Some highlights from DiGRA 2026 in Maynooth, Ireland: the beautiful old campus, @mellowne.bsky.social presenting his first peer-reviewed paper (proud supervisor moment!) and having the opportunity to represent SURVIVE together with @amayer.bsky.social and @rainforestsb.bsky.social!

In addition to our book being OA, the teacher association SMLF (Swedish as L1 and Literature Education in Finland), gave us the opportunity to discuss our findings in their member magazine ARENA. I am so happy that we were able to make our research accessible this way! www.smlf.fi/arena/#flipb...

Delighted to see that the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History now has a webpage and a cover! There will be an ebook (which given the length of this I imagine will be many people's preferred reading approach), it just doesn't show on the page yet. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Our (Ståhl & Rusk) Open Access book "Learning and Identity in Competitive Gaming - An Empirical and Methodological Discussion" is finally published! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... It is based on in-game material of CS:GO recorded by the youth participants, a group of Finnish men, themselves.

Glimpse of yesterday's sneak-peak of our upcoming OA-book "Learning and Identity in Competitive Gaming: An Empirical and Methodological Discussion" at ÅAU, Vaasa. link.springer.com/book/9783032... We are also giving a public book talk at Vapriikki, Tampere on June 12th! www.vapriikki.fi/tapahtumat/

Today, we gave a presentation with @matildastahl.bsky.social about 'Gender as portrayed, experienced, and observed in women’s Nordic esports events' at @gameresearchlab.bsky.social 22nd annual spring seminar. The vibes were strong and I guess the photo says it all (thanks to Lobna Hassan)!

Travelled to ECQI with @matildastahl.bsky.social to discuss the role of identity, safety, and danger in "riskful" ethnography! This work-in-progress brings together some of our previous experiences of risks and challenges in fieldstudies, using them as a base for our future work in SURVIVE.

Finally made it to Bluesky so that I can share this awesome project with everyone!