Digital Economy & Society

Digital Economy & Society

The DES research group explores the interplay between the human and the digital. We study the economic, psychological, and social aspects of digitalization. We investigate digitalization on individual, organizational, and societal levels.

Research themes

Our research activities fall under three major themes: responsible artificial intelligence,
user behavior in digital environments and socio-technical systems. Click the theme to find out more.

THE CORE RESEARCH team

The DES research group is based in the Turku School of Economics (Turku, Finland).
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Director Matti Mäntymäki
Matti Mäntymäki

Professor
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Matti Minkkinen
Matti Minkkinen

Senior Researcher
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Professor of practice Teemu Birkstedt
Teemu Birkstedt

Professor of Practice
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Featured publications

AI governance: themes, knowledge gaps and future agendas

Following the surge of documents laying out organizations’ ethical principles for their use of artificial...
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Deepfakes: Deceptions, mitigations, and opportunities

Deepfakes—artificial but hyper-realistic video, audio, and images created by algorithms—are one of the latest technological...
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