Kate Mannell
@katemannell.bsky.social
Postdoc Research Fellow
Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au
Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au
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
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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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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...
theconversation.com/loot-boxes-a...
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.
theconversation.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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...
theconversation.com/loot-boxes-a...
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...
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 […]
redi.deakin.edu.au
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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...
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.
From feeding trackers to sleep apps, baby apps are changing the way parents navigate early parenthood. But are they always helpful? Let’s talk about it!
✨ Baby apps: (Mis)understandings of data-driven care
ACMI + Online
Mon 29 Sept, 5:30–7:30pm AEST
Free event
events.humanitix.com/dc-x-acmi-se...
✨ Baby apps: (Mis)understandings of data-driven care
ACMI + Online
Mon 29 Sept, 5:30–7:30pm AEST
Free event
events.humanitix.com/dc-x-acmi-se...
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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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
September 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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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—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.
—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.
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
July 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
—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.
—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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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 📶
July 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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 📶
Testing out some new ideas with the lovely folks of #AusSTS25
And now @katemannell.bsky.social on the endlessly noisy landscape of parenting advice as symptomatic of the dovetailing between contemporary recommender algorithms and the professionalization of the side-hustle #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Testing out some new ideas with the lovely folks of #AusSTS25
Looking forward to being part of this panel next week –– come along or tune in online
This time next week is #AusSTS. If you can't make it in-person, join for the keynotes, which we're streaming. Includes this one on Infrastructures of Noise, with @digitaldang.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, @katemannell.bsky.social & @ranjodhdhaliwal.com: www.youtube.com/live/ZGBAJWT...
AusSTS 2025 Day 1 Keynote "Infrastructures of Noise"
Join the opening keynote of the 2025 AusSTS "Signals and Noises" conference, live from the National Communication Museum. We are thrilled to have Dang Nguyen (RMIT), Fabian Offert (UCSB), Ranjodh Dhal...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Looking forward to being part of this panel next week –– come along or tune in online
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not sure why everyone today is discovering this but i reported a month ago about how Meta's new AI's social feed was filled with people seemingly accidentally publicly sharing their private AI chats www.crikey.com.au/20...
People are seemingly accidentally publishing their AI chat histories with Meta's new AI app
Information about medical conditions, intimate confessions, sensitive requests and horny image generation requests are all visible on Meta's new Discover feed.
www.crikey.com.au
June 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
not sure why everyone today is discovering this but i reported a month ago about how Meta's new AI's social feed was filled with people seemingly accidentally publicly sharing their private AI chats www.crikey.com.au/20...
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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
internetobservatory.net.au
June 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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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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 🇧🇷 !
See you in 🇧🇷 !
May 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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 🇧🇷 !
See you in 🇧🇷 !
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Interesting editorial from my university's student guild newspaper's editorial team www.qutglass.com/a-real-world...
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...
www.qutglass.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Interesting editorial from my university's student guild newspaper's editorial team www.qutglass.com/a-real-world...
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🚨 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
doi.org/10.1145/3706...
#OpenAccess #chi2025
Surveillance on Exhibit: Using Problematic Technology To Teach About Problematic Technology | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
🚨 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
doi.org/10.1145/3706...
#OpenAccess #chi2025
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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.
April 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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It’s publication day for The Kids Are Online!!! 🥰 www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ki...
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.
www.ucpress.edu
March 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s publication day for The Kids Are Online!!! 🥰 www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ki...
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The NZ government has no conception of the difference between treating people equally and treating people equitably. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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...
e-tangata.co.nz
March 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The NZ government has no conception of the difference between treating people equally and treating people equitably. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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
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/
March 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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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!!
September 12, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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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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/
March 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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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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/
March 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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....
Looking forward to presenting at this next week. You can attend in person or online for free
Parents, educators and policymakers are understandably anxious about young children’s screen time
Join us in Perth and online for a free, one-day symposium exploring parents’ and young children’s experiences of digital media and #screentime in the home 🏡
digitalchild.org.au/events/paren...
Join us in Perth and online for a free, one-day symposium exploring parents’ and young children’s experiences of digital media and #screentime in the home 🏡
digitalchild.org.au/events/paren...
February 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Looking forward to presenting at this next week. You can attend in person or online for free
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📘 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
@katemannell.bsky.social @deakinredi.bsky.social
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.
digitalchild.org.au
January 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
📘 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
@katemannell.bsky.social @deakinredi.bsky.social
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The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
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…
aussts.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...