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View article: From Irony to Solidarity: Affective Practice and Social Media Activism
From Irony to Solidarity: Affective Practice and Social Media Activism Open
This article discusses affective practice in context of social media activism. Drawing on work by Margaret Wetherell the article explores particular sensibility of political discourse and action, enhanced by the social media environment. T…
View article: Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms Open
In the everyday context, the term “hate speech” has become increasingly politicized and emotionally charged, yet these vernacular constructions of hate speech remain under-explored. Used as both a rhetorical weapon and an object of genuine…
View article: PLATFORMIZATION OF THE INDUSTRY OF HUMAN SMUGGLING
PLATFORMIZATION OF THE INDUSTRY OF HUMAN SMUGGLING Open
Due to hardened border practices in EU, migrants and asylum seekers seeking refuge in Europe have to rely on various smuggling services shared on social media platforms and entrepreneurs who advertise services online. Our paper explores th…
View article: How Datafication Affects the Welfare State and Social Solidarity
How Datafication Affects the Welfare State and Social Solidarity Open
This commentary discusses the main implications of the datafication of welfare services, particularly from the perspective of Finland, on the basis of research conducted in the past five years in the field of public service media, welfare …
View article: 15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life
15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life Open
This chapter explores how datafication shapes the bordering practices and lives of undocumented migrants.Datafication involves a temporal shift towards anticipation that focuses on predicting, profiling and preempting different forms of mi…
View article: Intimate Infrastructures We Depend upon
Intimate Infrastructures We Depend upon Open
This essay takes on Lauren Berlant’s mapping of intimacy as ‘connections that impact on people, and on which they depend for living’ in order to address attachments, dependencies, and vulnerabilities in datafied contexts where digital plat…
View article: Datakapitalismin uhka ja lumo
Datakapitalismin uhka ja lumo Open
Timo Harakka. 2022. Datakapitalismi kriisien maailmassa. Helsinki: Siltala. 168 s.
View article: Kriittisen diskurssintutkimuksen ja positiivisen diskurssianalyysin dialogia
Kriittisen diskurssintutkimuksen ja positiivisen diskurssianalyysin dialogia Open
Arvio teoksesta Irina Herneaho: Oikeus elää. Intertekstuaalisuus turvapaikanhakijoiden oikeuksia ajavassa kansalaisaktivismissa. Helsingin yliopisto 2022. 292 s. isbn 978-951-51-8576-1. Saatavilla verkossa osoitteessa http://urn.fi/URN:ISB…
View article: Anticipation as Platform Power: The Temporal Structuring of Digital Everyday Life
Anticipation as Platform Power: The Temporal Structuring of Digital Everyday Life Open
This article explores anticipation as a temporal structure in digital platforms. It contributes to the growing research of platformisation of everyday life by focusing on temporality as a central dimension of platform power, a key mechanis…
View article: Intimate Infrastructures We Depend upon: Living with Data
Intimate Infrastructures We Depend upon: Living with Data Open
This essay takes on Lauren Berlant’s mapping of intimacy as ‘connections that impact on people, and on which they depend for living’ in order to address attachments, dependencies, and vulnerabilities in datafied contexts where digital plat…
View article: Verkkoviha väkivaltana – vihapuhetutkijoiden näkökulmia
Verkkoviha väkivaltana – vihapuhetutkijoiden näkökulmia Open
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View article: Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography
Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography Open
The article explores the digital everyday life of recently or currently undocumented migrants in times of Covid-19 in Finland. It is based on an empirical case study on a collaborative photographic exhibition and workshop including visual …
View article: Affective Visual Rhetoric and Discursive Practices of the Far-Right Across Social Media
Affective Visual Rhetoric and Discursive Practices of the Far-Right Across Social Media Open
View article: Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication
Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication Open
Digital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digital…
View article: Ghosts of white methods? The challenges of Big Data research in exploring racism in digital context
Ghosts of white methods? The challenges of Big Data research in exploring racism in digital context Open
The paper explores the potential and limitations of big data for researching racism on social media. Informed by critical data studies and critical race studies, the paper discusses challenges of doing big data research and the problems of…
View article: Affective Practice of Soldiering: How Sharing Images Is Used to Spread Extremist and Racist Ethos on Soldiers of Odin Facebook Site
Affective Practice of Soldiering: How Sharing Images Is Used to Spread Extremist and Racist Ethos on Soldiers of Odin Facebook Site Open
The paper explores how visual affective practice is used to spread and bolster a nationalist, extremist and racist ethos on the public Facebook page of the anti-immigrant group, Soldiers of Odin. Affective practice refers to a particular s…
View article: Subjektin katoamisen uhkakuvat
Subjektin katoamisen uhkakuvat Open
Arvio teoksesta: Andrejevic, Mark. 2020. Automated Media. New York & London: Routledge, 172 s
View article: Refugee debate and networked framing in the hybrid media environment
Refugee debate and networked framing in the hybrid media environment Open
In this article, we analyse how the debate on the ‘refugee crisis’ has been constructed in Finnish news media and social media by using big data analytics. The study applies big data with the aim of exploring the dynamics between the mains…
View article: Introduction: Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe
Introduction: Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe Open
This special issue explores spaces where identifications with the African diaspora become articulated, (re)negotiated and, as demonstrated by many articles in this issue, established as a field of the collective agency with transformative …
View article: The humanitarian makeover
The humanitarian makeover Open
We examine how the makeover paradigm is mobilized in contemporary humanitarian communications—a practice we call “humanitarian makeover.” We demonstrate its operation in the Finnish television programme Arman and the Children of Cameroon a…