About me
I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the project Popular feminism in a Nordic welfare state (POPFEM). My work is situated in Gender Studies.
I am interested in the relationships between people's experiences, media platforms, knowledge, politics, and democracy. In my doctoral dissertation, I studied the platformization of politics by exploring the digital everyday lives of politicians and activists.
Currently, I am researching the political economy of protests. I aim to understand the nature of social movements as well as their transformations within today’s Western capitalist societies. I am also interested in different conceptions of democracy through which to better understand the possibilities and limitations of current developments.
Selected publications
Hokkanen, Julius (2025). The platformization of politics: Intimacy, conflict, and vulnerability in the age of data-driven media. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis 725. Turun yliopisto. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-02-0206-4
Hokkanen, Julius & Koivunen, Anu (2025). Consensual or conflicting encounters? Finnish politicians’ digital lives and platforms as spaces for agonistic pluralism. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1162/ECPS.a.7
Hokkanen, Julius (2025). Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users. Feminist Media Studies 25(3), 529–545. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2285710
Hokkanen, Julius (2022). ”Ja jos se ei kelpaa algoritmeille niin sitten ei kelpaa. Se siitä." Datakäytännöt nuorten poliitikkojen arjessa. Politiikka 64(2), 98–119. https://doi.org/10.37452/politiikka.109128