Opiskelijat katsomassa puhelinta

Multiliteracies and knowledge construction

Multiliteracies refers to the complex set of resources, e.g. textual, visual, oral, spatial, digital, needed for full participation in and access to mediatized and digitalized society.

This core area focuses on the role of multiliteracies in learning, social and societal belonging and professional agency. Multiliteracies refers to the complex set of resources (e.g. textual, visual, oral, spatial, digital) needed for full participation in and access to mediatized and digitalized society. 

Emphasis of research is on knowledge construction across the life span in different domains of life (education, free time, working life) and at their contact points/intersections. Out research explores how multimodal and multilingual competences and practices are developed through activities in different domains, and how they build expertise and intersect with activities in other domains. 

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Research projects of the core field of study

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De spermate: the Site

This site presents the Pseudo-Galenic Late Mediaeval medical bestseller variously titled De spermate, Microtegni etc., with bibliography on the transmission and historical context of the text
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Generation X, Y and Z and digital language practices: Intra- and intergenerational meaning-making, adaptation and attitudes (XYZdigi)

The project XYZdigi researches Finland Swedish digital language practices and its generational differences.
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Immigrant Families as Consumers of News and Media (MaMe)

MaMe -project studies news and media use in families with an immigration background.
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International migrations and (im)mobilities: identities, agency and voice of refugee background young adults

International migration and immobilities pilot action study examines experiences of forced migration of refugee youth (aged 17-29).
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MultiELL - Redesigning Early Foreign Language Learning through Multiliteracies

Suomen Akatemian rahoittama hanke varhaisen kielenopetuksen uudistamisesta
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Multifaceted Ripple Effects and Limitations of AI-Human Interplay at Work, Business, and Society

This Academy Consortium explores the multifaceted ripple effects that artificial intelligence has on contemporary working life.
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Multilingual text work in the platform economy

This research explores multilingual text work in the platform economy.
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Muses Moving North: the Network (MMNN)

The book historical network Muses Moving North Network aims to explore the dissemination of Italian humanism from the points of view of the media transmitting humanist texts, the scripts and the conventions of the humanist book north of the Alps.