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 
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- Pac-Man for the VIC-20: Game Clones and Program Listings in the Emerging Finnish Home Computer Market (2017)
- Well played
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pelisilmää museossa – Suomen pelimuseo on kansainvälisen tason museo (2017)
- Museo
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2017 (2017) Koskimaa Raine, Arjoranta Jonne, Friman Usva, Mäyrä Frans, Sotamaa Olli, Suominen Jaakko
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Survival of the Most Flexible? National social media services in global competition: The Finnish Case (2017) The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories Suominen Jaakko, Saarikoski Petri, Turtiainen Riikka, Östman Sari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Digisyntyisten ilmiöiden historiantutkimus (2016) Digitaalinen humanismi ja historiatieteet Suominen Jaakko, Sivula Anna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Helposti ja halvalla? Nettikyselyt kyselyaineiston kokoamisessa (2016) Kirjoittamalla kerrotut – kansatieteelliset kyselyt tiedon lähteinä Suominen Jaakko
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Koneiden jatkuvat maailmansodat (2016)
- Tekniikan maailma
(E1 Popularised article) - Live-Pac-Mania kokemassa (2016)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Participatory Historians in Digital Cultural Heritage Process — Monumentalization of the First Finnish Commercial Computer Game (2016)
- Refractory
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2016 (2016) Koskimaa Raine, Arjoranta Jonne, Friman Usva, Mäyrä Frans, Sotamaa Olli, Suominen Jaakko
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book)
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