Browsing by Subject "Digitaalisuus"

The development of the internet launched digitalization. Digitalisation is a process in which digital inventions flow more and more to different areas of society. Digitalization substantially involves transfer and storage of information that has been converted into digital form. Through internet, it can be done cost-efficiently, easily and quickly. Advanced societies with digitalization have turned into information societies, where information has become an important object of trade. It is easy to search information online and share it with others. The purpose of this study was to analyze the digitalization in handicrafts. The aim of the study was to investigate how digitalization affects handicrafts. The subject of interest was to find out what kind of digital applications and devices are used in handicrafts. The goal was to increase understanding on how and where these devices and applications are used in the field of handicrafts. The research material consisted of five volumes of magazine Taito, published by Taitoliitto, from 2018 to 2022. Total of 30 magazines were analyzed. Concepts related to digitalization was extracted from the magazines. Through the information found from the magazines, the intent was to form an overall view of the digital applications and devices used in the field of handicrafts, as well as their purposes in handicrafts. The study showed that digitalization has also progressed into the field of handicrafts. Nowadays, handicrafts uses and benefits from many kind of digital applications and devices. Many of these applications are ones that are commonly used in our society for other purposes as well. They are not just applications developed for handicrafts. Such applications were, for example, e-mail or various social media channels. The digital devices used in handicrafts divided into devices that were developed only for handicrafts and devices that, in addition to their other purposes, also served handicrafts. An example of the former were digital clothing design programs and an example of the latter were laser cutters. The study showed that handicrafts is not detached from the digitalization. Instead, handicrafts actively utilizes the benefits digitalization produces.