Faculty Member, Department of Media Studies
Tampere University / University of Tampere, Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media
PhD Student
Thesis Title: Connections: The Media Ecology and Biopolitics of Internet Environment
About
I am a PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Turku and Elomedia - Doctoral School for Audiovisual Media.
The working title of my PhD project is Disconnection(s) in Network Culture. Network culture is nearly always defined as culture of connection. Whether it is about connecting people, connecting nodes or connecting ideas the concept of disconnection is forgotten and neglected in these discourses. My dissertation takes disconnection as its central theme and points out how in many ways networks are formed around it. Moving between technologies of culture and cultures of technology disconnection is conceived not only as a technical term but also political and philosophical concept. The dissertation is based on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, biopolitics of Foucault and contemporary studies of new media. It will be edited from a collection of published journal articles which use case based approaches ranging from Facebook to augmented reality, hacker ethics and cyber terror.
