I'd love to take credit, but I think it was a different Kate Mannell!
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I'd love to take credit, but I think it was a different Kate Mannell!
Hi TTRPG people, my calendar is currently free heading into 2026, so I'm looking for more freelance design work! If you're interested you can check out my current portfolio here, which I'll be updating further over the next few months: crypticparlour.com/games
Also (apparently I have thoughts on this), I've had Mums talk in interviews about using it for parenting/child health information. I wonder if there's a women's health > trying to conceive > pregnancy > parenting advice thing going on too, with women getting on at various points in that pipeline
Really interesting. I often get Reddit posts coming up as prominent results on Google.. (without having 'reddit' in my search terms). I wonder if some women are ending up there through Google and then sticking around?
Congrats Dr Berryman!!
This is a great primer for PhD students or ECRs who are interested in doing public facing work
This is great - thanks for sharing!
Planning to start a PhD in Media and Communications in 2026? Come work with me and others at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social! ✨
Yeah this was exactly our experience in Australia. Incredibly frustrating.
The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media.
This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students
www.crikey.com.au/20...
v appropriate hat
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
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...
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.
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
—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.
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
Looking forward to being part of this panel next week –– come along or tune in online
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...
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
We’re delighted to be presenting our panel at #AoIR2025: Rupturing Digital Childhoods and Parenting in Australia? Social Media Bans, Privacy, Screen Time, and Generative AI Featuring the papers: On Board the Social Media “Ban Wagon”: Regulatory Theatre, The Public Child and the Hyper-Enthusiastic State’ By Amanda Third (Western Sydney University) “I Probably Should Be Concerned, But I’m Really Not” – Concepts, Concerns and Contradictions in New Parents’ Approaches to Negotiating their Children’s Data Privacy By Katrin Langton (Deakin University) Navigating Talk About Kids and Tech: Ruptures in and Through Screen Time Discourse By Kate Mannell (Deakin University) Generative imaginaries? How Generative AI tools Visualise Children, Families, and Australianness By Tama Leaver & Suzanne Srdarov (Curtin University)
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 🇧🇷 !
Interesting editorial from my university's student guild newspaper's editorial team www.qutglass.com/a-real-world...
🚨 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
Congrats Kat! Wonderful to see this work out in the world
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.
Very understandable
Not yet! I think you mentioned her to me years ago when she was still deciding where to go for the PhD. I figured out that she landed at Curtin and am looking forward to us joining all the dots whenever we finally meet. I'm still in Melbourne and only head to Perth occasionally.
