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| Hybrid Media Events: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global Circulation of Terrorist Violence J Sumiala, K Valaskivi, M Tikka, J Huhtamäki Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018 | 88 | 2018 |
| # JeSuisCharlie: Towards a multi-method study of hybrid media events J Sumiala, M Tikka, J Huhtamäki, K Valaskivi Media and Communication 4 (4), 97-108, 2016 | 85 | 2016 |
| Imagining globalised fears: School shooting videos and circulation of violence on YouTube J Sumiala, M Tikka Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 19 (3), 254-267, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| Implications of the sacred in (post) modern media J Sumiala-Seppänen, K Lundby, R Salokangas Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| Broadcast yourself—Global news! A netnography of the “flotilla” news on YouTube JM Sumiala, M Tikka Communication, Culture & Critique 6 (2), 318-335, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| School shootings: Mediatized violence in a global age GW Muschert, J Sumiala Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| “Web First” to Death J Sumiala, M Tikka Nordicom Review 31 (2), 17-29, 2010 | 38 | 2010 |
| Digital media ethnographers on the move–An unexpected proposal J Sumiala, M Tikka Journal of Digital Social Research 2 (1), 39-55, 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
| Social media: implications for everyday life, politics and human agency M Lövheim, A Jansson, S Paasonen, J Sumiala The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Reality on circulation–School shootings, ritualised communication, and the dark side of the sacred J Sumiala, M Tikka ESSACHESS-Journal for Communication Studies 4 (2), 8, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
| Verkko mediaetnografin tutkimuskohteena–tapauksena uutisen etnografia YouTubessa J Sumiala, M Tikka Otteita verkosta. Verkon ja sosiaalisen median tutkimusmenetelmät., 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| Nomadit rippituolissa: medioidun uskonnon moraalisen järjestyksen dynamiikka (post) modernin television ja kulttuurin kontekstissa J Sumiala-Seppänen Jyväskylä studies in communication, 2001 | 26 | 2001 |
| Mediated death J Sumiala John Wiley & Sons, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| Mediated Muslim martyrdom: Rethinking digital solidarity in the “Arab Spring” J Sumiala, L Korpiola New Media & Society 19 (1), 52-66, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Circulating communities online: The case of the Kauhajoki school shooting J Sumiala M/C Journal 14 (2), 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| Mediatized ritual–Expanding the field in the study of media and ritual J Sumiala Sociology Compass 8 (7), 939-947, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
