In this blog post, CoE GameCult researcher Lobna Hassan reflects her experiences of organizing a hybrid seminar as a member of the Tampere Spring Seminar 2022 Gamebooks organizing team.
Author: Usva Friman
Nykykulttuuria ja -yhteiskuntaa ei voi täysin ymmärtää tuntematta niiden tuottamia ja niihin vaikuttavia pelejä. Kaikki suomalaiset pelaavat – oli pelaaminen sitten lauantailottoa, Mölkkyä mökillä, taskuhirviöiden metsästystä matkapuhelimella töihin kävellessä tai Returnalia kotikonsolilla. Pelikulttuurien tutkimuksen huippuyksikön tutkijoiden vasta ilmestynyt Pelit kulttuurina -kirja on puheenvuoro pelisivistyksen puolesta. Kirja näyttää, miten pelit ovat erottamaton osa arkemme ympäristöjä.
In this blog post, we will present a public update of our progress in our Open Science Strategy goals.
In this blog post, we will present some of the initiatives, activities, and research publications produced in our efforts to advance game cultural literacy and game cultural agency and to increase societal understanding of play and players.
To promote responsibility and transparency in our research practices, the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies researchers have been discussing and developing a recommendation for authorship attribution to be adopted in the research activities within the CoE. This recommendation was approved in the CoE’s monthly meeting on 13th December 2021.
The National Open Science and Research Steering Group in Finland has awarded the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies with the Advancers of Open Science (Avoimuuden edistäjät) 2021 award. This prestigious honour is a recognition of the CoE’s merits in the strategic advancement of open science in their research work, and it was presented at the Open Science Autumn 2021 conference held on the 24th of November in Turku.
The keynote talks of the 17th annual Tampere Game Research Lab spring seminar Monstrosity have now been published!
For the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, the principles and practices of open science provide a sound basis for being excellent in research. In this strategy document, we summarise our goals, guidelines, and good practices regarding open science.
In this blog post, we describe our research and other activities aiming to create and explore play in public spaces for increased wellbeing, social interaction, and economic growth.
In this post, we describe our research and other activities aiming to create opportunities for inclusive game creation, and the results and impact we have achieved so far in this area.