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

2014

Available through Open Access

Pelimaailmoista maailman pelillistymiseen : pelitutkimuksen ja pelikulttuurin muutoslinjoja

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2014. Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Tampereen yliopisto.

Suominen, Jaakko

Mäyrä, Frans

Koskimaa, Raine

Saarikoski, Petri

Sotamaa, Olli

Publication

2014

Available through Open Access

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2014

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Tampereen yliopisto.

Suominen, Jaakko

Koskimaa, Raine

Mäyrä, Frans

Saarikoski, Petri

Sotamaa, Olli

Publication

2014

Available through Open Access

Review of a PhD Thesis: Mia Muurimäki: Nykytaiteen politiikka museokontekstissa [Contemporary art and politics in the museum context]

Nordisk Museologi.

Karttunen, Sari

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2014

Available through Open Access

Serbian students' attitudes towards mathematics and mathematical education : Tempus Attitude Survey (TAS) 2013-2014 report

University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Art and Culture Studies.

Fenyvesi, Kristof

Koskimaa, Raine

Mateus-Berr, Ruth

Radovic, Ljiljana

Takaci, Djurdjica

Zdravkovic, Suncica

Zivkovic, Klelija

Publication

2014

Available through Open Access

When swipe is not just a swipe : on explicating the qualities of movement for gesture design

NordiCHI 2014 Workshop. University of Jyväskylä.

Tuuri, Kai

Parviainen, Jaana

Pirhonen, Antti

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

“Kuka tarvitsee netin sotapelejä?” – Väkivaltaisten pelien diskurssit suomalaisessa verkkomediassa

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2013. Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Tampereen yliopisto.

Pasanen, Tero

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

Choreographies at Home as Objects of Design

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. University of Nottingham.

Pirhonen, Antti

Parviainen, Jaana

Tuuri, Kai

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

Digital Humanities in the Cultural Environment

Cultural Research in the Context of "Digital Humanities". Asterion.

Hanka, Heikki

Lonkila, Helena

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

Drifting Down the Technologization of Life: Could Choreography-Based Interaction Design Support us in Engaging with the World and our Embodied Living?

Challenges.

Parviainen, Jaana

Tuuri, Kai

Pirhonen, Antti

Publication

2013

From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of the Cultural Landscape

The Digital Turn: User's Practices and Cultural Transformations. Peter Lang publishing group.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

Gestural expressions in use for unveiling dynamic experience attributed to verbs

Gesture and Speech in Interaction. Tilburg University.

Tuuri, Kai

Pirhonen, Antti

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

Gestures within Human-Technology Choreographies for Interaction Design

Gesture and Speech in Interaction. Tilburg University.

Parviainen, Jaana

Tuuri, Kai

Pirhonen, Antti

Turunen, Markku

Keskinen, Tuuli

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