Joni Jaakola is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He defended his PhD thesis titled “Welfare technologies in Finland: An ethico-politics of hype, hope and experimentation” in 2023 at the University of Turku. His thesis focused on assessing the high expectations related to emerging welfare technologies. Having background in science and technology studies and the sociology of health and illness, Jaakola has published on issues concerning social robotics, telecare arrangements and vaccine hesitancy, usually with an ethnographic approach. Presently, Jaakola is interested in the domestication processes related to home care technologies.
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Joni Jaakola, postdoctoral researcher
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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Publications
Jaakola, J. (2020) Ethics by Other Means? Care Robot Trials as Ethics-in-Practice. Tecnoscienza 11(2), 53–72.
Jaakola, J. (2023) Risk and Uncertainty in Telecare: The Case of the Finnish ’Elsi’. Science & Technology Studies 36(2), 47–59.
Nurmi, J. and Jaakola, J. (2023) Losing Trust: Processes of Vaccine Hesitancy in Parents’ Narratives. Social Science & Medicine 331.
Jaakola, J. (2023) Risk and Uncertainty in Telecare: The Case of the Finnish ’Elsi’. Science & Technology Studies 36(2), 47–59.
Jaakola, J. (2020) Ethics by Other Means? Care Robot Trials as Ethics-in-Practice. Tecnoscienza 11(2), 53–72.