Speaking

I’m an engaging and confident public speaker on my research topics of social media platforms, cultures, and identities.

In addition to the list below, you can listen to examples of me being a guest on tech podcast Download This Show, interviewed on radio program The Hook Up on Triple J (from 34:30), and moderating panel discussion ‘Why Social Media Matters to Conversations and Careers’ for Monash University’s Creative Directions festival.

I’m featured in this roundtable, Online Anonymity and Pseudonymity: Why it Matters, co-hosted by Twitter and Digital Rights Watch. I’m on from 42:34.

Invited talks

Conference presentations

  • ‘Pleasures and Challenges of Staying Anonymous for Sex on Social Media’, Digital Intimacies 5: Structures, Cultures, Power, Monash University, Melbourne, 9-11 December 2019.
  • ‘Sunsets and Memories: How We Bury and Mourn Dead Platforms’, Association of Internet Researchers conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 October 2019.
  • ‘Sunset in Silicon Valley: How We Bury and Mourn Dead Platforms’, Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 5-7 December 2018.
  • ‘Accepting, Negotiating, and Rejecting Facebook Identities’, CODE: A Media Conference of Platforms, Devices and Screens, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia, 19-20 November 2018.
  • ‘Broken Windows: How Creating, Debating, and Updating Social Media Rules Helps Moderators and Users’, SWARM Symposium: Towards an Ethics of Community Management, Dream Factory, Footscray, 30 August 2018.
  • ‘Selfie Verification: Linking Identities and Bodies on NSFW Reddit’, Selfie Subjectivities/Selfie as Method Research Symposium, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 5-6 April 2018.
  • ‘Disconnections and Invisibilities: Responses to Social Media Algorithms’, Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 November 2017.
  • ‘Avatars of Lust: Consent and In-game Relationships’, with Robbie Fordyce & Dan Golding, Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 November 2017.
  • ‘Exposing Vulnerabilities through Forced Connections on Social Media’, Digital Existence II: Precarious Media Life, Sigtuna Foundation, Sweden, 30 October to 1 November 2017.
  • ‘Reddit Gonewild and Reddit TributeMe’, as part of the roundtable ‘“Difficult” Imagery: The Ethics of Publication and Presentation of Challenging Visual Material’, with Lee Humphreys, Bjorn Nansen, and César Albarrán Torres, Association of Internet Researchers conference, University of Tartu, Estonia, 19-21 October.
  • ‘Understanding Reddit’s TributeMe through Networked Affect’, Affective Politics of Social Media, University of Turku, Finland, 12 to 13 October 2017.
  • ‘Visibility Politics: Influencers and Algorithmic Interventions’, at Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, University of Sydney, 4-7 July 2017.
  • ‘“Networks That Work Too Well”: Forced Connections on Social Media’ at Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, University of Sydney, 4-7 July 2017.
  • ‘Digital and Liquid Traces: Affordances and Practices of Tributing on Reddit’ at Digital Intimacies: Interrogating the Interface Between Intimate Lives and Calculative Digital Media Platforms, University of Queensland, 12-13 December 2016.
  • ‘Disrupting Anonymity Online: The Unmasking of Reddit’s Violentacrez’ at Internet Research 15, Association of Internet Researchers conference, Daegu, South Korea, 21-24 October 2014.
  • ‘“We now know who you are”: Privacy, anonymity, and the unmasking of Reddit’s Violentacrez’ at Surveillance, Copyright, Privacy: The end of the open internet, University of Otago, New Zealand, 30 January – 1 February 2014, <https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/scpconf/>.
  • ‘Anonymity as Agency’ at ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Winter School, Queensland University of Technology, 23-28 June 2013.
  • ‘Faceless Bodies: Technological and Cultural Codes on reddit’ at CODE: A Media, Games & Art Conference, Swinburne University, Hawthorn campus, 21-23 November 2012.
  • ‘The Secret That Could Ruin Your Life: Reddit and the ‘Anonymity Continuum’ at Confessional Culture: Postgraduate Conference, Monash University, 5-6 July 2012.