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 
6 of 9
- Gaming Legacy? – Four Approaches to the Relation between Cultural Heritage and Digital Technology (2013)
- Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Historiallinen verkkotutkimus – mieli, lähteet, kokonaisuus (2013) Otteita verkosta. Verkon ja sosiaalisen median tutkimusmenetelmät Suominen Jaakko
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Kieltäydyn määrittelemästä digitaalista kulttuuria (2013)
- WiderScreen
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pelitutkimuksen paikat: pelien tutkimuksen asettuminen kotimaiseen yliopistokenttään (2013) Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2013 Mäyrä Frans, Suominen Jaakko, Koskimaa Raine
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2013 (2013)
- Pelitutkimuksen Vuosikirja
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Retrogamers’ Communal Memory and Discourses of Digital History (2013) Memory and Meaning: Digital Differences Suominen Jaakko
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Sosiaalisen median lyhyt historia (2013) Suominen Jaakko, Östman Sari, Saarikoski Petri, Turtiainen Riikka
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Suomalainen pelitutkimus vuosina 1998–2012 julkaistujen peliväitöskirjojen valossa (2013) Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2013 Sotamaa Olli, Suominen Jaakko
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Introduction of Computer and Video Games in Museums – Experiences and Possibilities (2013) Making the History of Computing Relevant Naskali Tiia, Saarikoski Petri, Suominen Jaakko
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The Long Decade of Game Studies: Case of Finland (2013) Proceedings of DiGRA 2013 - DeFragging Game Studies, Atlanta, GA, USA: DiGRA, August, 2013. Sotamaa Olli, Suominen Jaakko
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Videogames in the Globalization – The Case of Finland (2013)
- Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Audiovirtual oblivion : media archaeology of early Finnish music web and its vanishing (2012) Navigating Landscapes of Mediated Memory Mäkelä Janne, Suominen Jaakko
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Digitaaliset pelit - kulttuuriaineistojen lapsipuolet (2012)
- Lähikuva
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Digital Cultures (2012)
- Technology and Culture
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Doueihi, Milad : Digital Cultures (kirja-arvio) (2012)
- Technology and Culture
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Leikkiä ikä kaikki (2012)
- Aurora
(E1 Popularised article) - Mario’s legacy and Sonic’s heritage : Replays and refunds of console gaming history (2012) Proceedings of DiGRA Nordic 2012 Suominen Jaakko
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2012 (2012)
- Pelitutkimuksen Vuosikirja
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Playing with Pac-Man : a life and metamorphosis of a game cultural icon, 1980-2011 (2012) Applied Playfulness. Proceedings of the Vienna Games Conference 2011 : Future and Reality of Gaming Suominen Jaakko, Ala-Luopa Saara
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Proceedings of DiGRA Nordic 2012 (2012) Koskimaa Raine, Mäyrä Frans, Suominen Jaakko
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book)
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