https://trepo.tuni.fi:443/handle/10024/123412 2026-05-09T22:53:40Z https://trepo.tuni.fi:443/handle/10024/236881 The Speculative Camera Caine, Ariel; Lehmuskallio, Asko; Toister, Yanai 2025-05-01T00:00:00Z https://trepo.tuni.fi:443/handle/10024/236815 Lurking minds: How silent listening shapes understanding in digital spaces Ala-Kortesmaa, Sanna This study investigates how silent listening, the act of consuming digital content without visible interaction, shapes individual understanding in algorithmically mediated environments. Drawing on a qualitative dataset of 21 semi-structured interviews, this study explores how users describe their listening practices, how these shape cognition and emotion, and how they understand the ethical implications of their listening habits. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis to surface recurring interpretive and affective patterns. Three key findings emerge: (1) silent listening is not passive but structured by platform dynamics that render listeners infrastructurally embedded; (2) understanding is shaped through ambient exposure and emotional attunement, leading to gradual, often unrecognized shifts in beliefs; and (3) ethical agency extends to attention, as silent engagement contributes to content visibility in ways users cannot fully control. Framed through cybernetic, sociocultural, and critical traditions of communication theory, the study reconceptualizes silent digital listening as an ethically and structurally meaningful form of participation. It invites reflection on how attention, rather than expression alone, configures digital publics, platform governance, and responsibility. 2026-05-03T00:00:00Z https://trepo.tuni.fi:443/handle/10024/236814 Disconnected from strategy—administrative staff experiences during a university merger Erjansola, Ari Matti; Poutanen, Mikko; Lipponen, Jukka Strategic leadership in universities is a balancing act between academic and managerial perspectives as well as internal and external realities. In this article, we focus on the experiences of administrative staff during a university merger. By analysing qualitative survey data, we show how misalignment between the strategic focus of the organization and the needs of people management can lead to a disconnect between strategic leadership and the operational realities of university administration. This study contributes to the study of strategic leadership and organizational mergers in universities with a particular focus on administrative staff. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://trepo.tuni.fi:443/handle/10024/236813 Stench Atmospheres: Policing, Affect, and Colonial Boomeranging in Palestine/Israel Ghantous, Wassim; Joronen, Mikko; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z