Doctoral Researcher (Ethical and sustainable technologies, services and organizational practices (in gamification)), 2 positions

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences create a unique environment for multidisciplinary, inspirational and high-impact research and education. Our universities community as its competitive edges in technology, health and society https://www.tuni.fi/en Are you interested in the ethical ramifications of where novel information technologies are...

Call for Papers – Speculative Semiotics

Guest Editor: Mattia Thibault, Gamification Group, Tampere University.   FULL CFP: https://bit.ly/SpeculativeSemioticsCFP   This special issue of Linguistic Frontiers aims to explore the possible and impossible futures for communication technologies or, in other words, a Speculative Semiotics. Projects of nuclear semiotics (Sebeok 1985), focusing on how to communicate across...

Badges and other gamification elements as indicators of trustworthiness: Investigation of crowdsourcing campaigns

Several marketplaces employ different markers, symbols and indicators for vendor trustworthiness, such as star-ratings based on customer feedback, indicators of tenure of the vendor on the platform or other quality certifications accredited by external evaluators. A new surprising entry to the palette of indicators available...