In this blogpost, Doctoral Researcher Ville Malinen discusses his visit to the E-Gaming Symposium 2025 held in Seinäjoki (Finland). In addition to his own presentation, Malinen reflects on the program from the two symposium days.
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In this blog post, Postdoctoral Researcher Maria Ruotsalainen, PhD Research Fellow Tom Legierse, Doctoral Researcher Azul Romo Flores, Media Scholar Finja Walsdorff, Doctoral Researcher Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal and Associate Professor Egil Trasti Rogstad reflect on “Feminist Approaches to Esports Research” workshop organized in November 2024. By reading selected texts, the authors contemplate how feminist studies and understanding the margins should be extended to examining esports as whole.
In this blog post, Postdoctoral Research Fellows Usva Friman and Matilda Ståhl describe their experiences and initial insights gained from studying Nordic esports.
In this blog post, Postdoctoral Researcher Usva Friman reflects on her experiences at the ERNC22 and DreamHack Winter 2022 as a game culture researcher studying various aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion in esports.
In this blog post, CoE GameCult researcher Tanja Välisalo presents the ongoing development process for methods and tools for analysing livestream chat data.
In this blog post, doctoral researcher Ville Malinen discusses his doctoral dissertation regarding the synergy of motorsports and sim racing.
In this post, we describe our research and other activities aiming to create better, research-based understanding and promotion of constructive approaches to gaming and (e)sports, and to their relationship to physical, mental, and social well-being.
In this post, CoE researchers Maria Ruotsalainen and Tanja Välisalo tell the story of the Overwatch research project, and what they have learned from it so far.
Despite its ongoing success, Magic: The Gathering is trailing in its mainstream appeal behind Dungeons & Dragons, which is published by the same company and has become a frequent reference in mainstream popular culture. While studying the transformation of the genre-defining card game into an esport, I encountered that its creators and players regularly discuss how the cis male-dominated tournament scene contributes to the public image of Magic: The Gathering.