Matti Pohjonen

Matti Pohjonen’s research revolves around developing critical research approaches and methodologies to understand digital politics in especially comparative global media contexts. This has included work on blogging cultures in India, developing new research methods using interactive radio and SMS for researching hard-to-reach populations in East Africa, research on online extreme speech and conflict in Ethiopia, and exploring the use of AI in social sciences and humanities research. He currently works as a Senior Researcher for the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH), University of Helsinki, leading methodological development on the use of internet and social media data, including debates on generative AI and LLMs. He also currently co-leads The EU Horizon-funded project ARM, which focuses on information suppression and information freedoms in China, Russia, Ethiopia and Rwanda and InfoLead, which is a digital literacy project targeting judges and policymakers) together with the University of Oxford and University of Florence.