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• DIG1t0

I have published about 80 blind peer-reviewed articles and/or papers, three monographs and five edited books. I have supervised four doctoral dissertations and worked as an opponent in ten public defenses. My work has earned two research awards. I was also elected a member of the Board of the University of Tampere (2013–2018) as a representative of teachers and researchers. I have led a number of interdisciplinary research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, Kone Foundation, the Ministry of Education, the Finnish Work Environmental Fund, the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Tekes, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Wihuri Foundation and Gyllenberg Foundation.  

My ongoing research project "Democracy, Language and the Politics of Algorithms Steering Vulnerable Citizens in Society" (DIG1t0, 2022-2025) concerns the automation of public administration and digital services and its impact on the conditions for democracy, especially from the perspective of vulnerable citizens. We are seeking answers to the questions what kind of epistemic (in)justice automated systems and digital services provide to vulnerable citizens and how such politics of algorithms transforms the conditions of democracy in society. In particular, we will focus on the complex role of language as part of using and designing public digital services.

This project utilises the methodology of citizen science. Three experts by experience from Mielen ry contribute to the scientific process by gathering data and generating results in collaboration with professional researchers. This multidisciplinary project creatively combines empirical linguistic studies and social science research with AI ethics, philosophical epistemology and political theory. Utilising diverse qualitative data, the project relies on multimodal interaction analysis, document analysis and argumentation analysis in its methodology. The results are disseminated to the public through a live science theatre performance, bringing researchers and citizen researchers on stage.

Member of the Board of the University of Tampere as a representative of teachers and researchers (2013–2018)  

Parviainen, J. & Coeckelbergh, M. (2024) Sophia the Robot as a Political Choreography to Advance Economic Interests: An Exercise in Political Phenomenology and Critical Performance-Oriented Philosophy of Technology. In: Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts (Eds.) Thiemo Breyer, Alexander Gerner, Niklas Grouls, Johannes Schick. Springer, pp. 57-66 

Jensen, R., Jonasson, C., Gartmeier, M. & Parviainen, J. (2023) Learning from errors in digital patient communication: Professionals’ enactment of negative knowledge and digital ignorance in the workplace. Journal of Workplace Learning https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-12-2022-0177

Kinnunen, T., Parviainen, J. & Haho, A (2023) The Skills and Ethics of Professional Touch: From Theory to Practice. Palgrave Macmillan

Parviainen, J. (2023) The politics of imaginary technologies: Innovation ecosystems as political choreographies for promoting care robotics in health care. In: Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence, ed. Simon Lindgren. Edward Elgar, 793-803. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928562.00080

Parviainen, J. & Koski, A. (2023) ‘In the future, as robots become more widespread’. A phenomenological approach to imaginary technologies in healthcare organisations’. In: The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies, eds. François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles, and Mar Perezts. Oxford University Press, 277–296.

Sendra, A., Torkkola, S. & Parviainen, J. (2023) AstraZeneca vaccine controversies in the media: Theorizing about the mediatization of ignorance in the context of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Health Communication https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2171951

Sendra, A., Torkkola, S. & Parviainen, J. (2023) Non-knowledge in medical practices: Approaching the uses of social media in healthcare from an epistemological perspective. Journal of Digital Social Research 5(1): 70-89. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v5i1.152

Parviainen, J. Koski, A., & Alanen, P. (2022). Tackling the Corona pandemic: Managing nonknowledge in political decision-making. In M. Gross & L. McGoey (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2nd edition) (pp. 211–220). London: Routledge

Auvinen, P., Parviainen, J., Lahikainen, L. & Palukka, H. (2021) Discussion protocol for alleviating epistemic injustice: The case of community rehabilitation interaction and female substance abusers. Social Sciences 10(2), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020045

Parviainen, J. & Koski, A. & Torkkola, S. (2021) ‘Building a ship while sailing it’. Epistemic humility and the temporality of non-knowledge in political decision-making on the COVID-19. Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy 10.1080/02691728.2021.1882610

Parviainen J., Ridell S. (2021) Infrastructuring Bodies: Choreographies of Power in the Computational City. In: Nagenborg M., Stone T., González Woge M., Vermaas P.E. (eds) Technology and the City. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52313-8_8

Parviainen, J. & Coeckelbergh, M. (2020) The political choreography of the Sophia Robot: From robot rights and citizenship to political performances for the social robotics market. AI & Society. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-020-01104-w

Van Aerschot, L. & Parviainen, J. (2020) Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance. Ethics and Information Technology Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09536-0

Parviainen, J., Van Aerschot, L., Särkikoski, T., Pekkarinen, S., Melkas, H. & Hennala, L. (2019) Motions with emotions? A phenomenological approach to understand the simulated aliveness of a robot body. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 23(3): 318–341. https://www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=techne_2019_0023_0003_0318_0341&file_type=pdf

Parviainen, J. & Lahikainen, L. (2019) Negative expertise in the conditions of manufactured ignorance: Epistemic strategies, virtues, and skills. Synthese, pp. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02315-5

• Commitment and Self-Evaluation: Individual and Collective

Chair, Academic Board of Tampere University (Konsistori), until the end of 2025.

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• Journal of Social Ontology
• International Social Ontology Society
• Social Ontology 2019@Tampere

Peer-reviewed:

• Parviainen, Jaana, Teräsahde, Sini, Alanen, Paula, Koski, Anne, Rantala, Juho, “This is a matter of life and death for efficiency”: The datafication of public employment services and its consequences for epistemically vulnerable citizens. AI & Society. Forthcoming 2026.
• Ala-Ruona, Jari, Korhonen, Outi & Rantala, Juho, DAO Ontology – Transindividuation and Energy as Example. In: The De Gruyter Handbook of Blockchain and Society. Eds. Lachlan Robb & John Flood. [Forthcoming 2026.]
• Laitinen, Arto, Parviainen, Jaana, Sahlgren, Otto & Rantala, Juho, Robotics. In: Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics in the Social Sciences. Eds. Tuija Takala & Matti Häyry. 2023. URL: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/concise-encyclopedia-of-applied-ethics-in-the-social-sciences-9781800881686.html
• Teräsahde, Sini, Parviainen, Jaana, Alanen, Paula & Rantala, Juho, Latourin toimijaverkostoteoria tutkijan matkaoppaana. Sosiologia 60(3–4), 2023, 166–178. URL: https://journal.fi/sosiologia/article/view/142392
• Rantala, Juho & Muilu, Mirka, Simondon, Control, and the Digital Domain. Theory, Culture & Society 41(4), 23–40. 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231201337 .
• Korhonen, Outi & Rantala, Juho, Value as Potentiality: Blockchain and the Age of Institutional Challenges. In: Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance, and Political Ecology. Eds. Isabel Feichtner & Geoff Gordon. Routledge 2023. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003221920-12 .
• Latikka, Rita, Rubio, Rosana, Simona Lohan, Elena, Rantala, Juho, Nieto, Fernando, Laitinen, Arto & Oksanen, Atte, Older Adults’ Loneliness, Social Isolation and Physical ICT: A Literature Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(12). URL: https://doi.org/10.2196/28022 .
• Korhonen, Outi & Rantala, Juho, Blockchain Governance Challenges: Beyond Libertarianism. American Journal of International Law: Unbound. Vol. 115, 2021, 408–412. URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2021.65 .
• Rantala, Juho, Lohkoketjun automatisoima laki ja hallinta. Teoksessa Informaatioteknologian filosofia, etiikka ja digitalisoitunut yhteiskunta. Toim. Mika Laakkonen. SoPhi, Jyväskylä 2021, 177–194. URL: https://jyx.jyu.fi/jyx/Record/jyx_123456789_78647.
• Parviainen, Jaana & Rantala, Juho, Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10049-w .
• Rantala, Juho, Anthropomorphism in Social Robotics: Simondon and the Human in Technology. In M. Nørskov, J. Seibt & O. Santiago Quick (eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 335: Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2020, 490–500. URL: http://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/FAIA200946.
• Rantala, Juho, Blockchain as a Medium for Transindividual Collective. Culture, Theory and Critique. Vol. 60, No. 3–4, 2019: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14735784.2019.1694213
• Rantala, Juho, Lohkoketjuteknologian yhteiskunta. Osa II: rajatut, desentralisoidut markkinat. niin & näin 1/2018, [Verkkoteksti]. Verkossa: http://netn.fi/node/7293 .
• Rantala, Juho, Lohkoketjuteknologian yhteiskunta. Osa I: lohkoketjuteknologiaa Bitcoinista Ethereumiin. niin & näin 1/2018, 45–58. Verkossa: http://netn.fi/node/7283.

Other important (excerpts):

• Olsson, Thomas, Sahlgren, Otto, Parviainen, Jaana, Westerstrand, Salla, Harviainen, J. Tuomas, Laitinen, Arto & Rantala, Juho, Preface. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Technology Ethics 2024 (Tethics 2024). Eds. Olsson, Thomas, Sahlgren, Otto, Parviainen, Jaana, Westerstrand, Salla, Harviainen, J. Tuomas, Laitinen, Arto & Rantala, Juho. Tampere University, 2025. URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3901/.
• Rantala, Juho, Alanen, Paula & Parviainen, Jaana, Mitä toistettavuusongelmat tuovat tullessaan tekoälytutkimukseen? niin & näin 4/22, 47-59. URL: https://netn.fi/artikkelit/mita-toistettavuusongelmat-tuovat-tullessaan-tekoalytutkimukseen/
• Rantala, Juho & Korhonen, Outi, Lohkoketjuteknologian yhteiskunta. Osa III: Hajahuomioita uniikeista tokeneista. niin & näin 3/2021. URL: https://netn.fi/node/8151.
• Korhonen, Outi, Rantala, Juho, Markovich, Ekaterina, Jylhä-Vuorio, Henrik, Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne, Kumpula, Anne & Alitalo, Oona, “The DAO Listing” - A Collection of Past and Present DAO Projects (Draft). Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland, 2021. URL: https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/153229.
• Korhonen, Outi & Rantala, Juho, The Case Against Ripple: Microhistories of Cases in the Blockchain Space. Crypto Law Review 5.9.2021. URL: https://medium.com/cryptolawreview/the-case-against-ripple-microhistories-of-cases-in-the-blockchain-space-c446ab85394a
• Rantala, Juho, Gilbert Simondon ja robotin automatismi. Teoksessa T. Särkikoski, T. Turja & J. Parviainen (toim.) Robotin hoiviin? – Yhteiskuntatieteen ja filosofian näkökulmia palvelurobotiikkaan. Vastapaino, Tampere, 2020, 51–53.
• Korhonen, Outi & Rantala, Juho, Lohkoketjuteknologian sääntely – Libran haasteet. Politiikasta.fi 14.8.2020. Verkossa: https://politiikasta.fi/lohkoketjuteknologian-saantely-libran-haasteet/.
• Rantala, Juho, Johdatus Simondoniin. niin & näin 2/2020. Verkossa (täyspitkä versio): https://netn.fi/node/7612. [Painetussa lehdessä lyhennelmä.]
• Parviainen, Jaana & Rantala, Juho, Ennakoiva analytiikka ja tekoälyn etiikka: miten ennakoivat teknologiat taipuvat hallintajärjestelmäksi? Futura 1/2020, 61–70.
• Korhonen, Outi & Rantala, Juho, Values as Potentiality – Blockchain and the Age of Institutional Challenges. Verfassungsblog 8.3.2020. URL: https://verfassungsblog.de/value-as-potentiality-blockchain-and-the-age-of-institutional-challenges/ .
• Rantala, Juho, The Notion of Information in Early Cybernetics and in Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy. [Draft paper] Academia.edu. 2018. Verkossa: https://www.academia.edu/38104583/The_Notion_of_information_in_early_cybernetics_and_in_Gilbert_Simondons_philosophy
• Rantala, Juho, Einstein ja Bergson ajan rannalla. niin & näin 3/2018, 65–72. URL: https://netn.fi/node/7738 .
• Rantala, Juho, Koodin ja ohjelmiston filosofiasta. niin & näin 1/2018, 101–108. URL: https://netn.fi/node/7674.
• Rantala, Juho, Corps sans Organes – Pakosuunnitelma subjektin, velan ja uusliberalismin otteesta? Pro Gradu -tutkielma. Tampereen yliopisto, Tampere 2016. Verkossa: https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/100016 .
• Rantala, Juho, Sosiaalinen media osana sosiaalityötä. Teoksessa Yhteisöt ja yhteisösosiaalityön lähtökohdat. Toim. Irene Roivainen & Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö. Unipress Global 2016, 86–94.
• Rantala, Juho, Elokuva – maailman elimetön ruumis: Deleuzen bergsonilainen elokuvan filosofian kamera-tietoisuuden subjekti. Kandidaatintutkielma, Tampereen yliopisto, Tampere 2014.