Esa Sirkkunen
Grant Holder
Research topics
Over the years as project researcher my research topics have varied from the history of journalism to genres of reportage and forms of digital journalism. I have studied also citizen communication, hyperlocal communities and citizen journalism. Lately I have explored social media, its practices and structures and the fate of privacy in the age of platforms and surveillance capitalism. In the field of journalism studies I have been researching online business models, data journalism and lately immersive journalism. Recently I am exploring communicative rights in the age of platformization.
Research unit
Research Centre COMET, Unit of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences.
Research fields
Journalism research, social media research, journalism ethics, platform regulation, Internet and social theory