Jane Mavoa
I am a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne. My research is about children's use of digital games. I am interested in the way that digital technology is reshaping children's play in terms of its form, location, sociality and role in development.
PublicationsMavoa, J. (2018, April 18). Advising on screen time in Australia: Is the evidence up to the task? Retrieved July 23, 2018, from http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2018/04/18/advising-on-screen-time-in-australia/
Mavoa, J (2018, February 18). What Are Kids Getting out of Playing Minecraft? Pursuit, February 18. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/what-are-kids-getting-out-of-playing-minecraft Mavoa, J., & Carter, M. (2018, January 17). Minecraft teaches kids about tech, but there’s a gender imbalance at play. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.com/minecraft-teaches-kids-about-tech-but-theres-a-gender-imbalance-at-play-89496 Mavoa, J., Gibbs, M., & Carter, M. (2017). Constructing the young child media user in Australia: a discourse analysis of Facebook comments. Journal of Children and Media, 0(0), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2017.1308400 Jane Mavoa, Marcus Carter, & Martin Gibbs. (2017). Children and Minecraft: A survey of children’s digital play. New Media & Society, 1461444817745320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817745320 Mavoa, J. (2017). The games children play: An analysis by title, gender and age. In DiGRA Extended Abstracts. Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia. http://digra2017.com/static/Extended%20Abstracts/90_DIGRA2017_EA_Mavoa_Games_Children_Play.pdf Mavoa, J., Carter, M., & Gibbs, M. R. (2017). Beyond Addiction: Positive and Negative Parent Perceptions of Minecraft Play. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (p. 00). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ACM Press. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3116595.3116638 Mavoa, J., Nansen, B., Carter, M., & Gibbs, M. R. (2017). Why Young Children Don’t Play: Parents’ Accounts of Non-engagement with Digital Games. In Abstract booklet (p. 28). Perth: Edith Cowan University. http://www.digitisingearlychildhood.com/uploads/9/4/9/2/94929330/dec_abstract_booklet_for_web.pdf Smith, Loren (2018, February 27) The Little-Known Benefits of Minecraft. Education Review. https://www.educationreview.com.au/2018/02/the-little-known-benefits-of-minecraft/ Interview with Patricia Kervales, RN Drive http://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pgdVYNaZ47?play=true Interview with Radio 2SER, Sydney http://2ser.com/gender-imbalance-minecraft-jane-mavoa/ Interview with Helen Vnuk, Mamamia https://www.mamamia.com.au/is-minecraft-safe-for-kids-to-play/?utm_campaign=Mamamia&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_medium=Facebook 
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