Kristine Jørgensen is professor of media studies at University of Bergen. Jørgensen 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. Jørgensen also has an interest in production and industry studies and has in that context researched the Norwegian game industry.
Jørgensen’s portfolio as project manager of externally funded grants includes Games and Transgressive Aesthetics (Research Council of Norway 2015-2019) and Understanding Masculinity and Gaming (2023-2028). Jørgensen is also a principal investigator in the Norwegian Center for Excellence Center for Digital Narrative (2023-2033).
Jørgensen is the co-author of The Paradox of Transgression in Games, 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. As of 2022, Jørgensen is also Co-Editor-In-Chief of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture.