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

2011

Available through Open Access

Do We Need Real-Time Hermeneutics? Structures of Meaning in Games

Think design play: the fifth international conference of the digital research association, Hilversum, 14.-17.9.2011. DiGRA/Utrecht School of the Arts.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2011

Hearing gestures: vocalisations as embodied projections of intentionality in designing non-speech sounds for communicative functions

Jyväskylä studies in humanities. University of Jyväskylä.

Tuuri, Kai

Publication

2011

Pelaajabarometri 2010

Agora Center, Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Kuronen, Eero

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2011

Available through Open Access

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2011

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Turun yliopisto.

Suominen, Jaakko

Koskimaa, Raine

Mäyrä, Frans

Sotamaa, Olli

Turtiainen, Riikka

Publication

2011

Available through Open Access

Reading processes. Groundwork for Software Studies

Game Studies.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2011

Shuzi wenxue. Cong wenben dao chaowenben jiqi chaoyue

Guangxi Normal University Press.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2011

The Experience of the Unique in Reading Digital Literature

OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica. Lavori del Convegno. Atelier Multimediale Edizioni.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2010

A szimulált idö nyomában

Kalligram.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2010

Approaches to Digital Literature: Temporal Dynamics and Cyborg Authors

Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook. Transcript Verlag.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2010

Communicative functions of sounds which we call alarms

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Auditory Display.

Pirhonen, Antti

Tuuri, Kai

Publication

2010

Gestural Attributions as Semantics in User Interface Sound Design

Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag.

Tuuri, Kai

Publication

2010

Leaping across Modalities: Speed Regulation Messages in Audio and Tactile Domains

Haptic and Audio Interaction Design. Lecturer Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag.

Tuuri, Kai

Eerola, Tuomas

Pirhonen, Antti

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