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Jaakko Suominen, Professor

Department of Digital Culture · University of Turku, Finland — Dean

Research Areas

  • Games and Play
  • Media and Communication History
  • Popular Culture
  • Social Media

Highlighted publications

Suominen, Jaakko (2016): “How to Present the History of Digital Games: Enthusiast, Emancipatory, Genealogical and Pathological Approaches.” Games & Culture, Published online before print, June 20, 2016, doi: 10.1177/1555412016653341

Suominen, Jaakko – Silvast, Antti – Harviainen, J. Tuomas (2018): “Smelling Machine History: Olfactory Experiences of Information Technology.” Technology & Culture, Volume 59, Number 2, April 2018, pp. 313-337

Suominen, Jaakko – Harviainen, J. Tuomas (2019): “Comics as an Introduction to Media Technology: The Finnish Case – Television and Donald Duck in the 1950s and the early 1960s”. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Online first 14.1.2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2018.1544197

About

Jaakko Suominen received his PhD in cultural history and is a professor of Digital Culture at University of Turku, Finland. With a focus on cultural history of media and information technologies, he has studied computers and popular media, Internet, social media, digital games, and theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of digital culture. He has lead several multidisciplinary research projects and has over 100 scholarly publications.