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Improving Password Memorability, While Not Inconveniencing the User

2019

Passwords are the most frequently used authentication mechanism. However, due to increased password numbers, there has been an increase in insecure password behaviors (e.g., password reuse). Therefore, new and innovative ways are needed to increase password memorability and security. Typically, users are asked to input their passwords once in order to access the system, and twice to verify the password, when they create a new account. But what if users were asked to input their passwords three or four times when they create new accounts? In this study, three groups of participants were asked to verify their passwords once (control group), twice, and three times (two experimental groups). Ps…

Communicative memory of irregular migration: The re-circulation of news images on YouTube

2016

This article analyses user-generated YouTube cut and mix videos of irregular migration as producing communicative memory of those who have suffered at Europe’s external borders. Visual and textual analyses examine a neglected perspective on the study of media representations of migration by examining a particular practice through which people engage with news images and participate in (re)construction of collective memory in relation to irregular migration. The analysis shows that while hegemonic Eurocentric imagery prevails also in the vernacular amateur productions, re-mixing different cultural productions nevertheless complicates the representation of irregular migration and affords alte…

Post memory and cinematic affect in The Midwife

2017

The Second World War has proved a rich source of inspiration for fiction films worldwide. The Finnish fiction film The Midwife (Kätilö, Antti J. Jokinen, 2015) is aimed at an international audience with a story that takes place in the context of the Lapland War in Finland in 1944. The film tells of a romantic relationship between a local woman and a member of the German army, in a highly affective manner. This article argues that the film downplays elements that might have interested the national, or local, audience, and that it privileges affect over knowledge. To bring out the film’s transnational character, the article begins by analysing it in the context of national, or local, and glob…

Live free or die motionless : Walking the migrant path from Italy to France

2018

This essay and the photographs examine visual traces of irregular mobility in the border landscape between Italy and France. The ruined buildings and objects witness decades of movement of undocumented people on this old migrant path across the mountains. By taking the theoretical concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) the essay argues that the Path of Hope can be thought of as a memory site through which the issues of migration in contemporary Europe can be seen in a more sustainable light. The ruins and discarded objects link memories of different places – including different border zones – in ways that allow us to critically examine borders as a practice – rather than as exis…

Transnational heritage work and commemorative rituals across the Finnish-Russian border in the old Salla region

2019

Muistamisesta ja unohtamisesta verkossa

2020

Internet on ratkaisevalla tavalla muuttanut tapoja, joilla muistamme, unohdamme ja kuolemme. Italialainen filosofi Davide Sisto kirjoittaa suomeksi käännetyssä esseeteoksessaan erityisesti sosiaalisen median roolista tavoissamme muistaa mennyttä. Teos on harhaileva esitys jossain filosofian ja populaarikulttuurin välillä. nonPeerReviewed

Jón Kalman Stefánsson: Kaloilla ei ole jalkoja

2019

Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Jón Kalman Stefánsson: Kaloilla ei ole jalkoja (Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur). Suom. Tapio Koivukari. Aviador Kustannus 2019. 297 sivua nonPeerReviewed

Messiaanista montaasia kokoamassa : benjaminilainen tutkielma todistamisesta, muistamisesta ja historiasta

2016

Työni tarkastelee Walter Benjaminin esittämää historiallisen montaasin metodia muistamisen apuvälineenä. Käsittelen työssäni muistamisen merkitystä nykyisyydelle ja tulevaisuuden rakentamiselle traumaattisesta tapahtumasta todistavien kautta, benjaminilaisessa viitekehyksessä. Työni innoittajana on Theodor W. Adornon asettama uusi kategorinen imperatiivi: meidän on suunnattava ajatuksemme ja tekomme niin, ettei mitään Auschwitzin kaltaista enää koskaan tapahtuisi. Pääkysymykseni on: Voiko Benjaminin historiallisen montaasin metodia käyttää todistajien ja muistamisen informoiman historiankäsityksen muotoilemisessa niin, että se mahdollistaisi yhteiskunnan, jossa Adornon uusi kategorinen impe…

Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death

2019

This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the creation and circulation of digital objects of memorialization: visual assemblages in which the material and digital intertwine. The analysis demonstrates that digital media practices are not separate from the material world, nor do they make mourning …

Politics of memory and oblivion. An introduction to the special issue

2019

This editorial sets the context for the special issue on memory and oblivion and introduces the contributions. By interpreting the contemporary uses of the past, the editorial underscores the relevance of the study of memory and oblivion in today’s heated and antagonistic debates. The politics of memory and uses of the past often coincide with efforts of reducing the past to legitimize the current authorities and tend to create new gaps in memory that contribute to the polarisation of societies. The special issue consists of six articles that scrutinise the consequences of the intertwining of memory, oblivion and political power in European countries. Based on two main approaches, the contr…