Happy Pokémon Day! Why not celebrate by diving into two Finnish PhD dissertations:

Johannes Koski - Producing Affection: Affect and Mediated Intimacy in Pokémon urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

Elina Koskinen - Memorable Player Experiences with Pokémon GO urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

#Pokemon30
#Pokemonday2026

Hi people who are into games related events and communities and perhaps also interested in studying them: consider submitting your work-in-progress research to our upcoming Spring Seminar 🌸

CfP: "Gotta Study ‘Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon!"

The Pokémon franchise turns 30 years in 2026 🥳 To celebrate, we invite you to submit chapter proposals for an academic book prepared with Samuli Laato and Piotr Siuda. See the CfP: piotrsiuda.com/wp-content/u... Submission deadline: June 30, 2025.

Workshop on “Exploring Global Game Work Migration” by @solippark.bsky.social, Jan Houška, @malecsandram.bsky.social and me at DiGRA25 Malta
📣 You can find our workshop call PDF at the DiGRA25 Malta website: digraconference2025.org/calls-worksh...
📥Application Deadline: April 30th 2025

Thank you @thevideogamelibrary.org for featuring my research 🤩

My defence is coming up next Friday! You can join also online :) More information on the press release:
www.tuni.fi/en/news/elin...