@article{Sotamaa2021,

title = {Artful Play: Yrjö Hirn's Aesthetic Approach to Children's Play},

author = {Olli Sotamaa and Jaakko Stenros},

url = {https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202106286080},

doi = {10.1080/21594937.2021.1934948},

issn = {2159-4937},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-04-03},

journal = {International Journal of Play},

volume = {10},

issue = {2},

pages = {139-150},

abstract = {Yrjö Hirn (1870-1952) was an early Finnish scholar of aesthetics. He was well-connected and widely travelled a century ago. In 1916 he published Barnlek in Swedish, a book on the play and games of children. This monograph draws on a wide array of sources and discusses children's play as both a herald of things to come and as a living museum of past tools and practices. Hirn's book was translated into Finnish, Italian, and French, but today it is mostly forgotten as it is not available in English. Yet this book shows the active debate around play taking place in Europe before Huizinga's Homo ludens. This article provides an overview of Hirn's life and thinking, discussed Barnlek and its reception at the time, and discussed the implications of Hirn's thinking for contemporary play and game studies.

},

keywords = {Aesthetics, Children's play, History of play studies, Yrjö Hirn},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Garda2021,

title = {Let’s Play Tinder! Aesthetics of a Dating App},

author = {Maria B. Garda and Veli-Matti Karhulahti},

doi = {10.1177/1555412019891328},

issn = {1555-4120},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-01},

journal = {Games and Culture},

volume = {16},

issue = {2},

pages = {248-261},

abstract = {This article provides an analysis of the “dating app” Tinder as an aesthetic ludic artifact. By scrutinizing the title’s features of gameplay and expressive–interpretive social interaction, Tinder usage is set into a frame theory context and shown to operate by multiple overlapping frames that allow romantic engagement to be entered as play and vice versa.},

keywords = {Aesthetics, Dating app, Gameplay, Social media, Tinder},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}