Opiskelijalähettiläät pöydän ja tietokoneiden ääressä

Working life interaction

Within the framework of focus area of working life interaction is studied in the light of changes that relate to digitalization, organization, and management cultures.
Research at the Department of Language and Communcation Studies

The research area examines the interaction of working life in relation to change processes related to digitalisation, organisation and management cultures. Interaction will be analysed from the perspective of practices, processes and structures.

The research contexts include different physical and virtual work environments, using different tools and overlapping with each other.

Research in this research area strongly links to the University’s profiling area Emerging Work in the Digital Era (EWIDE) which focuses on the future of work.

 Emerging Work in the Digital Era (EWIDE).

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Research groups and projects

Project

Building blocks: Developing second language resources for working life

Building Blocks -hanke tutkii työelämässä tarvittavien suomen kielen resurssin kehitystä aikuisilla maahanmuuttajilla, joiden tavoitteena on työllistyä omalle alalleen Suomessa.
Project

From the Fog of War: The Work of Finnish War Correspondents, Photographers and Their Fixers in the Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2024

From the Fog of War project examines the experiences and perceptions of Finnish war correspondents and photographers and their local fixers about their work in the Russo-Ukrainian war over a period of ten years.
Project

GET:ORG - Generative Technologies in Communicative Organizing

GET:ORG investigates novel forms of organizing that emerge through communication on digital platforms. The project focuses on automated technology and communicative AI as active participants in organizing in digital spaces.
Project

Inclusive multilingual and intercultural workplace (IMU)

Inclusive multilingual and intercultural workplace
Project

Language, engagement and belonging

Monitieteisessä tutkimushankkeessa tarkastellaan ukrainalaisten asettumista maaseudulle ja erityisesti kielen, kuulumisen ja kiinnittymisen kysymyksiä tässä prosessissa.
Project

Meaningful Digital Evolution (MDE)

The MDE project examines how digital transformation affects meaningfulness and productivity. Together with Tampere University and partners, we create AI solutions that ease technostress and enable more focused, fulfilling digital work.