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, critical sexuality studies, affect inquiry, media theory, popular culture
internet research, critical sexuality studies, affect inquiry, media theory, popular culture
Biography
I'm professor of Media Studies and head of department. After finishing my PhD in 2002 I worked at universities of Tampere, Helsinki and Jyväskylä before starting in my current post in 2011. I've been visiting scholar/profesor at MIT and Microsoft Research New England's Social Media Collective (2016), University of Florence (2020) and University of Sydney (2022).
Research
I'm broadly interested in media culture and my recent book projects range from social media inquiry to cinema history in e.g., Who's Laughing Now? Feminist Tactics in Social Media (with Jenny Sundén, MIT Press 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), Technopharmacology (with Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia and Ravi Sundaram, University of Minnesota Press 2022) and Yul Brynner: Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism and Screen Masculinity (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter, co-authored with Sundén and Katrin Tiidenberg, is forthcoming from MITP in 2026.
I serve on the editorial boards member of the journals New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Sexualities, Porn Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Dialogues on Digital Society, Postmodern Culture, Capacious, Postmodern Culture, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Kvinder, kön och forskning, MedieKultur and Monstrum.
Teaching
I have taught courses on media studies, cultural studies, digital culture and gender studies since 1998. I'm in charge of Media Studies' postgraduate studies, participate in MA supervision, and teach also at BA level.
Publications
- On the Affordances of Moving beyond the Human (2020) Les cultural studies : au-delà des politiques des identités Paasonen Susanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Platformed Sex Lives (2020)
- AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Puritanisme sexuel et capitalisme numérique : entretien avec Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett & Ben Light, realisé et traduit par Florian Vörös (2020)
- Revue Française de Socio-Économie
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Walled Gardens, NSFW Niches, and Horizontality: A Conversation about Tumblr Porn (2020) A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures Paasonen Susanna, Tsika Noah, Cho Alexander
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Who's Laughing Now? Feminist Tactics in Social Media (2020) Sundén Jenny, Paasonen Susanna
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Affective Body Politics of Social Media (2019)
- Social Media + Society
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Blocked Access: When Pornographers Take Offence (2019) Media and the Politics of Offence Paasonen Susanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Gay Porn, Politics and Lifestyle in 1980s Finland: The Short Life of Mosse Magazine (2019)
- NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Inappropriate Laughter: Affective Homophily and the Unlikely Comedy of #MeToo (2019)
- Social Media + Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Littles: Affects and Aesthetics in Sexual Age-Play (2019)
- Sexuality and Culture
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Monstrous Resonance: Affect and animated pornography (2019) How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices Paasonen Susanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media (2019) Paasonen Susanna, Jarrett Kylie, Light Ben
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - On Not Seeing All: The Incomplete, Sexual Play and the Ethics of the Frame (2019) Confess: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age Paasonen Susanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Resonant Networks: On Affect and Social Media (2019) Public Spheres of Resonance Constellations of Affect and Language Paasonen Susanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Strange optimism: Queer rage as visceral ethics (2019) RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking Morris Paul, Paasonen Susanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Striking poses: The fantastic figure of Yul Brynner (2019)
- Screen
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Dick Pic: Harassment, Curation, and Desire (2019)
- Social Media + Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tom comes home, keeps on coming (2019)
- Porn Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Affect, data, manipulation and price in social media (2018)
- Distinktion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Anssi Kasitonni's Alien, Offbeat Creatures (2018) PAF Olomouc Lapsus Paasonen Susanna
(E1 Popularised article)