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

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.

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

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Raine Koskimaa

Professor

Members

Jonne Arjoranta

Senior Lecturer

Tanja Välisalo

University Teacher

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

Publications

Publications

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Book Review: How Pac-Man Eats

Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Constructing a Transmedia Universe : The Case of Battlestar Galactica

WiderScreen.

Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa

Koskimaa, Raine

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Digital Games as a Source of English Vocabulary for Finnish Writers

Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited. Applications of Cognitive Linguistics. Mouton De Gruyter.

Tissari, Heli

Koskela, Oskari

Tuuri, Kai

Vahlo, Jukka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Esports fandom in the age of transmedia : the reception of the overwatch league

Eracle : Journal of Sport and Social Sciences.

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Esports Transmedia Universes : The Case of Overwatch

Global esports. Bloomsbury Academic.

Koskimaa, Raine

Välisalo, Tanja

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Fantasia : lajit, ilmiö ja yhteiskunta

Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Korpua, Jyrki

Hirsjärvi, Irma

Kovala, Urpo

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Fantasia ja transmedia

Fantasia. Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Fantasian vastaanoton tutkimus

Fantasia. Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Hirsjärvi, Irma

Kovala, Urpo

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Fantastinen fanius

Fantasia. Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Välisalo, Tanja

Hirsjärvi, Irma

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, and Fictophilia : A Qualitative Study of Love and Desire for Fictional Characters

Frontiers in Psychology.

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2021

Google Poem Generator : kyborgitekijä naaraamassa globaalin tiedostamattoman virtoja

Jälleen. Ntamo.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Hearing (with) the body : Enactive conception of body in auditory sensemaking in games

Iadis international conference game and entertainment technologies. IADIS Press.

Koskela, Oskari

Tuuri, Kai

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