Digital Histories

Mats Fridlund is Deputy Director for the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg. He has a PhD in History of Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. His research focuses on cultural and political history of science, technology and materiality. He has lead two Kone Foundation digital history projects and published on topic modelling in historical studies and used digital methodologies to study history of terrorism and Chinese industrialisation.

Mila Oiva is a cultural historian, digital humanist and anexpert on Russian and Polish history. She has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku. Currently she works as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at CUDAN Open Lab at the Tallinn University, Estonia. Her main research interest focuses on circulation of information which she has studied in research projects on 19th-century global news flows and contemporary Finnish and Russian internet forum discussions on medieval history.

Petri Paju is a cultural historian with research interests in the development of digital history and its uses, and in history of technology. He has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku. He has previously worked in digital history projects funded by the Kone Foundation and the Academy of Finland. He has written broadly on the history of technology in Finland and on computing history in the Nordic countries, and the IBM Company in postwar Europe.