✨ New article out with Paula Haara ✨ Very happy to be part of this collection of insightful works on historicising the technopolitics of migration and border control, edited by Michelle Pfeifer & Philipp Seuferling. Make sure to explore all contributions! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tracing histories of the ‘smart’ passport by focusing on infrastructural media

Smart passports rely on forms of infrastructural mediation that have been incrementally incorporated into border regimes over the last decades. For example, a solution developed for a specific soci...

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The Visual Studies book is in good company at the 42nd International Visual Sociology Association conference in South Korea 🙏 Thank you Han Sang Kim and colleagues, as well as the many student volunteers for a very informative and caring conference experience. #IVSA2025 #visualstudies

The New York Times has installed *Visual Studies*, a series that explores how images move through and shape culture. Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04...

Opinion | There’s More to Selfies Than Meets the Eye

Is a selfie embarrassing? It depends on how you think about it.

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It is spring 2025 and the book is today officially out ✨💫 I hope it will be useful to those of you who are interested in exploring how our ways of seeing impact on how we relate to each other, our selves, and the various worlds we inhabit. If interested, you can save 20% by using code 25ESA1

Asko Lehmuskallio@verlook.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited about this book, written together with the fantastic Paolo S H Favero. It has been such a joy to live, weave and share ideas together. Cover 📸 by one of my favourite artists, Maija Tammi. Available in spring 2025 🔥🥳 www.routledge.com/Visual-Studi...

Very excited about this book, written together with the fantastic Paolo S H Favero. It has been such a joy to live, weave and share ideas together. Cover 📸 by one of my favourite artists, Maija Tammi. Available in spring 2025 🔥🥳 www.routledge.com/Visual-Studi...

Today we discuss with the filmmakers of Kukaan ei katso sinua silmiin (No one looks you into the eyes) loneliness, camera-mediated sociality and the life around us that is only visible mediated via technologies. Incl screening of the film!