Tutkimuskeskus Taru

01/10/2026

🔎 On Facebook and Twitter, during the campaigning periods of the Finnish parliamentary elections of 2019 and 2023, politicians’ campaigning remained fairly nonnegative, while comments and replies experienced an increase in hostility and negativity. This was especially prevalent on Twitter, which became a largely negative platform.

Esko Nieminen's latest article examines changes in sentiment polarity on those two social media platforms.

🔓 Open access.

Democracy is often shadowed by negativity and division rather than by the deliberative exchange of different ideas. Functioning democratic systems are built on interaction, and increasing sentiment polarity and a shift toward negativity on social media present a threat to such discussions. This stud...

01/10/2026

Tiedotusopin dosentti Heikki Hellman muistuttaa, että disinformaation aikana STT on taannut sekä medialle että yleisölle yhteisen uutispohjan, jonka pohjalle käsitys yhteiskunnasta on voinut rakentua.

– Sillä on tiedollisen huoltovarmuuden kannalta ollut tärkeä merkitys, Hellman sanoo.

Tampereen yliopiston dosentti Heikki Hellmanin mukaan STT on tärkeä myös huoltovarmuuden kannalta.

30/09/2026

🔎 Soma Basu's research focuses on how memory, trauma and violence are experienced through everyday sensory environments, where touch, sound and proximity shape how people inhabit space after violence.

Soma Basu is a doctoral researcher studying violence, rumours and memories in India. The article Entagled Skinscapes is part of her forthcoming PhD dissertation.

🔓 Open access.

Abstract This sensory ethnography examines experiences of the February 2020 anti-Muslim violence in Delhi through the concept of ‘entangled skinscapes’, which are layered surfaces where bodies, domestic spaces, and digital screens converge. It explores how violence is not only lived but also med...

29/09/2026

Pelikulttuurin tutkimuksen dosentti Mikko Meriläinen vastaa Ilta-Sanomien kysymykseen GTA VI -pelin julkaisupäivän lähestyessä: Pitääkö vanhemman sanoa alaikäiselle nuorelle ehdottomasti ei?

Asiantuntija kertoo, mitä vanhemman kannattaa selvittää ennen kuin GTA VI:stä tehdään päätöksiä kotona.

29/09/2026

🆕 Helsingin Sanomain Säätiön myöntämän tutkimusrahoituksen avulla pääsemme jatkamaan eduskuntavaalien aikaiseen someviestintään liittyvää tutkimusta sekä tekemään tutkimusta kuvittelun politiikasta tekoälyn aikakaudella: Millaiset rakenteelliset, taloudelliset, poliittiset ja kulttuuriset tekijät siihen vaikuttavat?

👉 Polarisaatiosta mobilisaatioon – Sosiaalisen median vaaliviestinnän kehitys Suomen eduskuntavaaleissa -tutkimusta johtaa professori Pekka Isotalus.

👉 Kuvittelun politiikka tekoälyn aikakaudella -tutkimusta johtaa professori Kaarina Nikunen.

Kolme Tampereen yliopiston tutkimushanketta sai rahoitusta Helsingin Sanomain Säätiöltä.

28/09/2026

📌 Online Talks on Eurasian Media on Tuesday 13 October 2026 at 12.00–13.30 (Finnish time) will focus on the recently published special issue of Russian Politics (2026, no. 3), "Communicating the Environment from the Periphery: Actors, Practices, and Agency".

To participate in the event (via Zoom), please register by Sunday, 11 October. 👇

At this Online Talk, Olga Dovbysh from the University of Helsinki and Mika Perkiömäki from Tampere University will present the Special Issue “Communicating the Environment from the Periphery: Actors, Practices, and Agency” of Russian Politics (2026, no. 3), edited by them and published in Sept...

25/09/2026

Join us in OASIS for our next exciting OASIS Talk!

Tuesday September 29th 12:00-13:00

Come and listen to Chiara Locatelli from the university of Bergamo on the topic of "Re-Mediating Character Identity in Roleplaying Games"! 🎮

OASIS Talks is a lecture series showcasing current research by scholars from near and far.

As always, talks are free and open to everyone. You're welcome to join as at OASIS or via our Youtube channel, if streamed, either live or afterwards: https://www.youtube.com//streams

For further details on past and upcoming talks and speakers, please visit our website: https://tuni.fi/oasis/oasis-talks

📢 Stay tuned to Oasis media for future events!

25/09/2026

”Josko tällaisen sipulin pitäisitte mielessänne ja levittäisitte tietämystä muulle maailmalle, että media ei ole sama kuin journalismi. Teettekö näin?” vannotti journalistiikan professori Laura Ahva journalistiikan fukseja opintojen orientaatiotilaisuudessa, jossa vieraili myös Journalisti.

Journalistiikka on yhä monen unelma-ala! Seurasimme miten uusien opiskelijoiden syksy alkoi Tampereella.

”Aika varhain se selkeni, että jos saisi olla toimittaja ja opiskella alaa, pystyisi syventymään aina uusiin aiheisiin eikä tarvitsisi valita vain yhtä”, sanoo Essi Kaimio.

Essi Jaanu ja Essi Kaimio kuvattiin journalistiikan tervetulotilaisuudessa.

Linkki juttuun kommenteissa!

24/09/2026

The ENDGAME project investigates how individuals gain access to and are able to operate in game cultural environments in an impactful manner – or are excluded or limited in their capacity – based on their individual backgrounds.

Here's what the research team has been up to lately. 👇

ENDGAME - Year one 24.09.2026 The first year of our ENDGAME project concluded at the end of August – and what a year it has been! To celebrate this wonderful first year, we wanted to share an update of what we have achieved during this time. Research updates Essi Taino conducting fieldwork in Oulu...

22/09/2026

🔎 In their newly published article, Asko Lehmuskallio and Paula Haara suggest that today’s solutions and propositions for smart passports continue to respond specifically to a societal dynamic a long history in passport issuance and control: on the one hand, the social privileges of kinetic elites who expect smooth and fast-paced travel, and on the other, the suspicion and intensified control directed at those who are in much worse positions.

🔓 Open access.

Smart passports rely on forms of infrastructural mediation that have been incrementally incorporated into border regimes over the last decades. For example, a solution developed for a specific soci...