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)

🎙️ 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.

John Coster@docmediacentre.bsky.social · last yr.

Conflict Memory Series: #10DaysOfConflictMemory Day 8: Wed 26th Feb John Coster (Director, Conflict Memory Education Centre) talks with Soma Basu, Tampere University: “Don’t Want to Remember, Can’t Forget”: Unveiling Sticky Memories and Mobile Traumas of Delhi Riots 2020 bit.ly/3XGkWQv

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.

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

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...

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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!!