Jaakko Suominen
Ph.D., Professor of Digital Culture
jaasuo@utu.fi +358 29 450 3426 +358 50 328 9586 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1352-7699 |
Areas of expertise
Digital Culture, Cultural History of Media and Information Technology, Game Cultures, Social Media History, Game Historiography, History Cultures, Retro Gaming
Digital Culture, Cultural History of Media and Information Technology, Game Cultures, Social Media History, Game Historiography, History Cultures, Retro Gaming
Biography
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.
Publications 
2 of 18
- (2024)
- Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article) - Lautapelit yhteiskuntaa rakentamassaHeritagisation and Heritage Conflict: The Finnish Afrikan tähti Board Game and its Change to Contested Heritage, 1951–2021 (2024)
- Kleio
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - 2024
- WiderScreen
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Ludic Interventions in Studying Urban Play: Learning from Lack of participation (2024)
- Conference of Digital Games Research Association
(Abstract) - Studying the Ground of Play: Towards Ludological Semiotics of Playful Traces (2024)
- Conference of Digital Games Research Association
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - 2023Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games Sivula Anna, Suominen Jaakko
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Heritagization and heritage conflict: The finnish afrikan tähti board game and its change to contested heritage, 1951-2021 (2023) Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games Sivula Anna, Suominen Jaakko
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Humanisti vastaa. Osa 6. Mikä on humanistisen tutkimuksen asema Suomessa, Jaakko Suominen? (2023) Monto Riitta, Suominen Jaakko
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Kirja-arvio: Arcade Britannia. Meades, Alan: Arcade Britannia – A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade. 2022 (2023)
- Pelitutkimuksen Vuosikirja
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Pajatsosta pöytätennikseen - Sotienvälisen Suomen pelit ja pelikulttuuri (2023) Suominen Jaakko
(C1 Refereed scientific book)
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