Kaarina Nikunen
kaarinan.bsky.social
Kaarina Nikunen
@kaarinan.bsky.social
Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Postdoc position for Digital Vulnerabilities in Södertörn university DL April 3.

The full job opening is available here
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Digital sårbarhet i den automatiserade välfärden
Digital sårbarhet i den automatiserade välfärden - Ingen beskrivning.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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🎙️ Hear me ramble about work (& life) in this #10DaysOfConflictMemory interview series with John Coster, director of the Documentary Media Centre, Leicester!

☀️ Thanks @pauljreilly.bsky.social @katjalehtisaari.bsky.social @vsalojarvi.bsky.social @docmediacentre.bsky.social @kaarinan.bsky.social.
Conflict Memory Series: #10DaysOfConflictMemory Day 8: Wed 26th Feb
John Coster (Director, Conflict Memory Education Centre) talks with Soma Basu, Tampere University:
“Don’t Want to Remember, Can’t Forget”: Unveiling Sticky Memories and Mobile Traumas of Delhi Riots 2020 bit.ly/3XGkWQv
Day 8 #10DaysOfConflictMemory
Conflict Memory Series: #10DaysOfConflictMemory 19th – 28th February 2025 Day 8: Wednesday 26th February John Coster (Director, Conflict Memory Education Centre) talks with Soma Basu, Tampere Unive…
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February 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Please join me; Yussuf Bashir (Haki na Sheria Institute); Laura Bingham (Temple University's Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology); and Nora Naji this Wed, Jan 15th at 2pm GMT as we discuss digital ID, humanitarian tech, & the profound identification challenges facing migrants/refugees.
January 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
CFP #openculturalstudies issue on Challenging nihilism: an exploration of culture and hope.
The aim of the issue of is to ask how to defy nihilism and speak of
hope in the current conjuncture.
DL April 30
Edited by Juan A. Tarancón.
degruyter.com/culture
Open Cultural Studies
Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different theoretical, geo...
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January 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Call for Postdoctoral Researcher in critical AI studies MIC Centre UPenn
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December 18, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Lahjoita Lucia-keräkseen! Valoa!
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December 17, 2024 at 5:46 PM
CFP/ GeoMedia Conference 2025
*Transforming Passions*

exploring passion’s significance in media, visual cultures and artistic practices, technologies, platforms, places, territories and other spatial formations.

Sep 17-19 Karlstad Sweden
Abstract DL April 14 2025
www.kau.se/transforming...
Geomedia 2025 International Conference
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December 11, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Today I acted as an external examiner of Wegahtabrgan Sereke's PhD "We Are Like a Black Dot Dropped on a White Paper”: power, resistance and emotions in negotiations of inclusion/exclusion by forced migrants", University of Lugano. Important work on #emotions, #racism. Congratulations Wegahtabrhan!!
December 9, 2024 at 8:21 PM
AI is increasingly used in public service in the Nordic welfare state. Our research explores how this hampers #solidarity and social justice.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:59 PM
CFP/ ECREA Communication & Democracy Section Off-Year conference:
Automating Democracy:AI use between social justice and social control
Erasmus University Rotterdam, 22-23 May 2025
DeadlineJan 15
automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:22 PM