbohydrate-conscious eating in …
Clowning around a polarized issue
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,…
Slacking with the Bot
Nonhuman communicators are challenging the prevailing conceptualizations of technology-mediated team communication. Slackbot is a social bot that can be configured to respond to trigger words and, thus, take part in discussions on the platform. A set of 84 bot-related communication episodes were identified from a journalistic team’s Slack messages (N = 45,940) and analyzed utilizing both qualitative content analysis and interaction process analys…
Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities
This paper examines how the video-sharing platform YouTube was utilized by networks of anti-immigration activists that began emerging in Finland during the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. By combining network analysis with qualitative analysis, we identified three central strategies of video activism: movement building through documentation, discursive controversy generation, and personal branding practices. These strategies are firmly supporte…
Puhekaverina botti
Viestivät tekoälyt eli luonnollisella kielellä käytävään keskusteluun kykenevät algoritmit ovat yhä tyypillisempiä vuorovaikutuskumppaneita erilaisilla teknologisilla alustoilla. Yksi tyypillinen viestivän tekoälyn muoto on botti: automaattinen ohjelma, joka käyttää verkkopalvelun käyttäjätiliä tavallisen käyttäjän tavoin ja suorittaa yksinkertaisia toimintoja tai viestii. Tyypillisesti botit tavalla tai toisella pyrkivät näyttäytymään ihmiskäytt…
Tunipaloja rajapinnoilla? Tampereen yliopiston legitimiteettikamppailut hybridissä mediatilassa
Tässä artikkelissa analysoimme Tampereen yliopiston organisaatiouudistukseen ja erityisesti sen uuteen brändi- ja viestintästrategiaan kytkeytyviä legitimiteettikamppailuja hybridissä mediatilassa. Aineistona käytämme sekä journalistisesta mediasta (n=39) että sosiaalisesta mediasta (n=9 303) kerättyjä puheenvuoroja. Käsitteellistämme Tampereen yliopistouudistusta koskevat huolet uuden muotoisen yliopiston legitimiteettiä koskevina argumentteina …
In the Shadows of the Digital Economy
What does digital piecework have in common with laboring in the warehouse of a large online shopping platform? How is data cleaning related to digitization work and AI training in prisons? This panel suggests bringing these diverse ways of laboring in the digital economies together by considering these practices as infrastructural labor that takes the shape of shadow work (Illich, 1981) and ghost labor (Gray & Suri, 2019). Work and labor in moder…
A Call for Authenticity
Utilizing social media celebrities as a communication channel has become a strategic practice for many organizations. By using the concepts of celebrity endorsement and authenticity, the effect of celebrity and content characteristics on followers’ attitudes towards the content and, in the case of sponsored content, purchase intentions are scrutinized. Instagram followers (N = 592) of 45 celebrities responded to a survey on nine photos of the cel…
Networked publics as agents of accountability
This study examines how citizens made use of online platforms to direct diverging critiques and demands at the Finnish Immigration Service during what has come to be known as the refugee crisis in Europe. Focusing on peak periods of debate, identified using big data, we closely observe how public scrutiny of the immigration service occurred in the interactions between online users, the news media and the agency itself. Our analysis indicates that…
Working the fields of big data
The paper proposes big-data-augmented ethnography as a novel mixed-methods approach to studying political discussions in a hybrid media system. Using such empirical setup, the authors examined candidate–candidate online interaction during election campaigning. Candidate–candidate interaction crossing party boundaries is scarce and occurs in the form of negative campaigning via social media, with the shaming of rival candidates and engaging in bat…
Mediated by the giants
News media are increasingly interwoven with social media platforms. Building on institutional theory, we trace the repercussions of the platform infrastructure inside a media organization by focusing on organizational discourses and practices in connection with the journalistic use of social media. The empirical material includes interviews, field notes, chat logs, and documents collected from a public service media organization during a 6-month …
Branding the “wow-academy
This article examines the branding of the new Tampere University in Finland and the reactions it evoked in Finnish social media and news media between 2018–2020. The merger of the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology into a new foundation-based university provoked considerable public debate and sparked uproar over the communication style and practices of the university’s new management. The main reason for the outcry was tha…
Challenging and Enhancing Legitimacy Through Humor
A prevalent aspect of contemporary digital campaigning is the use of humor to attract attention, elicit amusement, and mark group boundaries. This study investigates the humor in digital campaigns during two recent Finnish parliamentary elections, focusing on how different styles of humor are used to (de)legitimize political ideas and actors. Our original dataset consists of 125,604 posts by 1262 candidates on Facebook six months before the 2019 …
Post-publication gatekeeping practices
News media share gatekeeping power with social media platforms and audiences in the digital news environment. This means news media is no longer the sole gatekeeper when gatekeeping is viewed post-publication, that is after news content has been published and entered circulation. In this study, we approach interacting and commenting on social media as post-publication gatekeeping practices. This means gatekeeping materialises as and in social int…
Conversational Gatekeeping—Social Interactional Practices of Post-Publication Gatekeeping on Newspapers’ Facebook Pages
Digital platforms, such as social media networks, have become intertwined in the news ecosystem, leading news media to lose their role as the sole gatekeeper in the public space. This development has given an active voice to audiences and turned journalism more into conversations between journalists and their audiences. The starting observation for this article was that alongside journalists, platforms and audiences play a part in the gatekeeping…
Clowning around a polarized issue
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,…
Practical, Not Radical
Recent scholarship has argued for media organizations’ need to radically innovate to ensure their survival in the future. This study deploys the innovative learning culture (ILC) framework to qualitatively study innovation and learning in a legacy public service media organization. While innovation and learning are linked, the learning processes of professional journalists have received only little attention. Through an analysis of a development …
How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland
Various trendy diets characterize the foodscape today. This paper focuses on the low-carbohydrate (LC) diet, which gained large publicity in Finland in late 2010, affecting eating habits and food sales. In order to understand the factors affecting its emergence, we turned to the internet because it is a key environment where enthusiasts meet and new phenomena are forged. By analyzing the prevalence of keywords on carbohydrate-conscious eating in …
Slacking with the Bot
Nonhuman communicators are challenging the prevailing conceptualizations of technology-mediated team communication. Slackbot is a social bot that can be configured to respond to trigger words and, thus, take part in discussions on the platform. A set of 84 bot-related communication episodes were identified from a journalistic team’s Slack messages (N = 45,940) and analyzed utilizing both qualitative content analysis and interaction process analys…
Casting Roles to Stakeholders – A Narrative Analysis of Reputational Storytelling in the Digital Public Sphere
This article presents a narrative study of stakeholder positions, storytelling agency, and power in the digital public sphere as seen by organizational actors. According to the institutional approach, corporations and their reputations are enacted, sustained, and altered by their external stakeholders. This article posits that, in the online public sphere, corporate reputations are formed by narratives, in which stakeholders take different positi…
Casting Roles to Stakeholders – A Narrative Analysis of Reputational Storytelling in the Digital Public Sphere
This article presents a narrative study of stakeholder positions, storytelling agency, and power in the digital public sphere as seen by organizational actors. According to the institutional approach, corporations and their reputations are enacted, sustained, and altered by their external stakeholders. This article posits that, in the online public sphere, corporate reputations are formed by narratives, in which stakeholders take different positi…
Working the fields of big data
The paper proposes big-data-augmented ethnography as a novel mixed-methods approach to studying political discussions in a hybrid media system. Using such empirical setup, the authors examined candidate–candidate online interaction during election campaigning. Candidate–candidate interaction crossing party boundaries is scarce and occurs in the form of negative campaigning via social media, with the shaming of rival candidates and engaging in bat…
Networked publics as agents of accountability
This study examines how citizens made use of online platforms to direct diverging critiques and demands at the Finnish Immigration Service during what has come to be known as the refugee crisis in Europe. Focusing on peak periods of debate, identified using big data, we closely observe how public scrutiny of the immigration service occurred in the interactions between online users, the news media and the agency itself. Our analysis indicates that…
A Call for Authenticity
Utilizing social media celebrities as a communication channel has become a strategic practice for many organizations. By using the concepts of celebrity endorsement and authenticity, the effect of celebrity and content characteristics on followers’ attitudes towards the content and, in the case of sponsored content, purchase intentions are scrutinized. Instagram followers (N = 592) of 45 celebrities responded to a survey on nine photos of the cel…
Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities
This paper examines how the video-sharing platform YouTube was utilized by networks of anti-immigration activists that began emerging in Finland during the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. By combining network analysis with qualitative analysis, we identified three central strategies of video activism: movement building through documentation, discursive controversy generation, and personal branding practices. These strategies are firmly supporte…
Puhekaverina botti
Viestivät tekoälyt eli luonnollisella kielellä käytävään keskusteluun kykenevät algoritmit ovat yhä tyypillisempiä vuorovaikutuskumppaneita erilaisilla teknologisilla alustoilla. Yksi tyypillinen viestivän tekoälyn muoto on botti: automaattinen ohjelma, joka käyttää verkkopalvelun käyttäjätiliä tavallisen käyttäjän tavoin ja suorittaa yksinkertaisia toimintoja tai viestii. Tyypillisesti botit tavalla tai toisella pyrkivät näyttäytymään ihmiskäytt…
Tunipaloja rajapinnoilla? Tampereen yliopiston legitimiteettikamppailut hybridissä mediatilassa
Tässä artikkelissa analysoimme Tampereen yliopiston organisaatiouudistukseen ja erityisesti sen uuteen brändi- ja viestintästrategiaan kytkeytyviä legitimiteettikamppailuja hybridissä mediatilassa. Aineistona käytämme sekä journalistisesta mediasta (n=39) että sosiaalisesta mediasta (n=9 303) kerättyjä puheenvuoroja. Käsitteellistämme Tampereen yliopistouudistusta koskevat huolet uuden muotoisen yliopiston legitimiteettiä koskevina argumentteina …
In the Shadows of the Digital Economy
What does digital piecework have in common with laboring in the warehouse of a large online shopping platform? How is data cleaning related to digitization work and AI training in prisons? This panel suggests bringing these diverse ways of laboring in the digital economies together by considering these practices as infrastructural labor that takes the shape of shadow work (Illich, 1981) and ghost labor (Gray & Suri, 2019). Work and labor in moder…
Credibility by automation
Social media analytics is a burgeoning new field associated with high promises of societal relevance and business value but also methodological and practical problems. In this article, we build on the sociology of expectations literature and research on expertise in the interaction between humans and machines to examine how analysts and clients make their expectations about social media analytics credible in the face of recognized problems. To in…
Gaming Algorithmic Hate-Speech Detection
A recent strand of research considers how algorithmic systems are gamed in everyday encounters. We add to this literature with a study that uses the game metaphor to examine a project where different organizations came together to create and deploy a machine learning model to detect hate speech from political candidates' social media messages during the Finnish 2017 municipal election. Using interviews and forum discussions as our primary researc…
Platformed Interactions
Interaction between candidates and constituents via social media is a well-studied domain. The article takes this research further through a synthesis with platform studies, emerging scholarship that applies a critical perspective to the role of digital platforms in society. Examination of candidate-constituent interaction via Twitter and Facebook during the 2015 Finnish parliamentary elections revealed that the types of interaction differ betwee…
Vaakakupissa vaarat ja vastuu
Sosiaalisen median alustat ovat muovanneet media-alan prosesseja ja käytäntöjä merkittävästi. Alustayritysten toimintaa ohjaavat erilaiset arvot ja tavoitteet kuin mediaorganisaatioita, mikä aiheuttaa toimijoiden välille ristiriitaa. Toimintatavoistaan ja arvoistaan sosiaalisessa mediassa joutuvat neuvottelemaan erityisesti julkisen palvelun mediayhtiöt, joiden peruskivenä ovat julkisen palvelun arvot. Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa suomalaisen…
Rocketing Sheep
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked online discussion in unprecedented volumes, as citizens use social media to share their opinions and concerns regarding the prevention measures, for instance. Much of such activity takes place under real names on popular platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. However, parallel to these platforms more anonymous spaces remain and flourish, including completely anonymous services such as Secret.ly and Ask.fm, or ps…
How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland
Various trendy diets characterize the foodscape today. This paper focuses on the low-carbohydrate (LC) diet, which gained large publicity in Finland in late 2010, affecting eating habits and food sales. In order to understand the factors affecting its emergence, we turned to the internet because it is a key environment where enthusiasts meet and new phenomena are forged. By analyzing the prevalence of keywords on carbohydrate-conscious eating in …
Clowning around a polarized issue
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,…
Slacking with the Bot
Nonhuman communicators are challenging the prevailing conceptualizations of technology-mediated team communication. Slackbot is a social bot that can be configured to respond to trigger words and, thus, take part in discussions on the platform. A set of 84 bot-related communication episodes were identified from a journalistic team’s Slack messages (N = 45,940) and analyzed utilizing both qualitative content analysis and interaction process analys…
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 …
Conversational Gatekeeping—Social Interactional Practices of Post-Publication Gatekeeping on Newspapers’ Facebook Pages
Digital platforms, such as social media networks, have become intertwined in the news ecosystem, leading news media to lose their role as the sole gatekeeper in the public space. This development has given an active voice to audiences and turned journalism more into conversations between journalists and their audiences. The starting observation for this article was that alongside journalists, platforms and audiences play a part in the gatekeeping…
Practical, Not Radical
Recent scholarship has argued for media organizations’ need to radically innovate to ensure their survival in the future. This study deploys the innovative learning culture (ILC) framework to qualitatively study innovation and learning in a legacy public service media organization. While innovation and learning are linked, the learning processes of professional journalists have received only little attention. Through an analysis of a development …
Mediated by the giants
News media are increasingly interwoven with social media platforms. Building on institutional theory, we trace the repercussions of the platform infrastructure inside a media organization by focusing on organizational discourses and practices in connection with the journalistic use of social media. The empirical material includes interviews, field notes, chat logs, and documents collected from a public service media organization during a 6-month …
Branding the “wow-academy
This article examines the branding of the new Tampere University in Finland and the reactions it evoked in Finnish social media and news media between 2018–2020. The merger of the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology into a new foundation-based university provoked considerable public debate and sparked uproar over the communication style and practices of the university’s new management. The main reason for the outcry was tha…
Triggered by Socialbots
This article examines communicative anthropomorphization, that is, assigning of humanlike features, of socialbots in communication between humans and bots. Situated in the field of human-machine communication, the article asks how socialbots are devised as anthropomorphized communication companions and explores the ways in which human users anthropomorphize bots through communication. Through an analysis of two datasets of bots interacting with h…
Contesting the Covid-19 Consensus
Recent years have witnessed invigorated debate about the contradictions of identity-concealing public participation and its influence on democratic deliberation and policy-making. Some have documented the exploitation of misrepresented identities for manipulation, including the manufacturing and disrupting of political discourses. Others argue that pseudonymous speech fosters less conformist and more secure public spaces for critical social comme…
Post-publication gatekeeping practices
News media share gatekeeping power with social media platforms and audiences in the digital news environment. This means news media is no longer the sole gatekeeper when gatekeeping is viewed post-publication, that is after news content has been published and entered circulation. In this study, we approach interacting and commenting on social media as post-publication gatekeeping practices. This means gatekeeping materialises as and in social int…
Challenging and Enhancing Legitimacy Through Humor
A prevalent aspect of contemporary digital campaigning is the use of humor to attract attention, elicit amusement, and mark group boundaries. This study investigates the humor in digital campaigns during two recent Finnish parliamentary elections, focusing on how different styles of humor are used to (de)legitimize political ideas and actors. Our original dataset consists of 125,604 posts by 1262 candidates on Facebook six months before the 2019 …
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