Susanna Paasonen

Susanna Paasonen
Born 1975 (age 40–41)
Helsinki
Residence Helsinki, Finland
Nationality Finnish
Fields Media Studies
Institutions University of Turku
Alma mater University of Turku
Thesis Figures of fantasy: women, cyberdiscourse and the popular internet (2002)
Known for Writings on the rise in popularity of internet pornography

Susanna Paasonen (born 1975, Helsinki) is a Finnish feminist scholar. She is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku, and was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2016.[1] She gained her PhD from the University of Turku in 2002; her dissertation was on gender and the popularization of the internet,[2] which was later published through Peter Lang.[3] After holding positions at the universities of Tampere, Jyväskylä and Helsinki, Paasonen was appointed Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku on 1 August 2011,[4] and publishes on gender and the internet.[5]

Paasonen has a blog on which she ruminates on her current research and published work.[6]

Research

On Monday, April 4th, Paasonen gave a lecture at Brown University on the politics and culture of cyberporn. In the essay, "Glimmers of the forbidden fruit: Reminiscing pornography, conceptualizing the archive,"[7] written along with Katariina Kyrölä, Paasonen traces the evolution of the "porn stash" from a physical collection to a digital one, and in doing so, examines cyberporn as a site of identity formation. She and Kyrölä suggest that pornography occasions the accumulation of a somatic archive, which are "not merely reservoirs of extra-cognitive sensation but also knowingly curated, reflected upon and reworked: they are simultaneously material and semiotic, intimate and culturally specific, affective and open to representation." In her lecture at Brown, Paasonen suggested that digital pornography must not be understood as something that creeps into society from the outside, but rather as something that already exists in contemporary culture. She writes, "Encounters with pornography therefore become incorporated as carnal capacity-- as what we can imagine our bodies enjoying and being capable of, or not enjoying and being capable of." Paasonen argues, therefore, that interactions with pornography, therefore, can contribute to the development of an individual's sexual identity.

Awards

The Finnish Academy of Science awarded her the Jutikkala Prize of €15,000 14 October 2011.[8] In the same year Paasonen published the book, Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography, through MIT Press.[9]

Bibliography

Books

Journal articles

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Visitors and Postdoctoral Associates - MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing". MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  2. ↑ Paasonen, Susanna (2002). Figures of fantasy: women, cyberdiscourse, and the popular Internet (PhD thesis). Turku: University of Turku. ISBN 9789512921348.
  3. ↑ Paasonen, Susanna (2005). Figures of fantasy: Internet, women, and cyberdiscourse. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820476070.
  4. ↑ "Profile: Susanna Paasonen, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku". Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  5. ↑ Maher, Janemaree; Huang Hoon, Chng (2008). "Gender, space, and discourse across borders: talking gender in cyberspace". Feminist Teacher. University of Illinois Press. 18 (3): 202–215. doi:10.1353/ftr.0.0016. JSTOR 40535484.
  6. ↑ Paasonen, Susanna. "Home page". susannapaasonen.org/ – via WordPress.
  7. ↑ Paasonen, Susanna; Kyrölä, Katariina (April 2015). "Glimmers of the forbidden fruit: reminiscing pornography, conceptualizing the archive". International Journal of Cultural Studies. Sage. doi:10.1177/1367877915580625.
  8. ↑ "Jutikkala Award for Media Studies Professor Susanna Paasonen". Helsingin Sanomat (Finnish). Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  9. ↑ Paasonen, Susanna (2011). Carnal resonance affect and online pornography. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262016315.
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