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Papers & Publications

Tulevaisuuden minä rakentuu verkossa (book chapter)

A book chapter: Tulevaisuuden minä rakentuu verkossa, in Silmät auki sosiaaliseen mediaan, Eds. Terhi Aaltonen-Ogbeide, Pentti Saastamoinen, Heikki Rainio and Tero Vartiainen, Publications of Future Committee of Finnish Government 3/2011, Helsinki.

FutureSelf: Emerging Digitized Life Patterns and A Personal Future Simulation System (journal article)

A peer-reviewed scientific article: Futures, the journal of policy, planning and futures studies 42:9 November 2010, Elsevier, New York. Read more

Uuden johtajuuden yhteisöllinen tarina – Sitran julkishallinnon johtamisohjelman yhteisöllisen viestinnän konseptiraportti (design concept & report)

The social media concept and communication strategy for Sitra’s Public Leadership & Management Programme was published as a Sitra report in 18.2.2010.

The Future of Personal Digital Information – Scarce Resource, Valuable Commodity or an Efficient Utility? (conference paper)

A peer-reviewed short paper, OPEN 2009 – Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium, University of Art and Design Helsinki, November 5.–6., 2009, Helsinki, Finland. Read more

FutureSelf: Reflections on a Personal Future Simulation System (master thesis)

Thesis (with high honors) focuses on the analysis of conceptions of virtuality, time and identity in digital media environments including an experimental concept of a personal future simulation system. Master thesis, The Aalto University School of Art and Design, Media Lab, 2009. Read more

Shaftesburyn kolmas jaarli ja englantilainen aristokraattinen libertinismi (master thesis)

Thesis (with high honors) concentrates on the work and thoughts of an English philosopher Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. The study analyzes his relationship to the intellectual movement of libertinism and the further effects of libertinism in 17th century England. Master thesis, University of Helsinki, Department of History, 2004.

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Future Momentum 22-26/2011

7. July 2011, 12:11

What is futureful today? A collection of online discoveries about the future (weeks 22-26/2011) includes e.g. new methods for analysing the connection between language and culture, upcoming new book about our digital future by Pierre Lévy, thoughts on the true nature of the information universe, experiments with new screen-less UX paradigm, the power of emotions in decision making and how art is becoming more social…

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Discovery Is Different - And That's Why We Need An App For It

15. June 2011, 10:25

Did you intentionally search for the things that became to be the most significant things in your life? Or did you discover them by surprise, bumping into them almost accidentally? In our daily lives, there’s a huge difference between “searching” and “discovering”. And there’s no a killer app for discovery – yet.

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