Monthly Archives: May 2018
The use of English amongst Finnish tumblr users
By: Katarina Heikkinen & Laura Hotakainen For this blog post we wanted to focus on a social media site which we were both familiar with, which we both use and where we know that the users tend use English … Continue reading
Demi-English: The English used on a young Finnish women’s forum
By: Leeni Ahonen, Veera Juvonen & Kauri-Matti Kuivanen Demi.fi is the website for the Finnish girls’ magazine Demi. The site includes a forum where young women and girls can discuss a variety of subjects, ranging from technology to relationships. The … Continue reading
The curious case of Finnish movie blogs
By: Kim Ilomäki Explaining about movie blogs inside of a blog may seem a bit trite but for the sake of examination I’ve decided to do just that. While professional movie critics are still around and in quite large numbers, … Continue reading
Analysis of the Instagram Stories by Finnish social media influencers
There are plenty of social media networks out there and some of them enjoy a great popularity among different target audiences, but there is no question which one is the most trending right now; Instagram. Instagram is a social media … Continue reading
English in Finnish news
Nowadays social media is an important channel through which English becomes an everyday resource to Finnish people, mainly for some young Finnish people (Leppänen 2018). In many new media contexts, English language is not considered as a “foreign” language. Instead, … Continue reading
“En oo semmonen full-coverage kind of girl” – English used by Finnish beauty vloggers
By: Terhi Autio, Sonja Nurmi & Emilia Häkkinen Introduction YouTube has become the preferred platform for makeup lovers who use it to post tutorials, hauls and reviews about makeup and beauty products. This has created a phenomenon of “beauty … Continue reading
English used in Three Vlogs: a Case Study
Due to the expansion of social media, video blogs or shortly, vlogs have become a new way of expressing oneself. Keeping a diary is an age-old habit, which has changed from a secret one to an open, multimodal form in … Continue reading
English in Finland 