Sanoma is the leading publishing house in Finland. Its newspapers include Helsingin Sanomat, Ilta-Sanomat, and taloussanomat.fi as well as regional newspapers in Eastern Finland and also free, local city newspapers such as Metro and Vartti. On top of this, Sanoma is also active actor in the digital services market as they own altogether more than [...]
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Finally, after a busy summer of planning and coordinating, the MediaBizLab academic program was kicked off with a dynamic, interdisciplinary group of students and a bunch of very excited teachers. It seems like the next year will truly be a blast!
In the first session, we discussed the concept of media service and the service ideas [...]
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We are proud to announce that the following students will begin their studies in the novel minor studies program in September. The 17 students admitted to the program share a similar enthusiasm towards media, yet their differing backgrounds will enable them to develop and produce new solutions for future media services. We are very excited [...]
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The seminar on April 22nd was arranged as a kick-off for a new academic program, MediaBizLab. In the ‘Commercializing Media as Services’ seminar, people representing our study program shed some light on the objectives and practicalities of this new program.
Professor Johanna Moisander (ASE), academic director of MediaBizLab
Johanna Moisander noted how MediaBizLab represents and manifests the [...]
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Thanks again for our interesting speakers and their amazing presentations. It was definitely a good kick-start for the new, cross-disciplinary program. We cannot wait for the next seminar that will be held in the Fall, more specifically in Mid-September (date to be announced later on, hopefully with no volcanoes erupting simultaneously).
Erik Pöntiskoski introduced the topic [...]
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MediaBizLab will be visiting all the campuses of Aalto on Wednesday, May 5th. You are welcomed to join us in order to hear more about the new Aalto-wide minor program MediaBizLab - Commercializing Media as Services! The staff of minor program will be present on these times to answer your questions and provide further information on [...]
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In our series of interviews of our seminar speakers, Janne Airo (CEO, Steam Republic) will discuss his views on the imprtance of fans for artists, and how we should be rather looking at the context than content of the media services. His company, Steam Republic, provides artists with an mobile application ‘Mobile Backstage’ to facilitate the relationship between [...]
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You are welcomed to listen to our interesting speakers and hear about the future of media services today, April 22nd, in the main building of Aalto University School of Economics, 1-4 pm.
Despite the volcanic ash, we still have an interesting list of speakers:
Janne Airo (CEO, Steam Republic)
Philip Dean (Aalto University, Media Factory, Medialab)
Mikael Gummerus (CEO, Frosmo)
Sami Kankkunen [...]
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There has been some changes in the seminar program due to the unfortunate volcanic eruption in Iceland. The updated program is availabe here.
I am sorry to inform you that Gerd Leonhard will not be able to fly in for the seminar due to the unsecure situation in European airspace. We hope that you are understanding [...]
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In our series of interviews of our seminar speakers, Heikki Leskinen (Vice President (Strategy and Business Development), Co-founder at Starcut) will discuss of his experience in combining film producing and business. As a co-founder of Starcut, he provides large media-companies with services that help market their productions. He will be the ‘godfather’ for the academic program and he will be also participating in the panel [...]
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