Studying looks like work after a Facebook visit
University research and education laboratory Software Factory has launched a new kind of Open Source collaboration with the software industry and leading universities like Stanford and MIT.
Social norms guide internet behaviour
A Last.fm user might feel forced to listen to a variety of music considered good taste just to mask his liking for a cheesy song. “Information is manipulated in order to sell a self-chosen concept of self,” states social scientist Suvi Silfverberg from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
Building Finnishness through the Internet
Social Psychology graduate and HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) research assistant Iris Summanen examines how Finnish emigrants build Finnishness through blog writing.