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

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

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

"I never gave up" : engagement with playable characters and esports players of Overwatch

International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM.

Välisalo, Tanja

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

A Pilot Study on Developing Newsgames in Collaboration between Journalism and Computer Science Students

Nordicom Review.

Siitonen, Marko

Uotila, Panu

Uskali, Turo

Varsaluoma, Jukka

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Arvio: Trent Hergenrader: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers, (2019) Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-3500-1669-9 (eBook)

Scriptum : Creative Writing Research Journal.

Poikela, Jasmine

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Building Worlds Together with Sound and Music : Imagination as an Active Engagement between Ourselves

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1. Oxford University Press.

Tuuri, Kai

Peltola, Henna-Riikka

Publication

2019

Experiencing the Sacred : The Hobbit as a Holy Text

The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom. McFarland.

Korpua, Jyrki

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Siikilä-Laitila, Minna

Välisalo, Tanja

Hirsjärvi, Irma

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Game of Thrones -pelin Let's Play -videot ja populaarikulttuurin vastaanotto esityksenä

Lähikuva.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

How to Define Games and Why We Need to

The Computer Games Journal.

Arjoranta, Jonne

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