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Diffusion of Drone Journalism: the Case of Finland, 2011-2020
2020
This article details Finnish news organizations’ adoption of drones for journalistic purposes from 2011 to 2020. The theoretical starting point of the article is Rogers’ (1962) diffusion of innovations theory, which explains how new ideas and technologies spread in societies. The main empirical data for the study were derived from a phone survey conducted among the 80 most popular newspapers in Finland. The findings reveal that drone journalism in Finland has already diffused from a few pioneering organizations to a large number of newsrooms, including regional, mid-sized newspapers. Most of the newspapers are either using in-house drones, buying commissioned images, or using both strategie…
Techno-cultural opportunities: the anti-immigration movement in the Finnish mediascape
2015
Horsti's article analyses how transformations in the media environment shaped the political success of the anti-immigration movement in Finland from 2003 to 2013. The qualitative textual analysis of blogs and mainstream media debates that relate to racism and the national populist Finns Party demonstrates how changes in the mediascape in general and in new media technology in particular have provided opportunities for the emerging anti-immigration movement. These changes facilitated the earlier development of the Finns Party but the fragmentation of online space later hindered the internal coherence of the movement and its integration into the populist party political family. In order to re…
Gesture recognition using low-cost devices: Techniques, applications, perspectives
2016
Negli ultimi anni abbiamo assistito ad una grande diffusione dei cosiddetti “Kinect-like devices”, ovvero dispositivi basati su un insieme di sensori a basso costo, che consentono di ottenere un’immagine di profondità della scena ripresa. L’alta accessibilità di questi dispositivi, principalmente in termini di costi, ne ha facilitato la diffusione nell’ambito del riconoscimento dei gesti in numerose applicazioni, sia commerciali che di ricerca. In questo articolo saranno inizialmente illustrati i principi generali su cui si fondano le principali tecniche utilizzate per riconoscere i gesti, sfruttando i dati ottenibili dai dispositivi “Kinect-like”. Successivamente, saranno presentati alcuni…
Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo
2017
The essay situates the “not Shakespeare” of this volume within the theoretical problematics of the “post-textual.” It re-elaborates the “post-textual” as the uncanny re-appearance of Shakespeare in the form of heterogeneous fragments that are made to cohabit with various textual and media environments. These media products include a “Shakespeare” that is not quite Shakespeare, an “entity” that becomes the site of unceasing transactions (for instance, between an “outside” and an “inside,” between visibility and invisibility, between the “original” and its iteration) and multiple contaminations (through media, characters, and plays).