Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

#NorthernStarSymposium #NorthernStar2026 You thought it was too late to submit, didn't you? No worries, the second deadline is April 20th, for those who did not make the first deadline. All three keynotes are now announced: www.nord.no/en/events/re...

We'll host a conference on the convergence between videogames and gambling in late September 2026 in Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Call for papers: tinyurl.com/thegamblingcfp Let’s think “outside of the loot box.” Abstract deadline: 26 June 2026 Results notification: 20 July 2026 Conference: 28–29 September 2026

This is an amazing find. The article rightly points out the technological and economic importance of the loom and the calculations it required of the women who used it. Fiber arts, which are coded as feminine, still don't get the respect they deserve (cough cough Hank Green's knitting video).

Aktuelle Stellenausschreibung für eine 100% Post-doc Stelle (3 Jahre) am Seminar für Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie an der Universität Münster. uni.ms/gvb3w

22nd Spring Seminar of Game Research Lab on 5-6 May in Tampere! Seems like I will have the pleasure to kick off the first day with my talk on Labubu customization practices and their discussion/organization in and through online communities.

Something for the fellow Arts+Tech crowd: NordiCHI 2026 will host the track "Art-Based Approaches in HCI"! We welcome artistic and art-based practice-forward approaches to Human-Computer Interactions under the broad umbrella term of "energy". More information here: sites.uwasa.fi/nordichi2026...

@floriankluge.bsky.social und ich durften eine @paidia.bsky.social-Ausgabe zu Final Fantasy herausgeben, die nun online ist. Darin sind 9 Beiträge versammelt, die sich vornehmlich Spielen der Hauptreihe aus ganz unterschiedlichen Forschungsinteressen heraus nähern. 🧵👇

New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

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.

Here’s a friendly reminder about the conference we are running at the ITU in May: playingfutures.today Deadline for abstracts is February 16th, and the conference will take place May 20th to 22nd in Copenhagen. Look at our call for papers for more details: playingfutures.today/call-for-pap...

🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article! It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including: - How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women - ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps -⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)

Jetzt online: @fmaschewski.bsky.social und ich haben eine kurze Ideengeschichte der Space-Unternehmungen von Bezos und Musk und über den Einfluss des Longtermism auf deren proprietäre Infrastrukturprojekte im All geschrieben: www.medienwerk.nrw/articles/die...

The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out! All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism. #historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies

GachaCon 2026 is just one month away (12–13 February)! Preliminary programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Want to bag some GachaCon merch? Register for attendance: forms.gle/Mjk9tRo9TTSW....

Eludamos has a new CFP for a Special issue: New Perspectives on Men and Masculinity in Gaming Eludamos invites scholars in game studies and beyond to submit full papers for a special issue on men and masculinity in gaming, with deadline March 15, 2026.

The article @jjol33n.bsky.social and I have been working on, "Ludic Representations of Suicide Livestreams in the Japanese Videogame NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD," is now out on the journal Thanatos. (1/7)

New year, new publication alert - and this is a big one for me. My book "The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games" is out! It’s an attempt to provide a systematic framework for analyzing enemies in military shooters. www.routledge.com/The-Role-of-...

Just made a quick video of my #envhist #medievalsky talk about human-animal relations "Exploding Pigs & Retirement Homes For Cows: Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages"➡️ works.hcommons.org/records/eq9z...

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The last article summary of the CoE blog is here! Ville Malinen discusses game videos addressing the fatal accident of Ayrton Senna as a form and tool of cultural memory based on his article originally written in Finnish. Read the summary here:

Correct diagnosis: It's not that LLMs will "undo" science but they will accelerate its slopification because of the already existing perverse incentive structures that are in place. "LLMs didn’t create the dysfunction in scientific publishing; they inherited it, intensified it, made it run faster."

The search for a definitive “first” Finnish digital game or the singular origin of the Finnish game industry has shaped historical narratives, even though such beginnings are often complex, contested, and continuously pushed earlier by new discoveries. More in the blog post by Jaakko Suominen:

New article summary at the CoE blog: Markku Reunanen, Petri Saarikoski and Tapani Joelsson discuss how home computers arrived at Finnish homes in the 1980s based on an online survey conducted in 2022.

new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows

CFP for the next issue of G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment, on “Queer and Trans Game Studies in Global and Local Contexts” is out! This issue aims to map current developments in queer and trans game studies. For full details: www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey...

DiGRA deadline extended until 8th December for abstracts and full papers. www.digraconference2026.com

Tampere University friends: Academic Board (konsistori) elections at Tampere University began this morning, and voting is open working days, 8am-5pm, until November 28. University staff and grant researchers can find the link to vote on the university intranet: intra.tuni.fi/en/organisat...

🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📞🎮 Sidetalking: Nokia’s playful design gone sideways Heikki Jungman, @t0mm7.bsky.social, Niklas Nylund & @sotamaa.bsky.social revisit the N-Gage’s sideways-calling feature. 💡 The article shows how cultural misalignment, not tech flaws, doomed it. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New stream of "A LIft Home." Premium Passenger Dr. Joleen Blom. Live on November 19, 2025. From Lublin (EPLB) to Helsinki (EFHK). Inflight menu: Transmedia storytelling and the dynamic game character. Departure 7pm (CET)/8pm (EET). #gamestudies #transmedia #mediastudies wp.me/p5EI1K-1tC

New Games and Culture! I especially want to highlight Leland Masek's piece on identifying playfulness. His work on playfulness is foundational! (I'm his supervisor, so I may be slightly biased.)

#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia “ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press. Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025 Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

Meet me next week in Bochum (Germany) speaking about the concept of virtuality from the perspective of my own research, somewhere inbetween virtual prototyping and sensing.

📍 CFP DHNB 2026: Lost in abundance: Encounters with the non-canonical Submission deadline: October 15th Conference date: March 9-13, 2026 Location: Aarhus, Denmark Please spread widely! 🎉 #digitalhumanities #glam #digitalculture

Reading the special issue on Fans in M/C Journal. The essays are very accessible and readable and diverse, do have a look! #fans #fandom journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...

I'm hiring a postdoc at ITU Copenhagen with experience in NLP, who is keen on improving citizens' experience of health emergency triage in an exciting project with the Danish emergency helpline and the University of Copenhagen. Knowledge of Danish is helpful. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

For my fellow colleagues working in the Dutch game sector and interested in game development & design, the Stimuleringsfonds has a call for funding proposals you might be interested in: www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants/op...

We are still looking for interviewees working on and with open-source software, especially from thus far underrepresented groups (people with little to medium experience working on OSS, those in mid-career stages (10–20 years on the job), women and nonbinary people, people over 45 years old).

📚💻💰📝 If you are thinking about applying for an ERC grant and want inspiration, I've updated my paper where I tell how I got mine. It now includes the application (B1+B2), the manuscript for the presentation I gave at my interview, the slides, and the nine peer reviews. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...

Who is really fueling your #AI? 🤔 It's not just code & algorithms. Behind every LLM are millions of people, often in invisible roles. Join us, @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & on Sept. 17 to hear directly from data workers! 🔗 buff.ly/2ug32Bx

The Center for Islamic Theology and the Department of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology are hosting the conference „The Role of Islam and Christianity in Public Space – Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany“ at @uni-muenster.de from 26 to 28 September. uni.ms/gkil1

Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics, a book I edited with Zoltán Somhegyi for Brill, is OUT any moment! My article focuses on aesthetics of martial arts, but great authors from Saumya Suyal to Rodrigo Duarte, Myriam Ávila and Yvonne Förster discuss e g. virtues, AI & myths. brill.com/display/titl...

There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...

We recently published a special issue on Peripheral Religions and Games, guest edited by @caroleinx.bsky.social, @amayer.bsky.social and Knut Wormstädt! Four brand new articles exploring the topic, one report, two reviews and, of course, an introduction.

Do you regularly work with or develop open-source software? Then we would love to talk to you! We are conducting research on how people think about OSS quality and how they evaluate OSS projects. We want to interview people to gather all kinds of perspectives. /1

Happy to let you know I'm one of the invited speakers to gachacon in February '26, organised at the CityU in Hong Kong. 🌸 This year's theme will be Genshin Impact. The event is free to attend, no registration fee!