Airi Lampinen

Researcher in the Social Interaction and Emotion (SIE) research group of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. (Member of the Ubiquitous Interaction group in 2007-2012.)

Doctoral student in the SOVAKO graduate school and at the Department of Social Research (Social Psychology), University of Helsinki.

Master's Student at the Information Networks Degree Program, School of Science, Aalto University. 

Fulbright Alumna (Visiting Student Researcher at the School of Information of University of California, Berkeley in 2010-2011).

NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Upon returning to HIIT from my recent internship at Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I am writing up my PhD dissertation on practices of balancing privacy and publicness in the context of social network services. Next to Operation Finish Line, my research endeavors are focused on local online gift exchange, especially questions of negotiating reciprocity and indebtedness.

In February 2013, I will be co-organized a workshop on Measuring Networked Privacy at CSCW 2013 along with Xinru Page, Karen Tang, and Fred Stutzman. Further conferences I will be attending this spring include Sosiologipäivät and CHI 2013.

I blog sporadically at Social Media Collective's research blog and at Rajapinta (in Finnish). For more frequent updates, you can find me on Twitter (airi_).

RESEARCH

My PhD research focuses on the balancing practices of balancing privacy and publicness in social network services. I am interested in privacy, publicness, identities, and self-presentation. My advisors are Antti Oulasvirta, Coye Cheshire, Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman.

While social media is all about sharing with a community, few people wish to share everything, with everyone, all the time. My research investigates the strategies users of social network services adopt to cope with the challenges networked publics as a context pose to them. I am interested in how a balance with privacy and publicness is found under circumstances characterized by SNS users' mutual dependence and how this balancing is related to identity and self-presentation. In my work, I aim at understanding SNS users' practices for managing the privacy and publicness of both themselves and others.

Further research interests include a range of privacy issues, generalized exchange in local online systems as well as the connections between online and offline aspects of communities.

PUBLICATIONS - Full Papers

Vihavainen, S., Lampinen, A., Oulasvirta, A., Silfverberg, S., & Lehmuskallio, A. (In press) The Clash between Privacy and Automation in Social Media.  IEEE Pervasive Computing, Jan 24 2013. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society.

Lampinen, A., Lehtinen, V., Cheshire, C., & Suhonen, E. (2013) Indebtedness and Reciprocity in Local Online Exchange CSCW'13 Proceedings of the ACM 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work.

King, J., Lampinen, A. & Smolen, A. (2011) Privacy: is there an app for that? SOUPS '11 Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security.

Lampinen, A., Lehtinen, V., Lehmuskallio A., & Tamminen, S. (2011) We're in it together: interpersonal management of disclosure in social network services CHI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems.

Silfverbeg, S., Liikkanen., A.L. & Lampinen, A. (2011) "I'll press play, but I won't listen": profile work in a music-focused social network service CSCW '11 Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work.

Suhonen, E., Lampinen, A., Cheshire, C. & Antin, J. (2010) Everyday favors: a case study of a local online gift exchange system GROUP '10 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work.

Lampinen, A., Tamminen, S. & Oulasvirta, A. (2009). All My People Right Here, Right Now: management of group co-presence on a social networking site GROUP '09 Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work.

PUBLICATIONS - Other Formats

Lampinen, A., Haapoja, J., Koponen, J., & Leppänen, J. (Forthcoming) Social Media as Personal Informatics: Empowerment through Self-Reflection. Position paper to be presented at the 'Personal Informatics in the Wild: Hacking Habits for Health and Happiness' workshop at CHI 2013, Paris, France.

Page, X., Tang, K., Stutzman, F., & Lampinen, A. (In press) Measuring Networked Social Privacy. CSCW EA '13 Proceedings of the ACM 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work.

Lampinen, A., Cheshire, C., & Huotari, K. (2012) Privacy Management Strategies and Online Photo Sharing: A Pilot Survey. Presented at the Reconciling Privacy with Social Media workshop at CSCW 2012, Seattle, USA. 

Lampinen, A., Stutzman, F. & Bylund, M. (2011). Privacy for a Networked World: bridging theory and design. CHI EA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems.

Lampinen, A. (2010). Practices of balancing privacy and publicness in social network services GROUP '10 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work.

Lampinen, A. (2010). To Share or Not to Share? Publicity and Privacy Management. Presented at the Social Connectedness Workshop at CHI 2010 Conference, Atlanta, USA. 

Lampinen, A., Lehtinen, V., Huotari, K., Luusua, V., Mäntylä, M., Sarvas, R., Seppälä, L., Turunen, J. (2009). Mobile Social Media for Groups. Presented at the poster session of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Vienna, Austria.

Lampinen, A. (2008). We Are All Here! Multiple Groups on a Social Network Site. Unpublished Master's Thesis.

CONTACT

E-mail: airi.lampinen (at) hiit.fi

Twitter: airi_

Mailing address: Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, PO Box 19800, 00076 Aalto, Finland

Telephone: +358 50 301 6971

Telefax: +358 9 694 9768 (shared)