Biosketch: Assoc. Prof. Jonas Linderoth

Jonas Linderoth holds a PhD in pedagogy since 2004. Since 2005 he has a permanent position as a senior lecturer at the department of education at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His research interests concerns different aspects of digital games. He has previously worked with questions concerning games in education, role-playing and immersion, as well as issues surrounding high consumption of online games.

He is currently writing about game perception from an ecological perspective arguing that games have very specific conditions for learning. How and what you learn from a game are deeply embedded in the specific game design of a certain game. Jonas claims that when the development of persistent avatars are based on time investment instead of skill the player can progress in the game under the "illusion of learning".

Recent publications

Bennerstedt, U., Ivarsson, J., & Linderoth, J. (accepted). How gamers manage agression. Situating skills in collaborative computer games. The International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

Lantz-Andersson, A. & Linderoth, J. (2011). The 'voice' of absent designers. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 6(1/2), 52 – 74.

Linderoth, J. (2011). Beyond the digital divide: An ecological approach to gameplay. Procedings for Think, design, play. The DiGRA conference on games and play, Utrecht (September 2011).

Linderoth, J. (2011). Exploring anonymity in cooperative boardgames. Procedings for Think, design, play. The DiGRA conference on games and play, Utrecht (September 2011).

Linderoth, J. (2010). Why gamers don’t learn more. An ecological approach to games as learning environments. Paper presented at Experiencing games: Games, play, and players. First Nordic DiGRA, August 16-17, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.

Linderoth, J. (2009) "It is not hard, just requires that you have no life" Computer games and the illusion of learning. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy 1(4), 4 – 19