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Kaarina Nikunen

@kaarinan.bsky.social

Professor of Media and Communication Research Tampere University I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right. Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)

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Digital sårbarhet i den automatiserade välfärden Digital sårbarhet i den automatiserade välfärden - Ingen beskrivning.

Postdoc position for Digital Vulnerabilities in Södertörn university DL April 3.

The full job opening is available here
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19.03.2025 06:12 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

🎙️ Hear me ramble about work (& life) in this #10DaysOfConflictMemory interview series with John Coster, director of the Documentary Media Centre, Leicester!

☀️ Thanks @pauljreilly.bsky.social @katjalehtisaari.bsky.social @vsalojarvi.bsky.social @docmediacentre.bsky.social @kaarinan.bsky.social.

27.02.2025 07:32 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Tampere University and ELLIS Institute Finland: Call for Professors in AI research in computing, media and communications, and health | Tampere universi... Tampere University, together with ELLIS Institute Finland, is seeking several top researchers for tenure track positions in Artificial Intelligence research and its applications. The application de...

Come work with us! Call for professorship in the area of
AI in Media
DL March 9
www.tuni.fi/en/news/tamp...

07.02.2025 08:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Please join me; Yussuf Bashir (Haki na Sheria Institute); Laura Bingham (Temple University's Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology); and Nora Naji this Wed, Jan 15th at 2pm GMT as we discuss digital ID, humanitarian tech, & the profound identification challenges facing migrants/refugees.

13.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Open Cultural Studies Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different theoretical, geo...

CFP #openculturalstudies issue on Challenging nihilism: an exploration of culture and hope.
The aim of the issue of is to ask how to defy nihilism and speak of
hope in the current conjuncture.
DL April 30
Edited by Juan A. Tarancón.
degruyter.com/culture

02.01.2025 09:28 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Call for Postdoctoral Researcher in critical AI studies MIC Centre UPenn
www.asc.upenn.edu/research/cen...

18.12.2024 08:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lahjoita Lucia-keräkseen! Valoa!
www.folkhalsan.fi/fi/uutiset/2...

17.12.2024 17:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Geomedia 2025 International Conference

CFP/ GeoMedia Conference 2025
*Transforming Passions*

exploring passion’s significance in media, visual cultures and artistic practices, technologies, platforms, places, territories and other spatial formations.

Sep 17-19 Karlstad Sweden
Abstract DL April 14 2025
www.kau.se/transforming...

11.12.2024 11:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today I acted as an external examiner of Wegahtabrgan Sereke's PhD "We Are Like a Black Dot Dropped on a White Paper”: power, resistance and emotions in negotiations of inclusion/exclusion by forced migrants", University of Lugano. Important work on #emotions, #racism. Congratulations Wegahtabrhan!!

09.12.2024 20:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI is increasingly used in public service in the Nordic welfare state. Our research explores how this hampers #solidarity and social justice.
www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261...

27.11.2024 14:59 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

CFP/ ECREA Communication & Democracy Section Off-Year conference:
Automating Democracy:AI use between social justice and social control
Erasmus University Rotterdam, 22-23 May 2025
DeadlineJan 15
automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com

25.11.2024 17:22 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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