Maarit Jaakkola, PhD, is a Swedish-Finnish media and journalism studies scholar based in Sweden. Jaakkola’s research interests are interdisciplinary and related to questions of media, cultures, learning, and languages, often in digital settings and in relation to new technologies, such as policies and pedagogies of media literacy, cultural journalism and criticism, the uses of artificial intelligence, as well as critical cultural practices of social media. She has been working as a journalist and cultural critic, as well as teachers’ educator and educational developer. She is interested in national minority language contexts and has teacher’s education in Finnish as a national minority language and Swedish as a second language in Sweden.