My latest article has been published in Discourse & Society! The paper explores how marginalised groups are referenced and included in COVID-19 statements published on official government websites in the UK and the US. @languaging-crises.bsky.social
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#ADDA25 : @hannalimatius.bsky.social presented her analysis of comments posted on YouTube videos of two beauty influencers who collaborated with president Joe Biden to discuss COVID-19 vaccines. The goal of the videos was to reach an audience that does not necessarily follow the official channels.

2/2 responsibility is potentially doing more harm than good…
#ADDA25 Very interesting work by @languaging-crises.bsky.social!

#ADDA25 Public response to beauty influencers’ “collabs” with the White House to spread COVID-related messaging l, by Hanna Limatius @languaging-crises.bsky.social: Joe Biden interviewed on vlogs.
I cannot help but wonder if this kind of endorsement of a public messenger without any fiduciary 1/2

We're already on talk #3 in the "Influencer Discourse" panel at #ADDA5! Hanna Limatius (from the @languaging-crises.bsky.social project) is showing us how beauty influencers and authorities collaborated during the Covid-19 pandemic and how this was received by their audiences.

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"

Historians: "that's a nazi salute"

Average person: "that's a nazi salute"

The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

Finally pulled the plug. Kind of embarrassing it took me this long.

Whose voices were present in the crisis communication in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Paper by @hannalimatius.bsky.social and Merja Koskela has been published open access in the VAKKI publication series:

GET TO KNOW ME F1 EDITION ✨
Favourite drivers: Leclerc, Sainz, Norris, Bottas
Favourite team: Ferrari 🙈
Favourite tracks: Monza, Spa
Year you started watching: 2011 (tho I did sometimes watch as a kid since my parents watched it)
Best moment: Charles winning in Monaco, Bottas' first win in 2017.

Projektimme järjestää työpajan VAKKI-symposiumissa helmikuussa. Toivomme abstrakteja laajasti eri aloilta kriisiviestintään liittyen! Lisätietoa alla.

My chapter on the language choices and multilingual practices of Finnish social media influencers has been published in a new open access volume Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers: A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta! doi.org/10.51814/ufy...

Pneumonia is no joke. -1000/10 wouldn't recommend. 🤒😷

March was good in terms of publications. 🤩

I wrote a new post on our LanCris project's blog! In the blog, I share some initial results based on a recent conference presentation. 👀 We studied diversity and representation in the COVID-19 communication of U.S. government officials.
blogs.helsinki.fi/languaging-c...

Älä jää yksin🎄♥️

It's always nice to start the week with a new publication! Our article "‘Instead of Hype, Would You Like to Hear Real Examples?’: Exploring Blockchain Talk on Twitter" has been published in Fachsprache! doi.org/10.24989/fs.v4…

Second day of the NORDISCO conference in Tampere! I already presented this morning on the complexity of image-text relationships in social media data, together with Merja Koskela.

On our evening walk today. Let's just say it doesn't usually look like this on November 1st! ❄️