
Risto Turunen
Fields of expertise
Digital history
Project links
Selected publications
Turunen, R. & Ihalainen, P., 2025. “Finding Patterns Across Multiple Time Series Datasets: ‘Democracy’ in the British, Finnish and Swedish Parliaments and Press in the Twentieth Century”. Proceedings of the Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024), Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications – ISSN: 2704-1441.
Turunen, R. 2024. ”Ideologies as Conceptual Networks: Towards a Data-Intensive Approach”. Journal of Political Ideologies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2366812
Marzec, W., & Turunen, R., 2024. “Parliament and Revolution: Poland, Finland, and the End of the Empire in the Early Twentieth Century”. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 66(1), 155–184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417523000385
Hyvärinen, M., Kurunmäki, J., Turunen, R., Teräs, K., Andrushchenko, M. & Peltonen, J., 2023. ”‘Democracy’and ‘People’s Power’in the Finnish Parliament: the Struggle between Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy”. Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, 26(2), 117–140. https://doi.org/10.33134/rds.410
Sandberg, K., Andrushchenko, M., Turunen, R., Marjanen, J., Kurunmäki, J., Peltonen, J., Nummenmaa, T. & Nummenmaa, J., 2022. “Analyzing Temporalities in Parliamentary Speech about Ideologies Using Dependency Parsed Data”. Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), 406–414. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/paper40.pdf
Taskinen, I., Turunen, R. & Kivimäki, V., 2022. ”Religion, Patriotism and War Experience in Digitized Wartime Letters in Finland, 1939–44”. Journal of Contemporary History, 57(3), 577–596. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094211066006
Turunen, R., 2021. Shades of Red: Evolution of the Political Language of Finnish Socialism from the 19th Century until the Civil War of 1918. Helsinki: The Finnish Society for Labour History. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336197
Andrushchenko, M., Sandberg, K., Turunen, R., Marjanen, J., Hatavara, M., Kurunmäki, J., Nummenmaa, T., Hyvärinen, M., Teräs, K., Peltonen, J. & Nummenmaa, J., 2021. ”Using Parsed and Annotated Corpora to Analyze Parliamentarians’s Talk in Finland”. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(2), 1–15. DOI: 10.1002/asi.24500
Turunen, R., 2020. ”Macroscoping the Sun of Socialism: Distant Readings of Temporality in Finnish Labour Newspapers, 1895–1917”. In: Mats Fridlund, Mila Oiva & Petri Paju (Eds.), Digital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 303–323. DOI: 10.33134/HUP-5
Marzec, W. & Turunen, R., 2018. ”Socialisms in the Tsarist Borderlands: Poland and Finland in a Contrastive Comparison, 1830–1907”. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 13(1), 22–50. DOI: 10.3167/choc.2018.130103