Study #6

Female political candidates smile more than their male colleagues, Marc Jungblut and Mario Haim show in a new study. That’s not a problem itself, but the dilemma is if a certain way of presenting yourself is putting you into a box, says Jungblut. This is the “double bind” that female candidates might face: either they are "too" warm and compassionate – typical feminine stereotypes – to be associated with the common traits associated with a strong leader, or they counter these stereotypes – and face a backlash. A low female representation in the European parliament set off the study of how politicians are depicted – and how they depict themselves – during election season back in 2019. The researchers studied nearly 14.000 candidates in all the 28 European Union member states in search for answers.&nbsp; The million-dollar question is (and spoiler alert – still unanswered): does the way female politicians are portrayed in media affect how voters see them fit for office? Keywords: automated content analysis, gender stereotypes, European election, computational vision, visual politics •&nbsp;The article discussed in this episodeJungblut, M. &amp; Haim, M. (2021). Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries. Communication research. Open access: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00936502211023333" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502211023333</a> •&nbsp;The researcher featured in the episodeDr. Marc Jungblut is a researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. His co-author, Dr. Mario Haim, is affiliated with the University of Leipzig. •&nbsp;How to reach outFor comments, feedback and suggestions on articles for future episodes, please reach out to me on Twitter @rasmuskyllonen or by dropping me a letter at <a href="mailto:rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi</a> •&nbsp;About the hostRasmus is a master’s student at the University of Helsinki, where he is majoring in journalism and communication. Earlier, he has worked as a journalist and graphic designer at various newspapers and magazines. He has also been a teacher in vocational media education. •&nbsp;DisclaimerThe articles showcased on Keywords are all published in scientific journals that have received an official classification (level 1, 2 or 3) by the Publication Forum. This means the publications are always peer-reviewed. For more information on the academic classification criteria: https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations/classification-criteria

A Study About Smiling Politicians That Doesn’t Make You Smile

Alexandra Elbakyan is enjoying wide recognition by scientists all over the world. She is the creator of Sci-Hub, an online library for millions of research papers – for free. Every day, half a million users use the site. In the process of making knowledge open to everyone, she has gained many enemies as well. In this episode of Keywords, Elbakyan explains her motives behind Sci-Hub and her plans with the portal for the future. Keywords: Sci-Hub, science, open access, knowledge • Resources Elbakyan's personal website with articles by her: https://sci-hub.st/alexandraArticle by Nature on the lawsuit against Sci-Hub: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22196A study about Sci-Hub from 2018: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832410/ • How to reach outFor comments, feedback and suggestions on articles for future episodes, please reach out to me on Twitter @rasmuskyllonen or by dropping me a letter at <a href="mailto:rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi</a> • About the hostRasmus is a master’s student at the University of Helsinki, where he is majoring in journalism and communication. Earlier, he worked as a journalist and graphic designer at various newspapers and magazines. He has also been a teacher in vocational media education.

Sci-Hub Founder Alexandra Elbakyan Believes Open Science Is the Only Way

Study #4

@i_love_my_cheetah, @koodiz, @Sondos_aq, @thehala and @themayaahmad are hugely popular social media influencers in the Middle East. These women caught the interest of researcher Zoe Hurley, after hearing of them from her students at the all-female university in Dubai. Despite skeptics, who belittled the relevance of Instagram as a point of inquiry in social sciences, Hurley collected nearly 25.000 Instagram posts by the influencers. What emerged was an analysis of how these women represent themselves in a space still dominated by patriarchy, traditionalism and Islam.&nbsp; This is the story of how these women are making Instagram their key political platform. Keywords: empowerment, agency, social media, postdigital, Instagram, self-presentations, artifact, affordances, Arab women •&nbsp;The article discussed in this episodeHurley, Z. (2021), #reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition, Social media + society, 7(2) DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051211010169" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10.1177/20563051211010169</a> Open access: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051211010169" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051211010169</a> •&nbsp;The researcher featured in the episodeZoe Hurley is a lecturer at the Zayed University in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. She is a feminist scholar with a focus on social media. She has a doctoral degree from Lancaster University in the UK. •&nbsp;Further reading“Why I No Longer Believe Social Media is Cool” by Zoe Hurley https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305119849495 •&nbsp;How to reach outFor comments, feedback and suggestions on articles for future episodes, please reach out to me on Twitter @rasmuskyllonen or by dropping me a letter at <a href="mailto:rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi</a> •&nbsp;About the hostRasmus is a master’s student at the University of Helsinki, where he is majoring in journalism and communication. Earlier, he worked as a journalist and graphic designer at various newspapers and magazines. He has also been a teacher in vocational media education. •&nbsp;DisclaimerThe articles showcased on Keywords are all published in scientific journals that have received an official classification (level 1, 2 or 3) by the Publication Forum. This means the publications are always peer-reviewed. For more information on the academic classification criteria: https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations/classification-criteria

What 25.000 Images Say About Arab Feminism

In this bonus episode, the researchers behind the study of the C.I.A. on Twitter explain how they used discourse analysis as a tool for unraveling the fascinating reasons behind the agency’s online presence. Topics on this episode:• Critical theory• Discourse analysis• Quantitative vs. qualitative• Research questions

Bonus: Rhys and Louise Explain Discourse Analysis

Study #3

The C.I.A. is down with the kids. Since 2014, the agency has been an active tweeter on social media, posting short bursts of light, humorous and self-referential content.&nbsp;In a fresh study, Rhys Crilley and Louise Pears have scrutinized the tweets and analyzed the humorous side of the agency that’s constructed. The C.I.A. being active on Twitter is a natural continuum in the agency’s history of infiltrating itself into pop culture. In doing so, the agency can own parts of its narrative, thus hiding the darker corners of its actions. Keywords: critical intelligence studies, discourse analysis, social media •&nbsp;The article discussed in this episodeCrilley, R. &amp; Pears, L. (2021), ‘No, we don’t know where Tupac is’: critical intelligence studies and the CIA on social media, Intelligence and National Security, p. 1–16.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2021.1893079 •&nbsp;The researchers featured in the episodeRhys Crilley has been researching the use of social media in conflict: how different actors at war use Facebook in communicating what they are up to. Currently, his research focus is on nuclear weapons.Louise Pears has a PhD in the representation of terrorism on television. Her scholarly interests are in popular culture and the understanding of everyday ideas about security among audiences. •&nbsp;How to reach outDear listener, let me know what you think. For comments, feedback and suggestions on articles for future episodes, please reach out to me on Twitter @rasmuskyllonen or by dropping me a letter at <a href="mailto:rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi</a>. •&nbsp;About the hostRasmus is a master’s student at the University of Helsinki, where he is majoring in journalism and communication. Earlier, he worked as a journalist and graphic designer at various newspapers and magazines. •&nbsp;DisclaimerThe articles showcased on Keywords are all published in scientific journals that have received an official classification (level 1, 2 or 3) by the Publication Forum. This means the publications are always peer-reviewed. For more information on the academic classification criteria: https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations/classification-criteria

The C.I.A. – The Funny, Open and Young Institution

Study #2

Major events in life call for photos, starting from immortalizing pregnancy and birth to depicting everyday life. In the 21st century, the family album is now online, containing photos of children. This is what the emerging field of studies on parental practices on social media call sharenting. Today, there are more than 199 million posts on Instagram tagged #baby, followed by nearly 82 million for #babygirl and 65 million for #babyboy. Anna Brosch, who is a PhD from the University of Silesia in Katowice in Poland, is a pioneer in studying the parental practice of posting pictures and texts about children. In this episode, she tells about a study she did on Facebook a few years ago.&nbsp; Her study highlights the conflicting sides to exposing children online: however important these images are for practising parenthood, they also involve risks for the children. As Brosch puts it – the Internet never forgets. Keywords: children exposure, digital risks, Facebook, online privacy, social media, sharenting • The article discussed in this episode:Brosch, A. (2016), When the child is born into the internet: sharenting as a growing trend among parents on Facebook. The new educational review. 43(1), 225–235. DOI: 10.15804/tner.2016.43.1.19 Free access to the article: http://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/images/pliki/tner/201601/tner20160119.pdf • How to reach outFor comments, feedback or suggestions on articles for future episodes, please reach out to me on Twitter @rasmuskyllonen or by mailing to <a href="mailto:rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi</a> • About the hostRasmus is a master’s student at the University of Helsinki. His major is journalism and communication and as a minor he is doing pedagogy. Before his studies he worked as both a journalist and a graphic designer at various newspapers and magazines. • DisclaimerThe articles showcased on Keywords are all published in scientific journals that have received an official classification (level 1, 2 or 3) by the Publication Forum. This means the publications are always peer-reviewed. For more information on the academic classification criteria: https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations/classification-criteria

Babies Are Everywhere Online. But Who Asked Them?

In this bonus segment of episode 1, Tali Aharoni tells me more about how she conducted the research with the young Israelis avoiding news. If you’re a student embarking on a journey doing research on your own, you might find this helpful in explaining what that inductive method really is.

Bonus: Tali Explains Her Qualitative Research

Study #1

For the past year we have been glued to the newsfeed. In this exercise we now call doomscrolling we keep on refreshing the news about the pandemic on and on. What does this do to our sanity? It might be helpful to actually avoid news nowadays.In this inaugural episode of Keywords, Tali Aharoni, who is a PhD student at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, tells about news avoidance. She has recently published a study with her colleagues on news avoiding youth in Israel. We will hear more about why the young israelis are avoiding news – not because of their lack of interest, but in fact, because they are too invested in what is going on around them.In the bonus episode Tali tells us more about the methodology in the research we discuss. Keywords: Audience studies; news avoidance; news consumption; qualitative interviews; texto-material perspective; young adults • The article discussed in this episodeAharoni, T., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2021), ‘Be Less of a Slave to the News’: A Texto-Material Perspective on News Avoidance among Young Adults. Journalism studies (London, England). 22 (1), 42–59.DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1852885" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1852885</a>This study is part of the cross-national research project NET (News, Entertainment, and Technology). Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt are the co-authors of Tai Aharoni's study. The NET research members are Pablo J. Boczkowski, Kaori Hayashi, Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Mikko Villi.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• The study on incidental news consumption mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884920915355" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884920915355</a> • Dear listener: I want to hear from you!For comments, feedback or suggestions on articles for future episodes, please reach out to me on Twitter @rasmuswilhelm or by mailing me on rasmus.kyllonen@helsinki.fi • About the hostRasmus is a master’s student at the University of Helsinki. He is doing his major in journalism and communication with a minor in pedagogy. Before his studies he worked both as a journalist and as a news designer at various newspapers and magazines in Finland. • DisclaimerThe articles showcased on Keywords are all published in scientific journals that have received an official classification (level 1, 2 or 3) by the Publication Forum. This means the publications are always peer-reviewed. For more information on the academic classification criteria: https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations/classification-criteria

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The world is a confusing place. The only thing I know for certain is that I know nothing. That’s why i love research! It gives us a deeper understanding about the world. Keywords is a homage to science and the people behind it. In every episode, I call a researcher somewhere in the world to talk about a study they have conducted.

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The world is a confusing place. That’s why I love research! It gives us a deeper understanding about the world. Keywords is an homage to science and the people behind it. In every episode, I call a researcher somewhere in the world to talk about a study they have conducted.

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