Tiina Räisä

My research interests revolve around the changing practices of mediated culture with a particular focus on digitalisation and AI. In my thesis, I analysed the official, Finland-Swedish Lucia both from a diachronic and synchronous perspective and as an example of ritualised communication in a news context and to construct a distinct cultural community. I am interested in theories of mediatization and have investigated how the university as an institution adapts its communication according to the logic of the media institution. Recently, I have published on the digitalization of education and epistemic injustice. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland project What's in the App? Digital mediated communication in multilingual families across time and space at the University of Jyväskylä, we investigated how families use apps to both to construct the family and to develop their multilingual competence. Within the project, I published on the topic of the mediatization of the family institution as it is constructed mainly in WhatsApp, focusing on the expression of emotions in the intimate and digitalized family institution. I have researched the new role of books, reading and the review institution in a datafied environment such as Instagram. Recently, I have analysed images distributed by politicians on Instagram as a matter of aestheticization of democracy and as a practice that has epistemic challenges. I have a background in news journalism and am interested in how the interplay between media and politics frames the conditions of democracy.