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Perspectives on Digital Content Markets: A Literature Review of Trends in Technologies, Business and Consumer Behaviour

2010

In this paper, we focus on digital content markets (DCMs), which have typically been seen as an offspring of technological and business innovations. However, recent trends indicate that these two perspectives are not enough when attempting to understand how DCMs actually work. Technology is obviously a prerequisite for business innovations, which in turn provide new possibilities for consumers. Nevertheless, consumer behaviour is not only a result of technological and business innovations, but by itself a crucial factor of DCMs. In this paper, we attempt to clarify the general view of DCMs by carrying out a literature study that is based on the above mentioned three perspectives: technology…

Sosiaalinen media, kieli ja merkitykset

2017

Digital Humanities in the Cultural Environment

2013

Introduction: Exploring Nordic Game Research

2014

Nordic DiGRA 2012 Conference was held at the University of Tampere on June 6-8, 2012. In this Special Issue of the Transactions of DiGRA journal, we present a selection of the best papers of that conference.

The light, the dark, and everything else : making sense of young people's digital gaming

2023

Whether gaming has a beneficial or detrimental effect on young people's lives is a defining feature in both the research and the public discussion of youth digital gaming. In this qualitative study, we draw from a thematic analysis of the experiences of 180 game players in Finland, aged 15–25 years. Utilizing the digital gaming relationship (DGR) theory, we explore how different aspects of gaming actualize in their lives, and how different features of gaming culture participation come together to form their experience. We contend that framing gaming as a balancing act between beneficial and detrimental obscures much of the complexity of young people's gaming, reinforces a partially false di…

"Learning Online" for Vocational Teachers : Visualisation of a Competence-Based Approach in Digital Open Badge-Driven Learning

2018

Vocational education in Finland is based on competence-based qualification requirements. Meanwhile, digital open badges promote competence-based assessment and shared expertise in digital environments. The educational setting supports gamified learning solutions and enhances student motivation. The current study aims to examine how learners experience the competence-based approach in the badge-driven learning process of professional development. The theoretical framework focuses on the concept of instructional badging in the competence-based approach. Coordinated by the country’s northernmost school of profesional teacher education, “Learning Online” is a national professional development p…

Instrumentation for time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis

2016

Time-of-flight elastic recoil detection is an ion beam based method to analyze the elemental composition of thin film samples at different depths. In order to improve the mass resolution and to enable kinematic correction a position sensitive gas ionization chamber energy detector was constructed. This detector along with pre-existing timing detectors were connected to a modern fully digitizing data acquisition setup. This thesis describes the design of these instruments, including all aspects from the mechanical design of the gas ionization detector to the algorithm and software development of the digitizing acquisition setup. The performance of the system has been studied with measurements …

Improving Smart City Design : A Conceptual Model for Governing Complex Smart City Ecosystems

2018

Smart city concept is a viable nominee to solve the dilemmas urbanization creates globally. By means of digital technologies like Internet-of-Things, artificial intelligence and data analytics cities aim to optimize city performances like mobility, environment, security, health care and social services. Furthermore, cities actively endorse usage of digital technologies to foster digitalization and new business innovation to nurture local economy and social well-being. Smart city market is growing, but simultaneously fragmented smart city markets and initiatives face challenges with governance, ecosystem orchestration and continuity. Transformation to smart city is a complex long-term proces…

Digitalisaation vaikutukset yksilön kuluttajakäyttäytymiseen

2018

Digitalisaatio on integroitunut osaksi kaikkea nyky-yhteiskunnissa, ainakin län-simaissa, eikä kulutusympäristö ole poikkeus. Muuttuva kulutusympäristö asettaa uusia haasteita niin yksilöille, kuin organisaatioillekin käynnissä olevan digitaalisen muutoksen aikana. Muutokset ovat nopeita ja laajoja. Teknologia sekä niiden sovellukset kehittyvät ennennäkemättömällä vauhdilla, joka johtaa myös tuotteiden ja palveluiden nopeaan kehittymiseen sekä uusien ideoiden ja konseptien syntymiseen. Tämä tutkimus pyrkii selvittämään, mitkä ovat digi-talisaation merkittävämpiä muutoksia yksilön kuluttajakäyttäytymiselle ja tar-kastelemaan niiden merkittävyyttä. Tutkimus toteutettiin kirjallisuuskatsauk-se…

Antecedents of and their effect on trust in online word-of-mouth : case Finnish discussion forums

2011

The growing importance of digital marketing communications and digital marketing channels has raised challenges in understanding this new environment and consumers’ action within it. Objective of this study was to explore the dynamics of online word-of-mouth and consumers’ trust formation towards it. Literature review offers a comprehensive view to trust in its contradictory nature, to the unique characteristics of online word-of-mouth. Research was explanatory and causal, trying to find relationships between variables derived from previous studies and theory. Quantitative method was employed to measure following latent variables: Trustworthiness of a community, website quality, accuracy, r…