European Broadband Regulation: The “Broadband for All 2015” Strategy in Finland

Nieminen, Hannu

doi:10.5771/9783845243214-119

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“…Public sector employees perceive innovative work as risk-taking. Furthermore, the cultural environment matters, for example, specifically in Finland, innovation is often examined instrumentally, needing justification from an economic perspective (see Nieminen, 2013;Takalo, 2013). It is, therefore, important that the atmosphere is sufficiently safe and empowering if we want to promote innovative work.…”

Section: Innovation and Innovativenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Compassion: From Neuroscience to New Horizons and Innovative, Inclusive Research Agendas

2023

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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Compassion: From Neuroscience to New Horizons and Innovative, Inclusive Research Agendas

2023

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“…In the 1990s, Finland was a frontrunner in shaping information society policies, gaining notice for technological development and global competitiveness, especially in the mobile communications sector (Castells & Himanen, 2002). Finland was also among the first nations to make affordable broadband access a legal right (e.g., Nieminen, 2013).…”

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Assessing Media Platformization in Small Nations: A Rights-Based Approach

Horowitz¹,

Nieminen²,

Väliverronen³

2017

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The rise of the internet and the subsequent global reach of digital platforms has provided entirely new participatory opportunities for citizens and created new types of content and services in both national and global media landscapes. At the same time, we have witnessed serious new challenges to individuals, organizations, and society, including political polarization, rampant and viral mis- and disinformation, diminishing trust in knowledge institutions, and the like. In this article, we introduce a citizen-centric model of four communication rights as a normative-evaluative framework for assessing the impact of this so-called platformization as it pertains to small nations, with the case of Finland as an empirical illustration.

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“…The rise of digital commercial innovations was coupled with the ideal of the "digital welfare state" (cf. Ala-Fossi et al 2019): for example, Finland was among the first nations to make affordable broadband access a legal right (Nieminen 2013). What is more, Finns are among the most frequent users of the internet in the European Union.…”

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The Multidimensionality of Trust: Assessing Finnish Audiences’ Views on the Trustworthiness of Digital News

Horowitz

Ojala

Matikainen

et al. 2021

Global Perspectives

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Finland provides an interesting case study on trust in the media in the digital era. The country is known to exhibit the greatest levels of trust in the political establishment and the government, as well as the media. In the Finnish “digital welfare state,” the news is an inseparable part of the mechanism, producing a high level of social trust within the welfare state system, and Finland features the highest level of media freedom and literacy in Europe. This multimethod study examines different understandings of trust by studying in what ways Finnish audiences experience trust in news, especially when consuming news on digital platforms, and what factors explain trust in different news sources. Our basic premise is that trust can be understood in three ways: as dispositions of individual actors, as the social organization and the relationship between different social nodes and the system, and as a constantly negotiated property of social relations. We apply this three-dimensional framework in two sets of audience survey research data (2019, 2020) and reflect the findings with a focus group and expert interviews as well as with two similar surveys a decade prior. Our results depict relatively high levels of trust in the media in Finland and surprisingly little change in audiences’ perceptions of trustworthiness compared to the earlier surveys. The most defining characteristic of Finnish audiences is critical trust. Audiences are aware of the impacts of digitization, especially the dangers of social media bubbles and disinformation. They also recognize market-driven imperatives of journalism yet appreciate legacy news media in its different digital forms. Our study indicates that a balance between skepticism and reliance on news outlets can exist in audiences’ perceptions of the trustworthiness of digital news.

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European Broadband Regulation: The “Broadband for All 2015” Strategy in Finland

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Compassion: From Neuroscience to New Horizons and Innovative, Inclusive Research Agendas

Compassion: From Neuroscience to New Horizons and Innovative, Inclusive Research Agendas

Assessing Media Platformization in Small Nations: A Rights-Based Approach

The Multidimensionality of Trust: Assessing Finnish Audiences’ Views on the Trustworthiness of Digital News

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