As creators’ influence grows, so does pressure to hold them accountable. Denmark plans to establish a media ombudsman to oversee influencers, and Spain tries to extend right of reply and rectification to large social media accounts. open.substack.com/pub/aalto/p/...

Looking forward to testing the new W Social soon. #wsocial Also Interesting this week: following the social footprint of Nordic societal discourse fron #almedalen and #suomiareena

Kolmannes suomalaisista seuraa uutisia sosiaalisen median vaikuttajien välityksellä. Miten kilpailuun tulisi vastata? @taalto.bsky.social ja @perttu.bsky.social Kauppinen kommentoivat Reuters-instituutin vuosittaisen kyselytutkimuksen tuloksia. 👉 suomenlehdisto.fi/vaikuttajien... #journalismi

New article on Journalistic social media influencers published, no paywall Aalto, T., & Frig, M. (2026). Controversies Over Journalistic Social Media Influencers: “Social Media Reality” Practices Expanding the Boundaries of Journalism. doi.org/10.1080/1751...

An article two years in the making, accepted for publication. Yay!

My thoughts on authenticity vs. inauthenticity related to platformized influence open.substack.com/pub/aalto/p/...

When did you pick up the podcast habit ? open.substack.com/pub/aalto/p/...

"Performed authenticity has become more important than ever before because of social media," writes @sethclewis.bsky.social

I crafted the image below to convey the idea of the multiple actors online, from SMI to creators to artists, sportspeople and journalists as doing commercial collaborations, and to “newsfluencers” (Pew Research Center 2024). What am I missing? open.substack.com/pub/aalto/p/...

Creator-led journalism: journalist youtuber Johnny Harris launches a network called Newpress and introduces a new channel called Tunnelvision. Entrepreneurial Journalism within Creator Industry. Impressive, quality storytelling, exiting development indeed. youtu.be/uhq-e7_6xSg?...

Hmm this is a change in research findings until now, what do you make of this Ofcom / BBC report @rasmuskleis.bsky.social ?

A Nordic fan funding figure: 5,7 million USD contributed to Swedish content creators on Patreon in 2023 aalto.substack.com/p/a-nordic-f...

I co-wrote a nonfiction book on making oneself discoverable on social media (aka personal branding) in 2010. Little did I foresee influencer industry and the media landscape w. newsfluencers and all. Future always ends up surprising, no matter how much foresight. And that’s great. #furiouslycurious

TikTok - a mystery. This educational video actually does a pretty good job explaining the multifaceted regulation and governance challenge ByteDance poses for western nations youtu.be/5CZNlaeZAtw?...

Learning how to amplify: what is to resend on Bluesky? re-tweet it is not, re-post perhaps? re-skeeting has also been proposed)

Tiedättekö mikä päivä huomenna on? Huomenna television HD-kanavat vaihtuvat maanpäällisessä antenniverkossa kanavapaikkojen kärkeen. Eli jatkossa kanavapaikalla näkyy YLE TV1:n HD-versio SD:n sijaan. Tämä siis ennakkovaroituksena että tiedät miksi äitisi/isoisäsi soittaa huomenna kolmen jälkeen.

Podcasting theorized - this sounds super interesting looking forward to reading!

MAINOS Oletko se, joka tietää ? #olesejokatietää areena.yle.fi/1-72480510?u...

Oh hi Good to see you again What have you been up to? #smalltalk #socialnetworks

That feeling when you submit the final piece of coursework required for the completion of the course 🤩#computationalsocialsciences