Interviews with 30 Finnish media workers show how some newsrooms were ready to take on remote work as the global pandemic hit Finland – and others were already falling from…
Do you find frequent notifications and interruptions disturbing? Do you feel that you are never free of technology? Is technology at times too complex to use? Answers to these questions…
Coping with crises is often considered from the individual’s perspective: What can I do to cope. However, the social perspective that emphasises the community is equally important. We have a…
TALIS 2018 (Teaching and Learning International Survey) gave further evidence on the multiple skills of Finnish teachers. Teacher’s work has become more diverse and the teacher’s role has changed in…
My husband was sitting with our cat in his lap and said, “Melli doesn’t want that you and I leave home for the weekend – she just told me so.”…
From public discussion, you may get the impression that there are no problems that could not be solved by means of artificial intelligence (AI). This is not actually true, however.…
Sauna and alcohol kill the coronavirus! This was such a splendid piece of news at the beginning of the first wave of the coronavirus. As Finns, we were, of course,…
Professor Tuure Tuunanen’s research team investigates cyber-physical service innovations and their development processes, but also their effects on everyday life, such as when they manifest as technostress. The team is…
The coronavirus has temporarily shrunk our physical world from global to local. It has reshaped many things and forced us to adapt our working methods to prevailing conditions. Just as with teaching, guidance and team meetings, international…
This past spring, dominated by the coronavirus, has been full of statistics: tests, cases, patients in hospitals and numbers of deceased. Suddenly the whole media stream is only statistics! A…
