Niina Sormanen
niina.sormanen@utu.fi ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2336-9655 |
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 scientific mis- and disinformation 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/ 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/
- Fostering Media Literacy: A Systematic Evidence Review of Intervention Effectiveness for Diverse Target Groups (2025)
- Media and Communication
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Multiliteracies in the Making – Multidisciplinary Conceptualization (2025)
- The Journal of Literacy and Technology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Young consumers’ brand distrust model: Understanding the antecedents of young consumers’ distrust of brands (2025)
- Journal of Business Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Strategies of Eliciting Young People’s Affective and Quick Participation in a Youth Magazine’s Instagram Community (2023)
- Journalism Practice
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - News consumption repertoires among Finnish adolescents: Moderate digital traditionalists, minimalist social media stumblers, and frequent omnivores (2022)
- Nordicom Review
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Business and News Media Perspectives on the Power of Social Media Publics: Case Finland (2018) Sormanen, Niina
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Social network site communities as agents and spaces of pursuing influence in society: forms, stages and attributes of building communicative power (2018) Sormanen, Niina
(G5 Artikkeliväitöskirja) - Facebook’s ad hoc groups: a potential source of communicative power of networked citizens (2017)
- Communication & Society
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Chances and Challenges of Computational Data Gathering and Analysis: The case of issue-attention cycles on Facebook (2016)
- Digital Journalism
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics (2016)
- Media and Communication
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Successes and Failures in Studying Social Media: Issues of Methods and Ethics (2016)
- Media and Communication
(C2 Toimitustyö tieteellisen lehden erikoisnumerolle) - The Role of Social Media in Societal Change: Cases in Finland of Fifth Estate Activity on Facebook (2015)
- Social Media + Society
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - The Other Stance: Conflicting Professional Self-Images and Perceptions of the Other Profession Among Finnish PR Professionals and Journalists (2014)
- Nordicom Review
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )