A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and

April 14th, 2026, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley, then a college student, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming […]

Applications are invited for the post of director in the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku. The position will be filled on a permanent basis beginning on 1 October...

The Turku Intersectoral Excellence Scheme 2 (TIES2) is jointly funded by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska Curie-actions (MSCA) COFUND programme and the University of Turku. It is located within t...

What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and, by extension, from including sex in definitions of “the social&rd...

TIES is a ground-breaking fellowship scheme based at UTU Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). Eight TIES Fellows were appointed to three-year positions in 2023.Now TIAS invites applications fo...

The University of Turku invites applications for two fixed-term postdoctoral researcher positions for a period of two years within the thematic profiling area Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age (Dig...

FM Valo Vähäpassi defends the dissertation in Media Studies titled “Framing Trans. Affective Articulations of Trans Bodies and Violence” at the University of Turku on 26 May 2025 at 12.00 (University ...

It was announced today that the 2025 Holberg Prize is awarded to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Daniela Alaattinoğlu will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest…

The roundtable, ‘Shaping Pleasure, Shifting Boundaries: A Roundtable on the Future of Porn Studies,’ took place in June 2024 via Zoom and was recorded, transcribed and then edited to cut digression...

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MA Ihsan Can Asman defends the dissertation in Media Studies titled “Intimate Happenings: Uses of porn and other sexual media in Turkey” at the University of Turku on 22 November 2024 at 11.00 (Univer...