DiGRAA19 Program – DiGRA Australia

DiGRA Australia 2019 Conference Program

University of Sydney, Sydney

Day One Program – February 12th, Social Sciences Building LT200

9:00	New to DiGRA Breakfast If you’re new to DiGRA, we invite you to meet the DIGRAA Board and organising committee for coffee at the Courtyard Cafe, near the venue.
10:00	Playing with choices and moral dilemmas: Analyzing the challenges of the gamer mindset Keynote by Professor Mia Consalvo Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design Keynote Supported by the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre
11:15	Short Break
11:30	Cameron Edmond	Let’s play OuLiPo: machine writing practice as play
11:45	David Cumming, Martin Gibbs and Wally Smith	Between places: spectatorship at an Australian esports bar
12:00	Ben Egliston	The data assemblage of play: Analytics, surveillance, memory
12:15	Rowan Tulloch and Craig Johnson	The Player as Data: The Hidden Algorithms of Dystopia
12:30	Lunch One Hour
13:30	Dan Padua	The normalisation of ‘video gaming parents’ in the era of eSports
13:45	Christopher Moore, Richard Hall and Angus Baillie	Cardboard Asia: representation, cultural literacy and infrastructure in the analogue game industry
14:00	Melissa J. Rogerson, Martin Gibbs and Wally Smith	Understanding the travel motivations of game hobbyists
14:15	Gawain Lucian Lax and Madeleine Mackenzie	Against All Odds: Desire and Monetisation in Japanese Mobile Games
14:30	Afternoon Tea
15:00	Lucy Sparrow	The moral (im)permissibility of groping in virtual reality games
15:15	John Pike	‘Something that is ours’: VR and the values of gaming’s field
15:30	April Tyack	Splendid Isolation: Optimistic Relations Towards Virtual Experience
15:45	Kate Clark	Affective subject formation in video games
16:00	Afternoon Tea Two
16:30	Kyle Moore	What’s Next for Location-based Gaming?
16:45	Luke van Ryn	Order Up: Decoding food through cooking games
17:00	Mahli-Ann Butt	‘Fuck Game Studies’
18:30	Social Event Join us at the Nags Head on St John’s Road for Dinner and Drinks BYO Boardgames!

Day Two Program – February 13th, Social Sciences Building LT200

9:45	Announcements
10:00	Erin Maclean	A Markus of the Times: Misspelling Female Videogame Character Names in the News
10:15	Dakoda Barker and Alayna Cole	Reflecting on Representation: Facilitating Nuanced Discussions of Diversity
10:30	Jessica Zammit and Alayna Cole	Establishing a Language of Diversity: Preliminary Findings
10:45	Gemma Roberts	Produsage as an Architectural Tool: Moving Beyond Queerscapes in Virtual Worlds
11:00	Morning Tea
11:30	Paul Scriven	The Development of Social Customs in New Multiplayer Game Environments: Fallout 76
11:45	Jane Mavoa	“I Burnt His Whole House Down!”: Describing Aggressive Play in Minecraft
12:00	Brendon Szucs	King of the Indies: Symbolic Capital and the Colonisation of Independent Videogame Development
12:15	Brendan Keogh	Are Videogames Art School? Considering the Role of Tertiary Game Development Programs in Australia
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Jane (truna) Turner	What’s next? Rolling stories: engaging scientists as game world designers
13:45	Michael Smith and Alayna Cole	Teacher as Game Master: Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games in the Classroom
14:00	Vanessa Cheng	Trends in Gamification for Health and Wellbeing and Suggested Future Directions
14:15	Alexander Bacalja	Resistance and reconciliation – Negotiating videogame play and study through the lens of the English classroom
14:30	Afternoon Tea
15:00	Jessica Gates and Alayna Cole	Accessible Icebreakers: Designing a Requirement-based Taxonomy
15:15	Malcolm Ryan and Robin Dixon	Narrative Driven Design: A systemic approach to emergent narrative
15:30		DiGRA Australia AGM & Donuts
16:00	Drinks at the Courtyard Cafe

Acknowledgements

DiGRAA 2019 is made possible thanks to the generous support provided by the School of Literature, Arts and Media and the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at The University of Sydney

Frequently Asked Questions and Other Information

Lunch at the conference will be provided. Coffee and biscuits will be provided for the coffee/tea breaks.

Registration is required, please register here via Eventbrite.