Minna Vigren
Scholar

Minna Vigren

Google Scholar ID: wP3gQ20AAAAJ
Assistant professor (tenure track), LUT University
digital sustainabilitycritical agencyalternative futuresimaginationspeculative methods
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Citations
206
 
H-index
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Publications
20
 
Co-authors
5
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • A list of academic publications, conference presentations, workshops, and invited talks can be found on her website.
Research Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Global Communications and Climate Change at LUT University. Current project is 'Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures: Outlines for Eco-Digital Agency' (Research Council of Finland, 2022-2025). The project aims to develop methods to foster creative and radical imagination that challenges and resists the taken-for-grantedness of digital everyday life and its injustices and unsustainabilities.
Education
  • Defended her thesis 'Imaginaries of Agency in the Landscapes of Code' in 2020 at Tampere University.
Background
  • A digital sustainability scholar, interested in questions on imagination and alternative futures, the environmental footprint of digital technologies and lifestyle, agency, power, and resistance. In her interdisciplinary research, she combines critical internet studies, science and technology studies, environmental social science, human-computer interaction, radical pedagogics, and futures studies.
Miscellany
  • Feel free to contact her if you are interested in collaboration or supervision!