University of Jyväskylä
The University of Jyväskylä’s DARIAH node supports multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, and digital technologies. It brings particular strengths on the use and analysis of multimodal data. The node is active in game studies, digital cultural heritage, and the processing and interpretation of archival materials. Its work integrates open research infrastructures to a growing variety of research projects with emphasis on computer-assisted analysis. JYU hosts two Centres of Excellence that participate in DARIAH, Game Culture Studies and Ageing and Care. Jyväskylä is profiling in areas of digital humanities, such as Crisis Redefined, Cyber Security Research, Ageing and Care, and Research Collegium for Language in Changing Societies.
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Venla Poso
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
Affiliated Groups
Game Research Network is an interdisciplinary network uniting researchers and students who are interested in game studies. Game Research Network aims to support game-related research endeavors at University of Jyväskylä and communication between researchers from different disciplines. The network organizes seminars and informs its members of new research opportunities, relevant events and news in the field.
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Finnish and Finnish-Swedish sign language corpus work: During the Finnish Sign Language Corpus project, a total of 103 sign language native speakers living in different parts of Finland were videotaped. Corpora, or linguistic research data, are used when searching for instances of expression use, calculating their frequencies or evaluating research hypotheses.
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Is democracy in its representative form in crisis or just adapting itself to changing circumstances? This project answers this question by exploring the contested nature of concepts that are used to construct democracy – by analysing how parliamentarians’ understandings of representation and democracy have changed over time in interaction with society at large. (Project period: 1.9.2021 – 31.8.2026)
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This resource collects chat data from the live stream service Twitch. Thanks to this resource, researchers will be able to retrieve and analyze larger samples of chat data from the livestream service Twitch.
Resource developed by the University of Jyväskylä in partnership with the CSC.
Guidance can be found in the website of the resource.
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Training and Teaching
Master’s levelThe current state and future of archive material digitisation, archiving electronic material and digitising paper material, key systems and arrangements, digitisation of processes and their management, digitisation of official/public and private/personal sources, standards for electronic documents.
Bachelor’s level