I work as an Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University, where I am a member of the Tampere Game Research Lab (GameLab) and the Tampere University Research Centre for Communication Sciences (TARU). In 2025, I was awarded the title of Docent (habilitation) in Contemporary Culture Studies, especially in Transmediality and Digital Media by Jyväskylä University. I am also the book/game review editor for Eludamos.

I am the principal investigator of the GenGam: Gendered Gam(bl)ing project that engages with different gamblified formats emerging from the entanglement of women’s leisure practices in digital games and gambling-like consumer practices from East Asia.

Previously, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher by the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at the GameLab at Tampere University. Before that, I was employed as a PhD scholar by the ERC Advanced grant project Making Sense of Games at the Center of Computer Games Research (now: Center for Digital Play) at the IT University of Copenhagen. Here I wrote a PhD monograph on dynamic game characters within a broader character ecology in which characters are constantly produced and reproduced in a variety of media.

This website contains my professional publications, projects, and places online to find me.

Last updated: August 27, 2026. Please note that I am forgetful with updates.

Joleen Blom

Academy Research Fellow

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