Aki Koivula
akjeko@utu.fi +358 29 450 3073 +358 50 436 7381 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku : 456 |
Political trust, Political attitudes, Political Participation, Political Parties, Digital interaction and participation; Social networks; Social Trust; Media consumption; Longitudinal and Experimental Survey methodology
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I am a docent in Economic Sociology at the University of Turku and a docent in Political Science at the Tampere University.
I am currently working as a Senior Researcher at the INVEST Flagship, where I lead a research group focused on implementing the INVEST Longitudinal Survey on Well-Being.
From 2020 to 2023, I led the KRIME research group, which examined the social impacts of the pandemic. I am also actively involved in several domestic and international research networks. I currently serve as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Finnish Journal of Social Research.
Before joining INVEST, I served several years in different teaching positions, being also as head of the Economic Sociology Unit for two years.
My research focuses on citizens' well-being and their engagement with state institutions within the context of societal change. In particular, I have studied the drivers and consequences of political trust, as well as the impact of digital technology on human behaviour and interaction. I have published extensively in leading academic journals, including the European Political Science Review, Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, and New Media & Society.
- INWS0014 Social Inequality
- The Role of Collaboration in Complying with COVID-19 Health Protective Behaviors: A Cross-National Study. (2022)
- Administration and Society
- The voice of distrust? The relationship between political trust, online political participation and voting (2022)
- Journal of Trust Research
- Undercurrents of echo chambers and flame wars: party political correlates of social media behavior (2022)
- Journal of Information Technology and Politics
- Vastavuoroisuuden jälkeen – Bitcoin-kryptovaluutta ja virtuaalinen luottamusnormi markkinoilla (2022)
- Poliittinen talous
- When trust is not enough. A longitudinal analysis of political trust and political competence during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland (2022)
- European Political Science Review
- Attitudes Toward Robots as Equipment and Coworkers and the Impact of Robot Autonomy Level (2021)
- International journal of social robotics
- Cybercrime victimization and problematic social media use: Findings from a nationally representative panel study. (2021)
- American Journal of Criminal Justice
- Digiajan ensimmäinen pandemia: havaintoja ja tulkintoja Covid-19-kriisistä väestötason seuranta-aineiston perusteella. (2021) Koivula Aki, Räsänen Pekka, Salminen Niklas, Marttila Eetu, Koiranen Ilkka
- Does excessive social media use decrease subjective well-being? A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between problematic use, loneliness and life satisfaction (2021)
- Telematics and Informatics
- Occupation-congruent appearance: a measuremental approach (2021) Sarpila Outi, Koivula Aki, Kukkonen Iida
- Online dating applications and risk of youth victimization: A lifestyle exposure perspective (2021)
- Aggressive Behavior
- Perceived robot attitudes of other people and perceived robot use self-efficacy as determinants of attitudes toward robots (2021)
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Silver Spoon and Green Lifestyle: A National Study of the Association between Childhood Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Adulthood Pro-Environmental Behavior in China (2021)
- Sustainability
- Social Ecological Model of Problem Gambling: A Cross-National Survey Study of Young People in the United States, South Korea, Spain, and Finland (2021)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- The Ouroboros of Seeking Validation? Exploring the Interconnection of Appearance (Dis)satisfaction and Content Creation on Social Media (2021) Appearance as Capital Åberg Erica, Koivula Aki
- Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tutkimus ja metodologia Suomessa. Katsaus kotimaisten aikakauslehtien artikkeleihin 1990-2018 (2021)
- Tiedepolitiikka
- A feminine burden of perfection? Appearance-related pressures on social networking sites (2020)
- Telematics and Informatics
- Compliment Rules or Compliments Rule? A Population-Level Study of Appearance Commenting Norms on Social Media (2020)
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Double standards in the accumulation and utilisation of ‘aesthetic capital’ (2020)
- Poetics
- How do Digital Divides Determine Social Media Users’ Aspirations to Influence Others? (2020) SMSociety'20: International Conference on Social Media and Society Malinen Sanna, Koivula Aki, Koiranen Ilkka



