Susanna
Paasonen
Professor, Art History, Musicology and Media Studies
Professor of Media Studies
Areas of expertise
internet research
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).
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.
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.
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.
Publications
Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies (2025)
Porn Studies
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Refusal, Jamming, and Absurdity: Feminist Tactics in Social Media (2025)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Platform economies, reputational stains, and the in/conveniences of porn (2024)
(B2 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Dick pics and the shifty meanings of porn (2024)
Porn Studies
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Intimità (2024)
(B2 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Lambda nordica Vol. 29 No. 1 (2024): Sex at the Borders: Queering Transnational Histories (2024)
Lambda Nordica
(C2 Toimitustyö tieteellisen lehden erikoisnumerolle)
Monsieur Mosse: A Bad Gay? Queer Celebrity in Finnish Print Media, from the 1960s to the 1980s (2024)
Lambda Nordica
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Objectionable nipples: Puritan data politics and sexual agency in social media (2024)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Bored Audiences: Zoned In and Out (2024)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Memetic commenting: Armenian curses and the Twitter theatre of Trump’s deselection (2024)
International Journal of Cultural Studies
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )