Mika Pantzar
Biographic Data
| ID | 119068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mika Pantzar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mika |
| FAMILY NAME | Pantzar |
| SIGNATURE | PANTZAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Consumer Research Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8968-5226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Polarity in healthcare priority setting: A comparative analysis of attitudes among Finnish physicians, dentists, MPs, and citizens
Our objective is to study the differences and similarities in public healthcare priority setting attitudes among Finnish physicians, dentists, members of the parliament (MPs), and citizens. Additionally, we explore the correlation of socio-demographic factors with attitudes among the citizens. A comprehensive study including the views of all relevant stakeholder groups has been lacking, and the attitudes of dentists and parliamentarians have not …
The data economy: How technological change has altered the role of the citizen-consumer
Citizenship and consumption have been linked for over a century, emphasizing the pivotal role played by the citizen-consumer in society as a whole, and the voting power of the consumer's money. In the modern, digitalized world of the data economy, citizen-consumers are being assigned new roles: active market party, content producer, distributor, and an important source of economic value formation. This article examines how the role of the citizen…
Par-delà le Quantified Self: Exploration thématique d’un paradigme dataïste
Nous examinerons dans cet article la métaphore du Quantified Self (QS) telle qu'elle est présentée dans le magazine Wired (2008-2012), où nous avons identifié quatre thèmes interdépendants - transparence, optimisation, boucles de rétroaction et biohacking - comme fondements de la définition d'un nouveau soi numérique et de la diffusion d'un paradigme dataïste. En suggérant que le QS fait jouer aux dispositifs et applications d'autosuivi un rôle d…
Common knowledge? An ethnography of Wikipedia
Social rhythms of the heart
A long-term research focus on the temporality of everyday life has become revitalised with new tracking technologies that allow methodological experimentation and innovation. This article approaches rhythms of daily lives with heart-rate variability measurements that use algorithms to discover physiological stress and recovery. In the spirit of the 'social life of methods' approach, we aggregated individual data (n = 35) in order to uncover tempo…
Rekrutierung und Reproduktion: Karrieren und Träger von Digitalfotografie und Floorball
Intricacies of back-office: Forward- and backward-looking recipes as modelling tools in administration
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how back-office service staff cope with the intricacies of administrative work. Design/methodology/approach - The paper applies the research approach of "at-home ethnography" in a university back-office. The primary method of data collection was participant listening in the field, either in formal interviews or casual conversations. Photography helped the authors to zoom the conversation in to spe…
Beyond the Quantified Self: Thematic exploration of a dataistic paradigm
This article investigates the metaphor of the Quantified Self (QS) as it is presented in the magazine Wired (2008–2012). Four interrelated themes—transparency, optimization, feedback loop, and biohacking—are identified as formative in defining a new numerical self and promoting a dataist paradigm. Wired captures certain interests and desires with the QS metaphor, while ignoring and downplaying others, suggesting that the QS positions self-trackin…
The heart of everyday analytics: Emotional, Material and Practical Extensions in Self-Tracking Market
As a result of digital and mobile technology, various kinds of monitoring practices are moving back and forth knowledge hierarchies. The analytics of bodily and mental functions is no longer the privileged domain of professionals. This essay focuses on the ways in which everyday analytics, heart-rate monitoring in particular, becomes embedded and normalized in daily practices and by doing so, paves the way for new market developments. The discuss…
Sustainable Practices
Tracking social rhythms of the heart: From Dataism to Art
The authors conducted a curiosity-driven study to explore what a vast body of self-tracking data could reveal about the rhythms of everyday life. The authors instructed thirty-six research participants to engage in self-tracking for a week. They measured their physiological stress and recovery 24/7 for this period. In addition to that the participants recorded their subjective experiences of stress and recovery. Using different methods of analysi…
The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How it Changes
The Dynamics of Social Practice Introducing Theories of Practice Materials and Resources Sequence and Structure Making and Breaking Links Material, Competence and Meaning Car-Driving: Elements and Linkages Making Links Breaking Links Elements Between Practices Standardization and Diversity Individual and Collective Careers The Life of Elements Modes of Circulation Transportation and Access: Material Abstraction, Reversal and Migration: Competence…
Understanding innovation in practice: A discussion of the production and re-production of Nordic Walking
Building on the work of those who have highlighted the role of consumers and lead users we focus on innovations not in products but in what people do. In developing a method of conceptualising the emergence and reproduction of practice we argue that innovation is not a one-off moment but a continuous on-going process. Specifically, we suggest that innovations in practice involve changing combinations of symbolic and material ingredients and of co…
Temporal Rhythms as Outcomes of Social Practices. A Speculative Discussion
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Recruitment and Reproduction: The Careers and Carriers of Digital Photography and Floorball
Recruitment and Reproduction: The Careers and Carriers of Digital Photography and Floorball The claim that social practices have a relatively durable existence in space and time, and that their persistence depends upon their recurrent reproduction through necessarily localised performances is theoretically plausible, but what of the detail? How do the careers of practices and those who "carry" them actually intersect? In this paper we have two re…
Innovaatiopolitiikka – Kenen hyväksi, keiden ehdoilla? [Innovation Policy: [For Whose Benefit, On Whose Terms?]
Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the invention and reinvention of Nordic walking
The idea that artifacts are acquired and used in the course of accomplishing social practices has important implications for theories of consumption and innovation. From this point of view, it is not enough to show that goods are symbolically and materially positioned, mediated and filtered through existing cultures and conventions. Twisting the problem around, the further challenge is to explain how practices change and with what consequence for…
The Ethos of Thrift: The Promotion of Bank Saving in Finland During the 1950s
This article examines the promotion and legitimization of bank saving in Finnish magazines during the 1950s. While trying to educate Finnish citizens to save, articles and advertisements ended up outlining a general model for the good life, structured by the ethos of thrift. At the household level, thrift meant a plurality of activities, not only passivity or restraint. The bank-saving discourse introduced new techniques of governing oneself and …
Consumption as Work, Play, and Art: Representation of the Consumer in Future Scenarios
September 01 2000 Consumption as Work, Play, and Art: Representation of the Consumer in Future Scenarios Mika Pantzar Mika Pantzar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mika Pantzar Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2000 Design Issues (2000) 16 (3): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1162/07479360052053298 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon…
The Replicative Model of the Evolution of Business Organization
Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the invention and reinvention of Nordic walking
The idea that artifacts are acquired and used in the course of accomplishing social practices has important implications for theories of consumption and innovation. From this point of view, it is not enough to show that goods are symbolically and materially positioned, mediated and filtered through existing cultures and conventions. Twisting the problem around, the further challenge is to explain how practices change and with what consequence for…
Beyond the Quantified Self: Thematic exploration of a dataistic paradigm
This article investigates the metaphor of the Quantified Self (QS) as it is presented in the magazine Wired (2008–2012). Four interrelated themes—transparency, optimization, feedback loop, and biohacking—are identified as formative in defining a new numerical self and promoting a dataist paradigm. Wired captures certain interests and desires with the QS metaphor, while ignoring and downplaying others, suggesting that the QS positions self-trackin…
The heart of everyday analytics: Emotional, Material and Practical Extensions in Self-Tracking Market
As a result of digital and mobile technology, various kinds of monitoring practices are moving back and forth knowledge hierarchies. The analytics of bodily and mental functions is no longer the privileged domain of professionals. This essay focuses on the ways in which everyday analytics, heart-rate monitoring in particular, becomes embedded and normalized in daily practices and by doing so, paves the way for new market developments. The discuss…
Recruitment and Reproduction: The Careers and Carriers of Digital Photography and Floorball
Recruitment and Reproduction: The Careers and Carriers of Digital Photography and Floorball The claim that social practices have a relatively durable existence in space and time, and that their persistence depends upon their recurrent reproduction through necessarily localised performances is theoretically plausible, but what of the detail? How do the careers of practices and those who "carry" them actually intersect? In this paper we have two re…
Par-delà le Quantified Self: Exploration thématique d’un paradigme dataïste
Nous examinerons dans cet article la métaphore du Quantified Self (QS) telle qu'elle est présentée dans le magazine Wired (2008-2012), où nous avons identifié quatre thèmes interdépendants - transparence, optimisation, boucles de rétroaction et biohacking - comme fondements de la définition d'un nouveau soi numérique et de la diffusion d'un paradigme dataïste. En suggérant que le QS fait jouer aux dispositifs et applications d'autosuivi un rôle d…
Social rhythms of the heart
A long-term research focus on the temporality of everyday life has become revitalised with new tracking technologies that allow methodological experimentation and innovation. This article approaches rhythms of daily lives with heart-rate variability measurements that use algorithms to discover physiological stress and recovery. In the spirit of the 'social life of methods' approach, we aggregated individual data (n = 35) in order to uncover tempo…
The Ethos of Thrift: The Promotion of Bank Saving in Finland During the 1950s
This article examines the promotion and legitimization of bank saving in Finnish magazines during the 1950s. While trying to educate Finnish citizens to save, articles and advertisements ended up outlining a general model for the good life, structured by the ethos of thrift. At the household level, thrift meant a plurality of activities, not only passivity or restraint. The bank-saving discourse introduced new techniques of governing oneself and …
The data economy: How technological change has altered the role of the citizen-consumer
Citizenship and consumption have been linked for over a century, emphasizing the pivotal role played by the citizen-consumer in society as a whole, and the voting power of the consumer's money. In the modern, digitalized world of the data economy, citizen-consumers are being assigned new roles: active market party, content producer, distributor, and an important source of economic value formation. This article examines how the role of the citizen…
Intricacies of back-office: Forward- and backward-looking recipes as modelling tools in administration
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how back-office service staff cope with the intricacies of administrative work. Design/methodology/approach - The paper applies the research approach of "at-home ethnography" in a university back-office. The primary method of data collection was participant listening in the field, either in formal interviews or casual conversations. Photography helped the authors to zoom the conversation in to spe…
The Replicative Model of the Evolution of Business Organization
Consumption as Work, Play, and Art: Representation of the Consumer in Future Scenarios
September 01 2000 Consumption as Work, Play, and Art: Representation of the Consumer in Future Scenarios Mika Pantzar Mika Pantzar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mika Pantzar Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2000 Design Issues (2000) 16 (3): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1162/07479360052053298 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon…
The Ethos of Thrift: The Promotion of Bank Saving in Finland During the 1950s
This article examines the promotion and legitimization of bank saving in Finnish magazines during the 1950s. While trying to educate Finnish citizens to save, articles and advertisements ended up outlining a general model for the good life, structured by the ethos of thrift. At the household level, thrift meant a plurality of activities, not only passivity or restraint. The bank-saving discourse introduced new techniques of governing oneself and …
Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the invention and reinvention of Nordic walking
The idea that artifacts are acquired and used in the course of accomplishing social practices has important implications for theories of consumption and innovation. From this point of view, it is not enough to show that goods are symbolically and materially positioned, mediated and filtered through existing cultures and conventions. Twisting the problem around, the further challenge is to explain how practices change and with what consequence for…
Innovaatiopolitiikka – Kenen hyväksi, keiden ehdoilla? [Innovation Policy: [For Whose Benefit, On Whose Terms?]
Recruitment and Reproduction: The Careers and Carriers of Digital Photography and Floorball
Recruitment and Reproduction: The Careers and Carriers of Digital Photography and Floorball The claim that social practices have a relatively durable existence in space and time, and that their persistence depends upon their recurrent reproduction through necessarily localised performances is theoretically plausible, but what of the detail? How do the careers of practices and those who "carry" them actually intersect? In this paper we have two re…
Understanding innovation in practice: A discussion of the production and re-production of Nordic Walking
Building on the work of those who have highlighted the role of consumers and lead users we focus on innovations not in products but in what people do. In developing a method of conceptualising the emergence and reproduction of practice we argue that innovation is not a one-off moment but a continuous on-going process. Specifically, we suggest that innovations in practice involve changing combinations of symbolic and material ingredients and of co…
Temporal Rhythms as Outcomes of Social Practices. A Speculative Discussion
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The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How it Changes
The Dynamics of Social Practice Introducing Theories of Practice Materials and Resources Sequence and Structure Making and Breaking Links Material, Competence and Meaning Car-Driving: Elements and Linkages Making Links Breaking Links Elements Between Practices Standardization and Diversity Individual and Collective Careers The Life of Elements Modes of Circulation Transportation and Access: Material Abstraction, Reversal and Migration: Competence…
Sustainable Practices
Tracking social rhythms of the heart: From Dataism to Art
The authors conducted a curiosity-driven study to explore what a vast body of self-tracking data could reveal about the rhythms of everyday life. The authors instructed thirty-six research participants to engage in self-tracking for a week. They measured their physiological stress and recovery 24/7 for this period. In addition to that the participants recorded their subjective experiences of stress and recovery. Using different methods of analysi…
Beyond the Quantified Self: Thematic exploration of a dataistic paradigm
This article investigates the metaphor of the Quantified Self (QS) as it is presented in the magazine Wired (2008–2012). Four interrelated themes—transparency, optimization, feedback loop, and biohacking—are identified as formative in defining a new numerical self and promoting a dataist paradigm. Wired captures certain interests and desires with the QS metaphor, while ignoring and downplaying others, suggesting that the QS positions self-trackin…
The heart of everyday analytics: Emotional, Material and Practical Extensions in Self-Tracking Market
As a result of digital and mobile technology, various kinds of monitoring practices are moving back and forth knowledge hierarchies. The analytics of bodily and mental functions is no longer the privileged domain of professionals. This essay focuses on the ways in which everyday analytics, heart-rate monitoring in particular, becomes embedded and normalized in daily practices and by doing so, paves the way for new market developments. The discuss…
Rekrutierung und Reproduktion: Karrieren und Träger von Digitalfotografie und Floorball
Intricacies of back-office: Forward- and backward-looking recipes as modelling tools in administration
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how back-office service staff cope with the intricacies of administrative work. Design/methodology/approach - The paper applies the research approach of "at-home ethnography" in a university back-office. The primary method of data collection was participant listening in the field, either in formal interviews or casual conversations. Photography helped the authors to zoom the conversation in to spe…
Social rhythms of the heart
A long-term research focus on the temporality of everyday life has become revitalised with new tracking technologies that allow methodological experimentation and innovation. This article approaches rhythms of daily lives with heart-rate variability measurements that use algorithms to discover physiological stress and recovery. In the spirit of the 'social life of methods' approach, we aggregated individual data (n = 35) in order to uncover tempo…
Common knowledge? An ethnography of Wikipedia
The data economy: How technological change has altered the role of the citizen-consumer
Citizenship and consumption have been linked for over a century, emphasizing the pivotal role played by the citizen-consumer in society as a whole, and the voting power of the consumer's money. In the modern, digitalized world of the data economy, citizen-consumers are being assigned new roles: active market party, content producer, distributor, and an important source of economic value formation. This article examines how the role of the citizen…
Par-delà le Quantified Self: Exploration thématique d’un paradigme dataïste
Nous examinerons dans cet article la métaphore du Quantified Self (QS) telle qu'elle est présentée dans le magazine Wired (2008-2012), où nous avons identifié quatre thèmes interdépendants - transparence, optimisation, boucles de rétroaction et biohacking - comme fondements de la définition d'un nouveau soi numérique et de la diffusion d'un paradigme dataïste. En suggérant que le QS fait jouer aux dispositifs et applications d'autosuivi un rôle d…
Polarity in healthcare priority setting: A comparative analysis of attitudes among Finnish physicians, dentists, MPs, and citizens
Our objective is to study the differences and similarities in public healthcare priority setting attitudes among Finnish physicians, dentists, members of the parliament (MPs), and citizens. Additionally, we explore the correlation of socio-demographic factors with attitudes among the citizens. A comprehensive study including the views of all relevant stakeholder groups has been lacking, and the attitudes of dentists and parliamentarians have not …
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