In a whirlwind of change, and a sea of possibilities, contributors to the Culture and Media blog explore and make meaning of our dynamic field. Read about the latest trends, events and academic arguments that are shaping and reshaping our world in ways that encourage us to reflect and debate on what has past and what has yet to come.
Owen Kelly (D. Phil), Principal lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS In November 2019 I reported about a project that Irma Sippola and I started and which we call Snowcastle Valley. As part of this I have committed myself to teach eleven teenage girls and women, and five teenage boys, all school dropouts living below the poverty line, to code using the Scratch programming…
Read moreJan Nåls, Principal Lecturer, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS The Swedish speaking minority in Finland has its own unique film culture – commonly referred to as Finlandssvensk film. Historically, it has been an unruly child who has demanded a little bit too much attention and money, a troublemaker with identity issues, part of a relatively civilised cultural family whose members are accustomed to other, more traditional, modes of…
Read moreKate Glushkova, Media Management MA student, department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Tomas Träskman Examiner: Dr. Owen Kelly Arcada’s Media Management programme responds to the creative and managerial challenges posed by modern technology and changing user behaviour. It does so by fostering a multidisciplinary understanding of business, technology and culture. My study looks into managing the collaborative design process, where all these components find their place. Research focus:…
Read moreJanne Mällinen, Media Management MA student, department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor Dr. Nathalie Hyde-Clarke Examiner: Dr. Mats Nylund My Master’s Thesis investigates the concepts of leadership and to what extent the perceptions about leadership changed during a studio and content renewing project at YLE’s News and Current Affairs in 2018-2019. Leadership style plays a significant role when predicting organization performance or outcomes. It also enhances employees’ well-being. According to previous research, leaders…
Read moreBryan Dollery, Media Management MA student, department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Dr. Matteo Stocchetti Examiner: Dr. Nathalie Hyde-Clarke Improved accessibility to computers and the internet means lower entry barriers for many sectors. For some writers, this means that the dream of getting their story, comic or poetry out into the world is much closer to becoming a reality – as made by evident the…
Read moreNathalie Hyde-Clarke (PhD), Head of the Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Social impact is understood to be the influence and effect an organisation has on the well-being and development of its community. It can be measured in a variety of ways. For the purposes of this discussion on the effect of the BA in Film och Media (previously Mediekultur) offered by Arcada in the Finlandsvensk community, we…
Read moreThomas Djupsjö, Media Management MA student, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Dr. Owen Kelly Examiner: Dr. Mats Nylund My Master’s Thesis investigates lean principles, application strategies and what organizations are challenged with when implementing lean. An additional objective has been reviewing how lean may benefit teams within various organizations that function in different industries, cultures, and areas. The media industry today is digital,…
Read moreOwen Kelly (D. Phil), Principal lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS In the summer of 2019 Irma Sippola and I started an NGO in Helsinki, which we called Snowcastle Valley, after a virtual world that Aurora, our younger daughter, made with me in the year before she died. We had visited Kerala in South India every winter for twelve years and we had decided…
Read moreNathalie Hyde-Clarke (PhD), Head of the Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Sustainable: Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level; conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources; able to be upheld or defended (Oxford University Dictionary 2019). Since the publication of my last blog, ‘Stranded: a critical discourse analysis’, I have been asked by students in the Kultur och Media Methodology course…
Read moreJohn Grönvall, lärare i medieteknik, Institutionen för kultur och medie, Arcada Idag är min iPhone det mest intima föremål jag äger. Telefonen innehåller mina anteckningar, min epost, bankinformation, positionsdata, sjukdomsinfo, diverse textmeddelanden, bilder och videon av familj och vänner. Jag har lagrat alla mina lösenord i ett virtuellt bankvalv som är krypterat så effektivt att ingen någonsin skall komma åt min personliga information. Mitt fingeravtryck låser upp valvet och ger…
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