@amayer.bsky.social
Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University & CoE GameCult
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University & CoE GameCult
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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...
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...
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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...
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...
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🚚🚚🚚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....
Truck simulator, trucker-simulators, and the containment of neoliberal capitalism
This paper discusses truckers who play games (including Truck Simulator) while on the road. Inspired by the concept of “container technologies” and more recent work which distinguishes between cont...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🚚🚚🚚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....
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📞🎮 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/...
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/...
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📞🎮 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/...
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/...
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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
#gamestudies
#transmedia
#mediastudies
wp.me/p5EI1K-1tC
A Lift Home (S1:E3) for Dr. Joleen Blom - Sebastian Möring, PhD
A Lift Home is back and ready to take off, soon! In the next episode (S1:E3), live on November 19, 2025, we will take premium passenger Dr. Joleen Blom from Lublin-Świdnik (EPLB), where our plane was ...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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
#gamestudies
#transmedia
#mediastudies
wp.me/p5EI1K-1tC
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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.)
September 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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.)
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#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
“ #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
CfP: Nostalgia for the Future Book
Nostalgia for the Future? Any books on this? No? Let's write one, together.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#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
“ #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.
#NextWeek
The ECF conference, »Reflecting Virtuality«, will take place on September 24 and 25 at Ruhr University Bochum.
Registration information: www.virtuelle-lebens...
The ECF conference, »Reflecting Virtuality«, will take place on September 24 and 25 at Ruhr University Bochum.
Registration information: www.virtuelle-lebens...
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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.
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📍 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
Submission deadline: October 15th
Conference date: March 9-13, 2026
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Please spread widely! 🎉
#digitalhumanities #glam #digitalculture
Call for Papers: DHNB 2026, Aarhus – DHNB
dhnb.eu
September 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📍 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
Submission deadline: October 15th
Conference date: March 9-13, 2026
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Please spread widely! 🎉
#digitalhumanities #glam #digitalculture
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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...
Vol. 28 No. 3 (2025): fan | M/C Journal
M/C Journal - a journal of media and culture, founded in 1998.
journal.media-culture.org.au
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...
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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...
Citizen-Facing Bidirectional AI for Emergency Triage
The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a two year Postdoc position starting in November 2025 or soon thereafter. We i
candidate.hr-manager.net
September 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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...
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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
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
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
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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...
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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...
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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...
www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants/op...
Open Oproep Game Sector Professionalisation and Practice Development | Stimuleringsfonds
For individual game professionals, game designers, game developers, or (temporary) collectives working within the Dutch games sector who wish to make their practice or studio future-proof.
www.stimuleringsfonds.nl
September 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants/op...
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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).
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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).
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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...
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...
How I got an ERC Consolidator Grant. Idea, application, interview, and reviews.
pure.au.dk
August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
📚💻💰📝
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...
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...
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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!
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August 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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
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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
August 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
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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...
brill.com/display/titl...
Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics
"Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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...
brill.com/display/titl...
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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...
Review of Robert Houghton's The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism (2024)
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August 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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...
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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.
August 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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.
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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
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
August 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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
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
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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!
This year's theme will be Genshin Impact. The event is free to attend, no registration fee!
We’ll be hosting GachaCon 2026, a hybrid academic conference on gacha games with Genshin Impact as the theme, on 12–13 February 2026 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳
Call for Papers: tinyurl.com/gachaconcfp
Call for Papers: tinyurl.com/gachaconcfp
August 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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!
This year's theme will be Genshin Impact. The event is free to attend, no registration fee!
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The book Challenging Contemporary Thinking on Play came out yesterday. Edited by Victoria de Rijke and Rebecca Sinker the book explores play through a series of interviews/conversations. I'm one of the people who participated. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Challenging Contemporary Thinking on Play
This book challenges and criticizes over-used or lazy applications of play and offer the possibility into the arena of culture in conceptual reference.
link.springer.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The book Challenging Contemporary Thinking on Play came out yesterday. Edited by Victoria de Rijke and Rebecca Sinker the book explores play through a series of interviews/conversations. I'm one of the people who participated. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!
📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
No. #22 (2025): Special Issue "Peripheral Religions"
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August 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!
Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!
📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
No. #22 (2025): Special Issue "Peripheral Religions"
| gamevironments
tinyurl.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!