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Indigenous games and research

Laiti, O. & Harviainen, J.T. (2023). Kohti saamelaisten suvereenien digitaalisten pelien tutkimusta.
In Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2023.

Klumbyté, G., Britton, R. L., Laiti, O. K., Martins, L. P. D. O., Snelting, F., & Ward, C. (2022). Speculative Materialities, Indigenous Worldings and Decolonial Futures in Computing & Design. In Journal of New Materialist Research.

LaPensée, E. A., Laiti, O., & Longboat, M. (2022). Towards sovereign games. Games and Culture, 17(3), 328-343.

Laiti, O., Harrer, S., Uusiautti, S., & Kultima, A. (2020). Sustaining intangible heritage through video game storytelling – the case of the sami game jam. International Journal of Heritage Studies,1-16. doi:10.1080/13527258.2020.1747103

Laiti, O., Frangou,S. (2019). Social aspects of learning: Sámi people in the circumpolar north. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 21(1) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v21i1.1728

Laiti, O.K. (2025). Indigenous Game Design and Digital Cultural Heritage. In: Linkola-Aikio, IA., Keskitalo, P., Ballardini, R., Sarantou, M. (eds) Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76941-2_6
Laiti, O. K. (2025). Unveiling the Path: Seeing and Doing Game Studies from a Sámi Perspective. In Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be. (pp. 389-409). Punctum Books.

Laiti, O., & Virtanen, P. (2024, September). Salmon grief in Sámi digital games. In Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2024 Conference: Playgrounds.

Kultima, A. & Laiti O. (2019). Sami game jam – learning, exploring, reflecting and sharing indigenous culture through game jamming. Proceedings of the 2019 DiGRA International Conference: Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo-Mix.

Laiti, O., (2016). The ethnoprogramming model. In Proceedings of the 16th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 150-154. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2999541.2999545

DIGITAL NATIVES? SAAMI GAMES NOW! Exhibition Highlights Indigenous Voices in Game Development. In Kantonen, L., Guttorm, H., Kantonen, P., & Falin, P. (2025). Parallel indigeneities, art worlds and frictions. RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research, 22.

Laiti, O. (2021). Old Ways of Knowing, New Ways of Playing — The Potential of Collaborative Game Design to Empower Indigenous Sámi. Academic dissertation. University of Lapland. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-249-8

Laiti, O. (2016). Ethnoprogramming: an indigenous approach to computer programming: a case study in Ohcejohka area comprehensive schools. Master’s Thesis. University of Lapland. DOI: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:ula-201612021380

Laiti, O., (2007). Maidnasat – Sámi Stories. Bachelor’s Thesis. South Carelia Polytechnic.