Search results for "rooli"

Between a rock and a hard place : middle managers' ethical decision making and behaviour in the organisational context

2018

This study increases knowledge and understanding of middle managers’ ethical decision-making and behaviour within the context of Finnish higher education. The aim of the research is to develop a new framework for ethical decision-making and behaviour by combining prior theories and empirical knowledge. This dissertation consists of an introductory essay and three articles. The main argument of this research is that through organisations’ socialisation processes, middle managers adopt socially defined managerial roles, which affect their ethical decision-making and ethical conduct. We can say that especially the ethical organisational culture is significant for middle managers’ understanding…

(In)significant others : the role of the spouse in women and men managers' careers in Finland

2015

‘School, family and then hockey!’ Coaches’ views on dual career in ice hockey

2017

Despite the extensive research into coaches’ roles in supporting athletic development and motivation for sport, few studies have examined coaches’ attitudes and practices towards athletes’ dual careers. The present study extends European research into athletes’ dual careers by examining Finnish ice hockey coaches’ attitudes and practices surrounding players’ education. Ten male coaches aged 27–52 participated in semi-structured interviews. The data were analysed with an existential-narrative theoretical framework and with thematic and structural narrative analysis. Three composite vignettes were created entitled ‘supporting athletic development and players in reaching their own goals’, ‘enj…

Emansipaation ja ohjailun ristivedossa : suomalaisen tyttökirjallisuuden kehitys 1889-2011

2015

The stigma of feminism: disclosures and silences regarding female disadvantage in the video game industry in US and Finnish media stories

2021

This article examines how the issue of gender, particularly women’s (under)representation in the video game industry, is framed in US and Finnish media. Building on the notion of stigma surrounding feminism, the article examines discourse practices as acts of managing the image of feminism. The findings illustrate five stigma management strategies that offer the possibility of maintaining socially accepted ways of discussing gender inequality and portraying women in mainstream media. Using critical discourse analysis, the paper addresses how the use of these stigma management strategies connects with different contemporary feminisms. The strategies used and their ideological backgrounds var…

Defining Role-Playing Games as Language-Games

2011

Role-playing games are a diverse phenomenon, ranging from digital games to live action role-playing. Finding a definition that suits them all is hard, but attempts have been many. All of the definitions emphasize some aspects of role-playing games like rules, the role of players or the story. Many definitions do not describe role-playing games as such, but the activity that is role-playing. This paper looks at one of the latest attempts to define role-playing games, by Hitchens and Drachen (2009), and shows some potential problems with it. As an answer to these problems another definition is proposed, consisting of a game world, participants, shared narrative power and interaction. This def…

“I feel many contradictory emotions” : Finnish mothers' discursive struggles with motherhood

2022

Objective The aim of the study was to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of multiple aspects of working with mothers by examining Finnish mothers' mothering discourses and the interplay among these discourses. Background According to relational dialectics theory, discourses are systems of meaning that are coproduced in interaction. Although discursive research on motherhood has identified various discourses, research on the interplay among competing motherhood discourses is in its infancy. Method Qualitative questionnaire data from 479 Finnish mothers of infants were analyzed using contrapuntal analysis. Mothers' responses to three open-ended questions were analyzed inductively…

Performing the author/mother/merchant/wife: moving subject positions in Minna Canth's autobiography

2010

Reading autobiography as a performative act enables for the analysis of processes involved in constructing the self. It provides a space for analysing the ways in which gender, nationality, and other social locations of the subject are negotiated. In this article, I read the famous Finnish nineteenth-century playwright and author Minna Canth’s concise autobiography, focusing on various locations of the autobiographical subject in this rather laconic matter-of-fact text. My reading follows current trends in feminist autobiographical theorising as well as feminist politics of reading. I strive to deconstruct the interpretation of autobiographies as dichotomously fixed texts. I suggest a more …

Roleplaying game genres

2001

"Millasen päivityksen tästä sais?" : elämäjulkaisijuuden kulttuurinen omaksuminen

2015

Yhä useammat meistä napsivat kuvia lapsistaan, lomistaan ja lemmikeistään sosiaaliseen mediaan. Facebook tai oma blogi on avoinna pitkin päivää, ja huomaamme ajattelevamme keskellä elämän tohinaa: ”Millasen päivityksen tästä sais?” Ajatus ei ole edes kovin tietoinen, kun jo alamme sommitella elämän tapahtumia verkossa jaettaviksi mediateksteiksi. Elämäjulkaiseminen on yleistynyt Suomessa 1990-luvun puolivälistä lähtien. Se on kulkenut käsi kädessä internetin laajenemisen ja yhtä helppokäyttöisemmäksi käyvän teknologian kanssa. Samalla olemme omaksuneet elämäjulkaisemisen kulttuurisesti. Sari Östmanin tutkimus tarkastelee tätä kehitystä Mikael Hårdin ja Andrew Jamisonin teknologian kulttuuri…