China is considering following Australia's social media ban. Last year, our team wrote about why Australia’s proposed social media ban for under-16s may not work as intended, drawing on evidence from China showing that young users have bypassed video game access restrictions.

Some thoughts from @benegliston.bsky.social @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social and myself in The Conversation today on the spenny Switch 2 release price and how it reflects the state of the industry (& mostly, sorry gamers)

This is based on a paper by us & @saharkin.bsky.social @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social @benegliston.bsky.social on how kids talk about in-game spending harms broadly. It’s not the spending itself that’s bad - it’s when the spend misleads kids! Check the preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Wondering why Australia shouldn’t (consider) ban social media (games) for minors? China sets us an example. Thanks for the great team work @benegliston.bsky.social , @marcuscarter.com 🍻 theconversation.com/china-restri...

Presented my methods and early findings of my research on Twitch livestream humour across platforms at #aanzca24 earlier this week as part of a PhD candidate panel with Wenjia Tang, @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social, and @yiwenw.bsky.social. More at geofflearnstobefunny.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a...

Also on Wednesday, I’ll be on a panel with @benegliston.bsky.social @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social & @marcuscarter.com on digital game monetisation. I’ll be chatting about our research on kids’ perceptions of harmful game monetisation (but why spending money in games can be good, too!)

This year, Premeet Sidhu, @jzagal.bsky.social and I published an edited book on Fifty Years of Dungeons and Dragons (& thanks to @springer.bsky.social) direct.mit.edu/books/edited... We leaned into what is possible with edited books and explored some alternative formats, with terrific results!