Iiris Jokela

I study the entanglements of friendship and violence among children and young people in everyday school life and narratives. My doctoral research examines how mechanisms that normalize peer violence are formed within postdigital relations, where digital and everyday life are entangled.

My research makes visible the everyday ways in which violence becomes part of young people’s relationships and develops tools for identifying and disrupting the norms that enable and conceal violence in postdigital environments.

I am conducting my doctoral research as part of the Research Council of Finland–funded project Normalizing mechanisms of peer violence among children and young people (MEND). My work is also supported by the FAVE spearhead project of the Eudaimonia Institute and by the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation.

In my role as a university teacher in technology-enhanced learning and work, I also collaborate closely with researchers in the Generation AI project (Strategic Research Council).