Reflections on How and Why We Love Media
My topic relates to Lauri’s topic of kansalaisaloite.fi and could be an example of it. One of the suggestions for new legislation in Finland in 2013 was I Will 2013 (Tahdon 2013), which was about equal marriage law concerning same-sex couples. The initiative gathered 166 851 signatures and was passed to the Finnish Parliament. I Will …
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At first I would like to mention that I believe the point of this task is not information can I retrieve about myself and how, rather than how much information can the others derive by me if start searching about me. So let’s rock and roll.Somebody put something in my drink (Ramones are playing on …
One of the most interesting cross-connetion between social media and Finnish democratic system has been the Kansalaisaloite.fi -internet-service (http://www.kansalaisaloite.fi), which gives people the possibility to participate in the democratic law making process by proposing new laws & regulations and changes in the old ones – via the Internet. The service was launched in 2013 and …
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I write my name to the empty search box, hit the search button, and get the ten most relevant hits that might uncover who I am. I start browsing through the links, but for a short period of time they do not make any sense: the preview images and the links seem to contain two …
I have to admit it, I’ve done this before. So, obviously there were not many surprising results of this experiment. The first ten most popular hits include links to my social media profiles which is of course understandable. Other hits lead to an online book shop (I’ve edited a book), to student organization websites (I’ve …
Okay so not fair because I actually have had a chance to edit my search results before I did this task. I’ve deleted a site that I didn’t want to be found on my google search but obviously I didn’t come empty handed out of this assignment. So now, who am I. Okay instantly I …
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There are three questions that surround us during our whole life: who we think we are; who we try to be; and who we actually are. The last one question, some psychologists believe that we will never know the right answer. Though, humans do not give up on knowing their own personality: what are their …
In the occasional and undesirable scenario in that I would lose my memory and have only with me an identity card, googling myself would turn out to be more difficult than I had previously anticipated. Before we begin exploring this unlikely and miserable amnesia situation I hypothetically gotten myself into, I would like to make …
This is probably the weirdest writing task I’ve ever got in University, but here we go: Facebook, journalism and theatre. That’s how I’d describe the first impressions I get by googling myself. There are some links to a year old television interview, and links to reviews of my last theatre direction Item No 316. The …
So I used Google to find myself. As you can see in the picture below, in a sidebar, Google immediately informed me that I’m a student at Uni Helsinki, and tried to seduce me into filling out my profile information on Google+ (which I’m actively trying to avoid, but turns out that Google has created …
Why I Heart My Media 