Tero Karppi is Associate Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and holds a graduate appointment in the Faculty of Information.
Social Media, Computational culture and software studies, Affect theory, media theory
Tero Karppi is Associate Professor of Critical Computation and Digital Media. For a decade, Karppi has been working on the nascent field of disconnection studies focusing on how social media platforms engage their users and keep them captivated despite emerging desires to quit. He examines the role of social media in our daily lives and investigates how the power of these platforms is designed, established, and enacted.
Karppi is the author of Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds (Minnesota 2018), one of the authors of Undoing Networks (Minnesota/Meson 2021), and one of the editors of Reckoning with Social Media (Rowman & Littlefield 2021). Karppi’s research has been published in journals such as Theory Culture & Society, New Media & Society, and Convergence. An updated list of publications can be found here: https://terokarppi.com
Karppi has worked as a researcher at the University of Turku, and at the Game Research Laboratory, University of Tampere. Karppi did a PhD internship with Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research. Before joining U of T, Karppi was assistant professor of media theory at the Department of Media Study, at the University at Buffalo.
Karppi’s research is inspired by theories and approaches from media theory, internet studies, platform and software studies. Karppi is interested in supervising doctoral research focused on critical studies of digital and social media.
Books:
Disconnect. Facebook’s Affective Bonds, manuscript is contracted with University of Minnesota Press. Expected 2018.
Selected Articles:
Marc Böhlen and Tero Karppi,”Making of Robot Care,” Transformations Journal, No 29, 2017.
Tero Karppi, Marc Böhlen and Yvette Granata, “Killer Robots as Cultural Techniques,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, published online before print October 6, 2016.
Tero Karppi and Kate Crawford, “Social Media, Financial Algorithms and the Hack Crash.” Theory, Culture & Society, Published online before print May 4, 2015.
Kate Crawford, Jessa Lingel and Tero Karppi, “Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device,” European Journal of Cultural Studies Aug-Oct 2015 18: 479-496.
Tero Karppi, ”’Change Name to No One. Like People’s Statuses’ Facebook Trolling and Managing Online Personas.” The Fibreculture Journal, 2013, issue 22.
Tero Karppi, “Death Proof. On the Biopolitics and Noopolitics of Memorializing Dead Facebook Users.” Culture Machine 2013, Vol. 14.
Tero Karppi, ”Exploring Augmented Reality: On Users and Rewiring the Senses.” CTRL-Z: New Media Philosophy 2012, Issue 2.
Tero Karppi and Olli Sotamaa, “Rethinking Playing Research. DJ HERO and Methodological Observations in the Mix.“ Simulation & Gaming, June 2012 vol. 43 no. 3: 413-429.
Tero Karppi, “Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook.“ Transformations Journal 2011, Issue No.20.
CCT495: Code & Ethics
CCT365: Surveillance
CCT385: An Introduction to Media Environments
INFXXX: Special Topics in Information Studies: Critical Studies of Social Media
“Facebook Flow,” University of Toronto Mississauga, News, Tuesday, October 24, 2017: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/news/facebook-flow
“Lessons of the ‘hack crash’ from social media,” The Boston Globe, May 15, 2015: http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/05/15/lessons-of-the-hack-crash-from-social-media/
