Nathalie 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 moreMonday morning started in Arcada’s simulation center, where students in the study module My Future Work Life 1 experienced learning in a different environment than usual. The brand new study module is open for all students in all programmes, however it just so happens that the participants this first time are all engineering students. This was one workshop out of five, and the topic was communication, verbal as well as…
Read moreHi and greetings from Fort Lauderdale, Florida! Its been warm and sunny. This blog post is continuing the intelligencehunt #5 blog post. Those who know, the team I was part of won the intelligencehunt competition in Oslo this summer, and our prize was to attend the Ocean Exchange as VIP guest in Fort Lauderdale. This happened a few weeks ago. Our team travelled to Miami and enjoyed a couple of…
Read moreDen 8 november 2019 kom Västra Nylands folkhögskolas psykologilinje samt natur- och medicinlinje på studiebesök till Arcada och bekantade sig med olika utbildningar i vår högskola. Jag var med och presenterade socionomutbildningen tillsammans med Bettina Brantberg som är utbildningsansvarig för socionomlinjen. Under besöket diskuterade vi socionomernas kompetens och vad studierna innehåller. Vi började med att studerande fick berätta om egna tankar kring vad de tror att socionomutbildningen innebär. Sedan gick…
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…
Read moreWhat is Open Access (OA)? Open access means that research results are made freely accessible in digital form, which promotes the dissemination of research results both within the scientific community and to the public at large. The reader can read free of charge, use, copy, print, and link the OA publications. Read more about Open access in the Libguide for OA. Arcada Library recommends: DOAB (Directory of Open Access…
Read moreDuring the first week of this semester, all new students (N=678) in our bachelor programmes were invited to participate in a survey called Me and My Knowledge. The students completed the web survey during scheduled sessions, and (most probably) due to this arrangement, we managed to collect 521 responses, out of which the major part is complete. Our sincerest thanks to all participating students! With 71 statements, the web survey…
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