Special Collections and the Center for Gaming Research welcome Eadington Gaming Fellow, Matias Karekallas.
Karekallas is a sociology Ph.D. student in the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also has a background in cultural geography where he earned his Master's degree. His dissertation approaches gambling from a cultural perspective and examines the (mental) images and places attached to gambling. In addition to gambling, his primary (research) interests include various phenomena related to popular music and sports. Karekallas is also a project researcher at the Finnish Foundation for Gaming Research and is currently working on a project that examines how people begin and learn to gamble.
Why he’s coming:
"In my work, I examine the images of Las Vegas in popular music. I am investigating how Las Vegas is represented in popular music and what is the role of music in the portrayal of Las Vegas in popular culture, in place promotion, and in the endorsement of gambling."
