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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2d

last week, I wrote about how the rushed/bizarre teen social media ban policy process could lead to bad outcomes for Australians.

One scenario? Platforms forced to check users ages leak private data. Anyway, there's now a leak of some Discord user's passports

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/a...

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Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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

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Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social · 26d

✨I’m recruiting for a research project on game monetisation!✨
I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f

if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email [email protected] 😊

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Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social · 27d

squad!!

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · 29d

Wonderful profile of Raewyn Connell just published in the SMH www.smh.com.au/national/rae... - her Wheelwright Lecture, “Should we abolish universities?” is on tomorrow night! www.ppesydney.net/2025-wheelwr...

Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal

Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 New article in The Conversation from Callum Jones and myself.

We wanted to focus specifically on how the white nationalist rallies were supported and amplified online by far-right actors like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson

theconversation.com/how-australi...

How Australia’s anti-immigration rallies were amplified online by the global far right

Prominent figures such as Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson are increasingly using social media to unite far-right groups and causes around the world.

theconversation.com

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Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social · Aug 27

yessss so happy for you Joe, congrats and can't wait to see what comes out of this!

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nicholas carah @nnniccc.bsky.social · Aug 25

From Darkness to Hypervisibility! A one day symposium on the promotional and creator cultures of social media at UQ in November. CFP and details here: hass.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... @bradyjay.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social

Darkness to hyper-visibility: exploring promotional and creator cultures of social media

This one-day symposium explores the visibility games at the heart of social media’s promotional and creator cultures. From influencers and everyday users to advertisers and automated algorithms, every...

hass.uq.edu.au

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Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social · Jul 4

✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here!

Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.

Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com

#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines

Digital Intimacies 11

The Love of Machines

digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com

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Hao Zheng @hao-zheng.bsky.social · Jul 22

Glad to share my new publication in The Sociological Review: "Queer milestones: Intergenerational relations and youth transitions of Chinese queer female students residing overseas" (open access). doi.org/10.1177/0038...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Jul 21

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

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Marco Scarcelli @cmscarcelli.bsky.social · Jul 18

A new paper co-authored with R. Reschiglian & @bradyjay.bsky.social

We explored how Italian LGBTQ+ young adults navigate safety on dating apps in a challenging sociocultural climate.

If you’re interested in LGBTQ+ digital cultures, safety, have a look!
👉 rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/media...

Guarda “To be Queer, To be in Dating Apps, To be Queer in Dating Apps”

rosa.uniroma1.it

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · Jul 14

I am THRILLED to have a new article with Emma Kirby in @societyandspace.bsky.social

Focused on Queering the Map, we analyse how people contribute to this queer mapping of life – and become cartographic queers 📍💜

Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers - Ash Watson, Emma Kirby, 2025

Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a commun...

journals.sagepub.com

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Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social · Jun 25

In our new paper 'Qualified Hope' we counter concern for a 'COVID generation' of young people with upended work and study plans.

Despite hardship, hope is a psychosocial resource for sense-making and reflects young people’s resourcefulness and adaptability. 👀📃⤵️

Qualified Hope: Young People’s Education and Employment Pathways in Times of Disruption - Journal of Applied Youth Studies

The pandemic and its aftermath have prompted an extended public and academic conversation about young people, with concerns about the increasing uncertainty of youth employment and education trajector...

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Julia Coffey @juliacoffey.bsky.social · Jun 20

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025

This article presents findings from a qualitative study that aimed to provide some of the first detailed accounts of how young people use selfie-editing apps, a...

journals.sagepub.com

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Jun 20

Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.

casey briggs @caseybriggs.com · Jun 20

"I don't think the ban is viable," said Lisa Given, professor of information sciences at RMIT University, who has closely analysed the government's social media age restriction policy.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

With six months until teen social media ban, experts don't think tech is viable

Children as young as 15 were repeatedly misidentified as being in their 20s and 30s during government tests of age-checking tools, sowing new doubts about whether the teen social media ban is viable.

www.abc.net.au

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Jun 2

I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · May 31

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · May 29

Murray Watt is a perfect model of the modern Labor politician. President of Young Labor. Chief of staff for a Premier. Boss of the Qld Left. Now he’s the Environment Minister with responsibility for a critical decision. He chose to destroy the environment. www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/29/m...

Watt waves through Woodside, and Labor’s light on the hill becomes a gas flare

The newly minted environment minister faced a stark choice: protect the environment, or approve a massive fossil fuel development that will destroy the environment. He chose destruction.

www.crikey.com.au

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · May 27

she did the meme

The "we should improve society somewhat" meme.

A man pops out of a well stating "yet you participate in society. Curious. I am very intelligent"

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 26

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.

'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died

www.theguardian.com

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Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social · May 1

the interesting thing about this though is

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Apr 28

The crazy thing is just how manufactured this Welcome to Country debate is. This wasn't a grassroots campaign during a cost-of-living election:

Clive Palmer paid millions for newspaper ads attacking it, Advance has been running ads about it
a bunch of neo-Nazis hijacked a high-profile event.

Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · Apr 28

A week after Nine signed onto an anti-racism campaign there is a national debate about Indigenous culture driven, in no small part, by what their highest profile staff spout on radio and ads they place on the front page.

We canvassed this in our podcast today: open.spotify.com/episode/2Bkg...

The Podcast Election, Three Overlooked Campaign Stories, and the Media's Race Hypocrisy

Lamestream · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thanks for all your input on the early survey design too Taylor! Lots of connections with your work here

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Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social · Apr 17

Really interesting and important report out today on deceptive design practices in games and how they impact players from @cprc-research.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social and @bradyjay.bsky.social - some really great recommendations on making games safer for everyone!

cprc.org.au/report/playi...

Playing the Player - CPRC

Australians of all ages are engaging with gaming to relax, learn or connect with friends, but common design features can leave players worse-off – 95% of Australian adult gamers encounter manipulative...

cprc.org.au

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Apr 3

I am super proud to see this article on underemployment and mental health published in @healthpromint.bsky.social. We did a lot of good work theorising the relationship between time—and skills-related underemployment and mental health using HILDA. #Sociology #underemployment #mentalhealth

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