So happy, and a bit overwhelmed, to find out my DECRA project, 'Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry', has been awarded. What an immense privilege to have the next three years to dedicate to research!

"Mum having her coffee", a portrait by my 3 yr old

So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility' Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from." — @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻 Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Terribly rude to slight ABC News Theme (Pendulum Remix) in this manner #hottest100 #aushottest100

The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...

There's been a heap of interest in Australia's teen social media ban, but a lot of confusion remains about how the law works, how it's being implemented and what we still don't know. Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!) www.crikey.com.au/20...

Have reached the stage of toddler parenting where, if I take his shoes off for him, this kid will *put his shoes back on* just so he can take them off himself 🫠 and yes, I gave him several chances to do it himself first.

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.

New random password generator: my 2 yr old and some fridge magnets

The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...

Taught my last tutorial for semester!! 🎉🎉🎉

Catching up with the Lily Phillips interview on Newsnight, BBC, in which the interviewer asks: "hand on heart, look me in the eye. Can you tell me that that day [of having sex with 100 men] was genuinely empowering for you?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...

There are currently FOUR positions advertised in my department at Monash, the School of Media, Film & Journalism: A/Prof or Professor - Journalism A/Prof or Professor - Media Senior Lecturer - Public Relations Lecturer - Media More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Gold star for whoever made this library sign ⭐

Hurry up Vote Compass I've got a tutorial on election media to plan

I had a whole baby (two and a half years ago) and now I just have to, what, go to work? I have to miss them during business hours? For most of the year?? So grim.

I am a slow writer. The more I lean into that instead of trying to change it, the better my writing is, actually. Yelling at myself internally to hurry up and sleep doesn't get me to sleep faster, and panicking about writing doesn't make that process faster either.

Always was Always will be

Getting a flyer about the selection received in this week's fruit delivery box and thinking about how much time I spend on the internet 😳

Nosferatu (2024)

Final day of work for 2024. I tried really hard this year and I got some good things done and also I feel like I didn't do enough because that's how academia works. I learned a lot about how to be a parent and academic and I'm definitely going to be better at that next year.

Still thinking about that TikTok I saw that went, "you didn't 'notice an easter egg', you learned media literacy"

Discovering a style of writing about OnlyFans that can be described as the Bad Faith Moral Panic genre

"We kissed in the river until some kids came and threw corn at us. You died a few years later I still think about you" Digital Intimacies X is so titled because it's the 10th, and of course conference themes are open to interpretation, but some presentations have engaged with the X so beautifully

At the Victorian Pride Centre for Zahra Stardust's book launch: Indie Porn explores how the law creeps in to, and shapes, porn and what and how it depicts

“The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported.” Governance by comments section. My heart goes out to all my NZ academics, and to Australians, do not think this can’t happen here.

Aotearoa New Zealand's govt removing all Humanities and Social Sciences funding via the Marsden Fund (the NZ equivalent of the ARC) is a national disgrace. My heart goes out to Kiwi researchers. This pushes the country backward in the worst possible way. www.beehive.govt.nz/...

Digital Intimacies X in full swing! We were so lucky to hear from our original conference organisers about the event and the field of digital intimacies, with excellent provocations from current scholars in the field: Embrace vulnerability. Think community, not citations. Open up the space.

Tonight in the US (this morning in Australia!), I'll be on a panel with the brilliant @chelseajulian.bsky.social, @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social, and @theegoddesssydney.bsky.social about online sex work, content creation, and research ethics for Digital Intimacies!

Good morning it's time for Digital Intimacies X! Our organising team have worked so hard on this tenth anniversary edition of the conference, and I'm so happy it's here 👩‍💻🥰💻💕💾🍆🖱️😉⌨️✨ digintx2024.tumblr.com

At the Capitol for my extremely earnest and smart colleague @julianoshea.bsky.social's launch of his new YouTube series, Design Revolution. Making us all think about how much of our space is just for cars and what needs to change as we keep getting around! 🚗🚘🚑🚕🚊🚃

Digital Intimacies is shaping up beautifully! We look forward to welcoming a wonderful group of scholars to Monash next week. You can check out the program here: digintx2024.tumblr.com and register here to attend in-person or join the livestream: events.humanitix.com/digital-inti...

This time next week we will be welcoming an incredible line-up of researchers to Monash's Caulfield campus in Naarm/Melbourne and via Zoom, for our tenth (!!) Digital Intimacies conference! Draft program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A5...

Bluesky doesn't feel like home yet but it does feel less evil than X!

The coalition in their additional report on the social media inquiry wants a crack down on link in bio.

Much of the harms of social media platforms are consequences of a poor information ecosystem, and business models that optimise for eyeballs and attention. We cannot address social media harm without tackling the underlying systems of digital platforms - which is a greater challenge than an age ban.

I had a tooth drilled at 7.45am this morning so nobody is allowed to yell at me today. Also - floss your teeth. Floss your damn teeth. If you don't floss your teeth regularly, think very hard about what you could buy with $950, then imagine spending that on your luxury bones instead and FLOSS.

How's your work day going I just spent half an hour searching my computer for some interview recordings with a growing sense of dread only to remember I saved them on an external hard drive. The TERROR. The RELIEF. It's already been a big day.

Back at work today after a long summer break. Logging into Bluesky instead of Twitter. Hello!

Welcome to Bluesky, I hate it here already and I can't stop reading "bsky" as "busky" for some reason