Consumer Research Center becoming a part of University of Helsinki

The former autonomouis National Consumer Research Center is becoming a part of the University of Helsinki. This move was celebrated today at the new premises of the institution whose researchers described ongoing research and future plans.

One collaboration project with the Depertment of Modern Languages is called Citizen Mindspaces. In the project, social scientists, text analysts and computational linguists will study a large collection of social media discussions in the Suomi24 service and develop research questions, methods, tools in order to provide means for deeper understuding of citizens' thoughts about the state of affairs.