Daniel Nielsen

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First output of our exciting collaboration on worker movements in the screen media industry! This piece covers how streaming platforms undermine traditional revenue models and residual pay structures, fueling new union demands.

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Excited to host our ICA post-conference on Labour and Play in the Platform Society in Prague tomorrow, co-organized by Anne Mette Thorhauge and Alessandro Gandini. With excellent scholars, broad variety of contributions, and keynote Daniel Joseph. gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2025/06/04/l...

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Happy to share another article publication. This time, addressing the increasingly financialized space of digital games that challenges the assumptions of optimization.

No public access funding, so I apologise to anyone without institute access.

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GAMES: Vol 3, No 2 This is the introduction to a special issue based on papers presented at the 20th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar in Tampere, Finland. The theme for this iteration of the seminar was Meta. After a brief discussion on the ...

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Very stoked to share this special issue that I co-edited with the world, full of great reflections on the theme of 'Meta' applied to various #GameStudies contexts.

A link to the full issue is here, but let's dig in to each of the pieces, shall we?

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We're looking to fill 2 PhD student positions to work on dissertations aligned with the ERC grant “GAMEINDEX: Politics and aesthetics of indexical representation in digital games and VR.“ Application deadline: April 30. More info: gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2025/01/17/g...

When Games Change: How Players Navigate Precarious Leisure As games increasingly launch as incomplete digital products, players are encouraged to report problems to developers—essentially performing unpaid labor—while enduring aggressive update schedules. Sin...

If you haven't heard about Tampere Spring Seminar you're missing out. One of the best fora for discussing your research in an open and welcoming atmosphere. Papers were invited to be published in ACM Games. My contribution explores "precarious leisure" in games: www.growkudos.com/publications...