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Veikko Eranti
Researcher at University of Helsinki
Publications - 19
Citations - 430
Veikko Eranti is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Political sociology. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 18 publications receiving 357 citations. Previous affiliations of Veikko Eranti include University of Tampere & Helsinki University Central Hospital.
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Framework for Designing and Evaluating Game Achievements
Juho Hamari,Veikko Eranti +1 more
TL;DR: A framework for evaluating and designing game design patterns commonly called as “achievements” is presented, based on empirical studies of a variety of popular achievement systems.
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The social significance of the Facebook Like button
Veikko Eranti,Markku Lonkila +1 more
TL;DR: Though the Like button was designed to allow users to express their positive evaluations of the contents of Facebook posts, comments, and pictures, it was in actual fact used for a wide variety of purposes, from dating efforts to conversation regulation and maintenance of social ties.
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Re-visiting NIMBY: From conflicting interests to conflicting valuations
TL;DR: In this article, a new way of understanding local land-use conflicts, also called NIMBY, developing from justification theory and literature from the sociology of engagements, is presented, where the authors present a new approach to understand local land use conflicts.
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Civic engagement meets pervasive gaming: towards long-term mobile participation
TL;DR: The results of a web survey among 33 gamers are presented which uncover the main motivators for playing location-based games and derive a new long-term m- participation concept named Community Circles and introduce a first functional prototype to be used in future focus group studies.
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Up with ecology, down with economy?: The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila,Juho Vesa,Veikko Eranti,Anna Kukkonen,Tomi Lehtimäki,Markku Lonkila,Eeva Luhtakallio +6 more
TL;DR: An analytical framework is developed that outlines six elements of the process of consolidation of an idea in the public sphere and shows that a compromise emerges between ecological and economic evaluations, in the form of the argument that climate change mitigation boosts, rather than hinders economic growth.