Publications

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

  1. Juho Pääkkönen, Matti Nelimarkka, Samuli Reijula (2026). The emergence of computational social science: Intellectual integration or persistent fragmentation?. Quantitative Science Studies ⤴
  2. Qijia Chen, Andrea Bellucci, Jie Cai, Matti Nelimarkka, Giulio Jacucci (2025). Understanding "Mutes" in Social Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ⤴
  3. Joel Kiskola, Henrik Rydenfelt, Thomas Olsson, Lauri Haapanen, Noora Vänttinen, Matti Nelimarkka, Minna Vigren, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Tuukka Lehtiniemi (2025). Generative AI and News Consumption: Design Fictions and Critical Analysis. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ⤴
  4. Xu Zong, Xiangjiao Meng, Karri Silventoinen, Matti Nelimarkka, Pekka Martikainen (2025). Heterogeneous associations between early-life religious upbringing and late-life health: Evidence from a machine learning approach. Social Science and Medicine ⤴
  5. Jesse Haapoja, Felix Anand Epp, Irina Hasala, Matti Nelimarkka (2025). Ideal Online Discussant and Audience: Understanding Political Social Media through Roles and Rules. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference ⤴
  6. Rebeca Blanco Cardozo, Pedro Ferreira, Matti Nelimarkka, Jesse Haapoja, Michael Hockenhull, Mace Ojala, Juho Pääkkönen, Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Barry Brown, Thomas Olsson, Asko Lehmuskallio, Emilie Mørch Groth, Airi Lampinen (2025). Nordic Perspectives on Algorithmic Systems: Cards as a Playful Intervention into the Crisis of Imagination. Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis ⤴
  7. Felix Anand Epp, Jesse Haapoja, Matti Nelimarkka (2025). Affordances and Design Principles of The Political Left and Right. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ⤴
  8. Victoria Palacin, Samantha McDonald, Pablo Aragón, Matti Nelimarkka (2024). Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  9. Pedro Ferreira, Michael Hockenhull, Mace Ojala, Rebeca Blanco Cardozo, Matti Nelimarkka, Airi Lampinen (2024). Nordic Perspectives on Algorithmic Systems Card Box. Interactions ⤴
  10. Matti Nelimarkka, Ville Vuorenmaa (2024). What Do We Study When Studying Politics and Democracy? A Semantic Analysis of How Politics and Democracy Are Used in SIGCHI Conference Papers. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction ⤴
  11. Anton Berg, Matti Nelimarkka (2023). Do you see what I see? Measuring the semantic differences in image‐recognition services' outputs. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology ⤴
  12. Lisa P Argyle, Rochelle Terman, Matti Nelimarkka (2022). Religious Freedom in the City Pool: Gender Segregation, Partisanship, and the Construction of Symbolic Boundaries. Politics and Religion ⤴
  13. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Jenni Hokka, Matti Nelimarkka, Kaarina Nikunen (2022). Affective Visual Rhetoric and Discursive Practices of the Far-Right Across Social Media. The Far-Right Discourse of Multiculturalism in Intergroup Interactions ⤴
  14. Sander Andreas Schwartz, Matti Nelimarkka, Anders Olof Larsson (2022). Populist platform strategies: a comparative study of social media campaigning by Nordic right-wing populist parties. Information, Communication & Society ⤴
  15. Kaarina Nikunen, Jenni Hokka, Matti Nelimarkka (2021). Affective Practice of Soldiering: How Sharing Images Is Used to Spread Extremist and Racist Ethos on Soldiers of Odin Facebook Site. Television & New Media ⤴
  16. Pihla Toivanen, Matti Nelimarkka, Katja Valaskivi (2021). Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context. New Media & Society ⤴
  17. Matti Nelimarkka, Teemu Leinonen, Eva Durall, Philip Dean (2021). Facebook is not a silver bullet for teachers’ professional development: Anatomy of an eight-year-old social-media community. Computers & Education ⤴
  18. Matti Nelimarkka, Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci (2021). Exploring Norm Violations and Norm Management in Collocated Synchronous Communication: Dual-channel Communication as Hybrid Space with Spillover and Asymmetries. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  19. Jenni Hokka, Matti Nelimarkka (2020). Affective economy of national-populist images: Investigating national and transnational online networks through visual big data. New Media & Society ⤴
  20. Juho Pääkkönen, Matti Nelimarkka, Jesse Haapoja, Airi Lampinen (2020). Bureaucracy as a Lens for Analyzing and Designing Algorithmic Systems. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ⤴
  21. Salla-maaria Laaksonen, Jesse Haapoja, Teemu Kinnunen, Matti Nelimarkka, Reeta Pöyhtäri (2020). The Datafication of Hate: Expectations and Challenges in Automated Hate Speech Monitoring. Frontiers in Big Data ⤴
  22. Matti Nelimarkka, Salla-maaria Laaksonen, Mari Tuokko, Tarja Valkonen (2020). Platformed Interactions: How Social Media Platforms Relate to Candidate–Constituent Interaction During Finnish 2015 Election Campaigning. Social Media + Society ⤴
  23. Kirsikka Grön, Matti Nelimarkka (2020). Party Politics, Values and the Design of Social Media Services. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ⤴
  24. Matti Nelimarkka (2019). Aihemallinnus sekä muut ohjaamattomat koneoppimismenetelmät yhteiskuntatieteellisessä tutkimuksessa: muutama kriittinen havainto. Politiikka ⤴
  25. Matti Nelimarkka, Jean Philippe Rancy, Jennifer Grygiel, Bryan Semaan (2019). (Re)Design to Mitigate Political Polarization. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ⤴
  26. Mervi Pantti, Matti Nelimarkka, Kaarina Nikunen, Gavan Titley (2019). The meanings of racism: Public discourses about racism in Finnish news media and online discussion forums. European Journal of Communication ⤴
  27. Reeta Pöyhtäri, Matti Nelimarkka, Kaarina Nikunen, Markus Ojala, Mervi Pantti, Juho Pääkkönen (2019). Refugee debate and networked framing in the hybrid media environment. International Communication Gazette
  28. Matti Nelimarkka (2019). A Review of Research on Participation in Democratic Decision-Making Presented at SIGCHI Conferences. Toward an Improved Trading Zone Between Political Science and HCI. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ⤴
  29. Matti Nelimarkka, Arto Hellas (2018). Social Help-seeking Strategies in a Programming MOOC. Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - SIGCSE '18 ⤴
  30. Aurora Tulilaulu, Matti Nelimarkka, Joonas Paalasmaa, Daniel Johnson, D. A N Ventura, Petri Myllys, Hannu Toivonen (2018). Data Musicalization. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
  31. Matti Nelimarkka, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Bryan Semaan (2018). Social Media Is Polarized, Social Media Is Polarized. Proceedings of the 2018 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2018 - DIS '18 ⤴
  32. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Matti Nelimarkka (2018). Omat ja muiden aiheet: Laskennallinen analyysi vaalijulkisuuden teemoista ja aiheomistajuudesta. Politiikka
  33. Matti Nelimarkka, Antti Salovaara, Bryan Semaan, Giulio Jacucci (2017). Theory-Driven Collocated CMC. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17 ⤴
  34. Matti Nelimarkka, Reijo Sund (2017). Viestinnän mittaaminen big datan avulla. Procomma
  35. Salla-Maaria Maaria Laaksonen, Matti Nelimarkka, Mari Tuokko, Mari Marttila, Arto Kekkonen, Mikko Villi (2017). Working the fields of big data: Using big-data-augmented online ethnography to study candidate–candidate interaction at election time. Journal of Information Technology and Politics ⤴
  36. Matti Nelimarkka (2016). Kansalaisjärjestöt ja osallistumisvälineiden kehitys verkkosivuilla 1990-luvulta 2010-luvulle. Widerscreen ⤴
  37. Matti Nelimarkka, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci (2016). Live Participation. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '16 ⤴
  38. Jouni Vepsäläinen, Petri Savolainen, Jouni Ojala, Antonella Di Rienzo, Matti Nelimarkka, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Sasu Tarkoma, Giulio Jacucci (2016). Web-Based Public-Screen Gaming: Insights from Deployments. IEEE Pervasive Computing
  39. M. Marttila, S-M. Laaksonen, A. Kekkonen, M. Tuokko, M. Nelimarkka (2016). Digitaalinen vaaliteltta: Twitter politiikan areenana eduskuntavaaleissa 2015. Eduskuntavaalitutkimus 2015: Poliittisen osallistumisen eriytyminen
  40. Matti Nelimarkka, Vilma Lehtinen, Antti Ukkonen, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Giulio Jacucci (2015). Threading and conversation in co-located chats. Computers in Human Behavior ⤴
  41. Jay Patel, Gil Gershoni, Sanjay Krishnan, Matti Nelimarkka, Brandie Nonnecke, Ken Goldberg (2015). A Case Study in Mobile-Optimized vs. Responsive Web Application Design. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct - MobileHCI '15 ⤴
  42. Matti Nelimarkka, Arto Vihavainen (2015). Alumni & Tenured Participants in MOOCs. Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale - L@S '15 ⤴
  43. Jouni Vepsäläinen, Antonella Di Rienzo, Matti Nelimarkka, Jouni A. Ojala, Petri Savolainen, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Sasu Tarkoma, Giulio Jacucci (2015). Personal Device as a Controller for Interactive Surfaces. Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces - ITS '15 ⤴
  44. Matti Nelimarkka, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Giulio Jacucci (2014). A Field Trial of an Anonymous Backchannel Among Primary School Pupils. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Supporting Group Work ⤴
  45. Teemu Leinonen, Eva Durall, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Teemu Mikkonen, Antti Syvänen, Matti Nelimarkka, Tarmo Toikkanen (2014). Design for Learning: Enhancing Participation in Learning through Design Thinking. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications
  46. Matti Nelimarkka, Brandie Nonnecke, Sanjay Krishnan, Tanja Aitamurto, Camille Crittenden, Chris Garland, Conrad Gregory, Ching-chang Allen Huang (2014). Comparing Three Online Civic Engagement Platforms using the “Spectrum of Public Participation” Framework. The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference
  47. Kai Kuikkaniemi, Max Vilkki, Jouni Ojala, Matti Nelimarkka, Giulio Jacucci (2013). Introducing Kupla UI : A Generic Interactive Wall User Interface Based on Spherical Widgets. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces ⤴
  48. Kai Kuikkaniemi, Vilma Lehtinen, Matti Nelimarkka, Max Vilkki, Jouni Ojala, Giulio Jacucci (2013). Designing for presenters at public walk-up-and-use displays. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction ⤴
  49. Kai Kuikkaniemi, Matti Nelimarkka, Petri Lievonen, Jukka Reitmaa (2013). MetaGroups : a method for collective innovation at large conferences. CO-CREATE 2013. The Boundary Crossing Conference on Co-Design in Innovation ⤴
  50. Matti Nelimarkka (2011). Viranomaiset ja sähköinen kansalaisosallistuminen -- asiantuntijahaastatteluiden perusteella luotu aktantiaalinen malli. Hallinnon Tutkimus ⤴
  51. Juuso Karikoski, Matti Nelimarkka (2011). Measuring social relations with multiple datasets. International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems ⤴
  52. Juuso Karikoski, Matti Nelimarkka (2010). Measuring Social Relations: Case OtaSizzle. 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing ⤴
  53. Matti Nelimarkka (2008). The Use of Ubiquitous Media in Politics How ubiquitous life effects into political life today and what might happen in the future. Mindtrek 2008 ⤴
  54. Matti Nelimarkka, Riku Suomela (2007). Wireless Education Platform - an Open Source Way to Create Mobile Education. Computers and Advanced Technology in Education

Non-refereed scientific articles

  1. Victoria Palacin, Matti Nelimarkka, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Christoph Becker (2020). The Design of Pseudo-Participation. Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2 ⤴
  2. Matti Nelimarkka, Salla-maaria Laaksonen (2018). Bitit ja politiikka : Tervetuloa laskennallinen yhteiskuntatieteen tutkimus. Politiikka
  3. Matti Nelimarkka, Giulio Jacucci, Antti Salovaara, Steven Dow, Kenton O'Hara, Louise Barkhuus, Joel Fischer (2018). Hybrid Events. Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW '18 ⤴
  4. Jofish Kaye, Matti Nelimarkka, Riitta Kauppinen, Sini Vartiainen, Pekka Isosomppi (2011). Mobile family interaction: how to use mobile technology to bring trust, safety and wellbeing into families. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services ⤴

Books

  1. Matti Nelimarkka (2023). Computational Thinking and Social Science: Combining Programming, Methodologies and Fundamental Concepts. SAGE Publishing

Content for professional communities

  1. Matti Nelimarkka, Noora Vainio, Nyyti Kinnunen (2011). Ohjelmointia Scratchin kanssa. ⤴

Patents and invention disclosures

  1. Matti Nelimarkka (2011). Use of a virtual sound source to enhance a user interface.
  2. Matti Nelimarkka, Matti Vesterinen, Teemu Harju, Tomi Kulmala, Ville Rantala (2009). Method and apparatus for intuitive management of privacy settings. ⤴
  3. Matti Nelimarkka, Karl Ots (2009). Method and Apparatus for Providing Media Service. ⤴