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

2017

Available through Open Access

Engaging with film characters : Empirical study on the reception of characters in The Hobbit films

Fafnir : Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Games as Blends : Understanding Hybrid Games

Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.

Kankainen, Ville

Arjoranta, Jonne

Nummenmaa, Timo

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Human Technology, Vol. 13, Issue 1. Special Issue on Human-Technology Choreographies: Body, Movement, and Space in Expressive Interactions

Human Technology. Jyväskylän Yliopisto; Agora Center.

Pirhonen, Antti

Tuuri, Kai

Erkut, Cumhur

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Human-Technology Choreographies : Body, Movement, and Space in Expressive Interactions

Human Technology.

Pirhonen, Antti

Tuuri, Kai

Erkut, Cumhur

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Itse tehty fandom

AntroBlogi.

Välisalo, Tanja

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Lastenkirjallisuuden digitalisoituminen : leikillisyys ja pelillisyys lastenkirjasovelluksissa

Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain.

Koskimaa, Raine

Lahdenperä, Linda

Publication

2017

Monikulttuurisuuskeskustelu Suvivirrestä maahanmuuttajamyyttiin

Jätkät ja jytkyt. Vastapaino.

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Saresma, Tuija

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Narrative Tools for Games : Focalization, Granularity, and the Mode of Narration in Games

Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2017

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura ry; Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Koskimaa, Raine

Arjoranta, Jonne

Friman, Usva

Mäyrä, Frans

Sotamaa, Olli

Suominen, Jaakko

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Pokémon Go -pelaajien käyttäytymismuutokset

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2017. Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura ry; Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Kari, Tuomas

Arjoranta, Jonne

Salo, Markus

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Turvetta tupaan : faktat, valheet ja affektiivinen vastaanotto Turveinfo-mainoskampanjassa

Media ja viestintä.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Hirsjärvi, Irma

Kovala, Urpo

Saresma, Tuija

Ruotsalainen, Maria

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Who Controls Who? Embodied Control Within Human–Technology Choreographies

Interacting with Computers.

Tuuri, Kai

Parviainen, Jaana

Pirhonen, Antti

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