Marja Rautajoki
Doctoral Researcher, MA, BBA
marja.i.rautajoki@utu.fi +358 29 450 4042 +358 50 412 4451 Office: TSE, 4th floor, room 4.28 |
coordination; project coordination; working life research; working life education; working life research seminars; WORK conferences; linguistics; discourses; discourse research; content analysis; text analysis; German language; platform economy; platform work
I work as a coordinator at TCLS Turku Centre for Labour Studies. My responsibilities include coordinating educational, research and societal interaction matters. I am also in charge of all general administrative and communiucational tasks of the unit. I also take part in coordinating, planning and teaching in Multidisciplinary Studies in Work, Working life and HR Research (TYHE).
I am doing my doctoral studies in doctoral programme of language and translation studies Utuling in the department of German.
In my doctoral thesis, I study the discussion on platform work, its status and the meanings it receives from the perspective of different actors and influencers in the EU's economic and cultural area. As data I use online newspaper article, interviews, publications of International Labour Organization ILO and websites and other public profiles of platforms that intermediate work.
The goal of my dissertation is to compile a multi-voiced image of platform work and discussion on it.
I am a person in charge in the following TYHE-courses:
- TYHE0 Orientation to TYHE-studies, 1 ECTS
- TYHE1 Work in a Digital World, 3 ECTS
- TYHE3 Introduction to Issues of Working Life, 3 ECTS
- TYHE5 Current Themes in Working Life Studies, 1-3 ECTS
- TYHE13 From Factories to Algorithms, 3 ECTS
- Contrasting discourses: Digital precariat or flexible entrepreneurship? A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of platform work in German and Finnish business newspapers (2024) Tutkimuksellisia siltoja rakentamassa Rautajoki, Marja
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Multivoiced Nature of Platform Work - Writings and Discussion on the current Phenomenon of Working Life in Europe (conference abstract) (2021) WORK2021: Work beyond crisis. Abstract book - WORK II Rautajoki Marja
(Other publication) - Työelämän ja henkilöstöasioiden TYHE-opintokokonaisuus Turun yliopistossa (2020)
- Työelämän Tutkimus
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - „Die Plattformökonomie ändert alles“ : Diskursanalyse über die Plattformökonomie in vier deutschen Online-Zeitungen 2017-2018 (2018) Rautajoki Marja
(G2 Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis)