Vili Lehdonvirta's updates

My essay, A history of the digitalization of consumer culture: From Amazon through Pirate Bay to...

Tue, 29 May 2012 07:15:33 +0900

My essay, A history of the digitalization of consumer culture: From Amazon through Pirate Bay to FarmVille, was published as the opening chapter of Digital Virtual Consumption, edited by M. Molesworth and J. Denegri-Knott

Acquisition, Retention and Monetization in Virtual and Social Spaces project final report released...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:18:53 +0900

Acquisition, Retention and Monetization in Virtual and Social Spaces project final report released at HIIT/Aalto Gamification of Services seminar yesterday

Speaking about virtual currency design at HIIT seminar on Gamification of Services in Helsinki on 25...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:59:14 +0900

Speaking about virtual currency design at HIIT seminar on Gamification of Services in Helsinki on 25 April

The Stoic Male: How Avatar Gender Affects Help-Seeking Behavior in an Online Game (full...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:37:27 +0900

The Stoic Male: How Avatar Gender Affects Help-Seeking Behavior in an Online Game (full pdf) published in Games & Culture, vol. 7, no. 1

Wrote a guest post for the World Bank’s Private Sector Development blog: The New Map of Mobile...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:30:11 +0900

Wrote a guest post for the World Bank’s Private Sector Development blog: The New Map of Mobile Innovation: Some Surprising First Lessons

My GDC lecture slides and notes are now online: Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:08:19 +0900

My GDC lecture slides and notes are now online: Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook

How do you price virtual goods? My consulting business Virtual Economists launched a Virtual Goods...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:04:48 +0900

How do you price virtual goods? My consulting business Virtual Economists launched a Virtual Goods & Currencies Pricing Data product line for social and mobile game developers.

The LSE Innovation Co-Creation Lab (of which I am member) has launched a swanky new online presence....

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:39:03 +0900

The LSE Innovation Co-Creation Lab (of which I am member) has launched a swanky new online presence. Check it out on web, Twitter and Facebook.

Bringing digital work to developing countries: guest post published in the World Bank’s...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:50:54 +0900

Bringing digital work to developing countries: guest post published in the World Bank’s Private Sector Development blog

“From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs” - m2work, a mobile microwork idea...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:41:42 +0900

“From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs” - m2work, a mobile microwork idea competition I’m helping to organize, was launched today by infoDev (World Bank) and Nokia

Designing Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook: the abstract...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:46 +0900

Designing Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook: the abstract of my upcoming Game Developers Conference lecture is online.

New job! I am starting as a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science in...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:58:58 +0900

New job! I am starting as a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science in professor Harry Barkema’s team. Formally my initial affiliation is Visiting Fellow at the LSE Asia Research Centre.

Speaking at the Desucon Frostbite Japanese pop culture event in Finland about digital manga...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:23:19 +0900

Speaking at the Desucon Frostbite Japanese pop culture event in Finland about digital manga consumption. My previous talk on the topic is now on YouTube (in Finnish).

My home page is now available in English, Finnish and Japanese, thanks to Transfluent. Let me know...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:57:39 +0900

My home page is now available in English, Finnish and Japanese, thanks to Transfluent. Let me know if you would like these updates to be translated, too. Happy holidays!

My lecture “Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:16:42 +0900

My lecture “Designing Successful Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook” was accepted to Game Developers Conference (GDC), 5-9 March 2012

A Digital Media Approach to Islamic Marketing: a paper I co-authored with the team behind...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:40:11 +0900

A Digital Media Approach to Islamic Marketing: a paper I co-authored with the team behind Muxlim.com published in the Handbook of Islamic Marketing

Google Scholar has a cool new citation metrics tool. According to my profile, I have a total of 280...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:50:28 +0900

Google Scholar has a cool new citation metrics tool. According to my profile, I have a total of 280 citations (includes self-cites), my h-index is 10, and my i10-index is likewise 10.

Real-Time Crowd Computing Using Social Media: presenting a poster at CrowdConf 2011 in San Francisco...

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:34:21 +0900

Real-Time Crowd Computing Using Social Media: presenting a poster at CrowdConf 2011 in San Francisco on Wednesday (with Yefeng Liu et al.)

Designing Motivation Using Persuasive Ambient Mirrors, a synthesis of my five-year collaboration...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:48:00 +0900

Designing Motivation Using Persuasive Ambient Mirrors, a synthesis of my five-year collaboration with Tatsuo Nakajima, to be published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

Speaking at the DesuTalks Japanese pop culture seminar in Helsinki about the digital distribution of...

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:39:55 +0900

Speaking at the DesuTalks Japanese pop culture seminar in Helsinki about the digital distribution of manga contents in Japan and overseas (in Finnish)