Kristine Jørgensen's research is in game studies. She is interested in player-centered perspectives and has studied player experiences with transgressive game content, player interaction with game interfaces, and player experiences of sound in games. She also has an interest in production and industry studies and has in that context researched the Norwegian game industry. In the period 2015-2019, she was project manager of the research project Games and Transgressive Aesthetics.

Kristine Jørgensen is project manager for the research project Understanding Masculinity and Gaming (2023-2028) and a principal investigator in the Norwegian Center for Excellence Center for Digital Narrative (2023-2033). 

She is the co-author of The Paradox of Transgression in Games (with Torill Elvira Mortensen), the author of Gameworld Interfaces and  A Comprehensive Study of Sound in Computer Games: How Audio Affects Player Action, and the co-editor of Transgression in Games and Play (with Faltin Karlsen).

 

I currently available for supervising students in the MA program in Media and Interaction Design and the MA program in Media and Communication

 

2024

• Jørgensen, Kristine; Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø (2024). Dataspillere og maskulinitet – gamermaskulinitet som en hybridmaskulinitet?. (external link)
• Eklund, Lina; Gluzman, Renard; Jørgensen, Kristine et al. (2024). Games for the Pluriverse: Exploring the Use, Opportunities, and Problems of Drawing from Local Cultural Heritage in Video Games. (external link)

2022

• Jørgensen, Kristine; Mortensen, Torill Elvira (2022). "Whose Expression is it Anyway? Videogames and the Freedom of Expression". (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine; Sekanina, Ida Kvilhaug (2022). "From Political Economy to Identity Politics: A Forum Study of Political Discussions between Players". (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2022). Companion Characters and Portal's Companion Cube: A Response to Ida Broni Christensen. (external link)

2021

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2021). "Norway". (external link)
• Lux, Mathias; Riegler, Michael; Hicks, Steven et al. (2021). Emotional Mario Task at MediaEval 2021. (external link)

2020

• Mortensen, Torill Elvira; Jørgensen, Kristine (2020). The Paradox of Transgression in Games. (external link)

2019

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2019). Understanding War Game Experiences: Applying Multiple Player Perspectives to Game Analysis. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2019). Dead Rising and the Gameworld Zombie. (external link)
• Sotamaa, Olli; Jørgensen, Kristine; Sandqvist, Ulf (2019). Public game funding in the Nordic region. (external link)

2018

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2018). When Is It Enough? Uncomfortable Game Content and the Transgression of Player Taste. (external link)
• Karlsen, Faltin; Jørgensen, Kristine (2018). Introduction: Playful Transgressions. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine; Karlsen, Faltin (2018). Transgression in Games and Play. (external link)

2017

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2017). "Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces". (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine; Sandqvist, Ulf; Sotamaa, Olli (2017). From hobbyists to entrepreneurs. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2017). Newcomers in a Global Industry: Challenges of a Norwegian Game Company . (external link)

2016

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2016). Gameworld Interfaces as Make-Believe. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2016). The positive discomfort of spec ops: The line. (external link)

2015

• Jørgensen, Kristine; Sandqvist, Ulf; Sotamaa, Olli (2015). From hobbyists to entrepreneurs: On the formation of the Nordic game industry. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2015). Dark Play in Dishonored. (external link)

2014

• Karlsen, Faltin; Jørgensen, Kristine (2014). Mediepanikk eller medieskepsis? En analyse av dataspilldebatten etter 22. juli. (external link)

2013

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2013). Gameworld interfaces. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine; Mortensen, Torill Elvira (2013). "Estetikk og spillelementer: Utfoldelse og lekenhet med digital medieteknologi". (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2013). Mellom næring og kultur: en studie av norsk spillpolitikk. (external link)

2012

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2012). Between the game system and the fictional world. A study of computer game interfaces. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine; Klevjer, Rune (2012). Kva er dataspel? Folkeopplysning for professorar. (external link)
• Gjøsæter, Tor; Jørgensen, Kristine (2012). Combining think aloud and comic strip illustration in the study of augmented reality games. (external link)

2011

• Jørgensen, Kristine; Rossi, Luca; Glas, Rene et al. (2011). Framing the Game : Four game-related approaches to Goffman's frames. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2011). "Players as co-researchers: Expert Player Perspective as an Aid to Understanding Games". (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2011). Time for new terminology? Diegetic and nondiegetic sounds in computer games revisited. (external link)

2010

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2010). Game characters as narrative devices : a comparative analysis of Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. (external link)

2009

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2009). Conan eller Josefine? Politikk og økonomi i den norske spillbransjen. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2009). Dataspill og interaktivitet. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2009). A comprehensive study of sound in computer games: How audio affects player action. (external link)

2008

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2008). Audio and Gameplay: An Analysis of PvP Battlegrounds in World of Warcraft. (external link)
• Jørgensen, Kristine (2008). Left in the Dark. Playing Computer Games with the Sound Turned Off. (external link)

2007

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2007). On Transdiegetic Sounds in Computer Games. (external link)

2006

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2006). Lyd som grensesnitt: når dataspillets lyd blir funksjonell. (external link)

2003

• Jørgensen, Kristine (2003). Aporia & Epiphany in context : computer game agency in Baldur's Gate II & Heroes of Might & Magic IV. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

For full list of publications, see Person #50014 - Kristine Jørgensen - Cristin.

Understanding Masculinity and Gaming | University of Bergen (uib.no)

Center for Digital Narrative | University of Bergen (uib.no)