Jussi Ville Tuomas Parikka (born 1976[1] in Anjalankoski) is a Finnish new media theorist[2] and Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark.
His texts have been translated into Hungarian, Czech, French, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Indonesian.
Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon.
The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software.
[7] He has also discussed this work in dialogue with historian Etienne Benson and media theorist Bernard Dionsius Geoghegan on the Cultural Technologies podcast.