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Niina Meriläinen

Tampere University

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About

Docent in Political Science, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. researcher and research project leader, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University Finland. I work as a researcher and research project leader on a multidisciplinary research project. My research focuses on explorative multidisciplinary communication, credibility, information, information operations, media, narratives, human rights, and political power relations research. Some specific areas of interest are information operations, selective realities, credibility and legitimacy, framing and agenda setting/vetting of various media and actors, human rights cases, user-based design of digital interactive technologies, and power relations in political and social decision-making. Twitter: @niimerila Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1233-0395 My research is funded by Kone Foundation (@KoneenSaatio)

Research Interests

Civil Society, Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Conflict, Contentious Politics, Cyber Politics, Democracy, Elections, Elites, Ethnic Conflict, European Politics, Extremism, Gender, Globalisation, Governance, Human Rights, International Relations, Media, Nationalism, Organised Crime, Policy Analysis, Political Competition, Political Economy, Political Leadership, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Political Violence, Populism, Public Policy, Religion, Social Justice, Social Movements, Social Policy, Developing World Politics, Welfare State, Political Sociology, Analytic, Broadcast, Campaign, Cartel, Constructivism, Critical Theory, Feminism, Global, Identity, Immigration, Internet, Marxism, Methods, Neo-Marxism, Neo-Realism, Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Quantitative, Social Media, War, Agenda-Setting, Causality, Communication, Comparative Perspective, Corruption, Decision Making, Electoral Behaviour, Ethics, Experimental Design, Field Experiments, Memory, Mixed Methods, Narratives, Normative Theory, Political Activism, Political Engagement, Political Ideology, Political Regime, Power, Protests, Public Opinion, State Power, Voting Behaviour, Big Data, Capitalism, Empirical, LGBTQI, Policy-Making, Political Cultures, Refugee, Theoretical, Youth

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