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

2020

Available through Open Access

Game of Thrones -sarjan fanius : yhteiskatselua ja pettymysten kollektiivista käsittelyä

Näkökulma / Nuorisotutkimusseura. Fanikulttuuri.Nyt.

Korhonen, Venla

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

GAMEHIGHED Initial Report : Output 1: Initial Research & Analysis Report. Higher-ed Programmes for Careers in Game Design & Development (2019–2022)

Kazimierz Wielki University.

Çatak, Güven

Bostan, Barbaros

Aker, Çakır

Akan, Ecehan

Gemrot, Jakub

Kolek, Lukáš

Barák, Pavel

Jehličková, Lucie

Arjoranta, Jonne

Karhulahti, Matti

Koskimaa, Raine

Lakanen, Antti-Jussi

Varsaluoma, Jukka

Välisalo, Tanja

Mochocki, Michał

Chmielewski, Krzysztof

Schreiber, Paweł

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Ihan kuin kirja, mutta parempi! : hybridikirjoja lapsille ja aikuisille

Paperinen avaruus. Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Immersive gaming as journalism

Immersive Journalism as Storytelling. Routledge.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Koskimaa, Raine

Siitonen, Marko

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Miten rakennetaan toimiva tieteen ja päätöksenteon suhde?

Nuorten tiedeakatemian politiikkasuositus. Nuorten Tiedeakatemia.

Nuorten tiedeakatemia

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Muistamisesta ja unohtamisesta verkossa

Agricolan kirja-arvostelut.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Nörttikulttuurin identiteettikriisi : Gamergate, Comicsgate ja Star Wars poliittisten kiistojen näyttämöinä

Lähikuva.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Kontturi, Katja

Varis, Essi

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2020

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Pelitutkimuksen seura.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Friman, Usva

Koskimaa, Raine

Mäyrä, Frans

Sotamaa, Olli

Suominen, Jaakko

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Playing the Nonhuman : Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator

Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture. Routledge.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

The Ethical and Political Contours of Institutional Promotion in Esports : From Precariat Models to Sustainable Practices

Human Technology.

Chee, Florence M.

Karhulahti, Veli-Matti

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

The Scent of a Book : The Book and the Environments of Reading

Ethnologia Fennica.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Understanding Human-Technology Relations Within Technologization and Appification of Musicality

Frontiers in Psychology.

Tuuri, Kai

Koskela, Oskari

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