Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
@sallamaaria.bsky.social
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Docent, Senior Researcher (tenured) at Uni Helsinki, working on Communication, Organizations & Technology. Using qualitative, mixed, digital and computational methods to understand how digital platforms change our society. 💚 SciComm. Previously @jahapaula
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socialmedialab.ca
Q: Can soft moderation techniques (such as footnotes and blur screens) decrease engagement with misinformation on social media?

A: Yes, yes, they can.
socialmedialab.ca/2024/09/11/n...
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tomassjoblom.bsky.social
Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä.

Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
sallamaaria.bsky.social
Alice in Wonderland vibes in the lobby of Copenhagen Business School Dalgas Have! Happy to spend five weeks of my autumn here on a research visit. Looking forward to seeing old and new colleagues and friends, pushing some ideas further, and getting some writing done too!
A building lobby, white shades, black-and-white tiled floor, a fountain in the middle, and an abstract greenish painting in the background.
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😅 Europe is a small continent? 🤔 I won't be on Brazil though, unfortunately!
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fransmayra.bsky.social
If you have stuff in Academia.edu, it might be good to reconsider?
Snippet from Academia.edu's terms.
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Ohh! I'm in Copenhagen and this entire event popped up in my feeds only today! I hope it was a blast, but with these speakers I couldn't expect anything else 🤩
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ethanplaut.bsky.social
Metrics-based perverse incentives are corrosive to scholarship as much as education — it’s a scourge across university systems

“The problem with gamification is that, over time, it can transform our values and the very nature of the activity such that we begin to lose sight of what really matters…”
sallamaaria.bsky.social
This research was made possible by three research initiatives: the MAPS project (Research Council of Finland), UnCoCo (Helsingin Sanomat Foundation), and our HSSH Institute-funded ERBIT-network, which provided the data. 🙏

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sallamaaria.bsky.social
Instead of reacting with minimal and insufficient adjustments to existing policies, as discussed in previous studies, platforms are also capable of leveraging shocks as preemptive opportunistic governance mechanisms to reinforce their prominent infrastructural and institutional position.

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The platforms mobilized the pandemic as an opportunity to showcase their editorial capabilities and to position themselves as protectors of public conversation and central actors who uphold healthy online spaces, and ultimately, society.

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Why reluctant? Because it's more image-building than concern about our information environment. Platforms’ conceptualization of health misinformation is intertwined with strategic goals to legitimate their existing content-moderation arrangements & to secure leeway as legitimate social actors.

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The study mobilizes discursive legitimation theory to investigate how US-based major platform companies presented and justified their actions related to countering false and misleading health information during COVID-19 in their corporate blog posts.

doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Hot off the press! 🌻 Our article "Reluctant arbiters of truth: Discursive legitimation of platform interventions against COVID-19 misinformation" was just published in New Media & Society. Co-authored w/ the amazing @tuohmas.bsky.social and @mattipohjonen.bsky.social

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Oikein! Tavallaan olen ajatellut että opettajan vastuulla on arvioida toteutuuko oppimistavoitteet, joten ei kai tässä muuta kuin menetelmät uusiksi niin että voidaan se varmistaa. Massaluennoilla isompi haaste.
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Voi alma mater, mitä te oikein teette? 😭 Hieno iso kirjakauppa yliopiston kirjaston alla on ollut aivan erinomainen sivistystä tuleva konsepti.

Helsingin yliopisto | Suomen valikoimaltaan suurimman kirjakaupan Rosebud Sivullisen tilalle tulee Rusta
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Helsingin yliopisto | Suomen valikoimaltaan suurimman kirjakaupan Rosebud Sivullisen tilalle tulee Rusta
Rosebud Sivullinen -kirjakaupan lisäksi myös huonekaluliike Masku muuttaa pois yliopiston tiloista.
www.hs.fi
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Would today be a good day to start using more private messenger apps that do not track you? Just a few clicks away.

Periodical reminder.
evangreer.bsky.social
Use Signal to talk about protests
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