Category Archives: university
Goodbye Hypermedia, Welcome Interactive Media
This piece of news someone might have missed during the summer vacation period: the official name of new media studies will no longer be ‘hypermedia’ (despite the honorable tradition of the term, leading back to 1960s), but ‘interactive media’. There … Continue reading
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FINFAR 2010 fantasy researcher meeting program
In connection of Finncon 2010 science fiction and fantasy event, there will be again a speculative fiction researcher meeting. This year it will take place in 15–16 July in Jyväskylä (university library building, room B338). Here is the programme/papers presented: … Continue reading
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Gamelab at Facebook, Twitter
We are adopting a more active role in our utilization of social media networking tools in order to distribute information and awareness of what is going at the Game Research Lab at the University of Tampere. You can now both … Continue reading
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The Beatles: Rock Band in INFIM opening party
091020091295, originally uploaded by FransBadger. I just had to blog this photo, playing the Beatles as the Rock Band version was just so much fun in the opening party of our new department (INFIM) and research centre (TRIM — Tampere … Continue reading
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Nokia and University of Tampere into Collaboration
24.08.2009, originally uploaded by FransBadger. Photo from today’s press conference that announced the collaboration agreement between Nokia Research and University of Tampere. The idea is to expand the research collaboration into interesting new fields and strengthen existing collaboration areas, such … Continue reading
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New publication series
Our new department (INFIM, Dept. of Information Studies and Interactive Media) has opened a peer-edited publication series for our research reports and other studies: Research of Interactive Media. Freely available as downloadable PDF files, you can access the first report … Continue reading
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Nordenstreng & Sipilä farewell lectures
The farewell lectures of professors Kaarle Nordenstreng and Jorma Sipilä are now available also as a video recording. Only in Finnish, I am afraid, but providing long perspectives and much insight to the development of Finnish university system, as well … Continue reading
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Mia Consalvo's visit
Mia Consalvo visited us today, and gave an interesting talk on the casual games, players and game cultures — something that relates directly to much of the work that our team has been carrying out in similar areas. We also … Continue reading
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Forthcoming: The Player Barometer 2009
Here is a snapshot from our games researchers’ rooms — Juho Karvinen, the research assistant of Player Barometer/Pelaajabarometri 2009 is here faced with the grim reality of manually handling a survey sample size of 4000 in the form of traditional … Continue reading
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Olli Sotamaa's PhD videos
I used my mobile phone to take some videos from Olli’s PhD defence yesterday, as well as from the karonkka party afterwards. A great event, many thanks for professor Aphra Kerr on probing questions and insightful discussions — and the … Continue reading
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