Tuomas Heikkilä, MSocSc

Department of Media and Communication · University of Helsinki, Finland — PhD Student

Research Areas

Health Communication
Media and Information Literacy
Social Media

Highlighted publications

Heikkilä, T., Laaksonen, S.-M., & Pohjonen, M. (2025). Reluctant arbiters of truth: Discursive legitimation of platform interventions against COVID-19 misinformation. New Media & Society.

Heikkilä, T. (2025). Harhaanjohtavan viestinnän kiistellyt vaarat: Integroiva kirjallisuuskatsaus mis- ja disinformaation ongelmanmäärittelyjen kritiikkiin. Media & viestintä 48(1):112–40.

Heikkilä, T., Laaksonen, S.-M., & Väliverronen, E. (2022). Contesting the Covid-19 consensus: Connective action of pseudoanonymous accounts on Finnish Twitter. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

About

E-mail
tuomas.k.heikkila@helsinki.fi
ORCID
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-6828-4298
Professional website
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/tuomas-k-j-heikkil%C3%A4/

I'm a doctoral researcher with a special research interest in debunking and countering (health) misinformation on digital media environments using digital and computational methods. Chair of Rajapinta Association of Digital Social Science, https://https://rajapinta.co.