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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen

@sallamaaria.bsky.social

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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 .. more

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Antti Jauhiainen @anttiveikko.bsky.social · 2d

Saksan fysiikan ja meteorologian seurat varoittavat kolmen asteen lämpenemisestä jo vuoteen 2050 mennessä. Se merkitsisi miljardeja kuolemia ja katastrofaalisia muutoksia elämän edellytyksiin. Kannattaa lukea poikkeuksellisen yhteisjulkilausuman selkeä koonti arvioitujen seurausten vakavuudesta.

Global Warming At 3 °C By 2050? What's Behind The New German Climate Warning

German scientists warn global warming is accelerating faster than expected, raising the risk of a 3 °C rise by 2050 and forcing Europe to confront unthinkable adaptation plans. German scientists warn ...

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Erkki Mervaala ^◇^ @mervaala.bsky.social · 2d

Hirveän kiinnostavaa #tutkimus julkaisseet Mervi Pantti, @sallamaaria.bsky.social & @eliskarell.bsky.social !

Keskiössä teknojättien kestävyystavoitteet, #ilmasto puhe ja "-johtajuus". Ja eipä #tekoäly jää sekään mainitsematta. Ja niistä omista päästöistähän sitten ei puhuta ☝️

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 2d

Also noting that we have edited a book that deals with the same topic, currently in press and it should be out early next year!

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Mervi & Elis, for the collaboration, and also Iida Lähdekorpi for the invaluable help in the data collection! This research was funded by @researchcouncilfinland Research Council of Finland, @koneensaatio.fi and Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities HSSH (ERBIT). (5/5)

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 2d

At the same time, they mostly remain silent about their own environmental footprint and increasing emissions, particularly in the rise now driven by AI investments. Considering the current state of environmental politics in the US I doubt we will even get these discourses in the future. (4/x)

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 2d

💡 Using a combination of computer-assisted text mining and qualitative text analysis of corporate blogs, we show how the platform companies adopt the topic of environmental sustainability to depict themselves as ‘climate leaders’, moving from greening themselves to greening the planet.

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 2d

🌎 This paper dives into the topical question of big tech and environmental sustainability by studying how the platform companies’ public communication on the climate crisis and their discursive legitimation strategies have developed over 20 years. (2/x)

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 2d

📚 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)

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Tomas Sjöblom @tomassjoblom.bsky.social · 15d

Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä.

Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16d

Q: Can soft moderation techniques (such as footnotes and blur screens) decrease engagement with misinformation on social media?

A: Yes, yes, they can.
socialmedialab.ca/2024/09/11/n...

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 22d

Velkoja on erilaisia. Olemme velkaa myös luonnolle, ja takaisinmaksu alkaa muuttua mahdottomaksi.

www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Lukijan mielipide | Ilmastokriisi ja luontokato perustelevat velka-armahduksen

Velat on jätetty maksamatta yllättävän usein.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 23d

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!

A building lobby, white shades, black-and-white tiled floor, a fountain in the middle, and an abstract greenish painting in the background.

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 23d

Minkälainen olisi ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja? Tätä selvittivät @jhaapj.bsky.social ja kollegat tuoreessa artikkelissaan. Tuloksissa korostuvat muun muassa pätevyys ja vastuullisuus. @rajapinta.co blogissa:

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Millainen on ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja?

Sosiaalisen median poliittisilla keskusteluilla on huono maine. Tuoreen artikkelimme mukaan ihanteellista verkkokeskustelun osallistujaa määrittää pätevyys, vastuullisuus ja vilpittömyys, sekä sito…

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 25d

😅 Europe is a small continent? 🤔 I won't be on Brazil though, unfortunately!

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · 25d

Ohh! I'm in Copenhagen and this entire event popped up in my feeds only today! I hope it was a blast, but with these speakers I couldn't expect anything else 🤩

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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 25d

Suomi on romahtanut tieteen vapautta mittaavassa tutkimuksessa.

Suuri syy siihen on pyrkimys vaatia tieteeltä nopeaa hyötyä.
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Pääkirjoitus | Tieteen vapaus on uhattuna myös Suomessa

Suomi on romahtanut tieteen vapautta mittaavassa tutkimuksessa. Suuri syy siihen on pyrkimys vaatia tieteeltä nopeaa hyötyä.

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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 25d

If you have stuff in Academia.edu, it might be good to reconsider?

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

Recapping my feeds after the summer, but I think this piece deserves another round. This is a cool methodological proposal to use network analysis bit differently!

Axel Bruns @snurb.info · Apr 25

💡 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 💡

My article with @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kkasianenko.bsky.social, @vishneww.bsky.social, @essideh.com, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social is now out in Social Media + Society.

We introduce a new analytics method: #PracticeMapping.

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Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks - Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vod...

This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping, using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjun...

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

This research was made possible by three research initiatives: the MAPS project (Research Council of Finland), UnCoCo (Helsingin Sanomat Foundation), and our HSSH Institute-funded ERBIT-network, which provided the data. 🙏

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

Instead of reacting with minimal and insufficient adjustments to existing policies, as discussed in previous studies, platforms are also capable of leveraging shocks as preemptive opportunistic governance mechanisms to reinforce their prominent infrastructural and institutional position.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

The platforms mobilized the pandemic as an opportunity to showcase their editorial capabilities and to position themselves as protectors of public conversation and central actors who uphold healthy online spaces, and ultimately, society.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why reluctant? Because it's more image-building than concern about our information environment. Platforms’ conceptualization of health misinformation is intertwined with strategic goals to legitimate their existing content-moderation arrangements & to secure leeway as legitimate social actors.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

The study mobilizes discursive legitimation theory to investigate how US-based major platform companies presented and justified their actions related to countering false and misleading health information during COVID-19 in their corporate blog posts.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · Sep 3

Metrics-based perverse incentives are corrosive to scholarship as much as education — it’s a scourge across university systems

“The problem with gamification is that, over time, it can transform our values and the very nature of the activity such that we begin to lose sight of what really matters…”

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oikein! Tavallaan olen ajatellut että opettajan vastuulla on arvioida toteutuuko oppimistavoitteet, joten ei kai tässä muuta kuin menetelmät uusiksi niin että voidaan se varmistaa. Massaluennoilla isompi haaste.

Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Aug 27

Back to the roots.

"Talking, listening and reading have been part of academic culture since the beginning"

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Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new PhD in the making! My dear friend @viljamaria.bsky.social is defending her thesis today at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social, looking at how adopting social media technologies shapes care and empathy in elderly care.

(A stream available too, at noon)

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Dissertation: Social Media Shapes Care and builds Empathy Through Communication (Levonius)

Vilja Levonius’s doctoral dissertation examines how the use of social media as a professional tool in old age services transforms care and its practices, and how it builds empathy by communicative means.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Aug 14

Voi alma mater, mitä te oikein teette? 😭 Hieno iso kirjakauppa yliopiston kirjaston alla on ollut aivan erinomainen sivistystä tuleva konsepti.

Helsingin yliopisto | Suomen valikoimaltaan suurimman kirjakaupan Rosebud Sivullisen tilalle tulee Rusta
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Helsingin yliopisto | Suomen valikoimaltaan suurimman kirjakaupan Rosebud Sivullisen tilalle tulee Rusta

Rosebud Sivullinen -kirjakaupan lisäksi myös huonekaluliike Masku muuttaa pois yliopiston tiloista.

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.bsky.social · Aug 6

Would today be a good day to start using more private messenger apps that do not track you? Just a few clicks away.

Periodical reminder.

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Jan 21

Use Signal to talk about protests
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather

Use Signal

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