My work has been recognized by several awards and funded by several institutions. I am very grateful for the support, which has made my work possible.
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
- Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Finnish Academy of Sciences, Strategic Research Council, Finland
- Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, Finland
- Kone Foundation, Finland
- The Federation of the Finnish Media Industry, Finland
- Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Palo Alto, California,
- 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