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(2017)Objectives. This study examines the way Finnish handcraft blogs approach handcrafting. By exploring handcraft blogs, one can find out how handcrafting is approached in them and how the phenomenon of craft is transmitted through them. It is important to become aware of the ways in which handcrafting is approached, as these ways build and shape our common reality actively. Handcraft blogs are an important part of the Finnish craft culture and they help build handcraft-related phenomena and promote the spread of various ideas and ways of thinking. This study examines what kind of handcrafting discourses could be interpreted in the writings and comments of Finnish craft blogs and what those discourses could tell about the broader representation of handcrafting and being a maker. Methods. The blogs chosen for this study were four popular Finnish craft blogs. The data consisted of a total of 32 blog entries published in October 2016 and their related comments. The data were analysed inductively with discourse analysis. Results and conclusions. Four dominant handcrafting discourses were interpreted from the data. The discourses were related to dreaming, community, success and being a maker. The discourses appeared in the data as their own entities, but overlap and shared attributes could also be found. In the data, handcrafting was approached by discussing completed and unfinished products or processes along with dreaming about doing, especially in the pursuit of finished craft products and the sense of succeeding in something. Based on the set of discourses, handcrafting is a communal activity through which crafters can encounter others and communicate. Handcrafting was approached by both positive and negative ways, but the main thought was the importance of handcrafting and the positive things and experiences that can be achieved with it. Based on the data, the mere fact of dreaming and planning is a significant activity. The discourse-based image of a handcrafter, who has to cope with different expectations and pressures, is complicated and conflicting.
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(2016)Social anxiety has been widely studied, and it has been established to be a common phenomena. However, there are not studies on anxiety in media interviews or among researchers. Interview in radio or television is a special interaction situation. Firstly, it is a bilateral conversation, which still has an audience. Secondly, media interview often is a rare situation for the interviewee. On the one hand, researcher's media performance is a part of the societal interaction of universities. On the other hand, it is a personal communication situation of the researcher. Presumably people experience anxiety also in this kind of situations. This thesis approaches anxiety as a subjective experience. The aim is to describe and understand anxiety experienced by researchers, who are interviewed in media as professionals. The data of this qualitative research consisted of nine focused interviews. The interviewees were people of different ages and at different stages of career. They had a researcher's education, and they worked as researchers in either university or other research institution. A media interview record was listened or watched during each interview providing a stimulus to the interviewee. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Descriptions of anxiety were categorized based on the reported appearance and defined object of anxiety. The results of this study show the many types of anxiety experienced by the interviewed researchers. The most important reported aspect of anxiety was the experience of changes in concentration. It was interesting, that one interviewee could experience anxiety as having both the increasing and the decreasing influence on concentration. In addition, according to interviewees, anxiety appeared as physical sensations, changes in action, and emotions. Interviewees experienced, that one reason for the anxiety was their lack of competence. They were, for example, uncertain of their expertise. Another reason for the anxiety were some situational factors. In order to reduce or control anxiety, it could be useful for researchers to get communications training. Important competence in media interviews includes, for example, the skills to popularize and to understand the logic of media. In the future, it is advisable to examine more deeply the interaction between researcher and journalist. Another subject of further investigation would be the anxiety experienced in media by other groups of people.
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(2017)The aim of this thesis is to study the way young adults talk about smartphones and social media as a part of social interaction within the theoretical framework of cultural studies and social psychology. The point of reading way is based on social constructive discourse combined with the concepts of social interaction, social identity and discursive experience. Even though the young adults' use of smartphones has been previously studied, the views of the users themselves have been neglected along with the ways how using smartphones affect social interaction. Seven people aged between 18 and 23 were interviewed for this thesis. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. A discourse analysis was made of the transcriptions by using a method based on social constructionism. The goal was to find the underlying structures which either enable individuals to think about sociability in a certain way or prevent them from doing so. The social lives of young adults, of which smartphones are an integral part, are shaped by many factors. In order to belong to a certain social group, a young adult must embrace the norms, conventions, and habits shared by the other members of the group. While doing so, they keep reaffirming the social protocols of their group. Any deviations are remarked upon and the fear of becoming an outcast for breaking the rules is real. Using social media with smartphones enables social interaction over long distances, but at the same time it might make being fully present in the here and now more complicated. A young adult is no longer present here, but everywhere.
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