DiGRA Australia 2022 Conference Program

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Registration is free. The conference will be held fully online. After registering, you will receive links to the Zoom room and Discord server.

Monday, 14th February

All times are in AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne/Hobart time).

Time	Event	Presenters
9.30am	Welcome to DiGRAA 2022
10.00am	Session 1	Brendan Keogh (chair)
	Omikuji: An Interactive Installation Exploring East Asian Games of Divination	Hugh Davies
	Safety and community at Freeplay Independent Games Festival in 2020	Taylor Hardwick
	There Ain’t Nobody Ever Whipped the T.B. Blues: Assessing the Relevance of Agency in Blockbuster Videogame Discourses	Aaron Williams
11.00am	Session 2	Erin Maclean (chair)
	Play-filled Podcasting: Towards a Typology of Gaming Podcasts	Ryan Stanton
	Telling scary stories: players, paratexts and the climate crisis	Lawrence May
	How K/DA Reframes Gaming, Music and Celebrity Idols	Tom Willma
12.00pm	Social event
12.30pm	Lunch Open discussion: academic careers in game studies
1.00pm	Session 3	Fraser Allison (chair)
	Exploring Comedy and Humour in Twitch.tv Game Live Streaming	Mark R. Johnson
	Esport co-streaming and spectator motivation	Michael Williamson
	Performing (with) Games: videogame affordances and live content on Twitch.tv	Lachlan Howells
2.00pm	Session 4	Jane Mavoa (chair)
	Is is toxic? Banter? Or just talking shit? Applying the AACTT framework to understand spectator perspectives of trash talk in esports	Sidney Irwin, Anjum Naweed, Michele Lastella
	The Digital Ensemble: Roleplaying large events in World of Warcraft	David Harris, Josiah Lulham
	What is Creative Transgressive Play? Exploring Creativity and Transgression in Dungeons & Dragons [D&D]	Premeet Sidhu
3.00pm	Afternoon break
3.30pm	Session 5	Lucy Sparrow (chair)
	What are the odds? Lower compliance with Western loot box probability disclosure industry self-regulation than Chinese legal regulation	Leon Y. Xiao, Laura L. Henderson, Philip W. S. Newall
	Videogame Time Loops	Christopher Barkman
	“You’re the lucky one, Dani”: NPC Empathy and Meaningful Play in Farcry 6	Paul Scriven
4.30pm	End of day 1

Tuesday, 15th February

All times are in AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne/Hobart time).

Time	Event	Presenters
9.30am	Opening of day 2
10.00am	Session 6	Gawain Lucian Lax (chair)
	Feeling Friction: Emotion, Difficulty, and Space in Psychonauts 2	Madeleine Mackenzie
	The Ambient Poetics of Neoliberalism in The Long Dark	Andrea Andiloro
	Rapture to Republicans: American Individualism, anti-mask discourse and parallels in Bioshock	Harriet Flitcroft
11.00am	Session 7	Madeleine Antonellos (chair)
	“Techno-femininity” and the World Wide Web: Locating Girls’ Early DIY Gaming Cultures	Stephanie Harkin
	‘Lean In’ and ‘Lean Out’: On the Politics of Women’s Resilience and Gaming the Gender Divide	Mahli-Ann Butt
12.00pm	Social event
12.30pm	Lunch Open discussion: publishing opportunities in game studies
1.00pm	Session 8	Harriet Flitcroft (chair)
	Exploring Game Design Students Understanding of Marketing	Jacqueline Burgess
	From Tinkerers to Software Archivists: Examining the Edges of World of Warcraft Private Servers	Geoffrey Hill, Martin Gibbs, Melissa J. Rogerson
	Why do video game developers play—or not play—video games during leisure time?	Raman Voranau, Ruth Rentschler, Boram Lee, Sandra Barker
2.00pm	Session 9	Premeet Sidhu (chair)
	Teachers’ Roles and Game Designers’ Perspectives in Educational Game Design Process	Mifrah Ahmad
	Worlding through Speculative Digital Game Pedagogies	Alexander Bacalja
	Game design that creates the conditions for collaboration for neurodiverse players	Matthew Harrison, Jess Rowlings
3.00pm	Afternoon break
3.30pm	DiGRA Australia annual general meeting
4.30pm	End of day 2