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Reijo Savolainen

Reijo Savolainen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
19255
World Ranking
3490
National Ranking
32

Overview

Reijo Savolainen is a researcher affiliated with Tampere University in Finland, specializing in the social sciences with a focus on communication and sociology-related subfields. Their work spans multiple areas including communication, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, artificial intelligence, and literature and literary theory.

The research topics frequently addressed in Savolainen's publications cover misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, public relations and crisis communication, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, e-government and public services, knowledge management and sharing, as well as media influence and health.

The following recent papers illustrate key areas of their research and publication activity:

  • Assessing the theoretical potential of an expanded model for everyday information practices (2021, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
  • Assessing the credibility of COVID-19 vaccine mis/disinformation in online discussion (2021, Journal of Information Science)
  • Infotainment as a hybrid of information and entertainment: a conceptual analysis (2021, Journal of Documentation)
  • Everyday life as an evolving context of information behaviour (2022, Aslib Journal of Information Management)
  • Information landscapes as contexts of information practices (2020, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science)

Reijo Savolainen frequently publishes in certain academic venues where they have multiple contributions. These venues include:

  • Journal of Documentation
  • Information Research an international electronic journal
  • Aslib Journal of Information Management
  • Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
  • Journal of Information Science

Collaborations with other researchers are noted with coauthors such as Leslie Thomson, Teemu Mikkonen, and Eero Sormunen, each having participated in at least one joint work with Savolainen.

The research output by Savolainen reflects engagement with evolving information practices and social phenomena related to information behavior in everyday life and mediated environments. Their work intersects theoretical, empirical, and conceptual studies, addressing contemporary challenges in misinformation, media influence, and digital communication.

Best Publications

  • The art of case study research

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Everyday life information seeking: Approaching information seeking in the context of “way of life”

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Information behavior and information practice: reviewing the umbrella concepts of information-seeking studies

    Reijo Savolainen

  • “Isms” in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism

    Sanna Talja;Kimmo Tuominen;Reijo Savolainen

  • Everyday Information Practices: A Social Phenomenological Perspective

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Information Literacy as a Sociotechnical Practice.

    Kimmo Tuominen;Reijo Savolainen;Sanna Talja

  • The sense-making theory: reviewing the interests of a user-centered approach to information seeking and use

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Filtering and withdrawing: strategies for coping with information overload in everyday contexts

    Reijo Savolainen

  • A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action

    Kimmo Tuominen;Reijo Savolainen

  • Time as a context of information seeking

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Placing the Internet in information source horizons. A study of information seeking by Internet users in the context of self-development

    Reijo Savolainen;Jarkko Kari

  • Information use as gap-bridging: The viewpoint of sense-making methodology.

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Network competence and information seeking on the Internet. From definitions towards a social cognitive model

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Source preferences in the context of seeking problem-specific information

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Small world and information grounds as contexts of information seeking and sharing

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Emotions as motivators for information seeking: A conceptual analysis

    Reijo Savolainen

  • The role of the internet in information seeking: putting the networked services in context

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Judging the quality and credibility of information in Internet discussion forums

    Reijo Savolainen

  • Information seeking in context : proceedings of an international conference on research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts 14-16 August, 1996, Tampere, Finland

    Pertti Vakkari;Reijo Savolainen;Brenda Dervin

  • Everyday Life Information Seeking

    Reijo Savolainen

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Solomon
Paul A. Solomon Environmental Protection Agency

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