She is an Author, professor, and chair of Media Studies and the deputy director of the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, at the University of Turku, Susanna Paasonen’s research interests focus on media culture, Internet research, popular culture, sexuality, pornography and theories of affect. http://susannapaasonen.org/

PLASMA is sponsored by UB’s Media Study Dept. each Spring and co-sponsored by the Dept. of English, the Dept. of Geography, DISC (Committee on Digital Scholarship and Cultures), the Humanities Institute, the UB Technē Institute, and the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.  The series is open to the public, the UB Community and to all who are interested in any of the invited guests.  The public is enthusiastically welcome to come to one or any of the presented events free of charge.