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Antti Paakkari

Grant Holder, Post Doc Research
Tampere University
antti.paakkari [at] tuni.fi (antti[dot]paakkari[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358504007275

About me

My research interests include critical analysis of ed-tech, platform capitalism, child assessment and sociomaterial theories. I have worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Tampere University from 2021, leading a project on ed-tech and the privatization of public education. I have also worked in VADA that investigates new assessment practices in early childhood education. Currently I work together with Maiju Paananen, Anna Siippainen and Hanna Toivonen in the Datachild project that investigates the social justice implications of child data. 

Selected publications

Paakkari, Antti, Paananen, Maiju & Grieshaber, Susan (2023) Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care. Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682231172861 

Valasmo, Verneri, Paakkari, Antti & Sahlström, Fritjof (2023) Invisible Participation: A Sociomaterial Analysis of a Synchronous Distance Lesson During Emergency Remote Teaching. Digital Culture & Education.  

Valasmo, Verneri, Paakkari, Antti & Sahlström, Fritjof (2022) The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom. Learning, Media & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2067176 

Paakkari, Antti (2020) Entangled devices. An Ethnographic study on students, mobile phones and capitalism. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/310928   

Paakkari Antti, Rautio, Pauliina & Valasmo, Verneri (2019) Digital labour in school: Smartphones and their consequences in classrooms. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. Volume 21, June 2019, pp. 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2019.03.004   

Paakkari, Antti & Rautio, Pauliina (2019) ‘What is puberty, then?’ Smartphones and Tumblr images as de/re-territorialisations in an upper secondary school classroom. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Volume 40, no. 6, pp. 873-888. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1451304   

Paakkari, Antti (2020) Inlärningens nya teknologier: hur plattformskapitalismen fann sin väg till skolan. Ekonomiska samfundets tidskrift 2/2020. https://www.ekonomiskasamfundet.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/EST-2-20-artikel6.pdf   

Paakkari, Antti (2020) Mitä puhelimet koulussa tekevät? Näkökulmia mobiilietknologioiden, koulun ja kapitalismin suhteisiin. Kasvatus 51(3).

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