Sari Tuuva-Hongisto
Tutkimuspäällikkö
Digital youth, regional and rural youth, qualitative and ethnographic research
Research Manager
PhD, scholar of cultural studies and youth studies
My work at Xamk
In Youth Research and Development Centre Juvenia, I design and coordinate research projects and international projects. My research focuses on qualitative research on digital youth and rural youth
I work as a Research Manager at Juvenia and I was a Co-Project Leader in the Academy of Finland-funded research project “Dequal: Capturing Digital Social Inequality – Young digi-natives’ asymmetrical agencies within socio-technical imperatives and imaginaries” (2020-2024). My educational background is in cultural studies and my 2007 PhD thesis was on the development of the information society. My publications include scientific articles, studies and reports produced to support development activities.
Projects
DEQUAL: Capturing Digital Social Inequality Young digi-natives’ asymmetrical agencies within socio-technical imperatives and imaginaries
Villages on the Move Go
Freeride: Lasten fyysinen aktiivisuus, itsenäisyys ja tasa-arvo päivittäisessä liikkumisessa
Read more about my research
Reflections on Digital Ethnography and Digital Realms of Young People by Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro & Tuuva-Hongisto, Sari & Päivi Berg in Jantunen, J.H., Kalja-Voima, J., Laukkarinen, M., Puupponen, A., Salonen, M., Saresma, T., Tarvainen, J. & Ylönen, S. (Eds.) (2022). Diversity of Methods and Materials in Digital Human Sciences : Proceedings of the Digital Research Data and Human Sciences DRDHum Conference 2022, December 1-3, Jyväskylä, Finland. University of Jyväskylä, 83-94, 2022.
Digital Youth: Re-thinking ideals of digital imperatives and imaginaries by Tuuva-Hongisto, Sari & Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Kristiina in IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet 21(2), 101-114, 2023
Multilayered Affective Assemblages of Living Youth Online—Hotspots of Digital Wellbeing Among Finnish Teenagers by Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Kristiina & Tuuva-Hongisto, Sari in Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 2025
Digitalization: A New String in the Tangle of Social Inequalities? by
Päivi Armila, Sari Tuuva-Hongisto and Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro in “Young People in Times of Crises: Global Revelations and Social Change”, eds. Susan Eriksson & Alexis Buettgen, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025