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Dr Tama Leaver
Lecturer in Internet Studies
Faculty of Humanities,
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
Perth WA Australia 6845
Email: t.leaver@curtin.edu.au

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

PhD in English, Communication and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia, 2006

Bachelor of Arts Degree with First Class Honours in English
The University of Western Australia, 2000

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Lecturer in Internet Studies
Curtin University, 2009-

Lecturer in Digital Media, Communication Studies
The University of Western Australia, 2008

Associate Lecturer (Higher Education Development)
Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
The University of Western Australia, 2006-2007

Associate Lecturer
English, Communication and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia, 2004-2005

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

BOOKS

Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology, and Bodies. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Twittering Informal Learning and Student Engagement in First-Year Units” in Anthony Herrington (ed.) Blended Learning. [Forthcoming; Pre-Print PDF]

"Artificial Mourning: The Spider-Man Trilogy and September 11th" in Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner (eds), Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man, McFarland, 2012.

"’Humanity’s Children:’ Constructing and Confronting the Cylons" in Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall, eds, Cylons in America: Critical Studies of Battlestar Galactica, New York: Continuum, 2008, pp. 131-142.

‘The Discovery of HAL’s Body: Representations of Artificial Intelligence and Embodiment in Science Fiction Cinema’ in Undisciplined Thoughts, Eds Penny O’Connor and Jane Scott, Perth: Black Swan Press, 2002, pp. 15-22.

REFEREED ARTICLES

‘Watching Battlestar Galactica in Australia and the Tyranny of Digital Distance’, Media International Australia, 126, February 2008, pp. 145-154. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=908556032078460;res=IELHSS. [Postprint PDF]

"The Blogging of Everyday Life", Reconstruction, 6, 4,2006, http://reconstruction.eserver.org/064/leaver.shtml.

‘Iatrogenic Permutations: From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other’, Comparative Literature Studies, 41, 3, 2004, pp. 424-435, http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/comparative_literature_studies/v041/41.3leaver.pdf [Postprint PDF].

‘‘The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital’: Posthuman Possibilities,Embodiment and Technology in William Gibson’s Interstitial Trilogy’, Reconstruction, 4, 3, 2004, http://reconstruction.eserver.org/043/leaver.htm.

‘Rationality, Representation and the Holocaust in Life is Beautiful”, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 10, 2004, pp. 70-80, http://limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/past_volumes/volumes_610/volume_10?f=73872.

‘WebCT: Will the future of online education be user friendly?’, Fibreculture Journal, 1.2, 2003, http://two.fibreculturejournal.org/webct-will-the-future-of-online-education-be-user-friendly/ .

‘Interstitial Spaces and Multiple Histories in William Gibson’s Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow’s Parties‘, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 9, 2003, pp. 118-130, http://limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/past_volumes/volumes_610/volume_9?f=73863.

‘"Your appeal to my humanity is pointless": The Borg and Radical Performativity in Star Trek‘, Outskirts, 9, May/August 2002, http://www.outskirts.arts.uwa.edu.au/volumes/volume-9/leaver.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Leaver, T., Balnaves, M., & Willson, M. (2011). The ubiquity of information filtration. In A. Henderson (Ed.), Refereed proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference: Communication on the edge 2011, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 6-8. ISSN 1448-4331. Available at: http://www.anzca.net/conferences/past-conf-index.html

Herrington, A., Schrape, J., Flintoff, K., Leaver, T., Molineux, M., O’Hare, S. (2010). A scholarship program for academic staff to develop exemplary online learning tasks. In C.H. Steel, M.J. Keppell, P. Gerbic & S. Housego (Eds.), Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future. Proceedings ascilite Sydney 2010 (pp.423-437). http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/Ascilite%20conference%20proceedings%202010/Herrington-concise.pdf

Balnaves, M., Leaver, T., & Willson, M. (2010). Habermas and the Net. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Suntec City, Singapore. Retrieved from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p403306_index.html

OTHER NOTABLE WRITING & PUBLICATIONS

‘Angry Birds: The Remix’, Flow TV, 13.13, May 2011, http://flowtv.org/2011/05/angry-birds-the-remix/

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins’, Flow TV, 13.10, March 2011, http://flowtv.org/2011/03/curious-case-of-benjamin-sniddlegrass/

The Anti-Social Network’, Flow TV, 13.04, December 2010, http://flowtv.org/2010/12/the-anti-social-network/

‘How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet’, Flow TV, 11.10, March 2010, http://flowtv.org/?p=4864.

‘FlashForward or FlashBack: Television Distribution in 2010?’, Flow TV, 11.05, January 2010, http://flowtv.org/?p=4668.

‘Learning with Lily Allen: Copyright Criminals or Complexity & Confusion?’, Flow TV, 11.01, 30 October 2009, http://flowtv.org/?p=4497.

‘Wikipedia: What’s in it for Teachers?’, Screen Education, 53, Autumn 2009, pp. 56-60.

‘The Creative Commons: An Overview for Educators‘, Screen Education, 50, Winter 2008, pp. 38-42.

A broad band of ideas: Web 2.0 @ The Learning Futures Symposium’, Screen Education, 48, Summer 2008, pp. 74-77.

‘The Haunting of Spiders, Cities and DVDs’, In Media Res, 21 June 2007, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/06/21/
the-haunting-of-spiders-cities-and-dvds/

‘Matrices of Embodiment: Bodies, Gender and The Matrix‘, Borderlands, 2, August 2003, pp. 43-55. [Winner of a 2004 Western Australia Science Fiction Foundation 'Tin Duck' Award]

‘A Midsummer Night’s Comic’, Fables and Reflections, 1, November 2001, pp. 55-60.

‘Post-Humanism and Ecocide in William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner‘, The Cyberpunk Project, 1997, http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/post-humanism_and_ecocide.html. (Italian translation: ‘Post-Umanità ed Ecocidio in Neuromante di William Gibson e in Blade Runner di Ridley Scott’, Intercom: Science Fiction Station, 1997, http://www.intercom.publinet.it/BR5.htm.)

INTERVIEWS

‘Post-Poster-the-historian and other Historical Questions: An Interview with Mark Poster’, co-conducted with Kate Riley, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 11, 2005, pp. 1-6, http://limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/90432/interview_poster.pdf.

‘Gorilla Tactics: Interviewing Joe Boughton-Dent regarding Donkey John and Political Simulation Games in Australia’, M/C Reviews: ‘Protest’, November 2004, http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1899.

BOOK REVIEWS & REVIEW ARTICLES

‘Book Review: Brügger, Niels. (ed.), Web History.’ Media International Australia, 139, May 2011, pp. 162-3.

‘Review Essay: Terry Gilliam, et al, Brazil, Danni Cavellero, Cyberpunk and Cyberculture and Damien Broderick, Earth is But a Star‘, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, 17, 1, 2008, pp. 55-61.

‘Book Review: Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, eds, Uses of Blogs,’ Resource Centre for Cybercultural Studies, February 2008, http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=479&BookID=366.

‘Book Review: Brian Fitzgerald (ed.), Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons’, CATLyst, 1, May 2007, pp. 33, http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au/CATLyst/current/1/book_review.

‘Book Review: Viviane Serfaty’s The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs‘, Resource Centre for Cybercultural Studies, November 2006, http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=434&BookID=304.

‘Review Article: Mark J.P Wolf and Bernard Perron (eds), The Video Game Theory Reader; Sarah Kember, Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life; and Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet‘, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 10, 2004, pp. 21-130, http://limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/past_volumes/volumes_610/volume_10?f=74588.[PDF]

‘Book Review: Dan Harries’ (ed.) The New Media Book‘, Metro,140, Autumn 2004, pp. 168-170, http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=12875948&db=a0h.[PDF]

‘Book Review: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition‘, Resource Centre for Cybercultural Studies, October 2003, http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=249&BookID=210.

‘Book Review: Kim Newman’s (ed.) Science Fiction/Horror‘, Metro, 137, Summer 2003, pp. 175-177, http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=10005258&db=a0h.[PDF]

‘Book Review: David Bell’s An Introduction to Cybercultures‘, Resource Centre for Cybercultural Studies, January 2003, http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=222&BookID=187.

‘Book Review: Greg Egan’s Schild’s Ladder‘, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, 44, 2002, pp. 58-59.

‘Book Review: David Trend (ed.), Reading Digital Culture‘, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 8, 2002, pp. 180-182, http://limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/past_volumes/volumes_610/volume_8?f=74573. [PDF]

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

‘The Ends of Online Identity’, Internet Research 12, Seattle, 10-13 October 2011. [Slides and audio recording.]

‘I tweet therefore I am? Challenges in learning identity by teaching web presence’, Teaching and Learning Forum, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, January 2010.

What Dr Horrible Can Teach Media Creators About Participatory Culture’ paper presented at the 2009 Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Conference, QUT, Brisbane, July 2009.

‘Five Years of Blogging in Women’s Studies @ UWA’, co-presented with Alison Bartlett at the Teaching and Learning Forum, Curtin University, January 2009.

‘Building Open Education Resources From the Bottom Up: How Student-Created Open Educational Resources Can Challenge Institutional Indifference‘, paper presented at the ‘What is “Open Education” and what does it mean for the future of learning? What role can Australia play?’, QUT, Brisbane, 23 September 2008.

‘From Creative Commons to Participatory Pedagogies’ paper presented at Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons (ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation International Conference), Brisbane, June 2008

‘Putting windows in the ivory tower: Challenges and changes to university practice in the face of Web 2.0 tool use by students‘ paper presented at The Teaching and Learning Forum, Curtin University, January 2008.

‘Blogs in Education’ paper and subsequent panel presentation, Australian Blogging Conference, Brisbane, September 2007.

‘“We’re sorry, but the clip you selected isn’t available from your location:” Watching Battlestar Galactica in Australia and the Tyranny of Digital Distance’ presented at the Thinking Society, Thinking Culture Symposium, Perth, September 2007.

‘Student Podcasting and "Participatory Pedagogies"’, presented at the NMC (New Media Consortium) Online Conference on The Impact of Digital Media,Online, October 2006.

‘iPodium:Student Podcasting and Participatory Pedagogies‘, paper presented at the 7th Annual Association of Internet Researchers Association Conference (Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences), Brisbane, September 2006. [Abstract, PowerPoint Slides and mp3 recording online.]

‘iTeach, iLearn: Student Podcasting‘ paper presented at The Teaching and Learning Forum, University of Western Australia, February 2006, [Powerpoint Slides, Mp3 Recording and Notes Online]

‘Blog This! Weblogs, Critical Thinking and Peer to Peer Learning‘ paper presented at The Teaching and Learning Forum, Murdoch University, February 2005.

‘The Blogging of Everyday Life’ paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) Conference (‘Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian’ theme), Murdoch University, December 2004.

‘Artificial Mo(u)rning: Special Effects, Spider-Man and September 11th’ paper given at the English, Communication and Cultural Studies Works-in-Progress Seminar Series, October 2004.

‘Spider-Man and September 11th’, draft paper given at the ‘Media Cultures’ postgraduate seminar series chaired by Mark Poster at the Institute for Advanced Studies, 2nd September 2004.

‘Iatrogenic Permutations: From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other’ expanded paper given at the English, Communication and Cultural Studies Works-in-Progress Seminar Series, June 2003.

‘Iatrogenic Permutations: From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other’ paper given at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 2003 in San Diego (‘Cybernetic Readings’ panel chaired by N. Katherine Hayles).

‘WebCT: Will the future of online education be user friendly?’ paper given at the Teaching and Learning Forum, Edith Cowan Joondalup, February 2003.

"The Discovery of HAL’s Body: Representations of Artificial Intelligence and Embodiment in Science Fiction Cinema" given at the Undisciplined
Thoughts conference, Curtin University, November 2001.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNITS/PROGRAMMES TAUGHT
(All teaching between 2002 and 2008 was at The University of Western Australia).

iGeneration: Digital Communication and Participatory Culture. Honours & Masters Unit. Semester Two, 2008. [Course Coordinator] (Online: http://igeneration.edublogs.org)

Digital Media. Communication Studies 2203. Semester One, 2008. [Course Coordinator] (Included coordinating both the Crawley campus version and a version run in Hong Kong.)

Creative Selves. Communication Studies Honours Unit. Semester One, 2008. [Course Coordinator]

Human Technology: Debating Communication. Communication Studies 1101. Semester Two, 2007. [Tutor and Lecturer]

Foundations of University Teaching and Learning. Semesters 1 & 2, 2006; 2007 [Co-coordinated with Dr Allan Goody]

Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme. 2006; 2007. [Co-coordinated with Dr Allan Goody]

Introduction to University Teaching, Semesters 1 & 2, 2006; 2007. [Coordinator]

iGeneration: Digital Media & Participatory Culture. Special Course for the Honours in Communication Studies Programme. Semester 2, 2005 [Course Coordinator].
[Course syllabus and blog: http://i-generation.blogspot.com/.]

Digital Media. Communication Studies 203. Semester One, 2005. [Tutor & Lecturer] (Teaching duties were mainly on the Nedlands campus, but also included giving lectures and tutorials in Hong Kong for as part of UWA’s external BA(Communication Studies) programme run through Hong Kong University: Space in the Centre for International Degree Programmes.)

Sex, Bodies, Spaces: Gender and Pop Culture. Women’s Studies & English, Communication and Cultural Studies. [Women's Studies 201], Semester One, 2005. [Tutor & Lecturer] (Teaching duties were mainly on the Nedlands campus, but also included giving lectures and tutorials in Hong Kong for as part of UWA’s external BA(Communication Studies) programme run through Hong Kong University: Space in the Centre
for International Degree Programmes.)

Self.Net: Communicating Identity in the Digital Age. Women’s Studies & English, Communication and Cultural Studies, [English 252/Women's Studies 205] , Semester 2, 2004. [Course Coordinator]

SmARTS Programme [Cultural Studies, Research Skills and Project Management programme for Year 11 students, run through English, Communication & Cultural Studies using both online and face-to-face teaching], 2004. [Tutor]

Reading The Body. Women’s Studies & English, Communication and Cultural Studies, [Honours Unit], Semester Two, 2003. [Guest seminar on 'Twenty-first century bodies']

Reading Texts, Mediating Culture. English, Communication and Cultural Studies, [English 218/318], Semester Two, 2003. [Tutor]

Reading Theory. English, Communication and Cultural Studies, [English 291/391], Semester Two, 2002. [Tutor]

Sex, Bodies, Spaces: Masculinity and Femininity in Contemporary Culture. Women’s Studies & English, Communication and Cultural Studies, [English 289/398], Semester One, 2002. [Tutor]

GUEST LECTURES

‘History of Videogames’, ‘Cultures of Play’, ‘Videogames and Embodiment?’ and ‘Playing Politics’ guest lecture series for Designing Virtual Play [Communication Studies 3304], Semester Two, 2008.

‘The Virtual’ for Culture, New Media and Communication [Communication Studies 2202], Semester Two, 2008.

‘Introduction to Media Studies’, ‘Participatory Culture’ and ‘Videogames and Violence’ guest lectures for Human Technology: Debating Communication. [Communication Studies 1101] Semester Two, 2008.

Media(ted) Masculinities’ for Sex, Bodies, Spaces: Gender and Pop Culture, Semester One, 2007.

‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Metropolis’ for Ecotexts: Nature/Writing/Technology, Semester One, 2007.

‘Web 2.0′ for Environment and Technology in Australia [History 2214], Semester Two, 2006.

‘Playing Games, Sim(ulating) Worlds and Having Divine Powers’, ‘Online Communities’, ‘Resistance is Fertile’ and ‘The Wired Everyday: Weblogs’ guest lecture series for Self.Net: Identity in the Digital Age, Semester One, 2006; repeated Semester Two, 2006.

‘Sergei Eisenstein and the Film(ing) of History’ for Modernity’s crisis, 1914 and all that…. Semester One, 2004.

‘Electronic Selves, Digital Culture’, ‘Buffy: Reading the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Fan Culture, Media Citizen’, guest lectures for Screen Cultures/Print Cultures, Semester One, 2003; repeated Semester One, 2004.

‘Jacking in to Virtualities’ for Reading Theory, Semester Two, 2002.

‘Gender in Cyberspace: A Binary Problem?’ for Sex, Bodies, Spaces, Semester One, 2002.

GUEST WORKSHOPS

‘The Future(s) of Reproduction in Science Fiction Cinema’ for Sex, Bodies, Spaces [English 289/389], Semester One, 2002 and repeated Semester One, 2003.

PUBLIC TALKS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN POPULAR MEDIA

Interviewed by Ben Ainslie on RTR FM’s Morning Magazine, RTF FM (92.1), 9.30am, 18 January 2012, ‘SOPA Internet Strike’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed for Sheryl-Lee Kerr, ‘"Nail in the coffin" for Blackberry maker.’ The Sunday Times. 22 October 2011, http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/nail-in-the-coffin-for-blackberry-maker/story-e6frg13u-1226173833802.

Interviewed for Louise Burke, ‘Total Exposure’, The Weekend West, 8 October 2011, pp. 64-65. [PDF]

Interviewed for Simon White, ‘Google+ Faces one hell of a catch-up chase’, WA Today, 30 September 2011, http://www.watoday.com.au/technology/google-faces-one-hell-of-a-catchup-chase-20110929-1kz7f.html

Interviewed for Anthony Deceglie, ‘Windows Touch-Up’, The Sunday Times, 18 September 2011, p. 30.

Interviewed for Sheryl-Lee Kerr, ‘Text gets last rites’, The Sunday Times, 21 August 2011, p. 24. [PDF]

Interviewed by Richard Glover on 702 ABC Sydney’s ‘Drive’, 4.10pm, 9 June 2011, On Viral Videos [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed for Lee-Maree Gallo, ‘How do you catch the viral phenomenon?’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 2011, http://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-do-you-catch-the-viral-phenomenon-20110607-1fqo8.html

Interviewed for Jake Sturmer ‘Smart Phones Outsmarting Users’, 7.30 Report Perth, 7.30pm, Perth, 13 May 2011. [TV] http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/05/13/3216722.htm

Interviewed by Niki Morrell on ABC North West (Karratha), ‘Mornings’ 10.20am, 15 April 2011. On the FMG/Yindjibarndi Dispute and Social Media [Radio]

Interviewed for Alice Pooley ‘Facebook: Online Crime’, TEN Nightly News, 5pm, Perth, 8 April 2011. [TV] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U1TU4cYt-k

Interviewed for Aja Styles and Lucy Rickard, ‘Online racism rife, Aboriginal Legal Service chief claims’, WA Today, 21 February 2011, http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/online-racism-rife-aboriginal-legal-service-chief-claims-20110217-1axsl.html

Interviewed by Ben Ainslie on RTR FM’s Morning Magazine, RTF FM (92.1), 9.30am, 1 February 2011, ‘The Revolution Will Be Tweeted’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Kate Stephens on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.10am, 21 January 2011, ‘Use of social media during Queensland floods – help or hinder?’, [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Geoff Hutchison on 720 ABC Perth’s ‘The Morning Show’, 9.40am, 10 November 2010, On Facebook & Trolls [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed for Louise Burke, ‘Chat like never before’, The West Australian, 9 October 2010, pp. 32-4. [PDF] [Related video.]

Interviewed by Travis Collins on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.45am, 18 August 2010, ‘Green’s Internet Policy’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Travis Collins on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.15am, 11 August 2010, ‘Liberal Broadband Policy’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Rob Fadaely on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.30am, 13 July 2010, ‘Doctor Net Filter‘, [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed for Andrew Tillett, ‘MPs turn to tweet power to woo voters’, The West Australian, 16 June 2010, p, 32.

Interviewed for David Gear, ‘Teach kids e-stranger danger’, Wanneroo Times, 1 June 2010, p. 7.

Interviewed by Meri Fatin on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.30am, 6 May 2010, ‘Twit … or Twat?’, [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Amy Whittaker on 2MCE-FM’s ‘Homepage’, 2.30pm, 16 April 2010. [Radio]

Interview by Jarrod Watt for ABC’s Heywire, ‘What you say on Facebook will follow you around the rest of your life‘, 25 March 2010. [Mp3]

Interviewed by Meri Fatin on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 10.10am, 4 March 2010, ‘Filter This?‘ [Mp3] [Radio]

Invited presentation: ‘Thinking Beyond the Real & Now‘ at Media 140 Perth, Perth Town Hall, 25 February 2010.

Interviewed by Jamie Macdonald on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 10.20am, 16 February 2010, ‘WTF? Death of newspapers is premature?’ [Radio]

Interviewed by Meri Fatin on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 4 February 2010 ‘The Blog Strikes Back‘ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Damian Smith on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 16 December 2009 ‘Your Net Under Threat‘ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Laura Nass on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 2 December 2009 ‘When was your last status regret?’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Oskar McLaren, ‘Rupert Murdoch and the future of news media‘, Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly, Radio National Australia, 17 November 2009. [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed for Dominic Rushe and Sheryl-Lee Kerr ‘Life in a Flash’, Sunday Times, STM Magazine, August 23 2009, pp. 14-17. [PDF]

Invited panellist discussing the ‘The Changing Landscape of News and Journalism’, at the ‘The Future of Journalism: Blueprint for Progress’ event organised by the Walkley Foundation and Media Alliance, held at the ABC East Perth Centre, Friday 21 August 2009.

Interviewed by Jamie Macdonald on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.10am, 4 August 2009 ‘The iiNet Lawsuit & Filesharing’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Interviewed by Jamie Macdonald on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.10am, 3 February 2009 ‘Facebook is evil now?’ [Mp3] [Radio]

Invited panellist and respondent, Media Participatory Activism Colloquium, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, 18 December 2008, http://createc.ea.ecu.edu.au/conferences/dec_2008/

Interviewed for: Rebecca Boteler, ‘Making Money In A Virtual Universe’, Stateline, ABC1 (Western Australia), 7.30, 19 September 2008. [TV]

Invited presentation: ‘Web 2.0 and Participatory Culture’ at the CGC (Commercial Games Conference): Multiplayer & Communities, part of GO3 Electronic & Entertainment Expo 2008, Perth Convention Centre, August 2008.

Invited presentation: ‘CC for Higher Education’ at Building an Australasian Commons (Creative Commons Australia) Conference, Brisbane, June 2008.

Interviewed by Nat Jones on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 9.10am, 17 March 2008. (Talking about social software use by the Australian Defence Force). [Radio]

Invited presentation: ‘Building an Online Presence During Candidature’ for Research Careers Week held by the Postgraduate Students’ Organisation, University of Western Australia, September 2007. [Talk recording available here.]

Interviewed for: Kerr, Sheryl-Lee, ‘Celebs in Cyberspace’ Sunday Times, STM Magazine, September 2 2007, p. 21. [PDF Copy Here]

Invited presentation: ‘MySpace is better than Yours: Promoting your arts on the internet’ for the PropelArts Forum, PropelArts –Youth Arts WA, August 2007.

Interviewed by Laura Miller on RTR FM’s ‘Morning Magazine’, RTR FM (92.1), 10.15am, 31 July 2007. (Talking about Facebook, MySpace, class and Australian politics; listen to the mp3). [Radio]

Interviewed for: Ho, Evana. ‘Tête à tête by net or Twitter over the ether’, The West Australian, 16 May 2007, p. 50. (Scanned image of article here: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/501699745_b7c0a15b11_o.jpg).

Interviewed for: Schaer, Cathrin, ‘A Life Less Ordinary,’ Vogue Australia, May 2007, pp. 198-201.

Interviewed for: Waters, Sue, ‘Using Social Software with Students’ and ‘How Universities are using Lectopia to podcast lectures’, Mobile Technology in TAFE Podcast, March 2007, aquaculturepda.podomat… and aquaculturepda.podomat….

Seminar entitled ‘Podcasting 101′ delivered for staff at the Film and Television Institute of Western Australia on Thursday, 12th October,
2006.

Interviewed for: Kempshall, Pete, ‘Space Age’, Sunday Times, STM Magazine, August 27 2006, pp. 12-15. [PDF]

Invited panel discussion on "Understanding Cross Platform and New Media" at the Film and Television Institute of Western Australia on Thursday, 30th March 2006.

Invited public lecture on ‘Terminal Masculinities: Bodies, Subjects & Machines in the Terminator Trilogy’ given at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as part of the Crash (and other Earthly pleasures) exhibition, 3rd March 2006. [PDF of Talk Abstract Here]

Interviewed for: Kerr, Sheryl-Lee, Kathryn Shine and Gail Williams, ‘Joining Forces’ Sunday Times, STM Magazine, February 19 2006, pp. 12-15. [PDF (pp. 12-13) and PDF (pp. 14-15)]

Interviewed for: Hutchinson, Jane and Sheryl-Lee Kerr, "The eye generation", Sunday Times, STM Magazine, 30 October 2005, pp. 12-15. [PDF]

Interviewed for: Hotz, Robert Lee, "Camera Phones Give Flashers Unexpected Exposure", LA Times, September, 6, 2005, simultaneously cross-published in the Chicago Tribune and Sun Sentinel. [Text copy here.]

Profiled in: Kidman, Angus, "Pondering a Journey of 100,000 Words", The Australian, "IT Alive" Liftout, 12 July 2005, p. 5, (Scanned image of the article here: http://photos22.flickr.com/25386949_8658763197_o.jpg).

Interviewed for: McConnachie, Dahna. "Blogging at the end of the earth", PC World, 14, October 2004, http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;715547121;fp;2;fpid;1,
simultaneously cross-published in ComputerWorld: The Voice of IT Management and LinuxWorld.Com.Au.

Interviewed on RTRFM Radio’s (92.1 FM) ‘Morning Magazine’ program by Ian Dawson regarding weblogs on 27 October 2004 [Mp3] [Radio]

Invited public talk on ‘Blogging Universities’ delivered at BlogNite: Blogging at the end of the Earth, Curtin University, 27 October 2004.

GRANTS, AWARDS & PRIZES

2011 Curtin Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award, Curtin University (2011).

eTeaching & Learning Scholar Grant ($10,000), Centre for eLearning, Curtin University (2010).

UWA Research Development Award ($9552) for ‘Science Fiction Television: Rethinking Aliens, Bodies and Identity in the Twenty-First Century’ (2009). [NB: Grant was awarded but not taken due to my new position at Curtin University of Technology in 2009.]

Improving Student Learning Grant ($3000) from the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning for the ‘Development of a comprehensive resource giving understandable details of copyright and other legal issues which students encounter when creating work for, or transferring work to, the world outside of education’ (2008/09).

Excellence in Teaching Award: Early Career Teacher (awarded by the University of Western Australia) [2005]

WASFF (‘Tin Duck’) Award for Best Professional Short Work (awarded by the Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation) [2004]

FAHSS Dean’s Postgraduate Award
(awarded by the Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universityof Western Australia) [2003]

ACLA: Postgraduate Travel Award
(awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association) [2003]

UWA Teaching Internship
(awarded by the University of Western Australia) [2002]

Top Postgraduate Prize
(in recognition of commitment to and support of Postgraduate Students, awarded
by the University of Western Australia’s Postgraduate Students’ Association)[2001]

Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence
(Awarded to the postgraduate-run journal Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies of which I was an editorial member when the award was granted) [2001]

Australian Postgraduate Award
(Scholarship) [2001 - 2004]

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Referee reports on articles for New Media & Society, Media International Australia, Information, Communication & Society,
Journal of Media Practice, Outskirts, New Talents 21C, Philament: A Postgraduate Journal of the Arts, AJET (Australian Journal of Educational Technology) and IJETS (International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society).

Manuscript Review for Polity Press (Digital Media and Society series). [2007]

Advisory/Review Panel for perthDAC 2007 – The Future of Digital Media Culture, 7th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 15 -18th September 2007, Perth, Australia.

Organising Committee for the 2007 Teaching and Learning Forum, Perth, Australia, January 30-3st 2007.

Advisory panel for the Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment 2006 (CGIE2006), “game-art-interface” special session, 4-6 December 2006.

Research Assistant to Associate Professor Jane Long (English, Communication and Cultural Studies/Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Western Australia) preparing material for the unit Self.Net: Communicating Identity in the Digital Age [July 2003 - June 2004]

Reviews Editor for Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies [2003 - 2004]

Research Assistant for the University of Western Australia’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science internal report submitted for the Australian Universities Quality Audit (AUQA) [September - December 2002]

Editor of the English, Communication and Cultural Studies Postgraduate Newsletter [2002]

Web Editor of Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies [2002 - 2004]

Arts Faculty Representative – University of Western Australia’s Postgraduate Student’s Association (PSA) [2001]

Member of the Editorial Collective for Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies [2001 - 2004]

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The Association of Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org/>

The International Communication Association <http://www.icahdq.org/>

The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association <http://www.anzca.net/>

RELATED COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

Teaching Internship (including the UWA Foundations of Teaching and Learning Course)
Centre for Staff Development, UWA. [2002]

Certificate Course in Research Skills and Strategies
Centre for Student Learning and Research Skills, UWA. [2001 ]

ACADEMIC REFEREES

Professor Mark Poster
Professor of History and Film & Media Studies
University of California, Irvine
230 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275 USA
Phone: (+1) (949) 824 6338
Email: poster@uci.edu

Winthrop Professor Jane Long
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
University of Western Australia
M466, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009
Phone: (+61) (8) 6488 2077
Email: jane.long@uwa.edu.au

Winthrop Professor Ian Saunders
Head of School, School of Social and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia
M257, Crawley WA 6009
Phone: (+61) (8) 6488 7248
Email: ians@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Professor Sean Cubitt
Professor of Media and Communications
Director, Program in Media and Communications
The University of Melbourne
Room 127, East Tower, John Medley Building
Victoria, Australia 3010
Phone: (+61 3) 8344 3667
Email: sean.cubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Tanya Dalziell
Professor of English and Cultural Studies (and Equity and Diversity Adviser)
School of Social and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia
M202, Crawley WA 6009
Phone: (+61) (8) 6488 2120
Email: tdalziel@cyllene.uwa.edu.au