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

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

Publication

2013

Available through Open Access

Leikki digitaalisella aikakaudella

Naurusta leikkiin, vallasta väkivaltaan: filosofian graduantologia. Kampus kustannus / JYY julkaisusarja.

Arjoranta, Jonne

Publication

2012

Available through Open Access

Book review. Alač Morana (2011) Handling Digital Brains: A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic Interaction in the Age of Computers. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT press; 199 pages

Human Technology.

Tuuri, Kai

Publication

2012

Formulating a Revised Taxonomy for Modes of Listening

Journal of New Music Research.

Tuuri, Kai

Eerola, Tuomas

Publication

2012

Hypertekstintutkimus

Genreanalyysi: tekstilajitutkimuksen käsikirja. Gaudeamus.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2012

Käännetty aika fiktion keinona

Mahdollisen kirjallisuuden seuran vuosikirja 2012.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2012

Kaksi lukua romaanista Take It or Leave It

Mahdollisen kirjallisuuden seuran vuosikirja 2012.

Koskimaa, Raine

Publication

2012

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2012

Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja. Tampere University Press.

Suominen, Jaakko

Koskimaa, Raine

Mäyrä, Frans

Turtiainen, Riikka

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