Joost Raessens
Department of Media and Culture Studies - Media and Performa
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Prof. dr. Joost Raessens holds the chair of Media Theory at Utrecht University. His research concerns the ‘ludification of culture,’ focusing in particular on persuasive, serious, or applied gaming (in relation to global issues such as climate change, refugees), on the playful construction of identities, and on the notion of play as a conceptual framework for the analysis of media use. Raessens is member of the Council for the Humanities (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW) and member of the advisory board of the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University. He is on the editorial board of Games and Culture. A Journal of Interactive Media (SAGE) and the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (Intellect), and on the board of reviewers of Game Studies. The International Journal of Computer Game Research. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (2006) and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Riverside (2004-2005). He was the conference chair of the first Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) conference Level Up in Utrecht (2003).
Research Interest
game & play studies
Publications
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Frissen, Valerie, Lammes, Sybille, de Lange, Michiel, de Mul, J. & Raessens, Joost (2015). Introduction to Part II. In Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel Lange, de, Jos Mu, de & Joost Raessens (Eds.), Playful Identities - The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures (pp. 167-168) (2 p.).
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Frissen, Valerie, Lammes, Sybille, de Lange, Michiel, Mul, de, Jos & Raessens, Joost (2015). Introduction to Part I. In Jos Mul, de, Valerie Frissen, Michiel Lange, de, Joost Raessens & Sybille Lammes (Eds.), Playful Identities. The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures (pp. 53-54) (2 p.). Amsterdam.
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Frissen, Valerie, Lammes, Sybille, de Lange, Michiel, de Mul, Jos & Raessens, Joost (2015). Homo ludens 2.0 - Play, media, and identity. In Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul & Joost Raessens (Eds.), Playful Identities: The ludification of digital media cultures (pp. 9-50) (41 p.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
