Project group

PI Professor Kristine Jørgensen (UiB) is one of the leading game scholars in the Nordic countries whose previous theoretical developments are acknowledged internationally as standard references in the field. Her leadership capabilities are well documented in her successful leadership of a prestigious RCN Young Research Talents project, and through her experience as Vice Dean of education and as Director study programs on BA and MA level.

Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner (UiB) specializes in studies of media users, with focus on the gendered discourses of mediated youth culture.

Hilde G. Corneliussen (Western Norway Research Institute) is one of the leading researchers on gender, technology, and identity in the Nordic region. She is WP leader in the Nordic Centre of Excellence on women in tech-driven careers NORDWIT, financed by Nordforsk, and was coeditor of the first anthology on the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft (Corneliussen & Rettberg 2008). She has long experience conducting qualitative research on the contestation of hegemony among minority gamers. She is the leader of WP1.

Michael Salter (University of New South Wales in Sydney) and a world leading expert on criminal justice and social media, focusing on the role of technology in gendered and domestic violence. With long experience from interviewing people with complex trauma, Salter will be central in collecting and analyzing data from WPs 1 and 3.

Dag Skarstein (Oslo Metropolitan University) is an expert on phenomenological perspectives on identity and meaning-making processes among youth, and has carried out extensive empirical classroom studies with young men on contextual aspects of identity in youth cultures. His previous research involves collaboration with the National Centre of Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies on identity alterations in traumatized youth among survivors from the Utøya terrorist attack. He has previously researched the cult phenomenon Skam with Lindtner.