About « Tama Leaver dot Net

About

I'm a lecturer in the Internet Studies department at Curtin University of Technology; I research digital culture, from the changing landscapes of commercial media in the face of participatory culture, to the role of social software in education and everyday life. I have a background in cultural studies, film studies, digital media and comparative literature, and gained my PhD in English, Communication & Cultural Studies from the University of Western Australia for a thesis entitled "Artificialities: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Culture - Subjectivity, Embodiment and Technology in Contemporary Speculative Texts." (I'm slowly rewriting my PhD thesis into a monograph suitable for publication, so it should be available one day!) My research record and other information is available in my Curriculum Vitae, and for more detailed information about my research interests and future directions, click here.

My Blogs & Blog History

This website includes my main blog, which began in March 2007. From May 2003 until March 2007 I primarily blogged at Ponderance, the archives of which remain online as long a Google continue to support static blogs. Since late 2005 I've also written my rather unimaginateively titled Tama's eLearning Blog which focuses on various online tools (often those located within the 'web2.0' set, but no exclusively) which can enhance learning experiences (this blog has largely ended now, with my teaching and learning posts now appearing in my main blog). Also, as part of MyResearchSpace, which is a social software hub for UWA's graduate researchers, I wrote Tama Talks Blogs for two years which focused on aspects of blogging relevant to this community.

Archive

As of September 2007, this blog is being archived by the National Library of Australia and can thus be found in Pandora - Australia's Web Archive.

Comment Policy

Meaningful comments are encouraged. Posting comments using a real name and with a link back to a real website are encouraged, but not necessary. Conversation, community and criticism are valued here. Debate is also welcome - arbitrary excessive rudeness is not. As the blog owner and author, I maintain the right to delete comments which I deem to be unnecessarily rude and outside of meaningful conversation (I vastly prefer not to delete comments, but retain that right).

Also, this blog is protected by spam filters which means there many be a delay between comments being posted and them appearing in the blog. If a genuine comment has not appeared within a couple of days, please email me and I'll check if it's stuck in a spam folder.

Since this blog is archived in various places, posting comments here gives the right for those comments to published online and to be archived.

Colophon

I currently live and work in Perth, Western Australia. In June 2007, I married the love of my life, Emily and in Ocotber 2008 we became proud parents to a beautiful little boy. Beyond my academic interests, I also dabble in photography (in a fairly amateur sense) and have a number of photos on Flickr.