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Kate Mannell

@katemannell.bsky.social
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Postdoc Research Fellow Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au

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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“As I leaned into the dissonance of the past, I realised that learning te reo had become a salve that smoothed away the spiky edges of my defensiveness.” — Marcel Currin on how learning te reo changed his perspective as a Pākehā.
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Leaning into te reo | E-Tangata
“As I leaned into the dissonance of the past, I realised that learning te reo had become a salve that smoothed away the spiky edges of my defensiveness.” — Marcel Currin on how learning te reo changed...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)
Screenshot of a table (black text on variously shaded backgrounds) showing some main aspects of the new grant schemes announced by the ARC.
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Australian Research Council @arc-gov-au.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Minister for Education, the Hon @jasonclaremp.bsky.social, has released the final report of the National Competitive Grants Program Policy Review — setting the direction for a simpler, more focused research funding program. Read more: www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...
Cover image of the Australian Research Council's National Competitive Grants Program Policy Review Final Report displayed on a dark blue background. The report cover features the Australian Government and Australian Research Council logo, with the title "National Competitive Grants Program Policy Review Final Report" in white text on a blue banner. Below the report cover, large white text reads "NCGP Final Report now available". Decorative abstract shapes in purple and light blue appear beneath the text.
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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
There's a sale on at Booktopia that includes my & Kat's book at 90% off, so if you are in Australia and want to get Sex and Social Media for FOUR Australian dollarydoos, the time is now www.booktopia.com.au/societynow-e...
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Societynow
Buy Societynow by Emily van der Nagel from Booktopia. Get a discounted Paperback from Australia's leading online bookstore.
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Guys you have to try this
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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The cover image isn't up yet, which makes it look like the cover art is too NSFW to be displayed (it isn't), but my book has a page on The Internet! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
A screenshot of the web page for the book OnlyFans, by Emily van der Nagel
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Really proud to share that my first book will be out in August. "Screen Time and the Impossibility of Contemporary Parenting" examines popular, everyday talk about young children and screen media.
Book cover featuring an image of a child's room with toy trees and toy animals arranged on the floor
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This week we released a new report on the need for wellbeing training for hair and beauty workers – based on almost a decade of research! Co-authored with Stacey Page (Adelaide Uni) Download the full report: www.beautysalonproject.com/publications Or read: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-c...
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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hello world, I'm moving down to Melbourne in a couple of weeks right around the time I lodge my thesis for examination. If you're an Australian-based academic looking for an RA with expertise in AI, literary/critical theory and digital media, please get in touch!
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Sam Mannell @stmannell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hi TTRPG people, my calendar is currently free heading into 2026, so I'm looking for more freelance design work! If you're interested you can check out my current portfolio here, which I'll be updating further over the next few months: crypticparlour.com/games
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is a great primer for PhD students or ECRs who are interested in doing public facing work
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Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Planning to start a PhD in Media and Communications in 2026? Come work with me and others at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social! ✨
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Next Friday, I'm hosting a symposium for PhD students whose research investigates digital technology and education. If you're a PhD student or ECR and would like to meet some people working in this area, come join us! Attend in person (Melbourne) or online. Program and registration below
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Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New article in @theconversation.com today reflecting on Australia’s 2024 loot box regulations and how, 1 year later, there remains widespread non-compliance - and generally really confusing age ratings for mobile games on the App Stores! theconversation.com/loot-boxes-a...
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Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
Games with ‘loot boxes’ should be classified for over-15s – but a new study shows many of the most popular mobile games completely ignore the rules.
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Are you a PhD student whose work investigates digital technology in contexts of teaching and learning? Apply for our symposium! We are primarily seeking in-person presenters but have limited online slots available if you can't make it to Melbourne. More info: redi.deakin.edu.au/2025/09/call...
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Call for Papers – HDR Symposium on Digital Technology and Education | Centre for Research for Educational Impact
Digital Technology and Education: Approaches, Industries, Practices The Learners in a Digital World research group at the Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI) is hosting a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Symposium on Friday 31 October 2025 at Deakin Downtown and online. The symposium aims to bring together PhD scholars whose research addresses digital […]
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Just a week to go until this wonderful event, hosted by my colleague Katrin Langton. Join us online or in-person. See link for registration.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/09/2025
Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
—Carry a notebook everywhere. —Print drafts out and edit by hand. —Read all the books remotely like the one you're trying to write and a bunch that are completely unrelated but which might help with form, tone or style. —Write all the words your damn self.
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Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
weather modelling remodelling the weather; bill murray put on blast by a gramophone; tiktok demanding your baby has more tummy time; all of Shrek in one gif - and that's just the morning keynote session! #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises 📶
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Testing out some new ideas with the lovely folks of #AusSTS25
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Looking forward to being part of this panel next week –– come along or tune in online
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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hey #ica25, The Australian Internet Observatory @internetobservatory.org.au is new national research infrastructure supporting researchers working in diverse digital platform research areas. For a glimpse into the planned capabilities: internetobservatory.net.au
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Really chuffed our panel "Rupturing Digital Childhoods and Parenting in Australia? Social Media Bans, Privacy, Screen Time, and Generative AI" featuring Amanda Third, @katlangton.bsky.social, @katemannell.bsky.social, @suzesrdarov.bsky.social and me has been accepted for #AoIR2025! See you in 🇧🇷 !
We’re delighted to be presenting our panel at #AoIR2025:

Rupturing Digital Childhoods and Parenting in Australia? Social Media Bans, Privacy, Screen Time, and Generative AI

Featuring the papers:

On Board the Social Media “Ban Wagon”: Regulatory Theatre, The Public Child and the Hyper-Enthusiastic State’
By Amanda Third (Western Sydney University)

“I Probably Should Be Concerned, But I’m Really Not” – Concepts, Concerns and Contradictions in New Parents’ Approaches to Negotiating their Children’s Data Privacy
By Katrin Langton (Deakin University)

Navigating Talk About Kids and Tech: Ruptures in and Through Screen Time Discourse
By Kate Mannell (Deakin University)

Generative imaginaries? How Generative AI tools Visualise Children, Families, and Australianness
By Tama Leaver & Suzanne Srdarov (Curtin University)
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Interesting editorial from my university's student guild newspaper's editorial team www.qutglass.com/a-real-world...
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A Real World Rip-off - Glass
Dear fellow QUT students, Queensland University of Technology is selling you the dream and pocketing the profits, and no one seems to be talking about it. While you’re cramming assignments between shi...
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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨 New Pub! 🚨 Our augmented reality museum installation about data surveillance & rights in Aotearoa NZ used by 128,000x visitors over 2 yrs — we interviewed visitors & present conclusions on how to get the public thinking about problematic technologies! doi.org/10.1145/3706... #OpenAccess #chi2025
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Surveillance on Exhibit: Using Problematic Technology To Teach About Problematic Technology | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Has anyone done or seen any work on the dating app Raya? I have a student who wants to do her verification case study on it, but she (nor I) can find any work on it.
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It’s publication day for The Kids Are Online!!! 🥰 www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ki...
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The Kids Are Online by Ysabel Gerrard - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The NZ government has no conception of the difference between treating people equally and treating people equitably. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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Bowel screening change 'totally unethical' | E-Tangata
“We’re going to be left with people who go: ‘You know what, my uncle or my brother or my cousin died from bowel cancer. And it should have been picked up in a screening programme.’ Make no mistake, th...
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A week to go until submissions close! Really looking forward to speaking at this – the program looks excellent so far and it's a great group of convenors. If you're considering submitting but feeling shy feel free to DM me
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Edward Hurcombe @eddyhurc.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
This article also serves as a kind of conceptual companion to my recently funded ARC DECRA on 'influencer journalists'. Can't wait to start this amazing 3-year project next year!!
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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
On Day 1 a keynote panel at the NCM on infrastructures of noise with Dang Nguyen (RMIT) @digitaldang.bsky.social, Ranjodh Dhaliwal (University of Basel) @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, Kate Mannell (Deakin) @katemannell.bsky.social and Fabian Offert (UC Santa Barbara) @zentralwerkstatt.org 2/
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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
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Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New paper from me and Lisa McDaid: "Informal digital peer support for mental health: understanding the digital support practices of LGBTQ+ young people in Australia" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Informal digital peer support for mental health: understanding the digital support practices of LGBTQ+ young people in Australia
This paper offers an analysis of informal digital peer support among LGBTQ+ young people in Australia, based on survey data from 660 young people (aged 16-25). Research on LGBTQ+ young people’s men...
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Looking forward to presenting at this next week. You can attend in person or online for free
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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
📘 ICYMI our researchers launched a new book on platforms in families with collaborators overseas earlier this month digitalchild.org.au/platforms-in... @katemannell.bsky.social @deakinredi.bsky.social
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Platforms in families and the ‘messy everydayness’ – new book by Digital Child authors  - Digital Child
Digital Child academics have published a new book that discusses how digital platforms are being increasingly woven into the fabric of family life.
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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
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Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…
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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌
A figure from an academic article on conspiracy scholarship. The figure's caption describes the image in this way: "Typical example of scam ad featuring an image of Australian television presenter David Koch photoshopped to appear as though he had been arrested on live television"Abstract for an academic article entitled 'conspirituality and online scam ads'. The abstract begins: Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects with current forms of commercial “conspirituality” that thrive on social media platforms, inviting users to suspend their disbelief in miracle cures and get-rich-quick schemes. The scam ads we examined mobilize critiques of existing social and economic inequality to enhance the appeal of the false solutions they offer. Following recent work on conspirituality, the article draws upon Jacques Ranciere’s notion of “dissensus” to analyze the ways in which the style and content of scam ads invite a form of “conspiracy believing” that challenges common sense understandings...
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A reminder that this is on Monday!
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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Happening next week! Join me online for this seminar on innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds. I'll be discussing findings from my latest research on drone delivery testbeds in Australia. Link to register ⬇️ www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hello, so, I'm an anthropologist who has studied wildfires for over a decade and, just recently, handed in a book manuscript for peer review on the pathologies of wildfire management in Australia and, to a lesser extent, Canada and the US. It's called "How to Control Fire" (TBC).
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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How is family life being ‘platformized’ and why does it matter? In our latest blog post, @katemannell.bsky.social outlines key arguments from a new open access book focused on the platformization of family life digitalchild.org.au/how-is-famil...
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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I'm sharing my submission in opposition to the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill 2025 in case it is useful. I've approached it through a health and Tau Iwi lens. www.ruthdesouza.com/2025/01/09/s...
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Submission to the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill 2025 – Ruth De Souza
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Join us for an online launch on Jan 20th! We have a wonderful line up of speakers. Register here: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english...
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The Platformization of the Family: Digital Book Launch - Department of Education
Increasingly, digital platforms are woven into the fabric of family life. What does this weaving look like, and how do we research it? Welcome to this digital launch of the book «The Platformization o...
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Delighted to share that our new book ‘The platformization of the family: Towards a research agenda’ is out! Blog post here with more details and a link to the book (it’s open access): digitalchild.org.au/how-is-famil...
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How is family life being ‘platformized’ and why does it matter?  - Digital Child
Last year, a group of researchers across the UK, Europe, and Australia came together to set out a research agenda for studying the platformization of family life.
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
UniMelb has at least 14 staff with pay packets over $500k. That’s more than the Premier of Victoria. And yet all of our staff research and engagement budgets have been reduced to $0 in the Faculty of Arts this year www.smh.com.au/national/hig...
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Highest university executive pay packets revealed
Universities are spending more on top management staff, with almost 200 people on salaries of $500,000 or more a year.
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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I grew up in a New Zealand town of 12,000 people. We were called "townies" by the country kids. You weren't from the country unless you were driving a ute around a paddock at 11 years old.
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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The odds are, they will let it fly, because drone delivery is a remarkably good quick fix for deeper issues in urban planning eg traffic congestion, non-walkable cities. This Wing x DoorDash business model was developed & refined in Australia where I did fieldwork theconversation.com/is-drone-del...
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Is drone delivery a modern miracle or a band-aid fix for poor urban planning? I went to Australia’s ‘drone zones’ to find out
Residents of drone delivery trial sites say the initial novelty has worn off and concerns about long-term impacts are growing
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