Dr. Joleen Blom is a university lecturer at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies and at the Game Research Lab at Tampere University. Her research interests include transmedia storytelling, Japanese games and culture, characters, and para-social relationships and intimacy through technology and media.
Joleen Blom, Ph.D.
Tampere University, Finland — Lecturer
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E-mail
johanna.blom@tuni.fi -
Website
joleenblom.com -
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-4497
Research Areas
- Games and Play
- Popular Culture
Ongoing Projects
Highlighted publications
Blom, Joleen. 2023. Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character. Amsterdam University Press.
Blom, Joleen. 2022. “Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III.” In Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG. Edited by Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael Hutchinson. Lexington Books.
Blom, Joleen. July 2022.“Attachment, Possession or Personalization? : Why the Character Trade in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Exploded.” Replaying Japan 4: 23–34.
Blom, Joleen. 2023. “The Genshin Impact Media Mix: Free-to-Play Monetization from East Asia.” Mechademia 16 (1): 144–66.
About
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E-mail
johanna.blom@tuni.fi -
Website
joleenblom.com -
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-4497
