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Homing blogs as ambivalent spaces for feminine agency

2017

This article discusses a form of lifestyle blogging where women blog about their homes and everyday lives. In these homing blogs, selfrepresentations are characteristically spatially demarcated within the private sphere of the home. As these repeated representations of women in their homes take place in the public space of the internet, homing blogs work towards naturalizing the home as a women’s sphere. Written and commented on mostly by other women, homing blogs represent a feminine form of self-expression and communication that functions as a discursive expression of ongoing social, economic, and cultural changes in affluent Western societies. In this article, Finnish versions of these h…

Reconsidering passivity and activity in children’s digital play

2016

The discussion around children’s digital game culture has resulted in two contradictory images of children: the passive, antisocial children uncritically and mechanically consuming digital game content and the active, social children creatively using and interacting with digital game content. Our aim is to examine how these seemingly contradictory ideas of “active” and “passive” children could be considered. By means of empirical examples of children playing digital dress-up and makeover games, we will point out that for the successful use of these concepts, they need to be thoroughly contextualized. By discussing the context and referent of activity and passivity, it is possible to overcom…

Behavior change types with Pokémon GO

2017

Digital games1 are one of the most popular entertainment media in the world. Teir allure and widespread popularity makes them an interesting and highly potential platform for behavior change atempts. In this paper, we investigate what types of behavior changes Pokémon GO has promoted or induced among its players. Te study is based on an online survey sample of 262 Pokémon GO players, collected using the critical incident technique and analyzed using qualitative methods. Te analysis shows that the behavior changes induced by Pokémon GO are not just restricted to increased physical activity or social behavior but are actually much more multifaceted: players were more social, found their routi…

Digital Islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness

2016

This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis shows how through appropriating this image, the bloggers created a unifying, imagined whiteness in the transnational Islamophobic network. The empirical analysis clarifies how this one image migrated and transformed in the blogosphere and legitimated the recurrent discursive trope of “Muslim rape.” This image became a subcultural “memory freeze frame” crystallizing the contemporary Islamophobic ideologies articulated in connection to race, ethnicity, nation, gender, and sexuality. The viral circulation of this im…

Making the case for policy : persuasiveness in higher education, science and technology policy discourse

2015

Policy texts present problems, propose solutions to those problems and persuade multiple audiences of the legitimacy of the proposed problems and solutions. The rhetorical analysis of two decades of higher education and science and technology discourse in Finland, Germany, UK, Portugal and USA highlights the discursive elements that contribute to persuasiveness of policy, construe it as rational and logical, and create a sense of urgency in bringing it about. I argue that the analytical and hortatory registers of policy discourse foreground competitive and hierarchical relations of countries and their higher education systems. By construing certain state of affairs and courses of action as …

Harnessing Women’s Potential as a Soft Engine for Growth : Lessons from Contrasting Trajectories between Finland and Japan for Growing Economies

2017

Harnessing the vigor of women’s potential is essential for inclusive economic growth in a digital economy moving toward aging society. This can be a soft engine for sustainable growth substitutable for costly hard investment. While there exists explicit evidence of a virtual cycle between economic growth and gender balance improvement, emerging countries cannot afford to overcome the constraints of low income. Given the foregoing, this paper analyzed possible co-evolution between economic growth, gender balance improvement and digital innovation initiated by information and communication technology (ICT) advancement. Using a unique dataset representing the state of gender balance improvemen…

Transnational Mediated Commemoration of Migrant Deaths at the Borders of Europe

2019

Digital generations, but not as we know them

2019

The aim of this article is to see whether or not adolescents were the real leaders of the digital ‘revolution’ in the 1990s and whether they have sustained or even improved their position in the 2000s. The analysis is based on two surveys carried out in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain in 1996 ( N = 6609) and in 2009 ( N = 7255). The results show that the adolescents belonging to the first digital generation in 1996 were the most equipped with new technologies, although not the most intensive users. In 2009, the adolescents lost their position as the leading adopters and lagged behind youth and young adults regarding the use of new technologies and computer skills.

Yhteisöpalvelujen tägien hyödyntäminen ICT-alan muutosten ennakoinnissa ja havainnoinnissa

2012

Tägejä ja näiden emergenttiä ontologiaa, eli folksonomiaa on tutkittu jo vuodesta 2004 lähtien. Tänä aikana tägien käyttö on yleistynyt Internetin kautta tarjottavissa palveluissa ja kyseisten palveluiden suosio on kavanut, luoden suuren määrän tägidataa. Tätä dataa ollaan kuitenkin harvoin käytetty muuhun, kuin resurssien löytämiseen ja uudelleenlöytämiseen (jota varten data tietysti on luotukin). Tässä tutkielmassa pyritään luomaan katsaus tägidatan ja folksonomioiden analysointia varten kehitettyihin menetelmiin ja käyttämään kahta näistä valikoitua menetelmää ICT-alan termien analysointiin. Tavoitteena on löytää ja testata menetelmä tai menetelmiä, joiden avulla voidaan havaita ICT-alan…

Tilattomat taiteilijat, päättämättömät päättäjät : keskustelua Turun Sanomissa taiteilijoiden työhuoneista ennen Euroopan kulttuuripääkaupunkivuotta …

2011

Opinnäytetyö käsittelee Turun Sanomissa käytyä keskustelua taiteilijoiden työhuoneista ennen Euroopan kulttuuripääkaupunkivuotta 2011. Pääaineisto koskee vuosia 2006–2008. Tuona aikana taiteilijat menettivät pitkään työtiloina toimineen Jokikadun kiinteistön ja joutuivat odottamaan pitkään vastaavia tiloja. Taiteilijat ylläpitivät keskustelua ja peräänkuuluttivat oikeuksiaan työtiloihin. Samaan aikaan vaihtoehtotaiteilijat järjestivät alakulttuuritapahtumia ja talonvaltauksia. Opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena on esittää käydystä keskustelusta kokonaiskuva ja selvittää mitkä asiat on esitetty ongelmalliseksi. Tutkin myös kuinka kulttuuripääkaupunkivuosi vaikutti keskusteluun, ja mitä merkityksiä …