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Risto Turunen is a Research Fellow at Tampere University's Faculty of Social Sciences, within the Department of History, Philosophy and Literary Studies. His research focuses on digital humanities, conceptual history, and labor history. He contributes to the DIGIKÄKI project on digital history and handwritten sources.
His work emphasizes analyzing historical texts through digital methods, including emotion mining in Finnish war letters (1939–1944) and tracing temporalities in parliamentary speeches. Key themes include Finnish labor movements, socialist political language evolution, and transnational ideological exchanges between Polish and Finnish contexts under the Tsarist Empire.
Publications highlight distant reading approaches to labor newspapers, religious and patriotic expressions in wartime correspondence, and factory worker narratives in early 20th-century Finland. His research bridges historical analysis with computational methods, offering new perspectives on socio-political concepts.
Active in international collaborations, Turunen has contributed to edited volumes on labor history and presented at Nordic digital humanities conferences. His work reflects interdisciplinary engagement with both traditional historical sources and modern digital methodologies.
