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.

Publications

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
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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
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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
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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