CoCoDigi – Communication and Collaboration on Digital Platforms

Overview

Core fields of research

Information technology and the human in the knowledge society

Languages, culture and society

Sustainable business and economics

Research areas

Media, communication and emergent technologies

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department

Department of Language and Communication Studies

Research group description

CoCoDigi research group brings together several researchers and Ph.D. Students from the University of Jyväskylä and beyond working on a number of research projects examining communication, relationships, networks and information sharing in digital environments in a work context.

Current

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Anu Sivunen

Professor

Members

Postdoctoral Researcher

External members

Salla-Maaria Laaksonen

University of Helsinki

Vilja Hautamaa

University of Jyväskylä

Publications

Publication

2026

Hyperactive work? How platform work differs from other working arrangements in the quality of work

Management Research Review.

Scharp, Yuri S.

Ter Hoeven, Claartje L.

van Zoonen, Ward

Bakker, Arnold B.

Gorgievski, Marjan J.

den Dulk, Laura

Koster, Ferry

Publication

2026

Hyvin- ja pahoinvoinnista mediatyössä

Media ja viestintä.

Koivula, Minna

Publication

2026

Isolation in Remote and Hybrid Work: A Conceptual Review

Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.

Eisenberg, Julia

Gibbs, Jennifer

Mattarelli, Elisa

Sivunen, Anu

Publication

2026

Meta-Work as a Communicative Practice in the Context of Hybrid Work

Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.

Rekonen, Iida Kukka-Maaria

Sivunen, Anu

Publication

2026

Scrolling through tensions: Work-related memes and the discursive construction of tensions in digital work

Convergence.

Aarnio, Camilla

van Zoonen, Ward

Sivunen, Anu E.

Publication

2026

Sweeping Up Digital Dirt: Navigating Immediate Working Experiences to Alleviate the Precarity of Online Crowd Work Conditions

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Schafheitle, Simon

Van Zoonen, Ward

Wagner, Brian

Publication

2026

Toimijuuden jäljillä kiihtyvässä työyhteisön viestinnässä : työntekijänäkökulma viestintäteknologioiden käytön hallintaan korostaa vuorovaikutuksen merkitystä

Prologi : viestinnän ja vuorovaikutuksen tieteellinen aikakauslehti.

Huusko, Anniina

Publication

2026

Weaving Dialectical Webs Around the World: Experiencing Agency While Navigating Connectivity in Global Teams

Management Communication Quarterly.

Huusko, Anniina

Sivunen, Anu E.

Brummans, Boris H. J. M.

Publication

2025

Algorithmic Control and Work Frustration in Crowdwork : A Case of Autonomy Suppression and Connectivity Compulsion

European Management Journal.

van Zoonen, Ward

Treem, Jeffrey W.

Sivunen, Anu E.

Publication

2025

Algorithmic surveillance and workers’ compliance : The role of trust, privacy concerns, and fairness in online crowdwork

Human Relations.

van Zoonen, Ward

von Bonsdorff, Monika E.

van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M.

Publication

2025

Autonomy’s Mirage : How Fauxtonomy Fuels Workers’ Frustration in the Gig Economy

Work, Employment and Society.

van Zoonen, Ward

Sivunen, Anu E.

Publication

2025

Between clicks and colleagues : the Janus-faced nature of data in the media industry

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Jämsen, Rasa

van Zoonen, Ward

Sivunen, Anu

Villi, Mikko