Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
@sallamaaria.bsky.social
Docent, Senior Researcher (tenured) at Uni Helsinki, working on Communication, Organizations & Technology. Using qualitative, mixed, digital and computational methods to understand how digital platforms change our society. 💚 SciComm. Previously @jahapaula
The bestest Juho Pääkkönen defending his PhD at @helsinki.fi on Credibility-building for social science big data. This is therapeutic but also fun, quite many jokes so far by all three in the front 😅
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The bestest Juho Pääkkönen defending his PhD at @helsinki.fi on Credibility-building for social science big data. This is therapeutic but also fun, quite many jokes so far by all three in the front 😅
Best academic day of the year: the @rajapinta.co unconference! So far populism on Tiktok, AI porn and computational methods. Great to be home 🧡
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Best academic day of the year: the @rajapinta.co unconference! So far populism on Tiktok, AI porn and computational methods. Great to be home 🧡
Tänään alkoi jälleen Asiantuntijana digitaalisessa mediassa -kurssi, jota olemme @petropoutanen.bsky.social kanssa opettaneet jo yli kymmenen vuotta (ja kirjoittaneet sen myös kirjaksi)! Aamun extrahaasteena opetustilasta puuttuivat kaikki tuolit. Jumppatunniksi meni 😅
#scicomm
#scicomm
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Tänään alkoi jälleen Asiantuntijana digitaalisessa mediassa -kurssi, jota olemme @petropoutanen.bsky.social kanssa opettaneet jo yli kymmenen vuotta (ja kirjoittaneet sen myös kirjaksi)! Aamun extrahaasteena opetustilasta puuttuivat kaikki tuolit. Jumppatunniksi meni 😅
#scicomm
#scicomm
Our colleague Tuomas Soila is just defending his PhD thesis that looks at money in the consumer society. Great discussion going on, and even some revolutionary thinking in the air! 🥳
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Our colleague Tuomas Soila is just defending his PhD thesis that looks at money in the consumer society. Great discussion going on, and even some revolutionary thinking in the air! 🥳
📚 New paper alert! 🌎 "Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse" was just published in Platforms & Society, a new-ish journal focused on critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization. (1/x)
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📚 New paper alert! 🌎 "Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse" was just published in Platforms & Society, a new-ish journal focused on critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization. (1/x)
Alice in Wonderland vibes in the lobby of Copenhagen Business School Dalgas Have! Happy to spend five weeks of my autumn here on a research visit. Looking forward to seeing old and new colleagues and friends, pushing some ideas further, and getting some writing done too!
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Alice in Wonderland vibes in the lobby of Copenhagen Business School Dalgas Have! Happy to spend five weeks of my autumn here on a research visit. Looking forward to seeing old and new colleagues and friends, pushing some ideas further, and getting some writing done too!
Hot off the press! 🌻 Our article "Reluctant arbiters of truth: Discursive legitimation of platform interventions against COVID-19 misinformation" was just published in New Media & Society. Co-authored w/ the amazing @tuohmas.bsky.social and @mattipohjonen.bsky.social
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September 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Hot off the press! 🌻 Our article "Reluctant arbiters of truth: Discursive legitimation of platform interventions against COVID-19 misinformation" was just published in New Media & Society. Co-authored w/ the amazing @tuohmas.bsky.social and @mattipohjonen.bsky.social
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At Tampere Uni M.Sc. Johanna Horppu is defending her PhD thesis that looks at privacy in a digital world from the perspective of sociomateriality. A cool and needed reconceptualization I can say as a pre-examiner!
What if privacy would be a default, and more adaptable to different social contexts?
What if privacy would be a default, and more adaptable to different social contexts?
June 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At Tampere Uni M.Sc. Johanna Horppu is defending her PhD thesis that looks at privacy in a digital world from the perspective of sociomateriality. A cool and needed reconceptualization I can say as a pre-examiner!
What if privacy would be a default, and more adaptable to different social contexts?
What if privacy would be a default, and more adaptable to different social contexts?
IDA-hankkeen loppuseminaarissa ymmärtämässä miten käyttäjät tasapainottelevat somealustojen ikeen alla. Suhteet ovat monimutkaisia ja paradoksaalisia.
June 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
IDA-hankkeen loppuseminaarissa ymmärtämässä miten käyttäjät tasapainottelevat somealustojen ikeen alla. Suhteet ovat monimutkaisia ja paradoksaalisia.
Isojen asioiden äärellä professori Esa Väliverrosen jäähyväisluennolla: tiede, viestintä ja luottamus mediayhteiskunnassa. Huolipuhetta on paljon, mutta kyselyiden mukaan tiedeluottamusta kyllä on.
May 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Isojen asioiden äärellä professori Esa Väliverrosen jäähyväisluennolla: tiede, viestintä ja luottamus mediayhteiskunnassa. Huolipuhetta on paljon, mutta kyselyiden mukaan tiedeluottamusta kyllä on.
Organizing is increasingly mediated by digital platforms, which also collect digital trace data of communication and work. How can this data be used to understand organizing and facilitate work across organizational boundaries?
🤖 Join the final seminar of our SODA project on May 20 to find out!
🤖 Join the final seminar of our SODA project on May 20 to find out!
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Organizing is increasingly mediated by digital platforms, which also collect digital trace data of communication and work. How can this data be used to understand organizing and facilitate work across organizational boundaries?
🤖 Join the final seminar of our SODA project on May 20 to find out!
🤖 Join the final seminar of our SODA project on May 20 to find out!
Monica Porzionato defends her PhD thesis at U Lund, entitled "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Opponent prof Sine Just gives the opening presentation. Great to see different traditions, looking forward to the discussion!
February 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Monica Porzionato defends her PhD thesis at U Lund, entitled "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Opponent prof Sine Just gives the opening presentation. Great to see different traditions, looking forward to the discussion!
Narratives about technology are shaping how digital infrastructures are developed, reminds @abpowell.bsky.social us in her #REPAIR talk in Helsinki, and makes a great analogy between tech narratives and tarot cards. I guess I have to dig up my old deck!
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Narratives about technology are shaping how digital infrastructures are developed, reminds @abpowell.bsky.social us in her #REPAIR talk in Helsinki, and makes a great analogy between tech narratives and tarot cards. I guess I have to dig up my old deck!
Vallaton julkisuus? Tärkeiden teemojen äärellä kolmen viestinnän professorin vuosipäiväjuhlassa. Onnea kaikille, kukaan heistä ei tosin täällä sinitaivaan julkisuudessa ole! 🥳
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Vallaton julkisuus? Tärkeiden teemojen äärellä kolmen viestinnän professorin vuosipäiväjuhlassa. Onnea kaikille, kukaan heistä ei tosin täällä sinitaivaan julkisuudessa ole! 🥳
Join us in #NordMedia25 to discuss the materiality and environmental consequences of digital media!
Our newly established TWG “Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment” calls for contributions among other divisions and working groups. DL Feb 28.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Our newly established TWG “Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment” calls for contributions among other divisions and working groups. DL Feb 28.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
January 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Join us in #NordMedia25 to discuss the materiality and environmental consequences of digital media!
Our newly established TWG “Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment” calls for contributions among other divisions and working groups. DL Feb 28.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Our newly established TWG “Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment” calls for contributions among other divisions and working groups. DL Feb 28.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Thank you @koneensaatio.fi Kone Foundation for deciding to fund our project "Greener Bits: Oversoncumption of Digital Media and its Environmental Consequences". Very very happy to get to explore this important topic!
December 10, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Thank you @koneensaatio.fi Kone Foundation for deciding to fund our project "Greener Bits: Oversoncumption of Digital Media and its Environmental Consequences". Very very happy to get to explore this important topic!
Hello Louvain-la-Neuve! Spending the week here crunching our paper on platformed organising by moderators on Stack Exchange. A tiny writing retreat is just what I need right now 🙏
November 18, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Hello Louvain-la-Neuve! Spending the week here crunching our paper on platformed organising by moderators on Stack Exchange. A tiny writing retreat is just what I need right now 🙏
Rajapinta Unconference today - my favourite academic event of the year. This is the digital social sciences association we founded 7 years ago, getting older but still bravely doing things differently 🧡
November 14, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Rajapinta Unconference today - my favourite academic event of the year. This is the digital social sciences association we founded 7 years ago, getting older but still bravely doing things differently 🧡
Greetings from the year 2000: "Internet may be just a passing fad". Ending the first #AoIR2024 day with the AoIR Eras Tour panel that revisits the 25-year history of the association.
October 31, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Greetings from the year 2000: "Internet may be just a passing fad". Ending the first #AoIR2024 day with the AoIR Eras Tour panel that revisits the 25-year history of the association.
How to refuse technologies so that it's not too late and not too little, asks Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan in her #aoir2024 keynote, using quantum computing as an example. Such a relevant question.
October 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM
How to refuse technologies so that it's not too late and not too little, asks Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan in her #aoir2024 keynote, using quantum computing as an example. Such a relevant question.
Kicking off #aoir2024 today with a workshop on alternative platform archives. Research collaboration and bravery seem to be the best, if not the only, way to study platforms in this era of vanishing transparency.
(Talking about open archives, the image comes from Openclipart.org 🤎 )
(Talking about open archives, the image comes from Openclipart.org 🤎 )
October 30, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Kicking off #aoir2024 today with a workshop on alternative platform archives. Research collaboration and bravery seem to be the best, if not the only, way to study platforms in this era of vanishing transparency.
(Talking about open archives, the image comes from Openclipart.org 🤎 )
(Talking about open archives, the image comes from Openclipart.org 🤎 )
Tänään äänessä Tampereen yliopistolla Johtajuussymposiumissa teemalla "Johdammeko teknologiaa vai johtaako teknologia meitä?" Ensimmäisessä sessiossa kuitenkin tulevaisuuden johtajat eli opiskelijapaneeli! Tilaisuus striimataan myös YLE Areenaan.
October 22, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Tänään äänessä Tampereen yliopistolla Johtajuussymposiumissa teemalla "Johdammeko teknologiaa vai johtaako teknologia meitä?" Ensimmäisessä sessiossa kuitenkin tulevaisuuden johtajat eli opiskelijapaneeli! Tilaisuus striimataan myös YLE Areenaan.
Hot off the press! 🌶️ This great book also includes our chapter "Instagram as an affective battlefield", written together with the amazing Nuppu Pelevina and Oksana Domina, looks at the different roles Ukrainian social media influencers adopted during the Russian full-scale invasion.
October 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Hot off the press! 🌶️ This great book also includes our chapter "Instagram as an affective battlefield", written together with the amazing Nuppu Pelevina and Oksana Domina, looks at the different roles Ukrainian social media influencers adopted during the Russian full-scale invasion.
Polarisation and social media bubbles are not a problem caused by media technology, but rather a social issue reminds @snurb.bsky.social in his talk at HSSH Institute at the University of Helsinki. Great to have you here!
September 18, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Polarisation and social media bubbles are not a problem caused by media technology, but rather a social issue reminds @snurb.bsky.social in his talk at HSSH Institute at the University of Helsinki. Great to have you here!
Our recent article presents a #textmining #datascience framework called INCEPT which suggests utilizing multiple text representation methods to detect duplicate text pairs - we demonstrate that it makes sense to combine text representation methods instead of relying on only one at a time. 🧵
September 4, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Our recent article presents a #textmining #datascience framework called INCEPT which suggests utilizing multiple text representation methods to detect duplicate text pairs - we demonstrate that it makes sense to combine text representation methods instead of relying on only one at a time. 🧵