Susanna Paasonen
Professor of Media Studies
suspaa@utu.fi +358 29 450 3429 +358 50 328 9613 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6319-9155 |
Areas of expertise
internet research, sexuality studies, popular culture, affect theory, media theory, pornography
internet research, sexuality studies, popular culture, affect theory, media theory, pornography
Biography
Susanna Paasonen is professor of Media Studies. After finishing her PhD in Media Studies in Turku in 2002 she acted as lecturer in Media Culture at University of Tampere (2003), as an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Women's Studies in Turku (2004-5), as senior research associate in Digital Culture at University of Jyväskylä (2005-7), as researcher at the Collegium for Advanced Studies at University of Helsinki (2007-10) and as professor of Digital Culture at Jyväskylä (2010-11) before starting in her current post in August 2011. Paasonen was appointed docent in Media Culture at University of Tampere in 2004 and as docent in Feminist Media Studies in Turku in 2006.
She was the first recipient of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters' Jutikkala Award in Humanities in 2011 and the Association of Internet Researchers' Nancy Baym Annual Book Award in 2020. She spent part of her sabbatical research leave in 2016 as visiting scholar at MIT's department of Comparative Media Studies and at Microsoft Research New England's Social Media Collective and was briefly visiting professor at University of Florence during the covid-19 spring of 2020, as well as a Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair in Sexuality Studies at University of Sydney in 2022.
Research
With an interest in studies of networked media, affect, sexuality, and media theory, Paasonen is the PI of the research consortium, "Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture" (IDA, 2019-2022/25), funded by The Strategic Research Council (SRC).
She's the author of e.g. the author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (MIT Press 2011), Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play (Goldsmiths Press 2018), Not Safe for Work: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media (with Kylie Jarrett and Ben Light, MITP 2019), Who's Laughing Now? Feminist Tactics in Social Media (with Jenny Sundén, MITP 2020), Objectification: On the Difference Between Sex and Sexism (with Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer and Clarissa Smith, Routledge 2020), Distracted, Frustrated, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media (MITP 2021) and TechnoPharmacology (with Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia and Ravi Sundaram, University of Minnesota Press 2022).
Paasonen is co-editor of e.g. Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (with Kaarina Nikunen and Laura Saarenmaa, Berg 2007), Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences (with Marianne Liljeström, Routledge 2010) and Networked Affect (with Ken Hillis and Michael Petit, MIT Press 2015) and serves on the editorial boards member of the journals New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Sexualities, Porn Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Capacious, Postmodern Culture, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema and Monstrum.
Her full CV and list of publications can be accessed at susannapaasonen.org
Teaching
Paasonen has broad teaching experience in media studies, cultural studies, digital culture and gender studies. She is in charge of postgraduate studies at the department of Media Studies, and participates in MA teaching and supervision. In addition, she teaches BA-level classes on media and networks, as well as theme courses connected to social media, sexuality, affect and pornography.
Publications
- Encounter #13 (2022) 25 Encounters Mourad Salim, Paasonen Susanna
(Article in a professional research book (D2)) - Experimentations in pandemic boredom (2022) Methodologies of Affective Experimentation Paasonen Susanna
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Gag Order on Sexuality in Social Media—A Critical Reading From the Perspective
of Sexual Rights (2022)- International Journal of Sexual Health
(Other (O2)) - Locating sex: regional geographies of sexual social media (2022)
- Gender, Place and Culture
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - “Natalie Wood Day”: Sexual Violence and Celebrity Remembrance in the #MeToo Era (2022)
- Celebrity Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Pervot karvat? (2022)
- SQS : Journal of Queer Studies in Finland
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Pompöösin lajin keinoin, intiimiyden ehdoilla: SQS:n juhlanumero Leena-Maija Rossin kunniaksi (2022)
- SQS : Journal of Queer Studies in Finland
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Rethinking Dick Pics (2022) Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays Light Ben, Jarrett Kylie, Paasonen Susanna
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - SHORT-LIVED PLAY : Trans-European travels in print sex edutainment (2022)
- Media History
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - SQS Vol. 16, no 1 (2022): Leena-Maija Rossin juhlanumero (2022)
- SQS : Journal of Queer Studies in Finland
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Technopharmacology (2022) Neves Joshua, Chia Aleena, Paasonen Susanna, Sundaram Ravi
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media (2021) Paasonen Susanna
(Refereed scientific book or report (C1)) - Esso é um absurdo! Sobre o humor feminista nas redes sociais (2021)
- Fronteiras - estudos midiáticos
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Finnish Fuck Games: A Lost Historical Footnote (2021) Perspectives on the European Videogame Paasonen Susanna, Karhulahti Veli-Matti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - ‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture (2021)
- International Journal of Cultural Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Intime Abhängigkeiten, fragile Verbindungen, entsexualisierte Plattformen (2021)
- Sexuologie
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - “Old dirty pops and young hot chicks”: Age differences in pornographic fantasies (2021) Gender and sexuality in the European Media: Exploring Different Contexts through Conceptualisations of Age Paasonen Susanna
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Patterns within Grids: A review of Tom Roach, Screen Love: Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era. SUNY Press, 2021 (2021)
- Postmodern Culture
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Play! A Special Issue (2021)
- Sexualities
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Pornokreuzzüge und emotionals Plattformpolitik (2021)
- WestEnd: neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))