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• Who is your favourite character? Audience engagement with fictional characters 

  Välisalo, Tanja (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2023)

  Transmediality, where narratives and fictional worlds are dispersed on multiple media platforms, has become a dominant feature of media production. As fictional characters are central to our relationship with stories and ...

• Esports fandom in the age of transmedia : the reception of the overwatch league 

  Ruotsalainen, Maria; Välisalo, Tanja (Universita degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", 2021)

  In our article, we analyse the ways audiences engage with Overwatch esports and construct their fan relationships. We situate our research into several intersecting theoretical frames. To understand how Overwatch esports ...

• Suhteissa mediaan 

  Kotilainen, Sirkku; Hirsjärvi, Irma; Hujanen, Jaana; Kupiainen, Reijo; Mustonen, Anu; Niemi-Pynttäri, Risto; Nikunen, Kaarina; Pohjola, Kirsi; Ruoho, Iiris; Sassi, Sinikka; Sihvonen, Jukka; Sintonen, Sara; Oravala, Juha (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2009)

  Miten vihaa puretaan internetin chat-huoneissa? Kuka fanittaa koulumurhaajaa? Miten ihmisiä voitaisiin tukea mediasuhteissaan? Entä miten media voi toimia yhteiskunnallisen osallistumisen resurssina? Sirkku Kotilaisen ...

• "I never gave up" : engagement with playable characters and esports players of Overwatch 

  Välisalo, Tanja; Ruotsalainen, Maria (ACM, 2019)

  Esports phenomena have grown rapidly in recent years, and so has research on the topic. Some of the research has also addressed esports fandom (see e.g. Taylor 2012). Nevertheless, studies comparing and contrasting how ...

• Player Reception of Change and Stability in Character Mechanics 

  Välisalo, Tanja; Ruotsalainen, Maria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

  Change is a constant element of online games, and Overwatch as well as its playable characters have been through multiple changes since the launch of the game in 2016. In this chapter, we examine the relationships players ...