Matias Nurminen

I work as a project manager for Digital and Sustainability Transitions in Society: A Double-edged Sword (DigiSus) research platform. I am also working as a postdoctoral research fellow in The Shifting Meanings of Journalism: Careless Interpretation and the Contested Conditions of Knowledge project (PI: Juha Raipola).

Manosphere and radical men's rights advocacy, narrative theory, counter-narratives, societal storytelling, instrumentalization of narratives, incel subculture, new sincerity, public authority storytelling, storytelling in information systems development.

My recently defended thesis Narrative Warfare : Storytelling Strategies in the Antifeminist Manosphere studies radical men's rights groups storytelling strategies in recruiting new members and justifying their worldview.

Previous projects:

Politicized Loneliness (Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2023–2026).

Researcher in the project Storytelling in Information Systems Development (Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2019–2022).

Grant researcher in the project Dangers of Narrative (Kone Foundation, 2017–2018)

Coordinator of research centre Narrare (2017–2018).
 

Nurminen, Matias 2026: Narrative Warfare Storytelling Strategies in the Antifeminist Manosphere. Academic Dissertation. Tampereen University.

Raatikainen, P. ja M. Nurminen 2024: Narrating the Sociotechnical Mess. Storytelling in Information Systems Projects. Narrative Inquiry 34:2, 387–407.

Raipola, J. ja M. Nurminen 2024: Tuhoon tuomittu. Apotin kielteinen mediakertomus 2012–2021. Media & Viestintä 47:3, 1–26.

Samola, H., S. Isomaa ja M. Nurminen (toim.) 2024: Romanssikertomukset 2000-luvulla: Parinmuodostuksen juonia ja murtumia kirjallisuudessa ja populaarikulttuurissa. Tampere: TaU Press.

Nurminen, M. 2022: From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views. Poetics Today 43:2, 309–334.

Nurminen, M. 2021: ”Ja mä tein sen ekana yönä. Mä olen cool.” Uusvilpittömyys ja purkautuva ironia tilannekomediassa Broad City. Teoksessa S. Björninen (toim.) Kertomus postmodernin jälkeen. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 105–134.

Raatikainen, P., S. Pekkola, M. Nurminen ja M. Mäkelä 2021: Masterplots in Information Systems Implementation. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 

Mäkelä, M., S. Björninen, L. Karttunen, M. Nurminen, J. Raipola ja T. Rantanen 2021: Dangers of Narrative: A Critical Approach to Narratives of Personal Experience in Contemporary Story Economy. Narrative 29:2, 139–159.

Mäkelä, M., S. Björninen, V. Hämäläinen, M. Nurminen, J. Raipola, T. Rantanen ja L. Karttunen 2020: Kertomuksen vaarat. Kriittisiä ääniä tarinataloudessa. Tampere: Vastapaino. 

Nurminen, M. 2020: “The Big Bang of Chaotic Masculine Disruption.” A Critical Narrative Analysis of Radical Masculinity Movement’s Counter-Narrative Strategies. Teoksessa K. Lueg & M. Lundholt (toim.) Routledge Handbook of Counter Narratives. Milton: Taylor and Francis, 351–362.

Nurminen, M. 2019: Narrative Warfare. The ‘Careless’ Reinterpretation of Literary Canon in Online Antifeminism. Narrative Inquiry, special issue of Real Fictions: Fictionality, Factuality and Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Storytelling, S. Browse, A. Gibbons, M. Hatavara (toim.), 29:2, 313–332.