Niina Sormanen
niina.sormanen@utu.fi |
Journalistic media practices in the digital and social media age; information consumption and communicative activity of online audiences; news and media literacy
Investigating the spread of unreliable scientific information on social media and through journalistic media, and their effects on society from public health to environmental policy and technologies.
Currently (2024-2027), I conduct research in two projects (project leader Kim Holmberg): ‘Unreliable science: Unraveling the impact of mainstream media misrepresentation (2024-2026)’ http://kimholmberg.fi/projects/unreliable-science-unraveling-the-impact-of-mainstream-media-misrepresentation/(external) and ‘Societal impact of unreliable scientific information: the influence of retracted scientific articles on public perceptions, attitudes, and evidence-informed decision-making (2024-2028)’ http://kimholmberg.fi/projects/societal-impact-of-unreliable-scientific-information-the-influence-of-retracted-scientific-articles-on-public-perceptions-attitudes-and-evidence-informed-decision-making-2024-2028/(external)
- Fostering Media Literacy: A Systematic Evidence Review of Intervention Effectiveness for Diverse Target Groups (2025)
- Media and Communication
- Multiliteracies in the Making – Multidisciplinary Conceptualization (2025)
- The Journal of Literacy and Technology
- Young consumers’ brand distrust model: Understanding the antecedents of young consumers’ distrust of brands (2025)
- Journal of Business Research
- Strategies of Eliciting Young People’s Affective and Quick Participation in a Youth Magazine’s Instagram Community (2023)
- Journalism Practice
- News consumption repertoires among Finnish adolescents: Moderate digital traditionalists, minimalist social media stumblers, and frequent omnivores (2022)
- Nordicom Review
- Business and News Media Perspectives on the Power of Social Media Publics: Case Finland (2018) Sormanen, Niina
- Social network site communities as agents and spaces of pursuing influence in society: forms, stages and attributes of building communicative power (2018) Sormanen, Niina
- Facebook’s ad hoc groups: a potential source of communicative power of networked citizens (2017)
- Communication & Society
- Chances and Challenges of Computational Data Gathering and Analysis: The case of issue-attention cycles on Facebook (2016)
- Digital Journalism
- Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics (2016)
- Media and Communication
- Successes and Failures in Studying Social Media: Issues of Methods and Ethics (2016)
- Media and Communication
- The Role of Social Media in Societal Change: Cases in Finland of Fifth Estate Activity on Facebook (2015)
- Social Media + Society
- The Other Stance: Conflicting Professional Self-Images and Perceptions of the Other Profession Among Finnish PR Professionals and Journalists (2014)
- Nordicom Review
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