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Sanna
Spisak
PostDoctoral Researcher, Art History, Musicology and Media Studies
FT, Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral researcher in Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture (IDA) project that is funded by The Strategic Research Council (SRC) at the Academy of Finland.

Contact

Arcanuminkuja 1
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

intimacy
datafication
media education
sex education
young people
sexual practices in network media
sexualization
pornification
pornography
adolescents
sexual storytelling
norms

Biography

Postdoctoral researcher in Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture (IDA) project that is funded by The Strategic Research Council (SRC) at the Academy of Finland. Working at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. 

Her dissertation "Porn and Norms – Pornography and normative notions of gender, love, sex  and relationships in the sexual narratives of Finns on their adolescent experiences" is a mixed-methods study incorporating archival research, media analysis, questionnaire responses and an exhaustive analysis of records received from non-governmental, non-profit organizations in the fields of family, health, children, women and youth.



Research

My research interests include digital intimacy, sexual ethics and sex education, and young people's intimate practices in digital media. I have published on childhood, youth, pornography and the sexualization debates in leading academic journals such as Childhood, Young and Sexualities. In addition, I am an author of Median seksisisällöt ja seksuaalikasvatus (2016) and I have co-edited a monograph on media education titled Monimuotoinen mediakasvatus.

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