Controversies Over Journalistic Social Media Influencers: “Social Media Reality” Practices Expanding the Boundaries of Journalism Tensions have arisen from journalists increasingly capitalising on their visibility as social media influencers (SMIs). In this paper, we analyse a diverse set of media texts published between 2019...

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...

Oh dear. But onwards we trudge

Acceptance email

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

Tuija Aalto (@tuija) New post about a research article on TikTok’s problematic influencer governance documentation

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My thoughts on authenticity vs. inauthenticity related to platformized influence

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Where were you when podcasts went mainstream? Technically feasible in the early oughts, podcasts have only recently become commercially viable in Finland. Where does it go on the platform timeline?

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

Off topic
What I see is the only female name on the table aside from Cher refers to a canine 🤔

Yes this an important insight and needs to guide allocating more resources (communication efforts) of knowledge institutions.

The expert class confronts reality "While perceived authenticity has always been an important piece of evaluating trustworthiness, <em>performed</em> authenticity has become much more important than ever before because of social…

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

Hakaniemen tori, lunta maassa

Asiakaskunnan tarpeet…? Tuote kestää kylmää ei pilaannu äkkiä…

Thank you. The 💰 is definitely an essential element in the context

PhD student hailing from HELsinki, happy to be included

Influencers and influencer marketing defined, plus context Influencers are people who successfully commercialize their social media following

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?

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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.

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It seems to look at content impressions amassed by various sites instead of inquiring content consumers’ intentions

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

Nordic fan funding figure: 5,7 million USD contributed to Swedish content creators on Patreon in 2023

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...

Kiitos kuittaan toiveen kuulluksi 👌

Hmm- mitä arvelet syyksi?

Really the actual emergence of entire business ecosystem and the level of professionalism in the people involved

Tämähän on vinha kehityskulku. Oma radiovastaanotin. Fyysinen laite joka tekee yhden asian. 👌

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 Ban: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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?...

Hello Fellow Olds hailing from HEL

Ok so platform uses repost

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!

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Looking interesting 🤗