projects

Pleasing the algorithm

Funding
Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (2023-2024)
Project leader
Tuukka Lehtiniemi
Team
Jesse Haapoja, Hanna Reinikainen, Laura Savolainen
Briefly
We examine how cultural production on digital platforms is shaped by the need to “please the algorithm”

Valuable breakages: repair and renewal of algorithmic systems

(REPAIR)
Funding
STN 2022-2025
Website
https://www.repair-research.fi/
Project leader
Minna Ruckenstein
Team
Johannes Mikkonen, Veera Koskinen, Jenni Hakkarainen, Raul Hakli, Riikka Koulu, Pekka Mäkelä, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Laura Savolainen, Minna van Gerven, Aleksander Heikkinen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Essi Mustonen, Dominik Siemon, Tuuli Toivikko, Maiju Tanninen
Briefly
REPAIR explores trust and security in the age of algorithms with the lens offered by breakdown and renewal

Reimagining public values in algorithmic futures

(REIMAGINE ADM)
Funding
CHANSE 2022-2025
Website
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/reimagining-public-values-in-algorithmic-futures
Project leader
Minna Ruckenstein
Team
David Moats, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, Perle Møhl, Alev Kuruoglu, Rajko Mursic, Ajda Pretnar Žagar, Dan Podjed, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Maiju Tanninen, Elisa Lievevrouw, Julia Velkova, Maria Eidenskog,
Briefly
By consolidating empirically informed and imaginative ways of addressing values in socio-technical systems, our project promotes societally sensitive understandings of algorithmic systems and futures.

Re-humanizing automated decision-making

Funding
(Academy of Finland 2020–2024)
Project leader
Minna Ruckenstein
Briefly
By re-humanizing ADM, we refer to the uncovering of human forces at play in automation.