University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG)
Veera Kankainen, M.Soc.Sci., is the latest addition to the CEACG-team. Kankainen is funded by the Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies for the doctoral dissertation ‘The Finn Always Wins? A Qualitative Analysis of the Public Good That Gambling Policies Create’. Kankainen will inquire into the Finnish gambling policies from the perspective of welfare policy and civil society.
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The yearly Finnish Sociologists’ days — an important ‘get together’ for sociologists – is held in Jyväskylä this week.
While CEACG-researchers are typically divided between many different workshops, one that they will most certainly be present in is the one concerned with culture and consumption. Since 2014 Riie Heikkilä and Anu Katainen have arranged the Culture and Consumption workshops.
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Are the offline and the online two competing social worlds, which need to be balanced? How does great online engagement affect close offline relationships with family and friends?
A new study by Hellman, Karjalainen and Majamäki (2016), published in the journal New Media and Society inquires into how persons in a close relationship with a gamer of Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) perceive relationship problems caused by the gaming hobby. The study points to the timeliness in devoting attention to the premises under which intimacy and commitment are negotiated in offline and online relationship constellations.
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Gambling activity has reached unprecedented levels worldwide and the effects of gambling have come under intense public, political, and academic scrutiny. Problem gambling has emerged as a significant public health issue and there is a great need for a more thorough coherent scholarly discussion regarding ways in which gambling activities can and potentially should be controlled and governed in contemporary societies.
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ALICE RAP hosted an on-site and on-line final debate to present and discuss key research findings coming out of the project, their policy implications and the science with the greatest potential to contribute to smart and evidence-based global drugs policy.
The event participants were high-level scientists, policy actors from national and international organisations and expert civil society actors.
The online A-Debate was streamed live, and the session about the Area, which University of Helsinki has led, can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLcPGJ3JEw
Barcelona and online, 17th-18th February 2016
ALICE RAP will host an on-site and on-line final debate to present and discuss key research findings coming out of the project, their policy implications and the science with the greatest potential to contribute to smart and evidence-based global drugs policy. The event participants will be high-level scientists, policy actors from national and international organisations and expert civil society actors, and the debate is expected to shape the messages from multidisciplinary addiction science for drug policy influencers and implementers. The online A-Debate will be streamed live here and can be viewed by anyone, without registration. Registration will only be required to receive the draft A-Debate Science Summary Document and to participate actively online (by sending comments and questions to the discussions).
For more information, please see:
http://www.alicerap.eu/events/a-debate.html
Virve Marionneau, M.Soc.Sci, will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled “Socio-cultural contexts of gambling – A comparative study of Finland and France” on Saturday, 19th of September. Marionneau, who lives in Paris, has prepared her thesis as part of the CEACG-group as well of the Academy-funded IMAGES project (2007-2011).
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CEACG researcher, Dr.Soc.Sci. Rikka Kotanen has received a post doctoral three year Academy grant for the project “From a parenting measure to a crime? The legal regulation and control of parental corporal violence in Finland 1968–2014”
“What kinds of creatures do we think we are, we contemporary human beings” How have we come to understand ourselves in these ways”
These are two core questions that Nikolas Rose poses in his many texts about governance and humanities in the age of biology and neuroscience. Rose visited the CEACG’s group’s Thursday meeting the 23rd of April, talking about two recent papers with great significance for the research group’s work on addiction, control and governance.
Exposure of minors to alcohol advertising on linear and non-linear audio-visual media services and other online services, including a content analysis is the name of a new EU project lead by Ecorys.
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