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Incredibly excited to announce this special issue of Media Industries Journal that I co-edited with Chris Young and @dayofthemutants.bsky.social on the topic of LOCAL DIGITAL GAME PRODUCTION. journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/issue/31...

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2024 The definitive list of Australian made video games Our 6th annual list of every game released in 2024 that was made in Australia. Check it out + share https://www.sifter.com.au/post/2024-the-definitive-list-of-australian-made-video-games-playstation-xbox-switch-pc-steam-vr #videogames #gamedev

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Truly incredible stuff happening I think it’s called class consciousness

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

I don’t mean to brag but I really know my um dragon flags. @folly.studio’s new game is v cute and real silly go go go realbirdfakebird.com

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

NEW GAME ALERT REAL BIRD FAKE BIRD It’s a cute daily browser game where you separate the REALS from the FAKES! Play RIGHT NOW: realbirdfakebird.com

submitted 88 days ago • 18 comments

Insurrection in Georgia, coup attempt defeated by civil society and parliament in South Korea, and now Assad may be gone, Damascus liberated, and prisoners in Sednaya prison released by rebels. It had been a week.

submitted 91 days ago • 33 comments

The sad and inevitable truth is in another 10 years, when it is all said and done and it is irrefutable Israel committed a genocide in Palestine, there will be many a handwringing think piece from those who defend Israel's actions now, claiming 'we didn't know'. They know. Remember that they knew.

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In session in the Federal Court for Monash Uni’s wage theft case. I’ll be live posting from this hearing today. The NTEU alleges Australia’s largest university has not lawfully paid hundreds, perhaps thousands, of its casual teachers going back to 2016. Justice Snaden is the judge.

submitted 95 days ago • 15 comments

My cat’s at the vet under anaesthetic for the second time in a month (he’s gotta get some teeth out) and I’m feeling so anxious for the baby 😭

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After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

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All you need to know about how much the government actually understands youth online safety: Apparently YouTube is "primarily for the purposes of education and health support" www.pm.gov.au/media/social...

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Chloe's Tiktok about Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition is a) unbelievably nice and b) literally poetry. A must watch!! 🔔

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All morning a noisy miner has been sneaking into my apartment via different windows, but it’s been lucky because every time it’s tried, my cat has been distracted by staring at a wall

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Today I gave a paper at #aanzca24 based on my PhD research, where I argue that digital events can be inclusive, accessible, & actually... good. Vitally, these events could be a model for normalising digital and hybrid events ‘post’ pandemic. You can check out my slides here:

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

“We want to get kids back on the soccer field” but national subsidy of children’s sport & investment in public & playful spaces when?????

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

It’s almost like this is something that impacts people deeply and should therefore have been thought about for longer than an angry phone call from Murdoch

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Super excited for #aanzca24 this week! On Wednesday I’ll be presenting a paper on how games events had the perfect opportunity to normalise digital & hybrid events post-2020 and… largely didn’t.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

1000xResist rewired my brain in the best way. Incredible game about diasporic experience, sisterhood and trauma, & it’s so so beautiful!!

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

It's been really heartening working with @dezuanni.bsky.social, @aleeshajoy.bsky.social and Amanda Levido to produce the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child's response to the Social Media Ban for Under16s Bill that was tabled yesterday. digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...

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One million degrees

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An intolerable risk to children's online safety. That's what we've said in our submission on the social media minimum age amendment, where we were given only 24 hours to make our submission! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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I often think about how at the 'start' of Israel's current genocide in Palestine (itself part of a genocide that's been going on for decades), Australian politicians lost their shit over posters appearing that compared Netanyahu to Hitler, and how every day since has proven that analogy entirely apt

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Some quick insight from me on the social media ban from me. In writing this I will also say hats off to @crikeynews.bsky.social, they are clearly one of the only news outlets that have done any real journalism around this awful policy and the road we've travelled. theconversation.com/the-governme...

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

This is a deeply unserious way to treat highly consequential legislation.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out the only change made to the existing broad definition of ‘social media’ under the Online Safety Act is that the minister will have the power to exempt specific services from being age restricted. Which clarifies um literally nothing about what is/isn’t included in the actual legislation

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

curious that the government have dropped so many of the details of the social media age verification bill ahead of its tabling in parliament, but not... its definition of social media www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

submitted 108 days ago • 8 comments

The proposed 'social media ban' legislation is being pushed through Australian parliament tomorrow with zero consultation with the young people it impacts most, and zero input from digital, youth and mental health researchers, practitioners and advocates. See this thread for more info:

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

It is unconscionable that the government is introducing its social media ban legislation to parliament tomorrow without any expert or practitioner consultation or review - or even a clear definition of ‘social media’.

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I was in Canberra yesterday alongside other digital media experts to brief members of the cross bench and government on some of the key policies being debated at present, social media bans, age verification, and misinformation. @qutdmrc.bsky.social

submitted 109 days ago • 6 comments

Thinking about her (MySims Kingdom releasing on switch today)

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