Research projects and groups at the Department of Language and Communication Studies

ShowTell – A multidisciplinary research project investigating the relationship between bodily enactment and traditional language use with lexical items in Finnish Sign Language FinSL.

This project explores counterspeech against hate speech and disinformation on social media. In particular, it compares counterspeech in Finnish and German discussions.

I forskningsprojektet betraktas lärarstuderandenas uppfattningar om det svenska språket och om sig själv som svensklärare och hur dessa utvecklas under studietiden.

The DataMedia project takes organizational communication perspective to study the datafication of media work.

This ethnographic project looks at how Swedish-, Russian- and Polish-speaking families in Finland use their languages in digital tools to mediate and negotiate their multimodal family communication and how that shapes their identities

The project "Who knows?" is an ethnograpic study which investigates the legitimacy of knowledges in a rural Finnish school, where adults with refugee experience attend a two-year basic education program.

This project aims to map the levels of risk and uncertainty journalists are facing in Finland, and to understand how journalism copes with and adapts to these challenges.