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Key issues and strategies for implementing the Lean Methodology in organizations

27.11.2019 Education, Research

Thomas 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,…

Key issues and strategies for implementing the Lean Methodology in organizations

Paying it forward: taking Finnish skills to India

25.11.2019 Cooperation, Education

Owen 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…

Paying it forward: taking Finnish skills to India

A new study module up and running

19.11.2019 Education, Projects

Monday 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…

A new study module up and running
Fredrik and Du simulating the job interview for Wärtsilä

Sustainable – Discourse analysis of a fashion/fashionable term

06.11.2019 Education, Research

Nathalie 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…

Sustainable – Discourse analysis of a fashion/fashionable term

Find open access publications: Ebooks, e-journals and theses freely accessible for you!

18.10.2019 Education, Events, Research

What 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…

Find open access publications: Ebooks, e-journals and theses freely accessible for you!

Our new students are curious and motivated to learn!

10.10.2019 Education, Projects, Research, Student Life

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…

Our new students are curious and motivated to learn!
Bild av Gerd Altmann från Pixabay

#instajournalism: The Boundaries of Journalism in the Age of Social Media Influencing

01.10.2019 Education, Research

Tiia 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…

#instajournalism: The Boundaries of Journalism in the Age of Social Media Influencing

Managing Eco anxiety: “Who owns your pain?”

30.09.2019 Education, Projects, Research

Tomas 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…

Managing Eco anxiety: “Who owns your pain?”

The NURED Final Seminar – WELCOME!

30.09.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events, Projects

Dear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…

The NURED Final Seminar – WELCOME!

Stranded: a critical discourse analysis

27.09.2019 Education, Research

Nathalie 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…

Stranded: a critical discourse analysis
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