Protecting the future 'Us': a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland

V Salojärvi, E Palonen, L Horsmanheimo, RM Kylli - Visual Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The far right is active on social media, including YouTube for its outreach, community-
building and mainstreaming of radical content. This article compares campaign videos of …

Presidential Address for the ismrc Virtual Conference 2021: Why Structures (Still) Matter in the Age of Hybrid Media: The Case of Digital Religion

J Sumiala - Journal of religion, media and digital culture, 2023 - brill.com
In this presidential address to the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture
(ismrc) I argue for the relevance of studying digital religion as a public phenomenon in one …

Conceptualizing Populism about/in/as Religion: Illustrations from Nordic Media Sphere

K Valaskivi, J Sumiala, N Pyrhönen - Nordic journal of religion and society, 2023 - idunn.no
Recent changes in political leadership and the digital saturation of public life have
foregrounded the multiple ways in which populism and religion are connected in the Nordic …

Introduction to the special issue: Studying Populism, Religion and Media–a Nordic Perspective

J Sumiala, L Jensdotter, M Abdel-Fadil… - Nordic Journal of …, 2023 - idunn.no
This special issue contributes to the emerging research field of religion and populism in
contemporary media contexts. With a shared focus on how Protestant Nordic contexts align …