Mobile Phones and Computer as Parts of Everyday Life in Finland

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Number of mobile phones per 100 population
Source Lea Parjo 2000 / Mobile Communications
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Persons aged 15 and over with a PC and Internet
connection at home in different European
countries in autumn 1998, of total population
Home PC EU 15 average
Internet at home EU 15average
Source Lea Parjo 2000 / Eurobarometer 50.1 INRA
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Communication capabilities by Doctor Mrs Viherä
Competence
Access
Communication capability
Motivation
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Compatible access, competence and motive for
social communication
Cant interpret the message
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A Access C Competence M Motivation
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M
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There is no compatible access
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C
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M
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No motivation to join the community
M
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Telephone Communication

• Index of Access
  numbers of fixed telephones
• numbers of mobile telephones
• answering services
• text message services
• Index of Competence
• technical command - button techniques
  
• management of communication situation

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Index of Motivation

• Index of Participation number of friends
  number of acquaintances
• desire to know status in circle of friends
• Index of Activity
• immediate environment
• willingness to participate in municipal
  decision-making
• activity in organisations
• Index of Organisation
• telephone discussions
• interest in the society
• interest in municipal politics

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Network Communication

• Index of Access
• number of ISDN and modem connections
• shared use of laptop computers and mobile phones
  
• e-mail and Internet capabilities available at
  work or place of study
• Index of Competence
• dexterity
• English-language skills
• technical skills
• competence in handling communication software
• Index of Motivation
• same variables as index of motivation for
  telephone communication
• number of visits to the web pages of the
  municipality

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Average Figures for the Communication Capability
Indices
Telephone communication capabilities were good,
whereas network communication capabilities were
still fairly weak.
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Spread of certain appliances and devices to
households in Finland up to autumn 2000
(percentages of households possessing at least
one appliance of the given type)
Access to a car
Source Household Budget Survey and Consumer
Survey, Statistics Finland
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Percentages of households possessing at least one
computer, CD-ROM drive or Internet connection, by
size, in autumn 1996 and autumn 1999
Source The Finns and the Future Information
Society surveys 1996 and 1999, Statistics Finland
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Expansion of computer and Internet skills among
Finnish users between 1996 and 1999 by sex,
expressed as percentages unable to use the given
programs per cent of computers users
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Percentages of pupils who had used computers for
word processing, email and web pages at school
in 1996 and 1999.
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EU Objective regions existing during the period
19961999
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Households not possessing a computer in 1999 by
EU objective region and size of household, in
percentages
Size of household and EU objective region
(N 1081 734)
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Problem of the lack of adequate conditions for
the use of new technology and lack of competence
in its use
Source Nurmela 1998
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The tension between the global network and local
identity
Informational stage / form of development
Restructured / Newly stuctured capitalism
Innovations New technology
Capital intensity Globalization
New technologigal and economic paradigm / New
paradigm of technology and economy
Global networks of material exchange
(instrumental)
Democracy deficit Alienation Falling out /
dropping out
Uncertainty Uncontrolla-bility Conflicts
Basic tension
People and communities Everyday processes /
everyday life
Source Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
Local conditions
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Information in physical form
Information in physical form
Transmission
Coding
Decoding
Overt/explicit message
Overt/explicit message
Formulation
Interpretation
Inplicit message
Intended /inplicit messace
Making concise Consolidation
Thinking (process)
The transit/transmission/tarnsmittal of the
message from sender to recipient within the
communication process forms (correstonds to) the
model for/of communication transmission
Idea
Thought
Recipient
Sender
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Information in physical form
Information in physical form
Transmission
Coding
Decoding
Overt/explicit message
Overt/explicit message
Formulation
Interpretation
Inplicit message
Intended /inplicit messace
Making concise Consolidation
Thinking (process)
Idea
Thought
A model for communication transmission as culture
Recipient
Sender
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Use of mobile phones for the sending and
receiving of text messages by persons aged under
and over 30 years in November 1999, by sex, in
percentages of mobile phone users
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Content of text messages sent by persons under
and over 30 years in November 1999, by sex (in
percentages)
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Possibilities for distance work as estimated by
the employed, unemployed population and students
in autumn 1999, by age and sex, in percentages.
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Use of the telephone and computer for net banking
in the EU objective regions, in percentages of
total population by age in 1999
(N 2363 1501)
Age of person and EU objective region
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Households not intending to buy a computer in
1999 by EU objective region and size of
household, in percentages of those not possessing
a computer
Size of household and EU objective region
(N 1081 734)
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Households who said that they cannot afford a
computer, in 1999 by EU objective region and
size of household, in percentages of all
households
Size of household and EU objective region
(N 1081 734)
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Experiences of the flood of information and
preferred means of organising things in 1996 and
1999, by sex and age (under or over 30 years),
expressed as percentages of those in full or
partial agreement with the statements given