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Minna Aslama is a University Researcher and Docent in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Social Sciences. She specializes in public service media, digital disruption, and media resilience, with a focus on trust dynamics, epistemic rights, and policy frameworks. Her work addresses challenges posed by disinformation, platformization, and institutional autonomy in the Nordic context.
Key research themes include assessing national information resilience, media capture monitoring, and the evolving role of public service media in digital ecosystems. She leads or participates in multiple research projects, including DECA (2022-2025) examining democratic capacities in algorithmic contexts, and has contributed to the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Finland.
Her research outputs span 79 publications across journals, books, and commissioned reports, with recent emphasis on EU media freedom compliance and Nordic media welfare state models. She co-authored a 2020 award-winning study on communication rights and participated in international conferences on epistemic rights and digital disruption.
Awarded the 'Tiedettä suomeksi' prize in 2020, Aslama's work bridges academic scholarship and policy advocacy, emphasizing collaborative solutions for media pluralism and universal access. She has advised on platform policies and regulatory frameworks impacting public service media's role in democratic societies.
