Margareta Salonen is a researcher focusing on journalism and social media. She has worked for several research projects at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ since 2015. She is currently working in Finnish public service media 100 years research program and she is the project leader of Ephemerality and visuality in social media news content research project (2024 - 2027). The latter project is funded by Media Industry Foundation of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation of Central Finland, and Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation.
Salonen defended her doctoral dissertation Revising the Understanding of Gatekeeping Theory: Factors and Practices of Post-Publication Gatekeeping in the spring of 2024. The work was funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation of Central Finland, C. V. Åkerlund Media Foundation, Media Industry Foundation of Finland, Ellen and Artturi Nyyssönen Foundation, Uuden Suomettaren Foundation, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies.
Salonen is actively taking part in societal and academic service. She has been a member of the Finnish Press Council since 2021 and was the Student and Early Career Representative of Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) between 2021 and 2023. She has also served as a board member of the Finnish scientific association Rajapinta between 2019 and 2022 of which she chaired the association the two latter years.
Her work focuses on the triadic power relations between news media, audiences, and social media platforms through the lens of (post-publication) gatekeeping. Her work also covers datafication of news work, journalism ethics on social media platforms and the role of visuality and regulations in social media journalism.
