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CURRICULUM VITAE
Employer: University of Helsinki
EDUCATION 1994 Licentiate of Social Sciences, 1975-1985 Information officer, researcher, Helsinki University of
Technology 1994-1997 Board member of Finnish NORDICOM
1987-1989 Researcher of the media education project group, within the media culture committee, Ministry of Education
1988-1990 Tiedotustutkimus, Finnish communication journal
Special interest areas: net communication, civil society, democracy Since the early 1980's the research interests of Dr. Sassi have focussed on the digital technologies, in particular the information and communication networks and their impact on the citizenship and democracy. In the beginning of the 80's one of the very first computer-aided communication systems, COM, was installed in Helsinki University of Technology where Dr. Sassi worked as an information officer. While acting as the moderator of the program she also studied its usage and social consequences. From early on she was concerned with the societal and democratic aspects of information and communication technologies. In the middle of the 80's she was involved in a broad-based research project financed by the Ministry of Communications. Although with different perspectives, all her academic studies, the master's, licentiate, and doctoral thesis concern the role and meaning of the new technology in modern societies and modern ways of living. Currently she is involved in a research
project with a variety of social scientific traditions and with the aim of
understanding the information society in an urban locality. Originally the
study was confined to one specific city-part, Kallio, but later a few other
urban areas were included as well. Negotiations concerning collaboration and
resources are under way with Sitra, the Finnish National Fund for Research
and Development, and City of |
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