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Mahli-Ann Butt

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
We thus propose 3 normative claims about how we believe the study of games should be approached *critically*, thinking about the common pitfalls we've seen researchers in the field make (new and old!), and how we want to see game studies progress in the future:
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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
To coincide with Melbourne International Games Week, MAGPIE has put together a special report with @unimelb.bsky.social's Pursuit talking all about the effects gaming is having socially and culturally on the world around us. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/special-repo...
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All the world's a game
Around eighty per cent of Australians play video games – but the term 'gamer’ can exclude as much as it includes. From cosplay to LARPs, from exposing racism to storytelling, University of Melbourne e...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Excited to share the pre-print of my DiGRA paper titled "Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion." The paper uses domestication theory to explore how Playboy magazine integrated early domestic entertainment computing and board games into its concept of masculinity.
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(PDF) Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion
PDF | This paper explores how Playboy magazine and the Playboy Mansion shaped early gaming cultures through the lens of domestication theory. Focusing... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This week @mahliann.bsky.social and I released a white paper report looking into ways to make games more available for teaching in Higher Education. Report can be found here! arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-cu...
Screenshot of the front cover of the white paper report. It reads 'Making Games Available in Higher Education' by Dr Cassandra Barkman (Chief Investigator) and Dr Mahli-Ann Butt (Co-Investigator).
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Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks to @oddgoo.bsky.social for digging up a copy of my old Florence piece from the internet archives! I thought it was gone forever! 🥹 web.archive.org/web/20180615...
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‘We need to talk about “Florence” and emotional labour’ by Mahli-Ann Butt
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Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
😭😭😭
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max turnbull @max.please.rest · 09/02/2025
i just think at this point it you don't see the direct path from gamergate to trumpism then you're purposely ignoring it
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Honestly, I think even those of us who were saying gamergate is a training ground for/and direct path to outright fascism are probably a little bit surprised at how literally correct we actually were.
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Resharing this thing i wrote for @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social as #ica25 decisions come out: ideasonfire.net/why-was-my-p...
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Understanding Conference and Journal Article Rejection - Ideas on Fire
Rejection is never fun. But understanding how conference and journal article rejection works lets you give your research the best chance possible.
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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Surviving Whiteness In Games Co-edited by @mahliann.bsky.social, @sabha.bsky.social, @cheeflo.bsky.social, @amaani.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @outi.bsky.social, Rilla Khaled, Cale Passmore & Kishonna L. Gray 14 essay collection examining whiteness in games gamescriticism.org/volume-5-bon...
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VOLUME 5, BONUS ISSUE A: SURVIVING WHITENESS IN GAMES
FULL ISSUE PERMALINK (September, 2023) Introduction Bonus issue editors: Sabine Harrer, Mahli-Ann Butt, Rilla Khaled, Florence M. Chee, Amani Naseem, Katta Spiel, Cale Passmore, Kishonna L. Gray, O…
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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 09/11/2024
Defend RMIT Students Facing Discipline for Palestine Activism: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Defend RMIT Students Facing Discipline for Palestine Activism!
In the latest attack on Palestine free speech on campus at RMIT, three students have been issued with notices for disciplinary hearings based on their involvement in pro-Palestine activism and speech,...
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Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Congrats to the new elected DiGRA board!
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MAGPIE Research Initiative @magpiegameresearch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hi everyone! We are a new research initiative at the University of Melbourne interested in games, play and interactive entertainment. We have put together an starter pack of people involved in MAGPIE - feel free to share, and if you're involved and want to be added let us know! go.bsky.app/CimEnwF
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Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com · 12/11/2024
I have created a starter pack for Australian & New Zealand based games academics, particularly those active in the DiGRA Australia community. Please reply if you'd like to be added! bsky.app/start/did:pl...
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Kyle Moore @kylejmoore.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A short teaser for the book I'm working on. Play often obscures the data-collecting aspects of locative media and augmented reality games. I give some insights in this short post for CAVRN cavrn.org/how-play-sha...
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Chris “Mutton” Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
With concerns that Australia’s proposed social media ban hasn’t explicitly ruled out online gaming, I spoke with @darthtayrah.bsky.social about how important safe digital spaces are for children and why video games should be protected 🎮 www.gadgetguy.com.au/australia-so...
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Social media ban ignores importance of online gaming to children
With Australia's proposed underage social media ban yet to be defined, experts fear that the importance of online gaming could be overlooked.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
In case you missed it in May: I wrote an essay on the rhythms and incentives of D&D combat, one of the most important subsystems in gaming, for the 50 Years of D&D collection from MIT Press. You can read it on Rascal News: www.rascal.news/combat-dnd-f...
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Combat in Dungeons & Dragons
A short history of design trajectories.
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Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Games might be caught in the crossfire of this frankly poorly thought out and unclear legislative move - and that would be really bad!! Thoughts from @marcuscarter.com & myself on why 💅
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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Big thank you to everyone who visited Feminine Play! You can now view/download an online version of the catalogue at feminineplay.org with beautiful art from all the exhibited works and an essay by @jtg.design @mahliann.bsky.social and I about femininity and games :)
Catalogue cover that reads Feminine Play2-page table of contents Preview of the first page of the catalogue essay titled ‘Feminine Play’
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tom ◈ @thomasbowker.com · 27/10/2023
Frog Detective is complete! out now on Nintendo Switch / PS4+PS5 / Xbox+GamePass + full EFIGS+PtBr localisation frogdetective.net
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Frog Detective
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Note, new issue is out: Games and Culture, Volume: 18, Number: 7 (November 2023) journals.sagepub.com/toc/gaca/18/7
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Games and Culture - Volume 18, Number 7, Nov 01, 2023
Table of contents for Games and Culture, 18, 7, Nov 01, 2023
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Mahli-Ann Butt @mahliann.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
I’m conducting research at SXSW Sydney - hmu if you have insights you could share with me (I’m particularly interested in the themes of fashion and alcohol)
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Lisy Kane @lisykane.com · 19/10/2023
I'll be at #SXSWSydney today hosting a fireside chat with Amy & Mike Morhaime. 🔥 1pm-2pm at ICC We're going to be talking Blizzard ➡️ Dreamhaven, creative leadership, culture and probably videogames (hopefully I don't perish).
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