Technology Biographies 2007

The study was conducted by The Finnish Literature Society's Folklore Archives and the ETIM project (Encounters with Technological Imperative) of the University of Joensuu. The data consist of text material sent in response to an invitation to write about personal experiences of and views on technology. The respondents were offered three topics relating to technology and were asked to write about one or more of these in a style of their own. The topics were: a technology biography, technology in everyday life and technologization in Finland. The dataset contains texts written by 12 different persons. Some of the respondents wrote more than one text. The lengths of the texts vary from one page to several dozen pages. Background variables (categorized according to the classification used by Statistics Finland) included the respondent's gender, occupation, region of residence, and type of municipality of residence. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

本项研究由芬兰文学学会民俗档案馆与约恩苏大学的技术必然性遭遇项目（ETIM项目）联合开展。数据集由应征者针对邀请撰写关于个人对技术与观点的体验进行的文本材料组成。受访者被提供了与科技相关的三个主题，并要求他们根据自己的风格撰写关于其中一个或多个主题的文字。这些主题包括：技术传记、日常生活中的技术与芬兰的技术化进程。数据集包含12位不同个体的文本作品。部分受访者提交了多篇文本。文本的长度从一页到数十页不等。背景变量（根据芬兰统计局的分类方法进行分类）包括受访者的性别、职业、居住区域以及居住地的市政类型。该数据集仅提供芬兰语版本。