About me
My research interests include critical analysis of ed-tech, platform capitalism, child assessment and sociomaterial theories. I have worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Tampere University from 2021, leading a project on ed-tech and the privatization of public education. I have also worked in VADA that investigates new assessment practices in early childhood education. Currently I work together with Maiju Paananen, Anna Siippainen and Hanna Toivonen in the Datachild project that investigates the social justice implications of child data.
Selected publications
Paakkari, Antti, Paananen, Maiju & Grieshaber, Susan (2023) Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care. Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682231172861
Valasmo, Verneri, Paakkari, Antti & Sahlström, Fritjof (2023) Invisible Participation: A Sociomaterial Analysis of a Synchronous Distance Lesson During Emergency Remote Teaching. Digital Culture & Education.
Valasmo, Verneri, Paakkari, Antti & Sahlström, Fritjof (2022) The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom. Learning, Media & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2067176
Paakkari, Antti (2020) Entangled devices. An Ethnographic study on students, mobile phones and capitalism. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/310928
Paakkari Antti, Rautio, Pauliina & Valasmo, Verneri (2019) Digital labour in school: Smartphones and their consequences in classrooms. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. Volume 21, June 2019, pp. 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2019.03.004
Paakkari, Antti & Rautio, Pauliina (2019) ‘What is puberty, then?’ Smartphones and Tumblr images as de/re-territorialisations in an upper secondary school classroom. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Volume 40, no. 6, pp. 873-888. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1451304
Paakkari, Antti (2020) Inlärningens nya teknologier: hur plattformskapitalismen fann sin väg till skolan. Ekonomiska samfundets tidskrift 2/2020. https://www.ekonomiskasamfundet.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/EST-2-20-artikel6.pdf
Paakkari, Antti (2020) Mitä puhelimet koulussa tekevät? Näkökulmia mobiilietknologioiden, koulun ja kapitalismin suhteisiin. Kasvatus 51(3).
Latest publications
Arvioinnin uudet teknologiat ja muuttuvat ympäristöt
Paakkari, A., 2025, Mitattu lapsuus: Varhaiskasvatuksen arviointi Suomessa. Siippainen, A. & Paananen, M. (eds.). Gaudeamus, p. 193-214Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Assembling desire. Analyzing the rollout of self-tracking devices in early childhood education
Paakkari, A. & Siippainen, A., 10 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: LEARNING, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Kohti arvioinnin vaihtoehtoisia tulevaisuuksia ja utopioita
Teräs, M. & Paakkari, A., 2025, Mitattu lapsuus: Varhaiskasvatuksen arviointi Suomessa. Siippainen, A. & Paananen, M. (eds.). Gaudeamus, p. 217-232Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Review of Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn (2023). Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life
Paakkari, A., 2024, In: Postdigital Science and Education.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Scientific
Sticky, slippery, and smooth access–exploring the affective potentials of access to writing technology in lower secondary classrooms
Högström, J., Paakkari, A., Nilsberth, M. & Slotte, A., 5 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: LEARNING, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care
Paakkari, A., Paananen, M. & Grieshaber, S., 2023, In: Childhood. 30, 3, p. 301-316Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Cracks in the Sidewalk: Looking Behind the Seamless Surfaces of Digital Schooling
Paakkari, A. & Valasmo, V., 2023, Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2: Aporias of Complexity in Power, Politics and Methods in Education. Baker, B., Saari, A., Wang, L. & Tavares, H. (eds.). London: Routledge, Vol. 2. p. 168-181 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Imaginaries of ECEC: A comparison of policies of access in early childhood education in Brazil, Finland, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, and Serbia
Paananen, M., Centeno, V. G., Fjällström, S., Bhattarai, D. P., Jovanović, G., Madureira Ferreira, J., Millei, Z., Rosa Ribeiro, C., Paakkari, A., Sadat Sajjadieh, N., Tholchah, M. & Varpanen, J., 15 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Early Childhood Education Research. 12, 3, p. 145-180 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Invisible Participation: A Sociomaterial Analysis of a Synchronous Distance Lesson during Emergency Remote Teaching
Valasmo, V., Paakkari, A., Sahlström, F., Backholm-Nyberg, Y. & Majors, J., 2023, In: Digital Culture & Education. 14, 4, p. 112-132 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
The device on the desk–a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom
Valasmo, V., Paakkari, A. & Sahlström, F., 2023, In: LEARNING, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY. 48, 3, p. 429-443Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review