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As the animated film ‘Bambi’ celebrates its 75th anniversary, a reminder that humans often try to express reality. But once they do, they go back to making art.
Teaching fear and avoidance of technology may protect people from negative consequences. But it also prevents them from finding, and benefiting from, productive uses of new innovations.
One year on from the launch of Pokémon Go, its mainstream decline has left behind a thriving scene.
New ABS figures on film, TV and digital gaming show that subscription broadcasters and online content creators are booming. Yet local content quotas only apply to free-to-air broadcasters.
Video games have been helping kids to learn for years, here’s how.
Bo, aged nine, wants to know why adults think video games are bad.
Beyond the glitz and glamour of the esports arena there are some serious issues with how its economy works and how this affects player well-being.
Readers read, viewers watch and players do. That level of engagement gives games real power to influence people both within and outside the play itself.
How zombies and gaming can help students learn.
Who owns culture in the real-virtual world of augmented reality?
Twenty years after Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess, artificial intelligence can make games more fun, and perhaps even endlessly enjoyable, if it learns to adapt.
People want video games and interactive experiences that help them explore deep and meaningful themes, such as creating family, valuing diversity and living responsibly.
Pimania was a product of Thatcherite entrepreneurial spirit, mixed with a dash of cheekiness and drippings of subverted expectations.
Video games can provide disabled people with a safe haven, if they can access it.
Whether the ubiquity of fiction has devalued truth or enhanced morality has been in doubt for over 2,000 years.
From niche player to chart hit, the characteristic sound of videogames has had a considerable influence on music.
A strengthening movement of Indigenous designers and developers is working to show Indigenous cultures, teachings, languages and ways of knowing through video games.
Video games such as Battlefield I encourage players to find purpose and meaning in war. But a new generation of artists and gamers is starting to question the messages they propagate.
Two researchers interviewed military members and vets to see what role first-person shooters played in their lives – before, during and after their enlistments.
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Media
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Professor in American Media and Culture, University of Kent
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Lecturer in International Business, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor of Labour and Employment Relations, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University
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PhD Candidate in Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University