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Vilma Lehtinen


M.Soc.Sc.

Researcher in the Self-Made Media research group

Post-graduate student, Department of Social Studies, University of Helsinki

 

Publications

Vaajakallio, K., Lehtinen, V., Kaario, P., Mattelmäki, T., Kuikkaniemi, K., Kantola, V. (2010). Someone Else's Shoes - Using Role-Playing Games for Empathy and Collaboration in Service Design. Design Research Journal, 1 (1), (pp. 34-41). Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish Industrial Design Foundation.

Lehtinen, V., Näsänen, J., Sarvas, R. (2009). "A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites. In Proceedings of the 2009 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 45-54). Cambridge, United Kingdom: British Computer Society. Winner Archival Highlight Award.

Lehtinen, V. & Lounamaa, A. (2008). Citizen Participation for Safety: A Question of Managing Local Knowledge in Organizations Maintaining Built Environments. In R. Suomi & S. Apiainen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2008). TUCS General Publications 49, Turku Centre for Computer Science.

Sarvas, R., Lehmuskallio, A., Lehtinen, V., Näsänen, J., and Vihavainen, S. (2008). Snapshot Media: "Kodak
Culture" in the 21st Century,
CHI 2008 workshop on Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos.

Hankonen, N., Ristolainen, H., Lehtinen, V. (2007). Sosiaalipsykologisia lähestymistapoja verkkovuorovaikutukseen. [Social psychological approaches to computer-mediated interaction.] Psykologia, 42 (4), 276-288.

Lehtinen, V. (2007). Maintaining and Extending Social Networks in IRC-galleria. Master's Thesis. Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki.

 

Awards and Grants

Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2008, 3rd place for a paper "Performing Diverse Social Relationships on a Social Networking Site", based on my Master's Thesis

 

Courses

Informaatioteknologian sosiaalipsykologiaa. [Social Psychology of IT.] Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, fall 2009, fall 2010

 

Media Appearances (In Finnish)

On societal aspects of social networking site use:

On teenagers’ use of social network services: