Trolling can be identified by paying attention to how trolls violate common conversational norms, suggests Henna Paakki in her doctoral thesis “Asymmetric Conversational Strategies – Methods for Detecting Manipulative Online Trolling”, examined at Aalto University on November 29, 2024. This post is the lectio praecursoria presented at the public examination.
Sosiaalinen media näkyi vastikään käydyissä presidentinvaaleissa kolmella tavalla; sen asema kampanjaviestinnässä vakiintui ammattimaisen viestinnän myötä, ehdokkaiden henkilökohtaiset sisällöt näkyivät strategisina valintoina ja somekeskustelut elivät omaa elämäänsä irrallaan kampanjan ilmapiiristä.
Can research produced in one part of the world sufficiently explain what happens in another part of the world? Can we even talk about (digital) media theory without first trying to situate it somewhere – geographically, culturally and historically? This blog post discusses these fundamental questions in the context of researching the COVID-19 “infodemic” in Africa.
Master of Social Sciences Anna Rantasila’s doctoral dissertation Circulating Emotions, Sticky feelings. Affective dynamics of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in a hybrid media environment was publicly examined at Tampere University Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences on December 4, 2020. This post is the lectio praecursoria.
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