Vili Lehdonvirta's updates

I publish links to my papers, talks and other activities here. You can follow these updates via Twitter, RSS or plain old email. Expect a few updates per month. More about me on my home page.

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Delivering a keynote at Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications' flagship event Liikenne- ja viestintäfoorumi 2015 on "Do apps replace regulation? Government in a techno-society"

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I won a major ERC grant for a 5-year investigation of online labour markets, institutions, and movements using both data science and qualitative methods

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Spoke about the history of virtual currencies at the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance.

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Geographies of gold farming: New research on the third-party gaming services industry. A blog post summarizing early findings from our new research project.

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Online labour markets – leveling the playing field for international service markets? Paper presented at IPP2014 Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy, 25-26 Sep 2014.

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Our IPP2014 Crowdsourcing, Politics & Policy conference final programme is now online, with links to dozens of excellent full papers on crowds, politics, and online work

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Situated Crowdsourcing Using a Market Model: a real-world experiment to be presented at the ACM UIST 2014 conference in Hawaii next month (coauthored with Simo Hosio and colleagues)

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Presenting early results on geographic structure of online labour markets at the Dynamics of Virtual Work conference in Hatfield today

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Speaking in a panel at Ping! Collaborate in Budapest next Thursday about how future content and journalism is financed and/or crowdsourced

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Speaking in a panel on "Big Data" about how I use log data from companies in research, at Aboagora, Turku, Finland, 12 August

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Blogged about Labour and the Internet: takeaways from the ISA World Congress of Sociology

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Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games published in The Information Society. Analyses gender gaps in EVE Online and EverQuest 2 data.

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Next week I will be at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama. Let me know if you'd like to meet!

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Gave a talk on Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis at University of Tokyo's Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies this Wednesday.

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I've joined the journal Policy & Internet as an editor. Here is my take on the past and future of this research area.

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Economics for Orcs: How can virtual world economies inform national economies? A talk I gave at my book's launch event at the Oxford Internet Institute on 26 June.

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My book Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis (with Edward Castronova) comes out from MIT Press today!