Tiina Räisä

Tiina Räisä is a Principal Lecturer in Media and Culture at Arcada University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on mediated culture's evolution, particularly digitalization, AI, and mediatization theory. She previously conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Jyväskylä on digital communication in multilingual families. Her work explores topics like the mediatization of institutions, epistemic injustice in education, and the role of social media in politics and democracy.

Her research interests include analyzing how digital platforms reshape cultural practices, such as family dynamics via WhatsApp and political communication through Instagram. She also investigates the impact of datafication on cultural institutions like book reviews and reading practices. Räisä holds a background in news journalism and examines media's role in framing democratic processes.

Her postdoctoral project, 'What's in the App?', examined multilingual families' use of apps to build language competence. She has published on topics like aestheticization of democracy through politicians' Instagram imagery and the adaptation of universities to media logic. Räisä's work bridges media studies, cultural sociology, and digital humanities.