Frans Mäyrä
@fransmayra.bsky.social
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A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. www.unet.fi www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)

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Three (3) new postdoctoral game studies positions are now open for applications. These are related to the exit phase (2026-27) of the CoE-GameCult, and positions will situated in the Tampere University Game Research Lab, COMS/ITC, Tampere University.

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3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
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Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
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If you have stuff in Academia.edu, it might be good to reconsider?
Snippet from Academia.edu's terms.

Issue 16 for the International Journal of Role-playing is out. This special issue focuses on Consent and Analog Role-playing Games. Susan Haarman joined the editorial team to lead this publication.
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No. 16 (2025): International Journal of Role-playing Issue 16 | International Journal of Role-Playing
Special Issue: Consent in Analog Role-playing Games
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Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 1/2026. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines.
DL 31 Dec 2025: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis...
CFP as an image.

I started in Tampere University as a comparative literature student in Fall 1985. Decades later, I opened this week the latest iteration of the Introduction to Game Studies course, with c. 50 students enrolled. Show goes on, students just keep getting younger.
Cover of the slideset for Introduction to Game Studies course, by Frans Mäyrä.

Joram - I have deleted my post, and will think about my position regarding digital filters more when I've recovered. Indeed in in flu and slightly feverish right now - sorry!

Thanks for comment! I do not post generative AI pictures - these are all my photographs, but the editing tools used have AI/machine learning based filters/effects. Hope this clarifies!

Much has happened in July; here is also newest issue of Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research, which you can find now at gamestudies.org
Game Studies - Issue 2502, 2025
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Another new special issue, "Peripheral Religions" (edited by Carolin Puckhaber, Aska Mayer and Knut V. M. Wormstädt), in Gamevironments journal, at journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...:
gamevironments
An academic journal dedicated to the study of games in their media environments.
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I spent this week in Valletta, Malta, at Digra 2025 conference. Digra is an annual game studies conference, that I have managed to attend approximately every other year since 2007. I’ll list some of my highlights from this year. (Looong thread.)

Reposted by Frans Mäyrä

Interactive Fantasy, the journal of interactive storytelling that I published in the mid-1990s, is no longer available from DriveThruRPG. However it is now available from itch.io instead: jameswallis.itch.io/interactive-... for the same low price of pay-what-you-want.
Interactive Fantasy by James Wallis
A journal of game design and narrative systems
jameswallis.itch.io

Yliopistoyhteisö voi lukea tästä tarkemmin Tampereen yliopiston intrasta: intra.tuni.fi/content/news...
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Tampereen yliopiston hallitukseen haetaan neljää hyvää ja osaavaa ihmistä. Konsistori päätti tällä kertaa lisätä hallituksen valintakriteereihin kohdan, missä painotetaan erityisesti "yliopiston arvojen, yliopistodemokratian ja yliopiston strategian merkityksen ymmärtämistä".

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Mies! Oletko vähintään 15 ja suomalainen tai Suomessa asuva?

Osallistutko pelikulttuuriin esim. pelaamalla video-, rooli-, lauta- tai miniatyyripelejä, katsomalla pelivideoita tai vaikkapa cossaamalla?

Tervetuloa vastaamaan kyselyyn pelikulttuurista ja mieheydestä osoitteessa bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
Kuva 10-tahoisesta nopasta ja teksti:

Minkälaista on olla mies pelikulttuurissa?

Osallistu tutkimukseen:

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Tutkimus on tarkoitettu vähintään 15-vuotiaille suomalaisille tai Suomessa asuville miehille.

Kuvan alareunassa on Tampereen yliopiston logo.