The City of Tampere invited me as one of Tampere Congress Ambassadors – a great honour. Here is an introduction video and profile page of myself related to that role.
I was provided with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by IndieCade in their Horizons 2023 event.
I published a blog post in Spring 2021 discussing my two recent studies, in the CoE-GameCult website, see more here.
In 2021, a major international event – Monstrosity Spring Seminar – was organised in April; I served as a commentator to the seminar papers.
News for year 2020: unfortunately multiple cancellations have taken place due to the Coronavirus epidemic, including e.g. DiGRA 2020 conference (originally planned to take place in June 2020 in Tampere): https://digra2020.org/.
You can find most up-to-date posts of mine from my blog site, or by following me in social media (in Facebook and/or in Twitter)
Starting from 1 January, 2019, the University of Tampere has entered a merger, and become new, Tampere University (TAU/TUNI). All uta.fi domains and emails has be substituted by tuni.fi ones. My personal ones (in unet.fi and gmail.com) will remain as they were.
I was awarded one year personal research period as an IASR Professorial Fellow (1.8.2018-31.7.2019)
We got the Scientific Achievement of the Year 2017 award in 25 April 2018 (Vuoden tiedeteko), for creating and getting funding for the CoE-GameCult
Our Centre of Excellence organised the public “Game Studies in Finland” (Pelitutkimus Suomessa) lecture series in Spring 2018, see: https://coe-gamecult.org/2018/01/17/luentosarja2018/
The first call for applications to the researcher positions in CoE GameCult were opened in December 2017, see: https://coe-gamecult.org/
Pelaajabarometri 2013 study on the state and development of game playing in Finland has been published
I was appointed as the Vice Dean (varajohtaja) of our School of Information Sciences for 2003-2016 (see the SIS admin contact pages here)
Note the location of my office: Pinni B2058 (available by appointment)
Links to old and new course pages: ITIS51 (research and theory literature course), Thesis Seminar (every Spring Term),Gradupiiri (the continuing master’s thesis seminar), Research Seminar (PhD plans, research articles). I am also responsible for the electronic exams and essay options for ITIS55 History of Internet and New Media Studies, ITIS56 Classics of Internet and New Media Studies and ITIA23 Research of Interactive Online Services, Games and Internet; electonic book exams available via tenttis.uta.fi service. For essay instructions, send me email.
Publications, including several articles on game culture studies available as PDF files in my Publications page
My interview about playfulness and games in Kirjastokaista.fi (in Finnish)
A video interview where I am talking about my work has been published by Professoriliitto
Pelaajabarometri 2011 provides a comprehensive view into the role of play (digital or not) to Finnish people
Interview about research into playfulness and gamification (in Finnish) / haastattelu leikillisyyden ja pelillisyyden tutkimuksesta löytyy Aikalaisesta
new games research projects starting in 2009: the Creation of Games Cultures (Academy of Finland) and Transformation of Digital Play (TDP/GaIn+SoPlay; Tekes & consortium of companies, jointly with University of Jyväskylä)
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