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View article: AI generation of rage bait: Implications for digital harms
AI generation of rage bait: Implications for digital harms Open
With the increasing use of generative AI tools to enhance engagement on social media platforms, we are beginning to see AI-generated content contributing to digital harms, including particularly online abuse. Drawing on digital ethnography…
View article: Digital harms and penalties: Australian regulation, platform moderation and the figure of the perpetrator
Digital harms and penalties: Australian regulation, platform moderation and the figure of the perpetrator Open
The Australian regulatory framework that relates to the management of contemporary online harms emphasises the role of platforms in managing and policing infractions and has legislated civil penalties for their non-compliance. Although imp…
View article: Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care
Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care Open
Evidence suggests that the rate of reporting abuse, harassment and problematic content to platforms is substantially low. This article assesses the extent to which platform interfaces may contribute to discouraging the use of reporting as …
View article: Apprehending digital hostility and online abuse: Feminist care ethics in/and digital ecologies
Apprehending digital hostility and online abuse: Feminist care ethics in/and digital ecologies Open
The experience of digital platforms in the 2020s is often marked by a lack of ethical care: increasing rates of online abuse, trolling and adversarial speech in many cases lead to harmful outcomes including suicidality. Underlying the inef…
View article: Platform policy and online abuse: Understanding differential protections for public figures
Platform policy and online abuse: Understanding differential protections for public figures Open
Public figures are subject to high rates of online abuse than everyday users. This article presents findings from a study on digital platforms’ higher threshold for protecting public figures in contrast to everyday users. Presenting a summ…
View article: Conveying COVID-19 Health Information with CALD Social Media Influencers: The Cultural Role of Brand Consistency and Relatability for Identity Authenticity
Conveying COVID-19 Health Information with CALD Social Media Influencers: The Cultural Role of Brand Consistency and Relatability for Identity Authenticity Open
During the COVID-19 global pandemic, young people and culturally and linguistically diverse populations (CALD) were underserved by non-tailored government health messaging. Social media influencers offer a potentially cost-effective and sc…
View article: Protecting public figures online: how do platforms and regulators define public figures?
Protecting public figures online: how do platforms and regulators define public figures? Open
Public figures are subject to higher rates of online abuse than other users in part because many digital platforms have significantly higher thresholds for intervening in cases of public figure abuse. Internationally, this higher rate of a…
View article: LGBTQ+ collecting institutions: the culture of strategic management, motivation and professionalization
LGBTQ+ collecting institutions: the culture of strategic management, motivation and professionalization Open
This paper presents findings from an Australian Research Council Linkage Project investigating LGBTQ+ memory, migration and collecting institution practices. It analyses the ways in which minority LGBTQ+ collecting institutions (galleries,…
View article: Viewing place: Australian queer screen audiences born in the 1970s and 1980s
Viewing place: Australian queer screen audiences born in the 1970s and 1980s Open
This article investigates how viewers born in the 1970s and 1980s recall Australian film and television LGBTQ+ themes, characters and narratives they viewed while they were growing up. Aspects of place and space were centred in these accou…
View article: Global anniversaries and cultural rupture: September 11, COVID-19 and ethical cultural change
Global anniversaries and cultural rupture: September 11, COVID-19 and ethical cultural change Open
This paper analyses the role of anniversaries of global events or crises to understand how their practice of memorial storytelling manages and governs cultural narratives of crises in ways that obscure more productive approaches to resista…
View article: The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent
The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent Open
“Bury Your Gays” is the popular name used to describe the common television trope in which characters who are ostensibly gender‐ or sexually‐diverse are denied happy endings or “killed off”. Widespread online commentary among audiences rea…
View article: Entertaining information: Third-party influencers’ role in COVID-safety health communication
Entertaining information: Third-party influencers’ role in COVID-safety health communication Open
This paper discusses findings from a commissioned evaluation of an Australian government COVID-19 health campaign that utilised third-party influencers to increase the reach of health communication messages among culturally and linguistica…
View article: The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community Open
QAnon is an online conspiracy movement centred on cryptic posts published by an unknown figure referred to as “Q.” Its anti-hierarchical framework and deployment of an unknown leader can be understood as a substantial departure from other …
View article: Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction
Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction Open
Critical Suicide Studies developed across the 2010s as a means to theorise and intervene in suicide from perspectives alternative to the 'mainstream' of suicidology.What the critical approach understands as 'mainstream' or 'traditional' su…
View article: Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship
Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship Open
In the context of recent controversies surrounding the censorship of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer online content, specifically on YouTube and Tumblr, we interrogate the relationship between normative understandings of sexu…
View article: Inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth: support, belonging, and inclusivity labour
Inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth: support, belonging, and inclusivity labour Open
Drawing on findings from a study of two social generations of gender and
\nsexuality diverse Australians, this paper offers a critical analysis of expectations and experiences of inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth. Data were collected …
View article: Marriage Equality: Two Generations of Gender and Sexually Diverse Australians
Marriage Equality: Two Generations of Gender and Sexually Diverse Australians Open
Marriage equality is routinely located as evidencing a domestic, non-radical or neoliberal approach to sexual diversity. This article questions such assumptions by highlighting the reflexive approach to the utility of marriage and the sign…
View article: The myth of LGBTQ mobilities: framing the lives of gender- and sexually diverse Australians between regional and urban contexts
The myth of LGBTQ mobilities: framing the lives of gender- and sexually diverse Australians between regional and urban contexts Open
Gender- and sexually diverse youth are often represented in popular discourses through concepts of movement and mobility. Conceptual stories of LGBTQ youth transitions to adulthood in particular are marked by narratives of movement from re…
View article: Education and affinity? pedagogies of sexual citizenship in LGBTIQ youth support videos
Education and affinity? pedagogies of sexual citizenship in LGBTIQ youth support videos Open
This article provides an analysis of some of the ways in which\neducational resources for youth frame identity, sexuality and\nnormativity within broader contexts of support and sexual\ncitizenship. It focuses on online video resources for…
View article: Queer generations: Theorizing a concept
Queer generations: Theorizing a concept Open
This article reflects on the concept of ‘queer generations’ as developed in the context of an ongoing study about belonging and sexual citizenship among two social generations of gender and sexual minority youth in Australia. We define the…
View article: The Corporeal Ethics of Gaming: Vulnerability, Mobility, and Social Gaming
The Corporeal Ethics of Gaming: Vulnerability, Mobility, and Social Gaming Open
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View article: Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era
Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era Open
"Examining the emergence of new sexual and gender identities in the context of an ever-changing digital landscape, Emergent Identities considers how traditional, binary understandings of sexuality and gender are being challenged and overri…
View article: Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey
Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey Open
This article argues that race and class are central aspects of sexual citizenship in a Australia. It does so by investigating representations of heterosexuality that were produced and circulated during the 2017 same-sex marriage postal sur…
View article: Sex and ambivalence: LGBTQ youth negotiating sexual feelings, desires and attractions
Sex and ambivalence: LGBTQ youth negotiating sexual feelings, desires and attractions Open
In popular and academic discourse, sexual identity is regularly linked to a concept of sexual engagement with others. Recent thinking on sexuality has, however, opened up the possibility of understanding ‘identity’ in ways different from s…
View article: Micro-Minorities: The Emergence of New Sexual Subjectivities, Categories and Labels Among Sexually-Diverse Youth Online
Micro-Minorities: The Emergence of New Sexual Subjectivities, Categories and Labels Among Sexually-Diverse Youth Online Open
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View article: Suicide and Disciplinarity
Suicide and Disciplinarity Open
A review of Marzio Barbagli, Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide, trans. Lucinda Byatt, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015.