I’m a Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. I’m a regular media commentator, a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, and the Immediate Past President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR).

My research interests include children’s data, privacy and rights in an online world, including the impact of artificial intelligence (mostly GenAI) on children; visual social media; the activity and regulation of big social media companies, especially in Australia; what happens to our data when we die; and the social, casual and mobile gaming landscape.

I have published in a range of journals including Social Media + Society, Information, Communication and Society, Popular Communication, Media International Australia, and First Monday. I am the author of Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology and Bodies (Routledge, 2012); co-editor of An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World’s Largest Social Network (Routledge, 2014) with Mike Kent; and Social, Casual and Mobile Games: The Changing Gaming Landscape (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) with Michele Willson; co-author of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (Polity, 2020) with Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin; co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children (Routledge, 2021) with  Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson and Leslie Haddon; and co-editor of Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games (Routledge, 2023) with Katie Ellis and Mike Kent.

In my public CV, you’ll find links to the vast majority of my publications. If there’s something you need access to that’s not available there, do let me know and I’ll help if I’m able to.

I’ve received teaching awards from the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and in 2012 received a national Australian Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Arts.

I’m @tamaleaver.bsky.social on BlueSky; @tama@aoir.social on Mastodon; and available on a number of other platforms, including LinkedIn. My web presence is www.tamaleaver.net.

My Blogs & Blog History & Archiving

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. 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.