Story: Eeva-Kaisa Ahlamo
When abroad, it’s very typical to encounter parts of one’s own culture in surprising situations. For the Finnish people, it’s often a glimpse of a Marimekko design somewhere or discussions about Nokia cell phones with foreign people. Sometimes, though, the encounter is so intense that it really forces you to see familiar things through someone else’s eyes.

Alexander Lembke giving a tour through his photography exhibition

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Story: Mikael Kinanen
It's always nice working with people you have never even heard of before. Quite a bit doesn't go as planned, but fortunately it brings distance to what you have got used to in your little circle of acquaintances. With the technology at our very fingertips any problems of physical space and state borders can be dealt away with easily.

Skype meeting under way. Photo: Juha Suonpää

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Jan 9 - Feb 14 application time, international BA programmes of Finnish UAS
TAMK Degree Programme in Media aka Interactive Media Programme IMP:

• Application specifications
• Home page
• On Facebook
• #tamkmedia on Twitter
• Read about studies and free time activities of IMPs



Interaction Designer - vision by Ville Salminen

Degree Programme in Media! But how to answer briefly what do they really learn? Journalism? Advertising? Broadcasting? Multimedia? Print Media? Mass Media?

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Other early digital media events and competitions have faded away, but MindTrek is still alive and kicking. MindTrek has not got into a rut but regenerated many times.

MindTrek is many competitions. Pictured our students Juhani Hujala and Vilma Pekola, winners of MindTrek Indie Games Award 2011 with Carrotia

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