Joost Raessens

Prof. dr. Joost Raessens holds the chair of Media Theory at Utrecht University. His research concerns the ‘ludification of culture,’ focusing in particular on Games and VR for Change (in relation to global issues such as climate change, refugees and migration), on the playful construction of identities, and on the notion of play as a conceptual framework for the analysis of media use.

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