Game Culture

Focus

Core fields of research

Languages, culture and society

Learning, teaching and interaction

Research areas

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Research areas

Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies - Research areas

Wellbeing and creative therapies

Belonging, crises and societal change

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department

Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies

Research group description

Game Culture Research Group focuses on games and game-related phenomena in culture and society. Research includes areas such as the form, meaning and interpretation of games, game cultures and communities, cultures of game creation, and the role of games in media and society.

Current

Projects

Related projects

Project

An Ontological Reconstruction of Gaming Disorder: A Qualitative Meta-Phenomenological Foundation

Videogames have become one of the most prevailing forms of cultural production around the world.

Project

GAMEHIGHED - Higher-ed programmes for careers in game design & development

Erasmus+ funded Strategic Partnership that connects four universities and a game industry association in a 3-year project to develop innovative teaching programmes, open edu-resources [OER] and recommendations for higher education in game development.

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Raine Koskimaa

Professor

Members

Raine Koskimaa

Professor

Jonne Arjoranta

Senior Lecturer

Tanja Välisalo

University Teacher

Maria Ruotsalainen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kai Tuuri

Senior Researcher

Elina Koskinen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jasmine Poikela

Part-Time Teacher

Tero Kerttula

Translator

Veli-Matti Karhulahti

Senior Researcher

Matús Adamkovič

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jari Lindroos

Doctoral Researcher

Tiina Auranen

Doctoral Researcher

Publications

Publications

Publication

2023

Available through Open Access

Why do adults seek treatment for gaming (disorder)? : A qualitative study

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Behm, Sanni

Lukka, Lauri

Publication

2023

Available through Open Access

Young video game players’ self-identified toxic gaming behaviour : An interview study

Eludamos.

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Meriläinen, Mikko

Publication

2023

芬兰与北欧的电竞 : 文化、健康与心理学 [Esports in Finland and the Nordics : culture, health and psychology]

全球电竞文化导论. East China Normal University Press.

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

"Mammat menee kahville, me koneelle" : kilpapelaaminen poikien elämässä

Nuorisotutkimus.

Siutila, Miia

Joelsson, Tapani

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

“Cute Goddess is Actually an Aunty” : The Evasive Middle-Aged Woman Streamer and Normative Performances of Femininity in Video Game Streaming

Television and New Media.

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

“KKona where’s your sense of patriotism?” : Positioning Nationality in the Spectatorship of Competitive Overwatch Play

Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch. Palgrave Macmillan.

Siitonen, Marko

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

“Sexuality does not belong to the game” : Discourses in Overwatch Community and the Privilege of Belonging

Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research.

Välisalo, Tanja

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

Associations between Sports Videogames and Physical Activity in Children

Physical Culture and Sport Studies and Research.

Ng, Kwok

Kaskinen, Ari-Pekka

Katila, Rauli

Koski, Pasi

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

Can We Dance? : Considering the role and meaning of music in videogames through "thinking in movement"

Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology.

Koskela, Oskari

Tuuri, Kai

Vahlo, Jukka

Publication

2022

Digipelaaminen ja työelämä

Peliriippuvuus. Kustannus Oy Duodecim.

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

Digital Games

Encyclopedia of Ludic Terms.

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Discovering the Motivational Constitution of ‘Playing Games for Fun’

International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing.

Tuuri Kai

Vahlo, Jukka

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