Search results for "vastustus"

Conflicting conceptualisations of ‘democracy’ in the German Bundestag during the anti-nuclear demonstrations, 1995-2001

2018

A vigorous anti-nuclear movement emerged in Germany in the mid 1990s, when spent nuclear fuel elements began to be transported to the interim storage facility in Gorleben, Lower Saxony. Resistance to nuclear transportation continued to grow in strength throughout the 1990s. The protests expressed people’s distrust and lack of confidence in political institutions and decision-making processes. In the German Bundestag, these events relating to Gorleben caused significant political struggles over the principles and meanings of German democracy. Parliamentarians voiced competing counterarguments about the legitimacy of these demonstrations, on the one hand, and the legitimacy of the nuclear ene…

Social media as the fifth estate : strategic organisation of German and Finnish counterspeech campaigns on Facebook

2022

Social media, also called the fifth estate, form a new control body and may thus fulfil democratic functions. On the other hand, social media have enabled the proliferation of hateful debates in which, in the name of freedom of speech, previously tabooed content and language are becoming de-tabooed and accepted. As a response to fake news, direct and indirect hate speech, however, forms of organised counterspeech have emerged that counter the normalisation of aggressive and hateful speech. To influence the discourse in the comment sections of social media in terms of the fifth estate, counterspeech has to be visible also quantitatively. In this contrastive study, I analyse the activities of…

The relationship between organizational dissent and workplace freedom of speech: A cross-cultural analysis in Singapore

2017

AbstractThis study is a test of the relationship between organizational dissent and the perception of workplace freedom of speech in Singapore. Through a quantitative analysis of 384 individuals in Singapore, the following was found: articulated dissent and latent dissent are positively correlated with workplace freedom of speech. In addition, multiple analysis of covariance analyses revealed nation of birth exerted considerable influence on articulated dissent, and latent dissent, but not on workplace freedom of speech. The results provide evidence of how nation of birth is related to an individual’s willingness to express dissent. Theoretical and practical implications for research into o…

Kouluviihtyvyys kahdeksannella luokalla

2009

Vieraana omassa maassa : suomalaiset road-elokuvat vapauden ja vastustuksen kertomuksina 1950-luvun lopusta 2000-luvulle

2012

Road-elokuvat ovat tarinoita irtaantumisista, paoista ja muutoksen toivosta. Tielle kaasuttamisen pohjavireenä on yksilön kamppailu rajoittavia voimia vastaan. Suomessa on tehty road-elokuvia vuodesta 1959 lähtien. Mitä niissä paetaan ja mitä toivotaan? Miksi suomalaisissa road-elokuvissa lähdetään tielle ja mitä tielle lähdöstä seuraa? Vieraana omassa maassa on ensimmäinen laajasti suomalaista road-elokuvaa ja tiellä kulkemisen elokuvallistamisen merkityksiä luotaava tutkimus. Se tarkastelee tien ja kulkijan esittämistä suomalaisissa road-elokuvissa 1950-luvun lopusta 2000-luvulle elokuvantutkimukselle uudesta, spektaakkelin ideologisen kritiikin näkökulmasta. Eri vuosikymmenillä tehtyjä r…

Hinnoittelun vaikutukset hyöty- ja peliohjelmistojen diffuusioon

2002

IT-innovaatioiden vastustuksen muotoja ja myötävaikuttajia

2016

Innovaatioiden ja teknologian omaksuminen ovat olleet suosittuja ja paljon tutkittuja aiheita, kun taas niiden vastustus on jätetty tutkimuksissa huomattavasti vähemmälle huomiolle, vaikka myös vastustuksen merkitys teknologian ja innovaatioiden omaksumisen ymmärtämisen kannalta on kiistämätön. Tässä tutkielmassa selvitetään kirjallisuuskatsauksen avulla informaatioteknologian (IT) innovaatioiden vastustuksen syitä ja ilmenemismuotoja. Vastustuksen havaitaan ilmenevän sekä passiivisesti että aktiivisesti. Lisäksi vastustukselle löydetään lukuisia mahdollisia syitä, jotka liittyvät muun muassa yksilön tapoihin ja psykologisiin ominaisuuksiin sekä jossain määrin itse teknologiaan ja informaat…

Who's Got the Power? : Young Children's Power and Agency in the Child-Parent Relationship

2015

Children’s rights and their increasing voice in families have made relations between parents and children more democratic. Despite this, child-parent relationships have been claimed to be relationships between unequals from the perspective of power. Often, power is understood as top-down with parents as wielders of power over their children and children as recipients of parental demands. The generational ordering of relations between children and adults poses the challenge of how to conceptualize power in the child-parent relationship, and how methodologically to study power and children’s agency, in particular, from the viewpoint of young children. This study explored in what ways power an…

A link between heritable parasite resistance and mate choice in dung beetles

2019

Parasites play a central role in the adaptiveness of sexual reproduction. Sexual selection theory suggests a role for parasite resistance in the context of mate choice, but the evidence is mixed. The parasite-mediated sexual selection (PMSS) hypothesis derives a number of predictions, among which that resistance to parasites is heritable, and that female choice favors parasite resistance genes in males. Here, we tested the PMSS hypothesis using the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus, a species that can be heavily parasitized by Macrocheles merdarius mites, which are known to affect adult survival. We investigated the heritability of resistance to M. merdarius, as well as whether female O. tauru…

Fight evolution with evolution: plasmid‐dependent phages with a wide host range prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance

2013

The emergence of pathogenic bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics is a serious worldwide public health concern. Whenever antibiotics are applied, the genes encoding for antibiotic resistance are selected for within bacterial populations. This has led to the prevalence of conjugative plasmids that carry resistance genes and can transfer themselves between diverse bacterial groups. In this study, we investigated whether it is feasible to attempt to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistances with a lytic bacteriophage, which can replicate in a wide range of gram‐negative bacteria harbouring conjugative drug resistance–conferring plasmids. The counter‐selection against the plasmid was sh…