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Huumeet | Peukkupaniikin ei pitäisi olla Suomelle yllätys: “Niin makaa kuin petaa”

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · 9d

Hyvä ja perinpohjainen juttu huumeongelman taustoista. Jaan jutussa haastateltujen tutkijoiden turhautumisen: keinot purkaa ongelmaa ovat olleet tiedossa vuosikymmeniä mutta päätöksenteko ei ole pohjautunut tietoon. Hölmöläistarina, todella traaginen ja tappava sellainen.

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Samalla, kun Suomen huumeongelma paheni, hoidon määrä romahti. Asiantuntijoiden varoituksia ei kuunneltu. HS:n tapaama Outi kertoo polttaneensa peukkua joka päivä viimeisen kolmen vuoden ajan.

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · 10d

Talkoot on ohi. Sote-järjestöiltä lähtee väkeä ja rahaa. Mikä niiden tehtäväksi jää?

Järjestöjen kriisissä risteää useampi iso muutos, eikä paluuta vanhaan ole.

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · 14d

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Sep 6

Congrats Ann Mische and Tomas Gold - and thankyou for this super interesting and important work!
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Mische and Gold Win Top ASA Honors for Paper | Kellogg Institute For International Studies

Keough School faculty member and Kellogg faculty fellow Ann Mische (sociology and peace studies) and former Kellogg PhD Fellow Tomás Gold were recognized with three honors from the American Sociologic...

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kiitos Niklas Bruun että edes joltain taholta löytyi vihdoin selkärankaa sanoa että yliopisto teki ison virheen. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

HS-haastattelu | Helsingin yliopiston hallitus on pahoillaan Rosebud-kiistasta

Niklas Bruun myöntää HS:lle antamassaan harvinaisessa haastattelussa, että yliopisto epäonnistui tavassa, jolla se hoiti Rosebud Sivullisen irtisanomisen.

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Jul 12

Lukijan mielipide | Yhteiskuntatiede ei toimi norsunluutornista käsin

Kansalaiskeskustelu tieteestä on tervetullutta, mutta sen hedelmällisyyttä lisäisi, jos keskustelijat suhtautuisivat aiheisiin tuomitsemisen sijaan uteliaasti ja kanssakeskustelijoihin kunnioittavasti...

MIT's ChatGPT Study Was Designed to Trick You… And It Worked

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Jun 30

Pretty cool!
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Before you panic about brain scans, let's talk about what the paper actually did, and why most people completely missed it. When MIT Media Lab released its new study on ChatGPT and cognitive function,...

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Mar 18

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How to fight the Trump regime’s use of fear and intimidation

Three rules for responding to his tyranny

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Fame democracy? Social media and visuality-based transformation of the public sphere

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · Nov 26

Contra the presumption of a rational public sphere, Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social and Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social show that fame matters for how value is publicly assigned
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We argue that a shift in the underlying values that inform people’s actions in the public sphere is taking place in the social media age. From ways of qualifying the public sphere as a space that p...

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 25

/3 A special publication to me: this is work I began in my MA thesis back in the early 2000s, so it marks an almost 25th anniversary of my own working with Frame Analysis ❤️

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 25

/2 This is an attempt to bring to sociological analyses of the visual tools to address both the powerful meanings of singular images and the impact of the mass of images we encounter.

This article presents a project of methodologically applying and conceptually adjusting Goffman's frame analysis to studying visual social life: what is going on, and how, in the abundance of visual ...

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 25

/1 In Visual Frame Analysis, I present a long-term project of methodologically applying and conceptually adjusting Goffman's frame analysis to studying visual social life: what is going on, and how, in the abundance of visual scenes that we increasingly navigate in our everyday lives.

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 25

I’m so happy and honored to be part of the special issue celebrating the 50 years anniversary of the publishing of Goffman’s Frame Analysis
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Visual Frame Analysis

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/13 Doing society approach enables such analyses while not compromising with the sensitivity of cultural sociology in addressing situations and interaction.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

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-Techno-rationalist problem solving
-Finding a place for the individual within society
-Individualist problem-solving by using the collective as an instrument.
The book concludes that these form new dynamics of individualism and collectivism, transforming Finnish political culture.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

11/ Understanding of political culture as habitualizations of sets of meanings and styles of action, actions reaching towards the common form patterns that we call cultures of doing society.
Empirically, we found three among the Finnish young engaging in politics:

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/10 These actions may be less “political” or more - but they are nonetheless about something common. This way, the scale of action we grasp analytically is wide, providing grounds to see elements of change in (political) cultures. In this vein, society is what the common in the making looks like.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/9 We found countless examples of actors positioning themselves in regard to a common - engaging to coordinate a shared situation, formatting a relation to others to render it recognizable, or mobilizing a convention, or a repertoire, to further a stance.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/8 Empirically, we followed youth council work, contested along with climate activists, interviewed young politicians, hung out with marginalized youth, and trained a neural network to analyze 800 000 messages from Ylilauta, the Finnish 4-chan.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/7 We operationalized it to analyze how young people imagine, engage, and act to build the common. Doing society grasps citizen participation ranging from structured to loosely organized, blatantly political to topmost proto-political, “active” and visible to “passive”, withdrawn, and invisible.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/6 We coined the concept of doing society: the diverse action that aims at building common ground by anyone engaging with others in ways that are political, or may become political. It includes the pragmatist idea of situated action on a map of different modes of engagement.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/5 To avoid getting trapped in a sub-field silo, and equally, to avoid predefining action as civic and political, or not, we built a conceptual frame to analyze where democracies happen and how, now, from situation to situation.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/4 - from the democratic practices in participatory democracy projects to social movement activists, from marginalized citizens’ groups to party political settings and far-right online warriors, to present but a glimpse of the empirical reality revolving around these questions.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/3 To address democratic participation with the aim of understanding the general direction democratic societies may be taking, and finding responses to the big pragmatist question of a common world constantly in the making, a plethora of activities and fields would have to be covered.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

/2 We started out with an observation that sociological understanding of change is often anchored into studying particular contexts or fields.

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

How do people live together - find bits and forms of common ground, engage in joint action, imagine a future - in a world of differences that cannot be overcome? This enormous question motivated a study we have now finalized into book form.

Youth Participation and Democracy

Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Nov 11

We have a book out! Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society by #BristolUPress
builds new conceptual ground to address participation and politics from actors’ definitions, and as engagements in the common.
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Youth Participation and Democracy - Cultures of Doing Society; This book introduces the concept of 'doing society' by exploring how Finnish youth engage in political action beyond traditional forms. C...

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Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social · Oct 18

Centre for Sociology of Democracy podcast is out! Food for thought on mundane spaces of democracy, civil society, contrmporary public conflicts. Partly in Finnish, partly in English, also on Spotify etc.
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Demokratian paikat -podcast - CSD

Demokratian paikat -podcast Demokratian paikat on sarja, jossa puhutaan demokratiasta arkisissa ympäristöissä. Jokainen meistä elää erilaisissa demokratian tiloissa, joita löytyy niin sosiaalisesta me...

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