During 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…
Read moreTiia Valkonen, Media Management MA student, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Hyde-Clarke and Dr. Tiina Räisä Examiner: Nanna Engebretsen Social media has fundamentally transformed the role of journalism in society. Whereas previously journalistic organizations controlled the flow of information to the masses, nowadays virtually everyone with a social media account can produce content on socially, culturally, or politically important topics. Furthermore, a new…
Read moreTomas Träskman, Degree Programme Director: Cultural Management, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS. Since many of the students of Cultural Management write their thesis immersed in practice I often arrange supervision in the environment where they actually do that practice. At times it can be really inspiring. In connection to one such supervision, I had the opportunity to take part in “Creative Mornings” an event all around the…
Read moreNathalie Hyde-Clarke (PhD), Head of the Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Stranded: “left without the means to move from somewhere” (Oxford University Dictionary, 2019) On Wednesday, while introducing third year Methodology students to Critical Discourse Analysis, it quickly became apparent that the world social order is in shambles. Or at least that is how it is represented in the media – and given that is almost…
Read moreJutta Törnqvist, Lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS This text discusses student-centered learning and experiments with a new approach to meet the needs of a broader type of students with varying educational and socio-economic backgrounds. As they must complete 30 credits of elective extension studies as part of their degree, students find themselves in situations where they identify and enrol for interesting subjects in other…
Read moreHamza Amarouche, Media Management MA student, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Dr. Mats Nylund Examiner: Tomas Träskman My Master thesis explores the home-sharing marketplace as one significant phenomena of sharing economy. During the last ten years, digital platforms have become an innovative model adopted by society at a rapid pace. Nowadays, this industry is facing challenges after the emergence of Blockchain technology and the evolution of…
Read moreJonna Seilonen, Media Management MA student, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Hyde-Clarke Examiner: Dr. Owen Kelly My master thesis is based on website service development. It analyses how a change strategy may be managed for a website based on user preferences and recommendations. The aim of the study is to provide recommendations as to how a change strategy may…
Read moreAnn-Sofi Berger, Media Management MA student, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Supervisor: Dr. Tiina Räisä Examiner: Dr. Mats Nylund My MA Thesis investigated the prevalent ideals among journalists within the Swedish-language media in Finland. It also inquired about their working conditions and expectations for the future. I personally find this topic very interesting since I work as a journalist myself, and there is very little discussion…
Read moreJyrki Kettunen, terveystieteiden dosentti, TtT, Arcada; jyrki.kettunen@arcada.fi Yhdysvaltojen terveysministeriön vuosikymmenen takainen liikuntasuositus on päivitetty. Päivitetty suositus [1] on aiempaa versiota kattavampi; se huomioi ihmisen elinkaaren lapsista ikääntyneisiin ja kroonisesti sairaisiin henkilöihin. Suositus myös korostaa, että vähäinenkin liikunta on terveyden kannalta parempi kuin liikkumattomuus. Aikuisten liikuntasuosituksen pääviesti on päivitetyssä suosituksessa säilynyt ennallaan ja se vastaa myös nykyistä kansallista liikuntasuositusta (Liikunta Käypä hoito –suositus, 2016): Aikuisen henkilön tulisi harrastaa kohtuukuormitteista kestävyysliikuntaa ainakin…
Read moreTeam NURED is soon ready for a well-deserved summer break, but before this we would like to share some of the things that we have been up to during this spring! As Lead Partner representative I, Anu Grönlund, went on a road trip visiting all partners and participated in all focus groups discussions that we had planned to conduct during the spring. The aim of the focus group discussions was…
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