Pre-program, Sunday April 17th
If you are in town the evening before the seminar, drop in and have a drink or a dinner at your own expense in a merry company.
Sunday dinner & drinks starts 18:00 at Restaurant Plevna, Itäinenkatu 8 (http://www.plevna.fi/)
Day 1, Monday April 18th
8:30 Registration opens (Pinni A building, A1081)
9:00 Opening words
- Seminar chair Frans Mäyrä
9:30 Session 1: Context
- Heimo, Olli I., Harviainen, J. Tuomas, Kimppa, Kai K. & Mäkilä, Tuomas: Virtual to Virtuous Money: Video Game Business Logic and Virtue Ethics
- Sebastian Deterding: Toward Economic Platform Studies
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 2: Meaning
- Christopher Paul: Performing Masculinity: Free-to-Play and Money
- Markus Montola: Free-to-Play Games as Monopolies of Endogenous Meaning
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Session 3: Developers
- Mia Consalvo & Christopher Paul: Value Crafting: Indie Game Developers and Risk Management
- Lies van Roessel: F2P: A Necessary Evil
14:00 Commentator Keynote
- Pauliina Raento: Gambling as Learning and Work: Challenges to Scholars
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Session 4: Case Studies:
- Patrick Prax: Buy a booster: A comparative study of the economic systems of three digital trading and collectible card games
- Paul Okopny, Ilya Musabirov, Daria Krysanova, and Grigorii Lysov: Observing status purchasing and stratification in F2P online games: the case of Lady Popular
- Janne Paavilainen: Credit Card Tank Bustin’: Free-to-Play Design in Armored Warfare
16:30 Day Ends (Official Part)
19:00 Evening program
- Snacks, drinks, discussion (Oasis, Pinni B, 2nd Floor)
Day 2, Tuesday April 19th
10:00 Registration Opens (Pinni A building, A1081)
10:30 Session 5: Labour
- Sonia Fizek & Anne Dippel: Ludification of Work or Labourisation of Play? On work/play interferences in the digital times.
- Tanja Sihvonen: Gameplay, streaming, and virtual work
11:30 Commentator Keynote
- Juho Hamari: Prominent research veins on “money and games”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Session 6: Players
- Kati Alha, Elina Koskinen, Janne Paavilainen, Jani Kinnunen: Players on Free-to-Play Games
- Simo Järvelä, Mikko Salminen, J. Matias Kivikangas & Niklas Ravaja: Neuroeconomics of free-to-play games: frustration as a predictor of buying behavior
- Jani Kinnunen: Players’ money management in gambling and free-to-play gaming
- Tiina Malinen: Social Interaction in a Game of Poker
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Session 7: Price
- Yinyi Luo: Why Pre-ordering instead of Waiting for a Price-drop? Why Buying Games instead of Pirating Them?
- Denis Bulygin, Alexander Sirotkin, Ilya Musabirov, and Paul Okopny: Cosmetic items pricing in Steam Community Market. The case of Dota 2
16:30-17:00 Closing Discussion
Money and Games 