Game Cultures Research Group

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 Cultures 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

Joint RDI front: Piloting the gaming and digital value network and building early stage financing instruments for companies in an expanded ecosystem

Building a common RDI front in the Jyväskylä region between universities, educational institutions, companies and ecosystem organizations

Project

FUNMERSIVE – Transformative and scalable customer engagement through immersive fun

The Funmersive research project studies new scientifically grounded entertainment and learning service design solutions in creative industries in which fun functions as a central factor in enhancing user experience.

Project

FIN-CLARIAH

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Jyväskylä is part of the national research infrastructure FIN-CLARIAH aiming to create new tools and methods for researchers.

Project

The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies

The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project between researchers from the Tampere University, University of Turku, and the University of Jyväskylä. Across these institutions, over 30 researchers from the humanities, social sciences

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

Jonne Arjoranta

Senior Lecturer

Tanja Välisalo

Senior Lecturer

Maria Ruotsalainen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kai Tuuri

Senior Researcher

Elina Koskinen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jasmine Poikela

Grant researcher, post-graduate study right

Tero Kerttula

Translator

Veli-Matti Karhulahti

Senior Researcher

Tiina Auranen

Doctoral Researcher

Matús Adamkovič

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jari Lindroos

Doctoral Researcher

Marko Siitonen

Professor, Head of Department

Valtteri Kauraoja

Doctoral Researcher

Marcel Martončik

Postdoctoral Researcher

Publications

Publications

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

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

Exploring Gameful Motivation of Autonomous Learners

Frontiers in Psychology.

Vahlo, Jukka

Tuuri, Kai

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

Finnish Fuck Games : A Lost Historical Footnote

Perspectives on the European Videogame. Amsterdam University Press.

Paasonen, Susanna

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

Gender and Toxic Meritocracy in Competitive Overwatch : Case “Ellie”

Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch. Palgrave Macmillan.

Friman, Usva

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2022

Hiljaa : Silent and Slow Media Use

Concepts. Bloomsbury Academic.

Puro, Jukka-Pekka

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

How are Games Interpreted? Hermeneutics for Game Studies

Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

In Pursuit of Measuring Pre-reflective Music Listening Experiences

Audio Mostly Conference. ACM.

Tuuri, Kai

Koskela, Oskari

Vahlo, Jukka

Publication

2022

Available through Open Access

In Search of Characters Without Signifiers

Narrative.

Aarseth, Espen

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

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