University of Southampton

Faculty Member, Winchester School of Art

Reader in Media & Design

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Jussi Parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. He has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and is Reader in Media & Design at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). In addition, he is Adjunct Professor in Digital Culture Theory at University of Turku, Finland.

Parikka has published a book on “cultural theory in the age of digital machines” (Koneoppi, in Finnish) and his Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses is published by Peter Lang, New York, Digital Formations-series (2007). Parikka's Insect Media (2010) focuses on the media theoretical and historical interconnections of biology and technology. A co-edited volume the Spam Book: On Viruses, Spam, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture (Hampton Press) came out in 2009. June 2011 his co-edited volume Media Archaeology came out from University of California Press. His articles have been published e.g. in CTheory, Parallax, Postmodern Culture, Game Studies and Fibreculture, as well as in several Finnish journals and books.

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