Game scholarship Finland
Research on games, gaming, play, and related phenomena conducted in Finland or by Finns. Updated by merilainen.bsky.social, please ask to be added!
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@merilainen.bsky.social
@solippark.bsky.social
Game researcher (Doctor of Arts) at Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä. Researching migrants in the game industry and gamer & game dev culture in Korea and Finland :)
@somabasu.com
Journalist turned researcher, teacher, fact-checker. 📚 Affect, digital politics, violence, imaginations, & pervasive game cultures. 🛠️ (Sensory) Ethnography, CDA-DHA, PAR PhDing: Tampere Uni 🇫🇮 Project: Muslims in India (Columbia, Princeton, Science Po)
@outi.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Helsinki Indigenous studies. Samigamejammer and Ethnoprogrammer.
@tainam.bsky.social
Researching diversity in the game industry for work and learning traditional renovation techniques for fun. Chopping wood when thinking is too much.
@riittamatilainen.bsky.social
Head of the gambling harm prevention unit at the EHYT ry. Chair of the European Gambling Harm Prevention Network. An economic and social historian (PhD in Soc.Sci). https://www.linkedin.com/in/riitta-matilainen-2435465/
@elinako.bsky.social
Postdoctoral research fellow in game studies at Tampere University. Main Research Coordinator @CoEGameCult 👾 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4082-6582 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YjdTawkAAAAJ
@jonne.mastodontti.fi.ap.brid.gy
Digitaalisen kulttuurin tutkija. Eniten huolettaa valvontakapitalismi ja ilmastokriisi. [bridged from https://mastodontti.fi/@jonne on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@aakoo.bsky.social
Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
@tanjavalisalo.bsky.social
@matti.vuorre.com
I am an assistant professor at the department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University's School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. I have a website at https://vuorre.com. All posts are posts.
@hwirman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play & Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
@perttu-h.bsky.social
Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
@essitai.bsky.social
PhD student & researcher, project PEGASUS @ Tampere University | Digital youth work specialist | Avid gamer and cat enthusiast | posts in 🇫🇮 🇬🇧 | she/they
@haronwalliander.bsky.social
PhD student studying Finnishness in digital games and side hustling graphics designer. Games and nerds ftw! And peace on Earth. That too.
@mkarhulahti.bsky.social
metascience, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
@rainforestsb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ✒️ @ Tampere University 🇫🇮 Comms Officer 🎤 @cgsaacej.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Currently researching games and exhaustion.
@jjol33n.bsky.social
|Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @CoEGameCult |Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
@mak0.bsky.social
Dad, doctoral researcher, avid game & movie enjoyer, observing the world from a wheelchair | Game accessibility student & consultant, game reviewer | He/Him
@riikkaaurava.bsky.social
Game culture researcher, teacher, mother, neurodivergent, she/her. Academic interests: game jams, learning and games, co-creativity, ttrpgs, actual play, streaming, game communities, board game design. Other: coffee, chocolate, fantasy, silence, politics.
@jaakkostenros.bsky.social
Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, and art. Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/ Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
@vkankainen.bsky.social
Game scholar out for new opportunities. Game studies, game design, games and learning, board games, TTG, 4x, pc, ps4, crpg, ttrpg, history, politics, geeking, music, djing, goth, post-punk
@t0mm7.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
@coegamecult.bsky.social
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland.
@pelitutkimus.fi
The Finnish society for game research. Posts FIN/ENG. Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura on monitieteinen pelitutkimusta edistävä yhdistys. Tältä tililtä jaamme ajankohtaista tietoa pelitutkimukseen ja pelikulttuureihin liittyen. www.pelitutkimus.fi
@katialha.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
@rosgakori.bsky.social
PHD student at Tampere University Game Research Lab. Freelance writer. Feminist. Antifascist. Warhammer hobbyist. Poly Lesbian. Part-time Mancunian. Likes might contain spice. She/Her 🏳️⚧️ 33 https://medium.com/@aasa.timonen4 https://throne.com/aasat
@fransmayra.bsky.social
A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas.
@merilainen.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming. Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games. orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X mikkomerilainen.com