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Pyhäpäivien vietto varhaismodernin ajan Savossa (vuoteen 1710)

2016

In this dissertation, I study the observance of holy days among the peasantry in the early modern province of Savo, located on the eastern periphery of the Swedish kingdom (today Eastern Finland). I examine the practices, norms and meanings related to the observance of holy days both within and outside the Church, and analyse the changes and continuities in the post-reformation period. As the main sources of the study, I use district court records and visitation records mainly from the period 1639–1712. I analyse the cases with a micro-historical perspective and an anthropological approach. The lived religion of the peasantry was constituted especially through practices that were connected …

A Patchworking Process : Coming Together under Pandemic Conditions for Collaborative, Caring Scholarship

2021

In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, the authors in this special issue came together within the Massive Microscopic Sensemaking (MMS) writing project in the spring of 2020. Collectively grappling with the impact of the extended pandemic, each paper in this issue touches on experiences of social isolation, making do, and a technological reaching out under conditions of a public health crisis. This introduction describes the issue’s ‘patchwork’ development which reflects an attempt to break from traditions of academic scholarship that often fail to recognize the value of emergent, and therefore uncertain, cross-disciplinary and collective work.

Listening to and Living With Networked Media During a Pandemic

2021

This article explores mediated listening from the perspective of intimacy during the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. The theoretical frame builds on the literature on listening and presence in mediated environments, audience engagement, and intimacy as meaningful connections. Methodologically, the study is connective ethnography, and the data was collected by collaborative autoethnography. Our data show that listening was an individual sensemaking strategy of the outside world and a means to form connectedness. Threading between different screens on digital platforms caused the collapse of public and private contexts, and through these, particular types of intimacy arose. When the …

People power : the role of civil society in renewable energy production

2018

The engagement of civil society actors in energy generation can be defined by the term community energy. Community energy initiatives have increased in several countries. This thesis aims at better understanding how this phenomenon emerges and how it can contribute to the decarbonization of our economy. For this purpose, a multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions and strategic niche management theory were employed as theoretical lenses. The research material consisted of 75 qualitative interviews, a survey of 26 distributed energy experts, and a panel data study of 66 large electric utilities from various countries. Thematic, narrative, regression and descriptive statistical a…

Naapuriapu maaseudulla

2012

Johdanto: Naapuriapu on arjessa auttamista, se on vapaaehtoisuuteen ja yhteisöllisyyteen perustuvaa toisista huolehtimista. Naapuriapu on arkinen toimintamuoto, joka liitetään lähes itsestään selväksi osaksi kylien ja myös harvaan asutun maaseudun elämää. On luontevaa tehdä yhteistyötä muiden, samalla alueella asuvien ja samankaltaisia arjen haasteita kohtaavien kanssa. Naapuriapu voi saada monenlaisia muotoja: se voi olla esimerkiksi polttopuiden hakkaamista, satunnaista lastenhoitoapua, yhteisiä työkoneita ja töiden tekemistä talkoilla. Se voi olla myös suunniteltua ja pysyväisluontoista toimintaa kuten kyytirinkejä tai kylällä asuvan vanhuksen säännöllistä auttamista johon useampi ”rinki…

Bacterial communities in stratified humic lakes

2012

Monitoring the issue arenas of the swine-flu discussion

2013

Purpose: This paper seeks to describe the changing organizational environment and stakeholder debate currently taking place in various “issue arenas” during a crisis. Organizations today need to find and monitor these arenas before being able to communicate with their stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: Communications of authorities and discussions by citizens are studied and analyzed in a case study related to the 2009 swine flu or influenza A (H1N1) episode in Finland. The organizational point of view is studied through media releases of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), and the citizen point of view through a content analysis of popular discussion online forums …

Social media in public diplomacy : survey on the social media communication of the Finnish missions abroad

2012

Today, social media is changing the way people communicate by giving the influence to the hands of the people. For organizations, it means that the issues of stakeholders are the focus of the communication, not the organizations. The question no longer is whether to use social media in public relations, but how to use it. In this research the social media communication of the Finnish missions abroad is studied. The missions have implemented social media as a part of their communication mainly since 2010. It is time to evaluate how the social media have been used so far, including an examination of what more social media can offer. It has been suggested that there is a need for re-evaluation…

Testing a methodology to improve organizational learning about crisis communication

2011

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a measurement system with performance indicators to improve organizational learning about crisis communication by public organizations. The tool can be used to conduct a preparedness audit or to evaluate communication performance in a real situation or in an emergency exercise. Evaluation is part of the strategic planning and development of crisis communication. The construction of the instrument and its theoretical underpinnings are first explained, after which the series of empirical tests that were implemented to scrutinize the clarity and appropriateness of the indicators as well as the usability of the instrument are presented. Design…

Stakeholder anger - negative engagement towards organizations online : a literature review

2014

Sidosryhmien vihaa ja sitoutumista organisaatiota kohtaan on tähän mennessä tutkittu melko vähän erityisesti online-ympäristöissä tapahtuvan viestinnän näkökulmasta. Lisäksi niin kutsutulle negatiiviselle sitoutumiselle ei ole aiemmin annettu tarkkaa määritelmää. On myös mahdollista, että kaikissa organisaatioissa ei ole totuttu käsittelemään vihaisia sidosryhmiä. Edellä mainittuihin lähtökohtiin nojaten tämän teoreettisen tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli havainnollistaa negatiivista sitoutumista ja samalla osoittaa, mistä syistä johtuen sidosryhmät kääntyvät organisaatiota vastaan muuttuen samalla hateholdereiksi. Tutkimus toteutettiin integroituna kirjallisuuskatsauksena ja siinä pyrittiin y…