Sakari Nieminen

Affiliation: University of Turku, Finland (Department of Social Sciences)

Research focus: fact-checking, argumentation and political rhetoric, political science.

Key papers

• Fighting Misperceptions and Doubting Journalists' Objectivity: A Review of Fact-checking Literature — Fighting Misperceptions and Doubting Journalists' Objectivity: A Review of Fact-checking Literature (2019). Comprehensive literature review of 48 studies on political fact-checking, organized by effectiveness, profession, and public opinion.

Notes

Sakari Nieminen is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests center on fact-checking research and its scholarly development, with attention to how the field has evolved methodologically and institutionally.