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Viljami Vaarala

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Still not endorsing with likes Doctoral researcher University of Helsinki, Swedish School of Social Science Studying contests over journalism's authority and journalistic truth in the podcasting sphere #journalism #podcasts #truth

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Kotivideoista yhteiskunnallisen keskustelun areenaksi – videopalvelu YouTube täytti 20 vuotta Verkon kameleonttipalvelu YouTube täytti tällä viikolla 20 vuotta. Tänä aikana palvelusta on tullut yksi digitaalisen arjen infrastruktuurin kulmakivi, ja se on vaivihkaa ottanut enemmän tilaa myös…

Vaihtoehtoinen kaninkolo vai yhteiskunnallinen areena? Kaksikymppisten kunniaksi blogissa juttua YouTubesta. Kirjoittajina @sallamaaria.bsky.social @vvaarala.bsky.social ja Aleksi Knuutila. rajapinta.co/2025/04/25/k...

25.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Balancing Intimacy and Trust: Opportunities and Risks in Audio Journalism Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)

Do podcasts create real trust or just fake intimacy?

Our new open access issue explores how podcasts balance personal connection and journalistic standards, looking at opportunities and risks across different countries.

25.03.2025 10:32 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
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Meetup Mikä meetup? Järjestämme noin kuukausittain meetup-tapaamisia. Meetup voi olla tiettyyn aiheeseen keskittyvä workshop tai yleisempi kokoelma tutkimukseen liittyviä puheenvuoroja. Esitykset voivat k…

🥁 Up to date? – Meetup on Online Dating and Dating Apps 💘 How do online dating platforms influence dating culture, relationships, and social dynamics? Join us on Thu 27.3., at 14–16 in Helsinki or on Zoom. Speakers: Essi Holopainen, Juulia Heikkinen and Jukka Vahlo. Welcome!

11.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 3

Great experience to have had a PhD seminar at the @helsinki.fi Main Building and at the same time when president #Zelenskyi was having the hotline open to the Oval Office from another room. I bet we had better discussions on @eliskarell.bsky.social's paper on #AI, #bigtech and #sustainability!

19.03.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Me olemme valtamedia. Mutta emme tee journalismia. Oskari Onninen hankki viikon ajan uutisensa Youtubesta ja kotimaisista ajankohtaispodcasteista.

kirjoitin valtamediasta, josta valtamedia on vaiennut www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/s9onVa...

18.03.2025 12:30 — 👍 56    🔁 7    💬 7    📌 3
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Podcasting the Truth: Challenging Journalistic Knowledge and Building Epistemic Authority in Independent YouTube Podcasts | Article | Media and Communication Viljami Vaarala

Aiheeseen liittyvää suomalaista tutkimusta, jos kiinnostaa: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

18.03.2025 12:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today Jeff Bezos moved the Washington Post's opinion pages into a space where the Wall Street Journal operates. Arguments for other founding principles will not be welcome, he said. The head of the opinion section quit. Journalists on the news side warned of encroachment. The day is just beginning.

26.02.2025 17:23 — 👍 141    🔁 58    💬 12    📌 4

Orwellin siteeraamista harrastavat poliitikot eivät sano mitään nyt kun Oseania julistaa, ettei Euraasia enää ole vihollinen.

21.02.2025 03:45 — 👍 157    🔁 25    💬 7    📌 2
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…simple: they know they can’t control it. Experienced investigative journalists and editors-in-chief can’t usually be bought, which is why Trump has attacked “left-leaning” media since 2015. The goal is to remove its legitimacy but also decrease its influence.

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18.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 351    🔁 48    💬 3    📌 3
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania.

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18.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 1950    🔁 882    💬 65    📌 113

It’s ironic that the country that underfunded public service media for decades, because of unwarranted fears of a government funding and media nexus, ends up having one of the strongest state media platforms with a direct link between the white house and X.

18.02.2025 07:02 — 👍 78    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 3

Oon miettinyt journalismia ja sen tulevaisuutta. Irtisanomisuhka pistää kelailemaan asioita.

Tulevien viikkojen aikana Yleltä lähtee paljon journalisteja.

Minne? (1/X)

09.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 363    🔁 83    💬 9    📌 34

Remember our next meetup: Friday at 10 a.m. online!

03.02.2025 08:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Podcasting the Truth: Challenging Journalistic Knowledge and Building Epistemic Authority in Independent YouTube Podcasts | Article | Media and Communication Viljami Vaarala

Fresh from the (online) press!

The article argues that the YouTube podcasting sphere is highly US-influenced, and the unproportionate claims for truthful, authentic, and balanced accounts in contrast to legacy media signal a need for podcasting ethics

www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

06.02.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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