My research spans two long-term areas: health information behaviour and digital inequality, and the ways drug-related issues are represented, debated and transformed through media and public discourse. Across both areas, I am interested in how information environments shape understanding, behaviour and policy.
This strand of my research examines how people seek, evaluate and use health information, how digital skills and socioeconomic resources shape those practices, and why access to digital services does not automatically lead to equal benefits.
Examines relationships between technology use, health-information seeking, socioeconomic factors and vaccination readiness among Estonians aged 50 and over.
Read article →Investigates health-information needs, online searching, technology use, socioeconomic factors and health-related choices among adults aged 50 and over.
Read article →Uses cluster analysis to identify different patterns of health-information seeking among Estonian adults aged 50 and over.
Read article →Explores associations between information-seeking behaviour and vaccination willingness among Estonians aged 60 and over.
Read article →Examines vaccination willingness in relation to socioeconomic indicators, health behaviour and health-information seeking.
Read article →Examines gender differences in online health-information seeking among older adults.
Read article →Investigates differences in health-related ICT acceptance, information seeking and health behaviour among older adults.
Read article →Focuses on gender differences in older adults’ willingness to use digital technology for health purposes and vaccination-related attitudes.
Read article →Compares patterns of online health-information seeking among working and non-working older adults and students.
Read article →Examines whether older adults are able to benefit equally from Estonia’s digital health environment.
Read article →A second long-term strand of my research examines how illicit drugs, addiction and drug policy are represented in journalism and public debate. The work traces changes in framing, news attention, cannabis debates and the relationship between media discourse and policy.
Examines long-term developments in the ways illicit drugs and drug-related problems have been represented in the Estonian press.
Read article →Analyses changes in the Estonian public debate surrounding cannabis and considers their relationship with drug policy.
Read article →Maps changing patterns of journalistic attention to drug-related issues in Estonia’s major daily newspapers.
Read article →Examines how media-generated news waves can alter the visibility and framing of drug-related issues and contribute to discursive change.
Read article →Examines shifts in the framing of drug-related issues in Estonian print journalism over two decades.
Explores the relationship between media representations of drug problems and developments in Estonian drug policy.
Examines the emergence and development of drug-related themes in Estonian journalism.
Analyses changes in how drug addiction and related issues were presented in Estonian media.
The dissertation examines how older adults in Estonia seek, evaluate and use health information online, and how digital skills, socioeconomic resources, trust and technology use shape the ability to benefit from online health information.
Dissertation information →The dissertation examines how illicit-drug-related issues were represented in Estonian print media between 1993 and 2009, focusing on changes in framing, media attention and public discourse.
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