Sakari Taipale
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 281529 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sakari Taipale |
| PRENOMES | Sakari |
| SOBRENOME | Taipale |
| ASSINATURA | TAIPALE S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8962-6226 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Media Behaviors Considered by Older Adults During Health Emergencies
PurposeTo identify the predictors of the technology-assisted behaviors older adults would consider implementing once encountered with a health concern and seeking help. To understand this phenomenon, the study tapped into the technology familiarity approach and the media richness theory.MethodsData were obtained from the 2020 wave of the Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT) survey and analyzed using logistic regression models. The sample inc…
Mobile communication and later life
Warm experts among us
This critical conceptual analysis explores the key challenges associated with warm experts, such as family members and friends, in providing informal digital support in later life. We examine the challenges that stem from the dyadic relationship between warm experts and older adults, as well as the individual, social and societal characteristics of being a warm expert with limited resources to provide digital support to older adults. In conclusio…
Exploring stakeholder perspectives on user involvement in designing digital public services for older adults
Digital public services can enhance well-being but also increase inequalities in society. Drawing from the Access Rainbow Model, we investigate user involvement in designing digital public services for and with older adults from the perspectives of Finnish stakeholders. First, (1) we ask what the typical challenges for older adults are accessing digital public services according to the stakeholders. Second, (2) we explore how stakeholders view th…
Individual and shared digital repertoires – older adults managing digital services
The rise of public and other non-recreational digital services is based on the idea of catering to the daily needs of the citizens cost-efficiently and with ease. Previous research has approached the use of digital services mainly from the perspective of an individual, while the significance of shared practices of use has attracted only a little attention. In this article, we (1) examine the incentives and limitations associated with the use of n…
Mobile phone use before and during the Covid-19 pandemic – a panel study of older adults in seven countries
The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in older adults’ mobile phone use from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic. The media displacement and digital divide approaches served as the theoretical frameworks of the study. The data were drawn from the 2018 and 2020 waves of the Aging + Communication + Technology cross-national longitudinal panel study. The sample consisted of older Internet users, aged 62 to 96 (in 2018), from Austri…
Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots
Robots have been slowly but steadily introduced to welfare sectors. Our previous observations based on a large-scale survey study on Finnish elder-care workers in 2016 showed that while robots were perceived to be useful in certain telecare tasks, using robots may also prove to be incompatible with the care workers’ personal values. The current study presents the second wave of the survey data from 2020, with the same respondents (N = 190), and s…
Health and self-perceived barriers to internet use among older migrants
In general, older migrants with declining health experience more barriers to internet use than their counterparts with better health. To provide better access to healthcare for older adults, including older migrants, rapidly changing devices, software and apps need to be modified and adapted for those with specific health-related needs
Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work
As new communication technologies become embedded in care work, there is a need to understand how they affect its temporal order. This article analyses group‐based mobile instant messaging (IM) in residential elder care work in Finland. The article asks (i) how care workers use group‐based messaging for work; and (ii) how they negotiate the rules for its use. Theoretically, the article draws on science and technology studies focusing on ‘taming’ …
Heterogeneity of traditional and digital media use among older adults
The concept of aged heterogeneity has been associated with older adults' ability to adapt to the digital age without a systematic empirical analysis. We analyse retired adults' (aged 62 or more) use of traditional media and their digital equivalents in six countries. First, we ask whether heterogeneity in traditional and digital media use increases with age. Second, we study to what extent gender is related to this heterogeneity, and third, the c…
Care Workers’ Readiness for Robotization
Successful implementation of robots in welfare services requires that the staff approves of them as a part of daily work tasks. In this study, we identified psychological and socio-demographic determinants associated with readiness for robotization among professional Finnish care-workers. National survey data were collected from professional care workers (n = 3800) between October and November 2016. Random samples were drawn from the member regis…
Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults
In this article, we (1) examine the various forms of support required by older users (75+) of digital technology and (2) provide a concrete, everyday life rationale for why warm experts play such a pivotal role in the processes of adopting and using ICT. Although warm experts are usually not older adults themselves, they provide an important mediating view on the technology use among older people that has not been rigorously addressed in previous…
Refamilisation in the broadband society – the effects of ICTs on family solidarity in Finland
In this article we explore the effects that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have on family relations in Finland. The idea of ‘new connectivities’ works as a starting point for the study directing attention to ICT-mediated forms of being together with distant family members. The research data consists of 22 student reports encompassing a total of 133 informants from extended Finnish families. Extended group interview (EGI) te…
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
Intergenerational solidarity and ICT usage
This chapter suggests that recent advancements in the use of information and communications technologies and the life course perspective can clarify these seemingly contradictory developments. Bengtson and Roberts presented the intergenerational solidarity model in the early 1990s. The model consists of six solidarity types, each representing a dialectic dimension. Associational solidarity refers to the frequency and patterns of interaction conne…
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
Into the world of e-waste
In the management of e-waste, mobility of e-scrappers plays a pivotal role, especially in e-waste acquisition and sales of extracted materials. This research examines the relationship between e-scrappers and the locations of their work by analysing the influence of environmental and social factors on their mobility behaviour in Nigeria. A qualitative analysis of video material collected from 29 male e-scrappers in Nigeria between 2014 and 2015 re…
A different glimpse into mobilities
We explore the link between daily spatial mobility and social mobility, taking changes in the contemporary labor market and family as examples. We propose a new theoretical approach to mobility that is defined as a productive force of social labor. Analyzing the relationship between daily spatial mobility and social mobility, we show that spatial mobility has become a strategy of compensation for the lack of social mobility. Explanations for the …
Innovators and innovated
Along with other cultural organizations, newspapers, through waves of digital disruption, have become subject to a dominant narrative of crisis. But newspapers have long participated in change. A constructivist approach, qualified by consideration of media materiality, draws attention to diverse but essential processes of innovation around them. We see a contraflow of migration from digital to print, opening up a shared media space; bonding strat…
Synchronicity matters
This paper investigates whether or not the proposition that the second digital generation (or so-called digital natives) is more engaged in social use of the Internet than older generations is tenable. By analysing nationally representative questionnaire-based survey data collected from Finland in 2011 (N = 612), the study shows that rather than social use of the Internet in general, it is the synchronicity of online communication that distinguis…
Conclusions
Introduction
Robot Shift from Industrial Production to Social Reproduction
Social Robots from a Human Perspective
Do the mobile-rich get richer? Internet use, travelling and social differentiations in Finland
This article investigates the daily travelling practices that are related to mobile-only, fixed-only and combined mobile/fixed use of the Internet, and the social differentiations that are related to these three ways of accessing the Internet. Survey data ( N = 612) collected from Finland in 2011 are analysed. The article shows that mobile-only Internet use is not associated with particularly diverse or frequent daily travelling practices, wherea…
Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults
In this article, we (1) examine the various forms of support required by older users (75+) of digital technology and (2) provide a concrete, everyday life rationale for why warm experts play such a pivotal role in the processes of adopting and using ICT. Although warm experts are usually not older adults themselves, they provide an important mediating view on the technology use among older people that has not been rigorously addressed in previous…
Social Robots from a Human Perspective
Print and online newspapers as material artefacts
Traditional newspaper journalism is in a state of crisis and there have been several attempts to overcome this. Many discourses have reiterated the triumphal march of a digital revolution in newspaper journalism and anticipated the end of the print newspaper. This moment calls for an in-depth analysis of reader habits of news consumption and use in order to understand the audiences for journalistic output and their relationship with the journalis…
The advanced use of mobile phones in five E uropean countries
The paper explores the advanced users of mobile phones in I taly, F rance, G ermany, S pain and the UK ( EU 5 countries) and aims to clarify the social meaning of advanced use. The mobile phone is seen as a strategic tool of social labour, whose capabilities are exploited to a different extent in the five studied countries. The analysis is based on a cross‐national survey data collected in 2009 ( N = 7,255). First, the results show that there are…
Theorizing cultural work
Theorizing Cultural Work, edited by Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill, and Stephanie Taylor, deals with contemporary cultural work and creative industries by elaborating the specificities of the present th
Capturing methodological trends in mobile communication studies
This study investigates methodological trends in mobile communication studies. The articles published over the past 20 years in five journals (Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, and Information, Communication & Society) are analysed. The results show that the quantitative and qualitative studies have increased while theoretical accounts have remained few. The quantita…
Refamilisation in the broadband society – the effects of ICTs on family solidarity in Finland
In this article we explore the effects that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have on family relations in Finland. The idea of ‘new connectivities’ works as a starting point for the study directing attention to ICT-mediated forms of being together with distant family members. The research data consists of 22 student reports encompassing a total of 133 informants from extended Finnish families. Extended group interview (EGI) te…
Do the mobile-rich get richer? Internet use, travelling and social differentiations in Finland
This article investigates the daily travelling practices that are related to mobile-only, fixed-only and combined mobile/fixed use of the Internet, and the social differentiations that are related to these three ways of accessing the Internet. Survey data ( N = 612) collected from Finland in 2011 are analysed. The article shows that mobile-only Internet use is not associated with particularly diverse or frequent daily travelling practices, wherea…
Women's Emotions Towards The Mobile Phone
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether women's emotions associate differently with the mobile phone depending on the type of family in which they live. James A. Russell's circumplex model of affect which explores four main emotional dimensions, excitement, distress, depression and contentment, was applied. The article is based on the female sub-sample (N = 3,704) of nationally representative survey data collected from Italy, France, …
Work engagement in eight European countries
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the level and predictors of work engagement among service sector employees in eight European countries. Design/methodology/approach The work seeks to discover if job demands and resources, i.e. job autonomy and social support, affect work engagement in differing ways in different countries when socio‐demographical variables and work‐related factors are controlled. The study is based on a statistical…
Heterogeneity of traditional and digital media use among older adults
The concept of aged heterogeneity has been associated with older adults' ability to adapt to the digital age without a systematic empirical analysis. We analyse retired adults' (aged 62 or more) use of traditional media and their digital equivalents in six countries. First, we ask whether heterogeneity in traditional and digital media use increases with age. Second, we study to what extent gender is related to this heterogeneity, and third, the c…
The dimensions of mobilities
What happened to body-to-body sociability
Organization of the social sphere and typology of the residential setting
A different glimpse into mobilities
We explore the link between daily spatial mobility and social mobility, taking changes in the contemporary labor market and family as examples. We propose a new theoretical approach to mobility that is defined as a productive force of social labor. Analyzing the relationship between daily spatial mobility and social mobility, we show that spatial mobility has become a strategy of compensation for the lack of social mobility. Explanations for the …
Innovators and innovated
Along with other cultural organizations, newspapers, through waves of digital disruption, have become subject to a dominant narrative of crisis. But newspapers have long participated in change. A constructivist approach, qualified by consideration of media materiality, draws attention to diverse but essential processes of innovation around them. We see a contraflow of migration from digital to print, opening up a shared media space; bonding strat…
Warm experts among us
This critical conceptual analysis explores the key challenges associated with warm experts, such as family members and friends, in providing informal digital support in later life. We examine the challenges that stem from the dyadic relationship between warm experts and older adults, as well as the individual, social and societal characteristics of being a warm expert with limited resources to provide digital support to older adults. In conclusio…
Mobile phone use before and during the Covid-19 pandemic – a panel study of older adults in seven countries
The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in older adults’ mobile phone use from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic. The media displacement and digital divide approaches served as the theoretical frameworks of the study. The data were drawn from the 2018 and 2020 waves of the Aging + Communication + Technology cross-national longitudinal panel study. The sample consisted of older Internet users, aged 62 to 96 (in 2018), from Austri…
Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work
As new communication technologies become embedded in care work, there is a need to understand how they affect its temporal order. This article analyses group‐based mobile instant messaging (IM) in residential elder care work in Finland. The article asks (i) how care workers use group‐based messaging for work; and (ii) how they negotiate the rules for its use. Theoretically, the article draws on science and technology studies focusing on ‘taming’ …
Into the world of e-waste
In the management of e-waste, mobility of e-scrappers plays a pivotal role, especially in e-waste acquisition and sales of extracted materials. This research examines the relationship between e-scrappers and the locations of their work by analysing the influence of environmental and social factors on their mobility behaviour in Nigeria. A qualitative analysis of video material collected from 29 male e-scrappers in Nigeria between 2014 and 2015 re…
The relationship between Internet use, online and printed newspaper reading in Finland
This article explores how the time spent on the Internet is associated with printed and online newspaper reading. The direct and moderating effects of gender are especially investigated. The survey data ( N = 612) collected from Finland in 2011 are analysed by using hierarchical regression modelling. The results of the study show that Internet use has a displacement effect on printed newspaper reading but only among male respondents. In contrast,…
Mobilities in Finland's Information Society Strategies from 1995 to 2010
The article explores Finland’s national information society strategies and uses the Finnish case as an example to identify the limitation of the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ and to explicate the advantages of the mobility paradigm. The research material consists of the Finnish national strategies published between 1995 and 2010. The article identifies two trends from the studied strategies; a further intermingling of physical movement o…
Mobility of Cultures and Knowledge Management in Contemporary Europe
In the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain, the European Union (EU) has included more and more new member states from Central and Eastern parts of the European continent. This enlargement process has increased the cultural diversity of the European community as new languages and minority groups have been subsumed into the EU. It is the purpose of this article to discuss the challenges that result from the EU's enlargement, together with the…
Experiencing Broadband Society
Julian Gebhardt, Greif Hajo, Raycheva Lilia, Claire Lobet-Maris & Lasen Amparo (eds), Experiencing Broadband Society (Frankfurt am Main and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), 206 pp., ISBN 978-3-631-58406
Work engagement in eight European countries
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the level and predictors of work engagement among service sector employees in eight European countries. Design/methodology/approach The work seeks to discover if job demands and resources, i.e. job autonomy and social support, affect work engagement in differing ways in different countries when socio‐demographical variables and work‐related factors are controlled. The study is based on a statistical…
The Politics of Proximity
Women's Emotions Towards The Mobile Phone
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether women's emotions associate differently with the mobile phone depending on the type of family in which they live. James A. Russell's circumplex model of affect which explores four main emotional dimensions, excitement, distress, depression and contentment, was applied. The article is based on the female sub-sample (N = 3,704) of nationally representative survey data collected from Italy, France, …
Mobility of Cultures and Knowledge Management in Contemporary Europe
In the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain, the European Union (EU) has included more and more new member states from Central and Eastern parts of the European continent. This enlargement process has increased the cultural diversity of the European community as new languages and minority groups have been subsumed into the EU. It is the purpose of this article to discuss the challenges that result from the EU's enlargement, together with the…
Organization of the social sphere and typology of the residential setting
The diffusion and use of information and communication technologies and the city from 1996 to 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the diffusion and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are associated with the size of the place of residence where people live. The article explores how the relationship between ICTs and place of residence changed between 1996 and 2009. The study presents data from two consecutive telephone surveys collected from Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. Results …
The relationship between Internet use, online and printed newspaper reading in Finland
This article explores how the time spent on the Internet is associated with printed and online newspaper reading. The direct and moderating effects of gender are especially investigated. The survey data ( N = 612) collected from Finland in 2011 are analysed by using hierarchical regression modelling. The results of the study show that Internet use has a displacement effect on printed newspaper reading but only among male respondents. In contrast,…
Capturing methodological trends in mobile communication studies
This study investigates methodological trends in mobile communication studies. The articles published over the past 20 years in five journals (Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, and Information, Communication & Society) are analysed. The results show that the quantitative and qualitative studies have increased while theoretical accounts have remained few. The quantita…
Mobilities in Finland's Information Society Strategies from 1995 to 2010
The article explores Finland’s national information society strategies and uses the Finnish case as an example to identify the limitation of the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ and to explicate the advantages of the mobility paradigm. The research material consists of the Finnish national strategies published between 1995 and 2010. The article identifies two trends from the studied strategies; a further intermingling of physical movement o…
What happened to body-to-body sociability
Do the mobile-rich get richer? Internet use, travelling and social differentiations in Finland
This article investigates the daily travelling practices that are related to mobile-only, fixed-only and combined mobile/fixed use of the Internet, and the social differentiations that are related to these three ways of accessing the Internet. Survey data ( N = 612) collected from Finland in 2011 are analysed. The article shows that mobile-only Internet use is not associated with particularly diverse or frequent daily travelling practices, wherea…
Theorizing cultural work
Theorizing Cultural Work, edited by Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill, and Stephanie Taylor, deals with contemporary cultural work and creative industries by elaborating the specificities of the present th
Print and online newspapers as material artefacts
Traditional newspaper journalism is in a state of crisis and there have been several attempts to overcome this. Many discourses have reiterated the triumphal march of a digital revolution in newspaper journalism and anticipated the end of the print newspaper. This moment calls for an in-depth analysis of reader habits of news consumption and use in order to understand the audiences for journalistic output and their relationship with the journalis…
The advanced use of mobile phones in five E uropean countries
The paper explores the advanced users of mobile phones in I taly, F rance, G ermany, S pain and the UK ( EU 5 countries) and aims to clarify the social meaning of advanced use. The mobile phone is seen as a strategic tool of social labour, whose capabilities are exploited to a different extent in the five studied countries. The analysis is based on a cross‐national survey data collected in 2009 ( N = 7,255). First, the results show that there are…
The dimensions of mobilities
Conclusions
Introduction
Robot Shift from Industrial Production to Social Reproduction
Social Robots from a Human Perspective
Synchronicity matters
This paper investigates whether or not the proposition that the second digital generation (or so-called digital natives) is more engaged in social use of the Internet than older generations is tenable. By analysing nationally representative questionnaire-based survey data collected from Finland in 2011 (N = 612), the study shows that rather than social use of the Internet in general, it is the synchronicity of online communication that distinguis…
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
Intergenerational solidarity and ICT usage
This chapter suggests that recent advancements in the use of information and communications technologies and the life course perspective can clarify these seemingly contradictory developments. Bengtson and Roberts presented the intergenerational solidarity model in the early 1990s. The model consists of six solidarity types, each representing a dialectic dimension. Associational solidarity refers to the frequency and patterns of interaction conne…
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
Into the world of e-waste
In the management of e-waste, mobility of e-scrappers plays a pivotal role, especially in e-waste acquisition and sales of extracted materials. This research examines the relationship between e-scrappers and the locations of their work by analysing the influence of environmental and social factors on their mobility behaviour in Nigeria. A qualitative analysis of video material collected from 29 male e-scrappers in Nigeria between 2014 and 2015 re…
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