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Salla-Maaria Laaksonen (D.Soc. Sc) works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki, and she is a Docent in Media and Communication. Her research concerns communication and organizing in the platform society; business-society relations in the hybrid media system, digital organizing, and the use of data and automation in organizations.

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Jukka Huhtamäki (D.Sc.) is a researcher in interactive technology and data analytics. He researches and develops methods in data science and network analysis and applies them across disciplines in collaboration with researchers in media, organization and information technology. He works as a Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, and he is a Docent of Organizational Data Science at LUT University.

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Kaisa Lindholm (nee Laitinen) (PhD) is a researcher in communication and work-life interaction. She focuses on technology-mediated interaction and the role of non-human communicators  in digital communication environments. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of Jyväskylä.

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Minna Koivula (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Language and Communication Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. Koivula’s research focuses on creativity and innovation in media work and combines aspects of organizational communication with journalism research.

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Mia Leppälä (D. Econ) is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University. Her expertise is on the topic of knowledge brokering on enterprise social media. Her research centers on digital communication tools and the role of social networks and various actors in organizational communication.

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Erjon Skenderi (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. His research is focused on text representation methods, recommender systems, NLP and data analytics, with a special focus on applications of Large Language Models and AI agents in organizational settings.

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Kaisla Kajava is finalizing a PhD in Computer Science at Aalto University and working as a post-doc in the GET:ORG project. With a multidisciplinary background spanning AI governance, NLP/CS, and linguistics, Kaisla's main research interests span cross-field perspectives to risk, governance and regulation, and language use, all in relation to technology.

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Sari Kivijärvi is a Doctoral Researcher working at Tampere University with a background in sociology. Her research focuses on digital platforms, social interaction online, and organizational practices. She does this utilizing large-scale online data from digital platforms.

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Liisa A. Mäkinen (D.Soc.Sc) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research focuses on the everyday uses and privacy-related implications of digital technologies from a surveillance studies perspective.

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Sonja Baer is an MBA student in Responsible Leadership at Turku University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on communicative AI in organizations, particularly how it shapes team collaboration, collective sensemaking, and shared practices. Her thesis explores how teams reflect on the role of AI in everyday work and develop shared ways of working with AI.