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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 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…
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