Publications

Hiljanen, M., Meriläinen, N., Lehtinen, A., & Pietilä, I. (2026). Miten suomalainen koulu ja kriittinen mediakasvatus rakentavat kognitiivista turvallisuutta? In T. Häkkinen, M. Hautala, & D. Saari (Eds.), Kognitiivinen turvallisuus: ihmismieli vaikuttamisen kohteena (pp. 179-196). Gaudeamus.

Pietilä, I. (2026). Approaches for identifying vulnerabilities in the cognitive domain. In Liuhto, K. (Ed.), Baltic Rim Economies 1/2026 Centrum Balticum.

Pietilä, I., Kortesuo, K., Pohjalainen, U., & Tuominen, M. (2024). Shift in intelligence issue ownership: Conceptualizing CITINT – Intelligence conducted by citizens. Frontiers in Political Science.

Pietilä, I., Kortesuo, K., Pohjalainen, U., & Tuominen, M. (2024). Kansalaisten tekemä CITINT ja sen vertautuminen valtiolliseen tiedusteluun. In Isokangas, J. & Rantalainen, M-L. (Eds.) Tiedustelun maailma: Tiedustelu ja yhteiskunta: Tiedusteluanalyysi I -kurssin raportteja. Informaatioteknologian tiedekunnan julkaisuja. 102/2024. Jyväskylän yliopisto. Link to publication.

Varsaluoma, J., Pietilä, I., Väänänen, K., & Rättilä T. (2023). Experimenting with youth-centred e-participation: The case of the Virtual Council. In Honkatukia, P. & Rättilä, T. (Eds.), Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society: Reclaiming the Future (pp. 59 - 74). Taylor & Francis. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003345114-4

Doctoral dissertation: Pietilä, I. (2022). Studies of Digital Solutions Supporting Societal Participation of Youths. Tampere University.

Pietilä, I., Lähde, M., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2022). EParticipation for Supporting Societal Participation Self-efficacy and Lowering the Thresholds of Societal Participation: Case Virtual Council. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1–8. Link to publisher.

Albrecht, E., Pietilä, I., & Saarela, S-R. (2022). Public Perceptions on the Procedural Values and Proposed Outcomes of the Finnish Climate Change Act Amendment. Frontiers in Climate. 3:657241. Link to publisher.

Pietilä, I., Meriläinen, N., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2021). Citizen-centric socio-cognitive model for societal participation. Short paper. EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 conference and in Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Posters, Workshops, and Projects at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2021 co-located with the IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org 2021.

Pietilä, I., Kallio, J., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2021). Youths’ digital participation in the early phases of COVID-19 lockdown. EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 conference and Proceedings of the Electronic Participation 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2021. Link to publisher. Winner of the best paper award.

Pietilä, I., Meriläinen, N., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2021). Understanding the youths’ user needs for inclusive eParticipation. In European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2021 (ECCE 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 38, 1–5. DOI / Link to publisher.

Pietilä, I., Meriläinen, N., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2021). Understanding youths’ needs for digital societal participation: towards an inclusive Virtual Council. Behaviour & Information Technology. DOI / Link to publisher.

Ågren, S., Pietilä, I., & Rättilä, T. (2020). Palkkatyöskeskeisen ajattelun esiintyminen ammattiin opiskelevien työelämäasenteissa. In Haikkola, L. & Myllyniemi, S. (Eds.), Nuorisobarometri 2019 - Hyvää työtä! (pp. 157 - 178).

Väänänen K., Hiltunen A., Varsaluoma J., & Pietilä I. (2020). CivicBots – Chatbots for Supporting Youth in Societal Participation. In: Følstad A. et al. (eds) Chatbot Research and Design. CONVERSATIONS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11970. Springer, Cham.

Pietilä, I., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2019). Understanding the Digital and Non-digital Participation by the Gaming Youth. LNCS Volume 11747, 2019, p. 453-471. Presented at 2019 IFIP TC13 INTERACT 2019.

Meriläinen, N., Pietilä, I., & Varsaluoma, J. (2018). Digital services and youth participation in processes of social change: World Café workshops in Finland. Presented at 2018 ECPR General Conference Universität Hamburg.

Master’s thesis: Alpha frequency discrepancy and trait anxiety, activation, and inhibition in states of anxiety and mindfulness, 2018.

Conference presentations and other texts

Pietilä, I. (2021). Nuoret mukaan kunnissa – käyttäjä- ja kansalaiskeskeinen suunnittelu tukee nuorten digitaalisia osallistumismahdollisuuksia ja purkaa osallistumisen esteitä. Demokratiaverkosto 21 - "Osallistavat kaupungit - avain osallistavaan kasvuun?" Tausta-aineisto Kokkolan Chydenius-seminaariin. Link to publisher.

Albrecht, E., Pietilä, I., & Saarela, S-R. (2020). Participation for effective and legitimate legislative drafting: Citizen perceptions on Finnish climate act revision. Presented at the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Sciences (YHYS) Fall Colloquium: Measuring and valuing sustainability, 19–20 November 2020.

Meriläinen, N., Pietilä, I., & Varsaluoma, J. (2020). "So My Views Actually Matter in the Democratic Processes?” - How Did Various Youths Experience the Design and User Research Workshops of an eParticipation Platform. Presented at the ECPR conference.

Meriläinen, N., Pietilä, I., & Varsaluoma, J. (2020). "So My Views Actually Matter in the Democratic Processes?” - How Did Various Youths Experience the Design and User Research Workshops of an eParticipation Platform. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Finnish Political Science Association 2020.

Pietilä, I. & Varsaluoma, J. (2019). Young people’s ideas on ‘digital participation’. Presented at the XVII Annual Conference of Youth Studies 2019.

Reviews of conference and journal papers

• Obrana a strategie (Defence & Strategy) 2025
• The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) 2021
• Interacting with Computers (IWC / Oxford Academic Journals) 2021
• Interacting with Computers (IWC / Oxford Academic Journals) 2018