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Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-05-23)
Adventures of Ludom: a Videogame Geneontology
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-05-08)
Within the last few decades, the videogame has become an important media, economic, and cultural phenomenon. Along with the phenomenon’s proliferation the aspects that constitute its identity have become more and more ...
Disconnect.Me. User Engagement and Facebook
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-03-28)
In the beginning of its 10th year of existence Facebook has engaged and connected 1.2 billion monthly active users. This article-based dissertation Disconnect.Me – User Engagement and Facebook approaches this engagement ...
Creating transnational superheroes: The adaptation of American superhero comics in Finland in the late twentieth century
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-06-14)
Superheroes are an American popular culture phenomenon that has spread across the globe. Superhero narratives are told in comics, film and TV, as well as in games and various fan-produced materials. In addition to superheroes ...
The Feeling body in the media: affective engagements with body positive media
(Turun yliopisto, 2022-12-09)
In contemporary neo-liberal cultures, fat and larger-than-normative bodies are often viewed as bodies in need of change. Due to constant pressure to transform, there is limited space available for the larger-than-normative ...
Secular Possession: Cinematic Iconography of Addiction
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-05-28)
Addiction, and the experience of being addicted, is notoriously difficult to describe verbally and explain rationally. Would multifaceted and multisensory cinematic images work better in making addiction understandable? ...
Framing trans: Affective articulations of trans bodies and violence
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-05-26)
Within the past 15 years, the cultural and political visibility of trans people has grown at an unprecedented rate; at the same time, social media increasingly mediates and shapes people’s coming together, activism, politics, ...
Traces, gaps and constellations: Acts of remembering in contemporary Nordic documentary film
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-12-14)
Acts of remembering in documentary film create temporal, audiovisual compilations that interweave historical and imagined realities. They disrupt linear perceptions of temporality, and generate new ways of perceiving, ...
Porn and norms : pornography and normative notions of gender, love, sex, and relationships in the sexual narratives of Finns on their adolescent experiences
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-11-30)
This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on 10–17-year-old Finns' engagement with and thoughts of pornography. The emotional debates – both public and academic – concerning the consumption of pornography ...
Affective Power of Social Media - Engagements with Networked Parenting Culture
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-11-12)
ABSTRACT
Social media have changed the ways in which we connect and experience the world around us. The article dissertation explores the affective, ambiguous power of social media parenting culture in contemporary ...