Margareta Salonen
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General description
Margareta Salonen is a researcher focusing on journalism and social media. She has worked for several research projects at the University of Jyväskylä since 2015. She is currently working in Finnish public service media 100 years research program and she is the project leader of Ephemerality and visuality in social media news content research project (2024 - 2027). The latter project is funded by Media Industry Foundation of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation of Central Finland, and Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation.
Salonen defended her doctoral dissertation Revising the Understanding of Gatekeeping Theory: Factors and Practices of Post-Publication Gatekeeping in the spring of 2024. The work was funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation of Central Finland, C. V. Åkerlund Media Foundation, Media Industry Foundation of Finland, Ellen and Artturi Nyyssönen Foundation, Uuden Suomettaren Foundation, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies.
Salonen is actively taking part in societal and academic service. She has been a member of the Finnish Press Council since 2021 and was the Student and Early Career Representative of Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) between 2021 and 2023. She has also served as a board member of the Finnish scientific association Rajapinta between 2019 and 2022 of which she chaired the association the two latter years.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies, Postdoctoral Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Project Researcher, Ended
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Doctoral Student, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Doctoral Researcher, Ended
Research interests
Her work focuses on the triadic power relations between news media, audiences, and social media platforms through the lens of (post-publication) gatekeeping. Her work also covers datafication of news work, journalism ethics on social media platforms and the role of visuality and regulations in social media journalism.
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
journalism; social media; social interaction; gatekeeping; datafication
Projects as Principal investigator
- Ephemerality and visuality in social media news content
- Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation
- Ephemerality and visuality in social media news content
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Strategisuus, eettisyys ja vuorovaikutteisuus sanomalehtien sosiaalisen median toiminnassa
- Central Finland Regional Fund
- Strategisuus, eettisyys ja vuorovaikutteisuus sanomalehtien sosiaalisen median toiminnassa
- Ellen and Artturi Nyyssönen Foundation
- Strategisuus, vuorovaikutteisuus ja eettisyys sanomalehtien sosiaalisen median toiminnassa
- The Media Industry Research Foundation of Finland
- Uuden Suomettaren Säätiön apurahahaku
- Uuden Suomettaren säätiö
Projects as Team Member
- Ephemerality and visuality in social media news content
- Ehrlén, Veera
- The Media Industry Research Foundation of Finland
- LUOTSIVA: Luotettavuutta ja sitoutuneisuutta vahvistamassa: sanomalehtien Facebook-sivut yleisösuhteen lujittajana
- Lauk, Epp
- Viestintäalan tutkimussäätiö
Nb. In Converis, projects mean external funding related to JYU operations. More extensive studies (e.g. dissertations or Research Council of Finland CoEs) may include multiple funding components, each shown as a different project in Converis. Budget-funded studies (funding only from JYU) are not listed as projects. Regarding personal grants the data is not comprehensive. Start and end dates do not necessarily reflect exact months when the grant has been used. Project data has been recorded systematically since 2017.
