Tero Karppi
Professor
Information
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Tero Karppi is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and holds a graduate appointment in the Faculty of Information.Tero Karppi is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and holds a graduate appointment in the Faculty of Information.
Research Interest
Karppi’s research focuses on disconnections in social media and network culture in theory and in practice. Karppi is interested in understanding our culture of connectivity through different platforms and their operations – especially in the moments of failure. That is, when things crash, users leave social media sites, or our expectations of how technology should work fail. Often, his works try to challenge human-centric approaches and open our computational culture from non-human perspectives. His first book tentatively titled Disconnect. Facebook’s Affective Bonds is currently contracted with University of Minnesota Press.
