We who work with this project, Jessica Enevold and Charlotte Hagström, are both researchers with a great interest in culture, in games and in issues of gender and equality. Acknowledging the tremendous popularization of games in everyday life, we decided to combine our interests and skills to investigate what games and gaming actually mean on the level of the family where work and play, time and space need to be managed in ways that enable the everyday, the individual as well as the collective to function.
Gaming may, on the one hand, consume a lot of time;on the other it does not require the gamer to be absent from her/his house. It can be practiced by women and men, young as well as old and, to some extent, across income brackets. This versatility makes gaminga unique cultural practice that must not go unexamined.
Hagström teaches Ethnology at Lund University and is Coordinator for the MACA program at LU and Copenhagen University and is also an Archivist at the Swedish Folklife Archives in Lund.
Enevold currently works as external lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen and Lund University. She also works as managing editor for a scientific game journal and freelances as translator.
So far we have presented a number of papers related to our study. Once we update the site, you will be able to find these here.
