Grants and Awards

AWARDS

• Gene Burd Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award for "Collective Intelligence in Open Journalism: Power, Knowledge and Value." Journalism Studies Division, International Communication Association (ICA). 2016.


• Best Paper Award for "Civic CrowdAnalytics: Making Sense of Crowdsourced Civic Input with Big Data Tools." Academic MindTrek, ACM. 2016. Co-authored with Kaiping Chen, Ahmed Cherif, Jorge Saldivar Galli and Luis Santana.


• Top Student Paper Award for “Open Investigative Journalism and the Reciprocal Panopticon: Citizens as Watchdogs.” Journalism Studies Division, International Communication Association (ICA). 2014.


• Notable Paper Award for "Crowdsourcing for Participatory Democracies: Efficient Elicitation of Social Choice Functions." Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. HCOMP’14. 2014. Co-authored with David Lee, Ashish Goel, and Hélène Landemore.


• Best Academic Paper Award for “The Impact of Crowdfunding on Journalism: Case Study of Spot.Us, a Platform for Community-Funded Reporting.”Innovation Journalism Conference, Stanford. 2008.


• Best Master’s Thesis of the Year Award for “Construction of Social Problem, Reasons, and Consequences in Moral Panics in the Media.” Finnish Association for Public Policy. 2004.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Finnish Academy of Sciences


• Helsingin Sanomat Foundation


• Kone Foundation


• The Federation of the Finnish Media Industry


• Hewlett-Packard Enterprise


• Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Stanford


• MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale


• SEED Design Lab, Graduate School of Business, Stanford


• Foundation for Municipal Development, Finland


• Foundation for Economic Education, Finland


• Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland


• C.V. Åkerlund Foundation, Finland


• Finnish Association of Journalists

HONORS

• Proclamation from the City of Vallejo for work on the Participatory Budgeting Process in Vallejo, California. 2014.


• Honorary Mention in the Competition for the Best Newspaper Story of the Year for a co-authored article covering Finland’s relationship with NATO. 2007.


• Honorary Mention for Excellence in Advanced Pedagogical Studies, School of Education, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. 2004.