Search results for "materiaalisuus"

Material scaffolding : Supporting the comprehension of migrant cleaners at work

2016

Linguistic diversity is growing in labour markets throughout Europe, including Finland, where cleaning is the most common job for immigrants. This paper explores material scaffolding provided for second language users in tasks involved in cleaning work. The notion of ‘scaffolding’ refers to temporary and adaptive support, and here the emphasis is especially on ‘material scaffolding’, that is, material artefacts and body movements employed in mentoring. The theoretical framework of the study is van Lier’s (2004) ecological perspective on language learning, and a discourse-ethnographic perspective of nexus analysis (Scollon and Scollon 2004) is adopted to analyse the ethnographic data collect…

Skulls, Tree Bark, Fossils

2021

AbstractStudies of material objects in the field of memory studies have followed diverse epistemological and disciplinary trajectories, but their shared characteristic has been the questioning of philosophical assumptions concerning human relations with inanimate things and lower-level organic objects, such as plants, within the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. Rather than accept at face value their categorizations as passive or deficient in comparison to the human subject, critical scholarship has reformulated the place and role of nonhuman entities in culture. This essay examines the nexus of materiality and memory in the work of the French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Hube…

"""Fluidity and flexibility of """"belonging"""": Uses of the concept in contemporary research"""

2016

Studies framing “belonging” as a key focus and a central concept of research have increased significantly in the 2000s. This article explores the dimensions of belonging as a scholarly concept. The investigation is based on a qualitative content analysis of articles published in academic journals covering a large number of different disciplines. The article poses and answers the following research questions: How is belonging understood and used in contemporary research? What added value does the concept bring to scholarly discussions? In the analysis, five topoi of conceptualizing belonging – spatiality, intersectionality, multiplicity, materiality, and non-belonging – were identified. Afte…

Algorithms and Organizing

2022

Abstract Algorithms are a ubiquitous part of organizations as they enable, guide, and restrict organizing at the level of everyday interactions. This essay focuses on algorithms and organizing by reviewing the literature on algorithms in organizations, examining the viewpoint of relationality and relational agency on algorithms and organizing, exploring the properties of algorithms, and concluding what these mean from an organizational communication viewpoint. Algorithms need data to be collected. The data are always biased, and algorithms exclude everything that is not in their code. They define what is seen as important. Their operating principles are opaque, and they are political due to…

The brain in our hands : The materiality of reading Neuromaani

2018

Ubique and Unique Book: The Presence and Potential of the Codex : Introduction to the Thematic Cluster (Part 2)

2019

Ubique and Unique Book: The Presence and Potential of the Codex : Introduction to the Thematic Cluster (Part 1)

2019

The articles in this two-issue thematic cluster of Image [&] Narrative (20.1 and 20.2) explore the contemporary status of the book (in literature and, more generally, in culture). This introduction addresses the cultural context of the notion of book today and presents the various articles of the issue. nonPeerReviewed

Rhizoanalysis of Sociomaterial Entanglements in Teacher Interviews

2022

AbstractThis chapter explores how the entangled relationship between the material and social in teachers’ perceptions of change can be empirically investigated. More specifically, the chapter adopts a DeleuzoGuattarian rhizoanalytic assemblage approach and the notion of becoming to capture the dynamic and fluid nature of social and material affects. The study re-analyses three teacher interviews from data sets originally collected for different research purposes but with the theme of change relevant in each interview. The findings show that rhizomatic analysis and approaching interviews as assemblages can yield important insights about material realities. For example, they indicate how teac…

The Personal Repertoire and Its Materiality : Resources, Means and Modalities of Languaging

2023

The chapter is a theoretical discussion of the concept of personal repertoire and its application in the context of applied linguistics, particularly in the study of language learning and development. It questions conceptualisations that understand language learning as acquisition of abstract, decontextual and disembodied language knowledge and argues that learners’ know-how is not based on any kind of ‘mental grammar’, but on a personal repertoire of different multimodal semiotic resources. Bringing together ‘old’ and ‘new’ arguments for materialism, personal repertoires are examined focussing on how embodied agentive activity is intertwined with the socially structured environments and th…

Mannerlaatta analogisen ja digitaalisen välissä

2021

Artikkeli käsittelee Mika Taanilan ja Harry Salmenniemen kokeellista elokuvaa Mannerlaatta (2016), joka on tehty ilman kameraa. Mannerlaatassa vuorottelevat Taanilan kuvat ja Salmenniemen tekstit, ja se on valmistettu käyttäen sekä analogista filmiä että digitaalista teknologiaa. Pohdin erityisesti sen mediaalisia ominaispiirteitä tässä analogisen ja digitaalisen sekä kirjallisen ja elokuvallisen risteyskohdassa. Analyysi tarkentaa paitsi katsomiskokemukseen myös elokuvan valmistusprosessiin, ja siinä hyödynnetään media-arkeologiaa, jonka avulla analysoidaan, miten teknologiat eri ajoilta elävät teoksessa rinnakkain. Käsittelen ohessa myös korealais-amerikkalaisen Young-Hae Chang Heavy Indu…