People

• Emerging Technologies Lab
• Online addictions
• Social Media at Work
• AI in Society
• Cyberhate
• Urban utopias and dystopias: artificial intelligence in art and society (UrbanAI)
• Gambling in the Digital Age
• Self and Technology EU-6
• AI Disruption at Work (WorkAI)

2022–2025 Board member, Finnish Research Infrastructures Committee, Academy of Finland 

2022–2024 Board member, Research Council for Culture and Society, Academy of Finland 

2021–2022 Member assessment group for gambling harms and risks, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 

2020– A-Clinic Foundation, member of board 

2019–2020 Member assessment group for gambling harms and risks, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 

Currently editorial board member of Scientific Reports (Nature) and Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.

1. Oksanen, A., Celuch, M., Latikka, R., Oksa, R., & Savela, N. (2022). Hate and harassment in academia: The rising concern of the online environment. Higher Education, 84, 541–567.

2. Oksanen, A., Oksa, R., Savela, N. Mantere, E., Savolainen, I., & Kaakinen, M. (2021). COVID-19 Crisis and Digital Stressors at Work: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study. Computers in Human Behavior https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106853. 

3. Savela, N., Oksanen, A., Pellert, M, & Garcia, D. (2021). Emotional reactions to robot colleagues in a role-playing experiment. International Journal of Information Management, 60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102361. 

4. Oksanen, A., Kaakinen, M., Minkkinen, J., Räsänen, P., Enjolras, B., & Steen-Johnsen, K. (2020). Perceived societal fear and cyberhate after the November 2015 Paris Terrorist Attacks. Terrorism & Political Violence, 32(5), 1047–1066. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2018.1442329.   

5. Keipi, T., Näsi, M., Oksanen, A., & Räsänen, P. (2017). Online Hate and Harmful Content: Cross-National Perspectives. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.   

6. Aaltonen, M., Oksanen, A., & Kivivuori, J. (2016). Debt Problems and Crime. Criminology, 54(2), 307–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12103.  

7. Oksanen, A., Aaltonen, M., & Kivivuori, J. (2015). Driving under the Influence as a Turning Point? A Register-based Study on Financial and Social Consequences among First-time Male Offenders. Addiction, 110(3), 471–478. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12777.   

8. Oksanen, A., Garcia, D., Sirola, A., Näsi, M., Kaakinen, M., Keipi, T., & Räsänen, P. (2015). Pro-Anorexia and anti-pro-anorexia videos on YouTube: Sentiment analysis of user responses. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(11):e256. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5007.  

9. Oksanen, A. Hawdon, J., & Räsänen, P. (2014). Glamorizing Rampage Online: School Shooting Fan Communities on YouTube. Technology in Society, 39, 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2014.08.001.  

10. Oksanen, A. (2013). Deleuze and the Theory of Addiction. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 45(1), 57–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2013.763563. 

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Education

2020 Doctor of Social Sciences in Social Psychology Tampere University, Finland

2016 Master of Science in Psychological Science, Tulane University, United States

2015 Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Tulane University, United States

• Problem gambling and social media
• Emerging technologies lab

1. Sirola. A., Savela, N., Savolainen, I., Kaakinen, M. & Oksanen, A. (2019) The role of virtual communities in gambling and gaming behaviors: A systematic review. Journal of Gambling Studies (online first), DOI: 10.1007/s10899-020-09946-1

2. Sirola., A., Kaakinen, M., Savolainen, I. & Oksanen, A. (2019) Loneliness and online gambling-community participation of young social media users. Computers in Human Behavior 95(June), 136-145. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.01.023

3. Sirola, A., Kaakinen, M., Turja, T. & Oksanen, A. (2019). (Un)doing Deviance: Pro-anorexia on YouTube. In M. Wright (Ed.), Digital Technology: Advances in Research and Applications. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

4. Sirola, A., Kaakinen, M. & Oksanen, A. (2018) Excessive gambling and online gambling communities. Journal of Gambling Studies, DOI: 10.1007/s10899-018-9772-0.

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