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Hanna Wirman is an Associate Professor and the head of the 'MSc in Games' study programme at the Center for Digital Play. She has studied and made games for more than 20 years with an interest in marginal and critical ways of playing and making them. Some of the topics she has covered in her research are game fandom and player productivity, gender and inclusivity, serious games, critical game design, and animal play. She has done smaller studies on protest gaming, game arcades in Hong Kong, game jams, women's esports, games in China, and games targeted at children with autism.

Keywords

  • Co-design
  • critical design
  • Discourse analysis
  • Ethnography
  • Fan culture
  • Game design
  • Online culture
  • Online ethnography
  • Qualitative methods
  • Space/spatiality
  • Textual analysis
  • Transmedia
  • User-centered design
  • Art & play
  • Digital games
  • Games
  • Video games
  • Game culture
  • Players

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