Game Culture

Game Culture Research Group comprises of researchers focusing on games and game-related phenomena in culture and society.

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

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Raine Koskimaa

Professor

Members

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kai Tuuri

Senior Researcher

Elina Koskinen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Veli-Matti Karhulahti

Senior Researcher

Matús Adamkovič

Postdoctoral Researcher

Publications

Publication

2025

From obscurity to sports pages - The evolving attitudes towards esports in media

Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference.

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2025

From PogChamps to Insights : Detecting Original Content in Twitch Chat

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Lindroos, Jari

Peltonen, Jaakko

Välisalo, Tanja

Koskimaa, Raine

Toivanen, Ida

Publication

2025

Hermeneutics of play

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2025

Interdisciplinary ethnography event : thoughts and reflections

Kielikampuksen blogi.

Rantanen, Venla

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Araujo Caetano, Mayara

Strömmer, Maiju

Publication

2025

Introduction to the Special Issue on Meta : “About, Within, and Around” the 20th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar

Games.

Scully-Blaker, Rainforest

Kalmanlehto, Johan

Korkeila, Henry

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2025

Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages

Current Psychology.

Chen, Sau-Chin

Buchanan, Erin M.

Kekecs, Zoltan

Miller, Jeremy K.

Szabelska, Anna

Aczel, Balazs

Bernabeu, Pablo

Forscher, Patrick

Szuts, Attila

Vally, Zahir

Al-Hoorie, Ali H.

Helmy, Mai

da Silva, Caio Santos Alves

da Silva, Luana Oliveira

de Moraes, Yago Luksevicius

Hsu, Rafael Ming Chi Santos

Mafra, Anthonieta Looman

Valentova, Jaroslava V.

Varella, Marco Antonio Correa

Dixson, Barnaby

Peters, Kim

Steffens, Nik

Ghasemi, Omid

Roberts, Andrew

Ross, Robert M.

Stephen, Ian D.

Milyavskaya, Marina

Wang, Kelly

Werner, Kaitlyn M.

Holford, Dawn Liu

Sirota, Miroslav

Evans, Thomas Rhys

Lynott, Dermot

Lane, Bethany M.

Sahlholdt, Danny Riis

Williams, Glenn P.

Tan, Chrystalle B. Y.

Foo, Alicia

Janssen, Steve M. J.

Arinze, Nwadiogo Chisom

Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu Lawrence Gabriel

Moreau, David

Jurosic, Brianna

Leach, Brynna

Lewis, Savannah

Mallik, Peter R.

Schmidt, Kathleen

Chopik, William J.

Vaughn, Leigh Ann

Li, Manyu

Levitan, Carmel A.

Storage, Daniel

Batres, Carlota

McGee, Tyler

Enachescu, Janina

Olsen, Jerome

Voracek, Martin

Lamm, Claus

Pronizius, Ekaterina

Ripp, Tilli

Röer, Jan Philipp

Schnepper, Roxane

Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta

Mokady, Aviv

Reggev, Niv

Chandel, Priyanka

Kujur, Pratibha

Pande, Babita

Parganiha, Arti

Parveen, Noorshama

Pradhan, Sraddha

Singh, Margaret Messiah

Korbmacher, Max

Kunst, Jonas R.

Tamnes, Christian K.

Woelfert, Frederike S.

Klevjer, Kristoffer

Martiny, Sarah E.

Pfuhl, Gerit

Adamus, Sylwia

Barzykowski, Krystian

Filip, Katarzyna

Arriaga, Patrícia

Gvozdenović, Vasilije

Ković, Vanja

Gao, Fei

Li, Jingxiang

Bavoľár, Jozef

Hricová, Monika

Kačmár, Pavol

Adamkovič, Matúš

Babinčák, Peter

Baník, Gabriel

Ropovik, Ivan

Ricaurte, Danilo Zambrano

Álvarez-Solas, Sara

Manley, Harry

Suavansri, Panita

Kung, Chun-Chia

Çoktok, Belemir

Özdoğru, Asil Ali

Solak, Çağlar

Söylemez, Sinem

Çoksan, Sami

Dalgar, İlker

Elsherif, Mahmoud

Vasilev, Martin

Mlakic, Vinka

Oberzaucher, Elisabeth

Stieger, Stefan

Volsa, Selina

Musser, Erica D.

Zickfeld, Janis

Chartier, Christopher R.

Publication

2025

Johdanto

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Baltzar, Pauliina

Kinnunen, Jani

Sihvonen Lilli

Rautalahti, Heidi

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2025

Lasten ja nuorten digipelaaminen ja liikunta

Lasten ja nuorten liikuntakäyttäytyminen Suomessa. Valtion liikuntaneuvoston julkaisuja.

Sokka, Miikka

Ng, Kwok

Kokko, Sami

Husu, Pauliina

Koskimaa, Raine

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Koski, Pasi

Publication

2025

Lasten ja nuorten liikuntakäyttäytyminen Suomessa : LIITU-tutkimuksen tuloksia 2024

Valtion liikuntaneuvoston julkaisuja.

Kokko, Sami

Hämylä, Riikka

Puupponen, Maija

Villberg, Jari

Husu, Pauliina

Vasankari, Tommi

Ray, Carola

Kwok, Ng

Tokola, Kari

Vähä-Ypyä, Henri

Hirvensalo, Mirja

Palomäki, Sanna

Laukkanen, Arto

Huotari, Pertti

Lyyra, Nelli

Rajala, Katja

Kämppi, Katariina

Hakonen, Harto

Kulmala, Janne

Tammelin, Tuija

Siekkinen, Kirsti

Haikari, Janne

Turunen, Marianne

Kallio, Jouni

Mononen, Kaisu

Blomqvist, Minna

Koski, Pasi

Toivonen, Virve

Kananen, Marko

Leppänen, Mari

Parkkari, Jari

Toivo, Kerttu

Launistola, Henna

Simonsen, Nina

Pohjavirta, Anni

Pikkupeura-Rikkilä, Vilma

Asunta, Piritta

Hakamäki, Matti

Huhtiniemi, Mikko

Huovinen, Terhi

Sokka, Miika

Koskimaa, Raine

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Paakkari, Leena

Tynjälä, Jorma

Paakkari, Olli

Ojala, Kristiina

Laasonen, Antti

Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Kaija

Publication

2025

Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

Nature Human Behaviour.

Buchanan, Erin M.

Cuccolo, Kelly

Heyman, Tom

van Berkel, Niels

Coles, Nicholas A.

Iyer, Aishwarya

Peters, Kim

van ’t Veer, A. E.

Montefinese, Maria

Maxwell, Nicholas P.

Taylor, Jack E.

Valentine, Kathrene D.

Arriaga, Patrícia

Barzykowski, Krystian

Boucher, Leanne

Collins, W. Matthew

Vaidis, David C.

Aczel, Balazs

Al-Hoorie, Ali H.

Ambrosini, Ettore

Besson, Théo

Burin, Debora I.

Butt, Muhammad Mussaffa

Clarke, A. J. Benjamin

Daryani, Yalda

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam

Elsherif, Mahmoud M.

Fernández-López, Maria

Ferreira, Paulo Roberto dos Santos

Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko

Gattei, Carolina A.

Godbersen, Hendrik

Grim, Philip A.

Halama, Peter

Havan, Patrik

Irrazabal, Natalia C.

Isloi, Chris

Iversen, Rebecca Kvisler

Julliard, Yoann

Karaaslan, Aslan

Kohút, Michal

Kohútová, Veronika

Kos, Julija

Kosachenko, Alexandra I.

Lima, Tiago Jessé Souza de

Mak, Matthew H. C.

Manouilidou, Christina

Marciaga, Leonardo A.

Melinna, Xiaolin Melinna

Miranda, Jacob Francisco

Morvinski, Coby

Muppoor, Aishwarya

Müjdeci, F. Elif

Nielsen, Yngwie A.

Oliveros, Juan Carlos

Onič, Jaš

Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta

Patel, Ishani

Pavlović, Zoran

Pažon, Blaž

Pfuhl, Gerit

Pronizius, Ekaterina

Roettger, Timo B.

Ronderos, Camilo R.

Ruiz-Fernandez, Susana

Senderecka, Magdalena

Solak, Çağlar

Stückler, Anna

Szekely-Copîndean, Raluca D.

Taboh, Analí R.

Thériault, Rémi

Tran, Ulrich S.

Trecca, Fabio

Ulloa, José Luis

Varga, Marton A.

Verheyen, Steven

Vesić, Pavlović Tijana

Viviani, Giada

Wang, Nan

Zivna, Kristyna

Yun, Chen Chu

Clark, Oliver James

Acar, Oguz A.

Adamkovič, Matúš

Agnoletti, Giulia

Akil, Atakan M.

Alsuhaibani, Zainab

Amenta, Simona

Ananyeva, Olga A.

Andreychik, Michael

Angele, Bernhard

Arias, Quiñones Danna Catalina

Arinze, Nwadiogo Chisom

Askelund, Adrian Dahl

Baker, Bradley J.

Baskin, Ernest

Batalha, Luisa

Batres, Carlota

Beato, Maria Soledad

Becker, Manuel

Becker, Maja

Behnke, Maciej

Blaison, Christophe

Borghi, Anna M.

Brandstätter, Eduard

Buczny, Jacek

Budak, Nesrin

Cabana, Álvaro

Cai, Zhenguang G.

Canessa, Enrique C.

Cavdan, Müge

Cecchetti, Luca

Chaigneau, Sergio E.

Chang, Feria X. W.

Chartier, Christopher R.

Chen, Sau-Chin

Cherniaeva, Elena

Christiansen, Morten H.

Chuan-Peng, Hu

Chwiłkowska, Patrycja

Comesaña, Montserrat

Cong, Chin Wen

Cowan, Casey

Dandeneau, Stéphane Daniel

David, Oana A.

Davis, William E.

Demirag, Burak Elif Gizem

Dixson, Barnaby James, Wyld

Du, Hongfei

Duclos, Rod

Duyck, Wouter

Efimova, Liudmila A.

Egan, Ciara

Era, Vanessa

Evans, Thomas R.

Exner, Anna

Feldman, Gilad

Fellnhofer, Katharina

Fini, Chiara

Fisher, Sarah E.

Flowe, Heather D.

Garrido-Vásquez, Patricia

Gatti, Daniele

Geller, Jason

Giannouli, Vaitsa

Gorokhova, Anna Sergeevna

Griener, Lindsay M.

Grigoryev, Dmitry

Grossmann, Igor

Ghasemi, Hesam

Handjaras, Giacomo

Hauspie, Cathy

He, Zhiran

Heilman, Renata M.

Heydari, Amirmahdi

Hine, Alanna M.

Hoyer, Karlijn

Hryniszak, Weronika

Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen

Huang, Guanxiong

Ihaya, Keiko

Ilczuk, Ewa

Ishii, Tatsunori

Dumbravă, Andrei

Jankowiak, Katarzyna

Jiang, Xiaoming

Johnson, David C.

Jończyk, Rafał

Järvikivi, Juhani

Kaczer, Laura

Kamermans, Kevin Leander

Karl, Johannes A.

Karner, Alexander

Kačmár, Pavol

Keech, Jacob J.

Kim, M. Justin

Korbmacher, Max

Kostorz, Kathrin

Kowal, Marta

Kratochvil, Tomas

Kunisato, Yoshihiko

Kuzminska, Anna O.

Körtvélyessy, Lívia

Köse, Fatma Ebru

Köster, Massimo

Kękuś, Magdalena

Labusch, Melanie

Lamm, Claus

Lau, Chaak Ming

Laurino, Julieta

Law, Wilbert

Lettieri, Giada

Levitan, Carmel A.

Lu, Jackson G.

MacPherson, Sarah E.

Malinakova, Klara

Manriquez-Robles, Diego

Marchant, Nicolás

Marelli, Marco

Martínez, Martín

Matthews, Molly F.

Mattiassi, Alan D. A.

Mattoli-Sánchez, Josefina

Mazzuca, Claudia

McGovern, David P.

Meier, Zdenek

Melinscak, Filip

Misiak, Michal

Monteiro, Luis Carlos Pereira

Moreau, David

Moreno, Sebastian

Mulgrew, Kate E.

Muller, Dominique

Nagy, Tamás

Naranowicz, Marcin

Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu L. G.

Neta, Maital

Novak, Lukas

Ogbonnaya, Chisom Esther

Paek, Jessica Jee Won

Paltoglou, Aspasia Eleni

Parada, Francisco J.

Parker, Adam J.

Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola

Pavlov, Yuri G.

Paydarfard, Saeed

Pegler, Dominik

Peker, Mehmet

Perea, Manuel

Pfattheicher, Stefan

Protzko, John

Prusova, Irina Sergeevna

Pypno-Blajda, Katarzyna

Qiu, Zhuang

Reips, Ulf-Dietrich

Ribeiro, Gianni

Rinaldi, Luca

Roberts, S. Craig

Roembke, Tanja C.

Romanova, Marina O.

Ross, Robert M.

Röer, Jan Philipp

Rızaoğlu, Filiz

Saari, Toni T.

Sampaolo, Erika

Santos, Anabela Caetano

Sarıçiçek, F. Çağlar

Sasaki, Kyoshiro

Scharnowski, Frank

Schmidt, Kathleen

Sepehri, Amir

Serçe, Halid O.

Sevincer, A. Timur

Siew, Cynthia S. Q.

Simonetti, Matilde Ellen

Sirota, Miroslav

Sorokowska, Agnieszka

Sorokowski, Piotr

Stephen, Ian D.

Stevens, Laura M.

Stewart, Suzanne, L. K.

Steyrl, David

Stieger, Stefan

Studzinska, Anna

Suarez, Mar

Szala, Anna

Szmalec, Arnaud

Sznycer, Daniel

Szumowska, Ewa

Söylemez, Sinem

Söylemez, Bahadır

Takashima, Kaito

Tamnes, Christian K.

Tan, Joel C. R.

Tang, Chengxiang

Tavel, Peter

Tejada, Julian

Thompson, Benjamin C.

Tiernan, Jake G.

Torres-Muñoz, Vicente

Touloumakos, Anna K.

Trémolière, Bastien

Tschense, Monika

Türkan, Belgüzar Nilay

Vadillo, Miguel A.

Vannucci, Caterina

Varnum, Michael E. W.

Vasilev, Martin R.

Vaughn, Leigh Ann

Verkampt, Fanny

Villar, Liliana M.

Wallot, Sebastian

Wang, Lijun

Wang, Ke

Williams, Glenn Patrick

Willinger, David

Wolfe, Kelly

Wormley, Alexandra S.

Yamada, Yuki

Yang, Yunkai

Zhou, Yuwei

Zhang, Mengfan

Zheng, Wang

Zheng, Yueyuan

Zhou, Chenghao

Zidkova, Radka

Zumbrunn, Nina Meret

Çoker, Ogeday

Çoksan, Sami

Öner, Sezin

Özdoğru, Asil Ali

Şahin, Seda Merve

Kasanov, Dauren

Arvanitis, Alexios

Brick, Cameron

Colloff, Melissa F.

Gallyamova, Albina

Koch, Christopher

Ropovik, Ivan

Zhang, Yucheng

Zhou, Xingxing

Patel, Sneh

Suchow, Jordan W.

Lewis, Savannah C.

Publication

2025

Meta as a social contract in competitive play

Games.

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Meriläinen, Mikko

Publication

2025

Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

PLoS ONE.

Phills, Curtis Edward

Miller, Jeremy K.

Buchanan, Erin M.

Williams, Amanda

Meyers, Chanel

Brown, Elizabeth R.

Zickfeld, Janis

Volsa, Selina

Stieger, Stefan

Oberzaucher, Elisabeth

Mlakic, Vinka

Vasilev, Martin

Dalgar, İlker

Çoksan, Sami

Söylemez, Sinem

Solak, Çağlar

Özdoğru, Asil Ali

Çoktok, Belemir

Kung, Chun-Chia

Suavansri, Panita

Manley, Harry

Álvarez-Solas, Sara

Ricaurte, Danilo Zambrano

Ropovik, Ivan

Baník, Gabriel

Babinčák, Peter

Adamkovič, Matúš

Kačmár, Pavol

Hricová, Monika

Bavoľár, Jozef

Li, Lisa

Gao, Fei

Chen, Zhong

Ković, Vanja

Gvozdenović, Vasilije

Arriaga, Patrícia

Filip, Katarzyna

Barzykowski, Krystian

Adamus, Sylwia

Pfuhl, Gerit

Martiny, Sarah E.

Klevjer, Kristoffer

Woelfert, Frederike S.

Tamnes, Christian K.

Kunst, Jonas R.

Korbmacher, Max

Singh, Margaret Messiah

Pradhan, Sraddha

Parveen, Noorshama

Parganiha, Arti

Pande, Babita

Kujur, Pratibha

Chandel, Priyanka

Reggev, Niv

Mokady, Aviv

Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta

Schnepper, Roxane

Röer, Jan Philipp

Ripp, Tilli

Pronizius, Ekaterina

Lamm, Claus

Voracek, Martin

Olsen, Jerome

Enachescu, Janina

Batres, Carlota

Storage, Daniel

Levitan, Carmel A.

Li, Manyu

Vaughn, Leigh, Ann

Chopik, William J.

Schmidt, Kathleen

Mallik, Peter R.

Lewis, Savannah

Leach, Brynna

Jurosic, Brianna

Moreau, David

Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu Lawrence, Gabriel

Arinze, Nwadiogo Chisom

Janssen, Steve M. J.

Foo, Alicia

Tan, Chrystalle B. Y.

Williams, Glenn P.

Riis, Danny

Lane, Bethany M.

Lynott, Dermot

Evans, Thomas Rhys

Sirota, Miroslav

Holford, Dawn L.

Werner, Kaitlyn M.

Wang, Kelly

Milyavskaya, Marina

Stephen, Ian D.

Ross, Robert M.

Roberts, Andrew

Ghasemi, Omid

Steffens, Niklas K.

Peters, Kim

Dixson, Barnaby

Varella, Marco Antonio Correa

Valentova, Jaroslava V.

Mafra, Anthonieta Looman

Hsu, Rafael Ming Chi Santos

de Moraes, Yago Luksevicius

da Silva, Luana Oliveira

da Silva, Caio Santos Alves

Helmy, Mai

Balderrama, Mariah

Al-Hoorie, Ali H.

McGee, Tyler

Vally, Zahir

Szuts, Attila

Forscher, Patrick

Bernabeu, Pablo

Aczel, Balazs

Szabelska, Anna

Chen, Sau-Chin

Chartier, Christopher R.

Kekecs, Zoltan

Game Culture

Research group description

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

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

Research group

Group leaders

Members

Publications

From obscurity to sports pages - The evolving attitudes towards esports in media

From PogChamps to Insights : Detecting Original Content in Twitch Chat

Hermeneutics of play

Interdisciplinary ethnography event : thoughts and reflections

Introduction to the Special Issue on Meta : “About, Within, and Around” the 20th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar

Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages

Johdanto

Lasten ja nuorten digipelaaminen ja liikunta

Lasten ja nuorten liikuntakäyttäytyminen Suomessa : LIITU-tutkimuksen tuloksia 2024

Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

Meta as a social contract in competitive play

Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

Game Culture

Research group description

Related projects

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

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

Research group

Group leaders

Members

Publications