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25.01.2022 DERC's Tania Lewis is excited to be in this new Routledge collection on digital methods and food. Her chapter is entitled: Food politics and the media in digital times: researching household practices as forms of digital food activism.

25.01.2022 In her newly published article 'Outside the Classroom: The Language of English and its Impact on International Student Mental Wellbeing in Australia,' Cat Gomes discusses how international students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds though keen to improve their English skills encounter mental wellbeing challenges when doing so. Free to download. https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jis/article/view/1277

24.01.2022 #DERCfam updates! Meet Dr Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Jaz is a curious creature who feels so lucky to be caring for a wild, open menagerie of feral creatures roaming many worlds. Thats probably how she would describe herself to you if you asked. Another way of describing this #DERCFam is that she is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner, currently working as the Director of theCare-full Design Lab(rmit.edu.au/care-full) and Vice-Chancellors Senior Research Fellow in Sch...ool of Design. She also leads RMIT in the EU Horizon 2020 project,CreaTures: Creative Practices for Transformational Futures(creatures-eu.org), which based on and problematising the fragmented and lack of understanding about the power of creative practices in evoking changes towards ecologically and socially sustainable futures, explores the existing and possible diverse roles and impact of creative practices in that space. The project involves mapping of transformative creative practices, creating experimental productions, direct engagements, and new ways of evaluating impact. A key aspect of Jazs work in this project concerns how to create opportunities for collaborative action and widely accessible knowledge transfer among diverse stakeholders, including creative practitioners, members of the public, policy actors, and academic/scientific communities in care-full, participatory ways, reaching out and actively listening to human and more-than-human voices at the margin. More about Jaz (& her while-lockdown life) to follow... #DERCfam #DERC #DERCresearch #digitalethnography #ethnographymatters #rmit #DERCfam #DERC #DERCresearch #digitalethnography #ethnographymatters #rmit

24.01.2022 Cat Gomes and Shanton Chang are calling for papers for a Special Issue on digitalisation of international education. We are interested in perspectives that offer conceptual and theoretical arguments, draw on meaningful empirical evidence and advance the debate on the impact of digitalization on the evolution of international higher education. We specifically seek contributions from across the world that employ a range of methodological approaches to explore and evaluate the positive and negative realities and possibilities of the digitalisation-international education nexus. Submission date is 1 Feb 2021 http://ow.ly/daYq50BSOi6

23.01.2022 DERCs Rowan Wilken has contributed to two chapters in the newly released The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art edited by Larissa Hjorth, Adriana de Souz e Silva & Klare Lanson. Uncomfortable Interactions is a conversation with Blast Theorys Matt Adams discussing feelings of togetherness and isolation, urban encounters with strangers, and other uncomfortable interactions as explored in Blast Theorys work. The second is with RMITs Matthew Riley & Troy Innocent about location-based AR mobile gameplay in bushland settings. https://bit.ly/2Qkm2hp

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson and William Balmford on their new chapter: Supervised Play: Intimate Surveillance and Childrens Mobile Media Usage in The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children https://books.google.com//The_Routledge_Companion_to_Digit

22.01.2022 DERC's John Postill will be presenting at the Roundtable at WWNA 2020: Mobilizing the Planet Digitally, the 8th annual symposium that explores the different applications of anthropology. Roundtable discussion: Mobilizing Online: Social Movements & Digital Activism Today Saturday, October 17 11am- 1pm CET See link below for more details. https://www.applied-anthropology.com/

22.01.2022 Catch up on #DERC30 here, Natalie talking to Daniel about practice, engagement, research in the world of health and politics. #dercfam #DERC #rmit #digitalethnography https://www.instagram.com/tv/CElcsa4Hz9Z/

22.01.2022 Wild Honey an example of outstanding contemporary ethnographic documentary selected from 500 international entries to screen with around 20 films in the Macquarie University International Ethnographic Film Festival (MUIEFF). Creative Producer DERC’S Seth Keen. https://www.roninfilms.com.au//wild-honey-caring-for-bees- http://ow.ly/lUTO50BHm4G

22.01.2022 Explore Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Giants, a rainbow serpent, a flying emu and other creatures have taken over Dja Dja Wurrung Country. What are these mysterious creatures? We need your help to solve this mystery. Come and play Land of Birds, an AR sound game to be experienced online anywhere and anytime. Be part of solving the mystery. Listen to the stories of the Djaara people. Connect with nature and play a part in our Living History. An initiative of DERC Core Member Associate Professor Olivia Guntarik. Produced in partnership with Djaara storytellers, Djandak, Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, Story City, Dreamwalker Stories, DELWP and the Australian Research Council. http://ow.ly/YpKr50BG5Pg https://www.vic.gov.au/connecting-country

22.01.2022 Congratulations to DERC's Haiqing Yu for being announced as a DSC Top Performer in the RMIT 2020 Media Stars awards. A few examples of note over the year include an interview on ABC News 24, quotes in SBS Online and ABC News regarding TikTok and WeChat, and an interview on ABC Radio National about Australian journalists detained in China.

21.01.2022 DERC researcher Marissa Willcox is giving a presentation on Arts for Intercultural Understanding to the nexus group at La Trobe University tomorrow at 5pm https://www.latrobe.edu.au/school-education/nexus-program. Using the methods which Anna Hickey-Moody developed for the Interfaith Childhoods project alongside Instagram live interviewing from Willcoxs PhD, she will demonstrate how using art, Instagram and animation in educational settings can build cross cultural and cross community understanding. The presentation is closed to the public, but check out the animation reel from the Interfaith Childhoods work here: https://vimeo.com/384437429

21.01.2022 Connecting from the (COVID) Couch: Imagining post flying collaborative futures. Drawing on the findings of their empirical research on Australian academic flying practices pre-COVID, DERCs Tania Lewis and Andrew Glover discuss ways in which RMIT might lead a paradigm shift across the sector around lower carbon, online academic networking and collaboration practices. https://youtu.be/kuAiyJYuStY

21.01.2022 A new open access paper from Natalie Hendry has been published in Social Media + Society, "Young Women’s Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition". The paper explores social media practices of young women living with mental health challenges. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120963832

20.01.2022 DERC's Ellie Rennie and Kelsie Nabben are presenting on a panel on the topic of 'emerging technologies and the future of internet governance' at the NetThing conference on October 1 at 2.30-3.30pm. NetThing is an inclusive and open space to talk about and debate Internet issues of importance to Australians. Registration is free: https://www.netthing.org.au/

20.01.2022 Listen to Jenny Kennedy & Yoland Strengers on Radio Nationals The Philosophers Zone discussing the ways in which AI-powered home devices are really "smart wives" passive, compliant, endlessly available, even flirtatious, and modelled on the 1950s American housewife. abc.net.au//ai-home-devices-a-feminist-perspective/12564584

20.01.2022 DERCs PhD Kelsie Nabben has four co-authored papers accepted in IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (https://ieeeghtc.org/), she will present two of at the conference. The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital- political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet (K. Nabben, M Poblet, P Gardner-Stephen) Identifying and Mitigating Humanitarian Challenges to COVID-19 Contact Tracing (K. Nabben, M Poblet, P Gardner-Stephen) S4: Si...mple, Secure, Survivable Systems Human-first crisis technology design principles (P Gardner-Stephen, K. Nabben) Capacity Maintenance During Global Disruptions: Security, resilience and incentives matter (P Gardner-Stephen, K.Nabben) See more

20.01.2022 Do you live in an apartment or unit in Melbourne? Do you sometimes buy food or meals online? If the answer to these questions is yes we’re keen to hear more about your thoughts and experiences! DERC Researchers are looking for participants for their research project: Pie in the sky: Digital food practices and waste in Melbourne. This project is researching experiences of online food provisioning in multi-unit developments and other housing types in metro Melbourne. Please see the link below for more information: https://rmit.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_03a8MOj7VEOA88B

19.01.2022 DERCs Tania Lewis and Oliver Vodeb from RMITs School of Design are proud to have an essay on "Melbourne: Care, ethics and social enterprise meets global caf culture" in this terrific collection edited by Fabio Parasecoli (MYU) and Mateusz Halawa (New School for Social Research). Needless to say, they did their ethnographic research for this project (in cafes in Melbourne and New York)pre-COVID!

19.01.2022 Meet #DERCfam Dr Hugh Davies Hugh is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and researcher. He is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform. #Rmit @dcpecp Hugh’s practice explores histories of media devices andcultures of games and play in the Asia Pacific Region. His curation of videogames has included the 2018Longitude exhibitionand involves ongoing consultancy with museums internationally. His practice-led research see...ks to map new histories and futures for intercultural communication and understandings of place in the Asia Pacific Region. For the past few months, Hugh has been a co-researcher on a project looking at changing practices and perception during COVID19. This is a fascinating and ongoing piece of research with critical relevance to the present. You can find more about it here and they are actively seeking participation: https://dcp-ecp.com/pro/covidsafe-perceptions-and-practicesor get in touch: [email protected] Earlier in the year Hugh completed two co-authored two books on videogames with Professors’ Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson. As an Early Career Researcher, the process was super instructive and a great opportunity to publish with such highly esteemed co-authors. @micronarrative Hugh’s also been continuing to research videogames in Hong Kong which has been highly rewarding but increasingly difficult due to political tension in that part of the world. https://screeningasia.wordpress.com//hong-kong-in-videoga/ Website:https://hughdavies.net

19.01.2022 Tune in Tmrw! At 1130 am AUS EST A/Prof Haiqing Yu and Kelly Chan will go live on the DERC IG for a #DERC30 min interview to talk about Haiqing’s research and work/life amid covid19. #digitalethnography #ethnographymatters #DERC #DERC30 #DERCfam #DERCresearch #digitalmethods #digitalethics #covid

18.01.2022 Thanks for the welcome, DERC! In my first #DERC30 tomorrow TUESDAY 1 SEP 16:30 AEST Ill be talking with Daniel Reeders from the School of Regulation and Governance, ANU, about entanglements in/of engagement: rhetorics, politics, practices and critiques. Right here on Facebook Live. In Dans words: Ill be talking about engagement - little bit topical right now! Is closer engagement always better? How does engagement interact with neoliberalism? All the tricky questions. Dan...iel is a PhD scholar at the ANU School of Regulation and Governance (RegNet) looking at engagement under neoliberal conditions. Daniel (they/them) has worked in health promotion engaging with communities on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and cancer screening for about 16 years. This discussion will focus on a case study of engaging migrant and culturally diverse communities in the Victorian response to Covid-19. Daniel writes the BadBlood.blog and tweets at twitter.com/engagedpractx Thanks DERC friends, Natalie #DERC #RMIT #dercfam #digitalethnography

18.01.2022 DERC Prof Annette Markham is a featured guest on the "Between the Data" podcast. In this episode, she talks about ethics and digital ethnography. If you need something to listen to you while youre social distancing, shell talk in your ear about ethics as impact and the importance of doing academic work that builds better possible futures. (she also talks about Netflix, the limits of our imagination, and climate change, so theres a bit of everything). Listen on the web or in your favorite podcast app! https://www.buzzsprout.com//5124214-episode-8-ethics-of-in

18.01.2022 'What does it take to build an equitable and inclusive digital identity ecosystem?' Ellie Rennie from DERC, Mardi Hall from Services Australia, Amanda Robinson and Katy Southall (Australian Red Cross) and Amelia Crook (Traverse) will explore this question in the Tech23 IMPACT Circle tomorrow, Wednesday 18 November. For more information: www.tech23.com.au

18.01.2022 DERC's Indigo Holcombe-James' recent work on digital inclusion in the Australian cultural sector features in this ArtsHub write up. https://www.artshub.com.au//are-we-funding-this-digital-pi

18.01.2022 Celebrated writer and thinker Bruce Pascoe gave a keynote presentation at the recent EPIC2020 conference hosted online by the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. The keynote featured discussant Tyson Yunkaporta (Deakin academic, member of the Apalech Clan and author of Sand Talk) and chaired by Tania Lewis. As Bruce couldn’t give his keynote talk in Melbourne due to COVID, Tania Lewis, filmmaker Kim Munro and DERC PhD candidate Kelly Chan travelled up to his farm 40 minutes out of Mallacoota to film him ‘on country’. The conference session--including the film, and Q and A with Bruce and Tyson--can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/-Bh-GUeG6ME

18.01.2022 This week DERC will host a series of workshops for PhD students from around the world for the Epic Conference Graduate Colloquium. Led by RMIT's Annette Markham and Facebook's Jay Jasbrouck. #epiconference

17.01.2022 "Three-Tier Garden: More-than-Human Choreographies in the Post-COVID City" by Care-full Design Lab's Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Cristina Ampatzidou together with Viktor Bedo (Critical Meda Lab Basel) and In Touch Amsterdam, was one of the ten COVID-19 response design projects selected for the "This is Not a Simulation" call funded by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Dutch Design Foundation. The announcement was made on Monday as part of the 2020 Dutch Design Week. https://bit.ly/2HeSJvJ

17.01.2022 DERCs PhD Emile Zile interviews Melbourne artists, writers and researchers about their media-consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and continual rolling lockdowns. Starting with discussion of their binge-watching, late night listening or reality TV indulgences, conversations spill out onto other topics and quickly move to less stable zones. https://emilezile.com/selected-work/pandemic-playlists https://pandemicplaylists.simplecast.com

16.01.2022 DERC is presenting a 2-hour showcase session at this #epicconference. The session includes a 25-minute conversation between DERC superstars Larissa Hjorth and Annette Markham, covering a range of topics from the evolution of digital ethnography to conducting ethnographic research amid trauma and crisis. This is followed by five Pecha Kucha presentations from Megan Kelleher, Rowan Wilken, Jenny Kennedy, Anna Hicky-Moody and Tania Lewis (presenting research with Andrew Glover and Indigo-Holcombe James). If you are registered for EPIC, be sure to tune in at 6pm on Thursday Oct 22, or 8am on Monday Oct 26. And please pop by the DERC online exhibition space to hear DERC researchers discuss what 'scale' means in their work. https://2020.epicpeople.org/

16.01.2022 DERCs James Meese and Rowan Wilken and Clemson Universitys Jordan Frith have a new article examining conspiracy theories linking COVID-19 with 5G. They argue that it is helpful to look beyond these conspiracies, suggesting that the battle for control of 5G infrastructure can be productively understood in geopolitical terms, as forms of economic statecraft. https://bit.ly/3hIDHeJ

15.01.2022 DERC's Haiqing Yu has a new article 'The transformation of daigou in the post-COVID 19 era' out now. https://johnmenadue.com/the-transformation-of-daigou-in-th/

15.01.2022 DERC's Cat Gomes and Shanton Chang (Melbourne Uni) are co-editing a special issue on digitality and international education for Journal of Studies in International Education. We are interested in perspectives that offer conceptual and theoretical arguments, draw on meaningful empirical evidence and advance the debate on the impact of digitalisation on the evolution of international higher education. We specifically seek contributions from across the world that employ a range of methodological approaches to explore and evaluate the positive and negative realities and possibilities of the digitalisation-international education nexus. https://journals.sagepub.com//cmscon/JSI/JSIE_CFP_2021.pdf

15.01.2022 DERCs Andrew Glover and Tania Lewis, along with Julian Waters-Lynch from the College of Business and Law have received funding from The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network to conduct research on the e-change phenomenon, a timely project with more and more Australians choosing to live and work in rural and coastal towns.

15.01.2022 Read Jenny Kennedy & Yolande Strengers co-authored opinion piece The "smart wife" in crisis: Outsourcing wifework to digital voice assistants during the pandemic on ABCs Religion and Ethics page. abc.net.au//yolande-strengers-and-jenny-kennedy-t/12565292

15.01.2022 Children and Carbon Cultures by Professor Anna Hickey-Moody. A lecture presented in the context of the Posthumanities Research Theme in CHASS. Thursday 15th October 4.30-5.30pm AEDT Onscreen in Humanities 234 and online via Zoom https://unsw.zoom.us/j/8582932819 ... More details about the lecture can be found here: https://www.annahickeymoody.com//children-and-carbon-cultu

15.01.2022 DERC's Haiqing Yu's article in East Asia Forum, ‘WeChat ban a catch-22 for Chinese Australians’. https://www.eastasiaforum.org//wechat-ban-a-catch-22-for-/ Chinese social media network WeChat is facing global scrutiny and possible bans due to its handling of user data privacy, its censorship and surveillance practices and the widespread misinformation and propaganda campaigns it hosts supposedly on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. Yet members of the Chinese diaspora in Australia continue to use WeChat as their main social media platform, despite the availability of alternative social media networks that claim to protect privacy and freedom of expression.

14.01.2022 DERC's Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones from Monash have a new article 'Massive and Microscopic: Autoethnographic Affects in the Time of COVID' is now published and is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420965570

14.01.2022 My amazing EPIC co-chair talking about how the EPIC 2020 journey thus far...

14.01.2022 Cat Gomes together with colleagues from Melbourne Uni and Uni of Toronto gave a lively and engaging presentation on information overload and social networking among international students at the Association for Information Science and Technology (AISS&T) https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pra2.289

14.01.2022 We’re very excited to announce that DERC’s Rowan Wilken and James Meese have won funding for their ARC Discovery project! 5G and the Future of Public Telecommunications. This project aims to examine the rollout of 5G and assess the implications of this emerging technology for public telecommunications from the perspective of multiple stakeholders (including emergency services). 5G will radically transform the role and function of the telecommunications sector, and this proje...ct will examine the evolution of public telecommunications as part of this larger transformation. It will provide an evidence base for stakeholders and chart a new role for public telecommunications during a period of structural change. It will also help scholars reconceptualise core tenets of public telecommunications policy. Benefits include the more efficient use of public resources in the telecommunications sector. See more

13.01.2022 DERC's Tania Lewis is hosting an Atlassian sponsored panel session at #epicconference on Thursday: Debugging Distributed Teamwork. The Atlassian Research & Insights team commissioned a research study that involved thousands of workers across the globe to see how COVID-19 and the sudden shift to working from home has affected them. Atlassian looked inward, too, to find out how Atlassians were impacted by the sudden, lasting change to work remotely. In this panel, moderated by Head of Research & Insights, Leisa Reichelt, the people behind this work will discuss the unanticipated impacts of the pandemic that our research uncovered and how we might all respond going forward. The session is running twice, 10am & 5pm (AEDT). https://2020.epicpeople.org/

13.01.2022 Recent revisions to higher ed in Australia proposed by education minister Dan Tehan - This affects our Australian researchers, educators and students greatly. Please comment below with some of your feedback/thoughts. And remember to email [email protected] by 5pm this Monday with your final response https://www.dese.gov.au//job-ready-graduates-package-draft

13.01.2022 Kelsie Nabben on leveraging technology against the pandemic: https://theconversation.com/hacking-the-pandemic-how-taiwan

12.01.2022 TikTok Teachers A short piece about entrepreneurial teachers on TikTok was published on the EduResearch Matters platform this week. Natalie Hendry with colleagues Catherine Hartung (Swinburne) and Rosie Welch (Monash) shared their thoughts about digital media work of teachers and how this shapes their professional work. http://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?author=17

12.01.2022 Teaching digital ethnography methods this semester? Last week's talk with EU researchers by @annettemarkham now available -"Shifting physical to digital ethnography in a pandemic: Mindset more than tools." Feel free to use and share. Let us know if this sort of DERC resource is useful for you. https://youtu.be/z-EQ6begTms

11.01.2022 Read DERCs Kelsie Nabbens article in The Conversation, Hacking the pandemic: how Taiwans digital democracy holds COVID-19 at bay https://theconversation.com/hacking-the-pandemic-how-taiwan

11.01.2022 So - we’ve started this new series where DERC researchers have live chats on Instagram for 30 minutes with other digital ethnographers. Thanks @kelly_haha and @yu.haiqing for an engaging #DERC30 this morning on the Chinese social credit system and also, some insights into working from home whilst homeschooling. Who knew you could get a whole day of homeschooling done in 1 hr? #WhenyourmomisafuturefellowatDERCyoucan -One very important point Haiqing raised was that to the west..., the social credit system appears like it is in black mirror but in fact, it’s much more complex. She said we focus too much on the technological side of how this system is built as opposed to how it affects Chinese people’s everyday lives. We can’t wait to hear more about your research Haiqing as the fieldwork begins post covid... #DERCFAM #Ethnographymatters #chinesesocialcreditsystem CATCH IT ON REPLAY https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFvkw27HhCy/

11.01.2022 DERC collaboration partner Nicola Henry has a new book out - Image-based Sexual Abuse: A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery Co-authored with Clare McGlynn, Asher Flynn, Kelly Johnson, Anastasia Powell, and Adrian J. Scott This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era. It examines the pervasiveness and experiences of these harms, as well as the raft of legal and non-legal measures that have been introduced to better respond to and prevent image-based sexual abuse. http://ow.ly/Lcwj50Cozv6

11.01.2022 Tania Lewis and Oliver Vodeb have a new book chapter - Melbourne: Care, ethics and social enterprise meets ‘global’ café culture, in Fabio Parasecoli and Mateusz Halawa (eds) Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in World Cities, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-brooklyn-9781350144477/

11.01.2022 Hi DERC friends, Natalie again. Ive been collaborating on a project with Signe Uldbjerg, from Aarhus University, about affective experiments and creative writing workshops as research methods. Signe will be joining me for #DERC30 on Thursday (TOMORROW!) 16:30 AEST on Instagram Live. Tech issues aside, the chat will be saved on DERC IG Live. Signe will be talking about ethics as a researcher and activist. She is a PhD student at Aarhus University, in the School of Communicati...on and Culture. Signe works with digital sexuality and with writing as a creative and practice-based research method. Her main interests are on the ethics of creative and participatory research, and on mediated affective practices surrounding digital sexuality, digital assault and youth culture. These academic interests are rooted in a practice background in feminist activism. Her most recent paper, Defying Shame: Shame-relations in digital sexual assault explores shame in the context of social media affordances, drawing on her research using creative writing workshop methods. https://www.instagram.com/dercresearch/ See more

10.01.2022 Out now in the CDP Journal DERCs Monica Barratts new publication "Coming Out": Stigma, Reflexivity and the Drug Researchers Drug Use with Anna Ross, Gary R Potter & Judith A Aldridge. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0091450920953635

10.01.2022 The mystery of the blue flower explained by DERC researcher Adrian Dyer: https://theconversation.com/the-mystery-of-the-blue-flower-

10.01.2022 Congratulation to Larissa Hjorth & Klare Lanson. The Routledge Companion of Mobile Media Art, co-edited by Larissa Hjorth, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Klare Lanson is now available. Each section opens with 11 artist interviews, aiming to herald the role of the artist in contextualising the various mobile media themes throughout the book. www.routledge.com//Hjorth-Silva-Lanson/p/book/9780367197162

10.01.2022 Fielding hilarity: sensing the affective intensities of comedy education and performance is the title of DERCs David Rousell new paper co-authored with Natalie Diddams from MMU. The paper explores fluctuations in affective intensity as students perform comedy for the first time, combining digital data from galvanic skin sensors with ethnographic fieldwork to propose new methods of "biosensory ethnography". In developing the concept of "fielding hilarity" in conversation ...with these alternative methods, the authors draw on process philosophy and affect theory to conceptualise how laughter emerges from an atmospheric field that is charged with differential intensities and potentials for feeling. The paper is part of a special issue of RiDE called "A Capacity to be Moved: Performance and its Affects", co-edited by DERCs Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones 50 free copies of the paper are available https://www.tandfonline.com/epri/EJD454H8WGGJKTWDAWRC/full See more

09.01.2022 ‘Parts of life will be damaged forever’ arts workers describe the pandemic’s impact on their mental health Emerging research by DERC's Natalie Hendry and Jacinthe Flore from Social and Global Studies Centre was published by The Conversation. Insights from the survey with Victorian creative artists and technical workers emphasised that you can't put work, sense of self, community, and mental health in separate boxes. Especially for a sector already familiar w precarity & uncertainty. http://ow.ly/p6FG50BSOLE

09.01.2022 Avoided pandemic news or been glued to updates? DERC researchers James Meese & Kate Mannell are doing a survey about news consumption during COVID19 & would love to hear your stories. If you’re living in NZ or Australia, fill in their survey here: https://bit.ly/2Tw00K8

09.01.2022 DERCs Anna Hickey-Moody delivered a very well received online lecture why new materialism now? for Utrecht Summer Schools Posthuman Convergences: Theories and Methodologies on August 17th.

09.01.2022 DERCs Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardsons new book draws on a three-year ethnography in Australian homes, Ambient Play takes mobile games seriously as part of everyday life and sociality. The pandemic has heightened many of our everyday rituals, especially through the digital. For many people working and schooling from home, the role of games has been crucial for sociality. During our three-year ethnographic fieldwork into Australian homes, we explored how mobile games o...perate as a barometer for understanding how forms of sociality and play move between digital and material worlds in often seamless ways. Our fieldwork takes mobile games seriously as they traverse different public and private settings in ways that are social, ecological and even political. Across different genres, platforms, practices and contexts, mobile games have become ever-present in our daily lives, and for many of us, an important means of experiencing and navigating a digitally saturated world. They are also, significantly, conduits of what we call ambient play, a term that conveys how games and playful media practices have come to pervade much of our social and communicative terrain, both domestic and urban. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ambient-play See more

09.01.2022 DERC's Professor Anna Hickey-Moody is presenting "Faith, secular attachments and outside belongings" at the Emotions and Affect Seminar Series: Tiger Atmospheres and Geographies of Belonging hosted by TASA Emotions and Effect Thematic Group on 12th October, 1pm - 2:30pm via Zoom Register Here: https://bit.ly/3j2LMM2

09.01.2022 Cat Gomes and Helen Forbes-Mewett are convening a one-day conference: Coronavirus and its impact on international students. Date: 10 Feb 2021 Registration is open for this free event. While the COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving crisis, it is one that reveals how international education and international students have become ‘disrupted’ in many ways. This conference aims to not only critically examine the impact of a global disruptor on policies, procedures, operations and people around international education but also to open discussion on the direction of future policy and practice in this space. https://impactinternationalstudentscorona.wordpress.com/

09.01.2022 'Techno-reflexivity: a creative methodology for software developer un-bias', Sub-stack, 2020. https://kelsienabben.substack.com/p/techno-reflexivity-cf13

08.01.2022 DERCs PhD Susie Elliott and collaborator Helen Mathwin have secured a spot in the 2021 Castlemaine State Festival with their installation and performance artwork Traversing the Northern Plains, exploring a lineage of methods used to settle within a landscape. With a Get Lost grant from Mt Alexander Shire, Susie and colleague Helen Mathwin will interview creatives on the significance of making in developing a connection to home/place/landscape. When completed it will be available online and screened in December at a driveway projection space in Castlemaine. castlemainefestival.com.au

08.01.2022 DERCs James Meese and Edward Hurcombe from QUT have a piece in The Conversation discussing emerging new business models. https://theconversation.com/facebook-and-google-used-to-be-

08.01.2022 DERCs Shelley Brunt and RMITs Kat Nelligan have just published a journal article entitled "The Australian music industrys mental health crisis: media narratives during the coronavirus pandemic" in Media International Australia. The research argues for greater media attention of the poor mental health experienced by music industry workers in 2020, when there is a blanket closure of live music venues and catastrophic loss of work opportunities due to COVID-19. This sector is already more likely than others to endure high levels of anxiety, depression, and attempted suicide. The article is open access and free to all. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X20948957

07.01.2022 In the latest issue of Media International Australia James Meese, Jordan Frith and Rowan Wilken examine the emergence of conspiracy theories linking COVID-19 with 5G. They argue that a productive way of understanding what is happening with 5G is to look beyond conspiracy theories to a larger set of geopolitical concerns. https://journals.sagepub.com//full/10.1177/1329878X20952165

06.01.2022 DERCs John Postill has written the afterword for Theorising Media and Conflict edited by Philip Budka and Birgit Bruchler https://berghahnbooks.com/title/BudkaTheorising

05.01.2022 During lockdown, DERCs Shelley Brunt and Liz Giuffre (University of Technology Sydney) have started a new podcast series and radio show on Sydneys 2SERfm. Titled Music Mothers and Others, the show features research, music-media concepts, interviews with music professionals, and fun insights related to their forthcoming book Popular Music and Parenting" (Routledge, 2021). The first episode launches Monday 31 August 7:30-8pm via https://2ser.com/music-mothers-and-others/ or you can listen to the podcast later at MusicMothersAndOthers.com. Find them on Facebook and Instagram too! Link to the official Facebook Event page for our first show: https://www.facebook.com/events/1006606813096625

04.01.2022 DERCs Marsha Berrys article on fiction and writing ethnography has been recently published - Linking digital wayfaring and creative writing: true fictions from ethnographic fieldwork "In this article I explore how creative writing links to mobile media ethnographic practices." www.tandfonline.com/eprint/H4GD88YUZQ4VZCXSNCFP/full #RMIT #MarshaBerry #DigitalEthnography

04.01.2022 DERCs Annette Markham will be giving a keynote address on Ethics and Online Research for the international NVIVO sponsored conference on Qualitative Research in a Changing World on 23 September. Thousands of researchers, practitioners and students have registered for this 24 hour Virtual Conference, the conference also features two other global experts, Nancy Baym and Sara Shaw. Registrations close Sunday. For a teaser of Annettes keynote, heres a link to a recent intervi...ew with Stacy Penna for the podcast Between the Data https://www.buzzsprout.com//5124214-episode-8-ethics-of-in https://www.qsrinternational.com/n/nvivo-virtual-conference

04.01.2022 My 2nd last day joining in the DERC socials! So great to hear from Signe Uldbjerg, Aarhus University, about creative writing methods, digital sexuality, ethics, activism and feminist research. You can catch up with our #DERC30 session on IG - Nat #rmit #DERC30 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEqmN2BFpje/

04.01.2022 In a collaborative project with our DERC30 guest last week, Signe Uldbjerg, Natalie Hendry is inviting HDR students at RMIT to participate in group creative writing workshops to explore their experiences of studying during the pandemic. To learn more, click over here http://shorturl.at/efGW2

03.01.2022 DERC's PhD Emile Zile has a talk coming up! 'Connection in Times of Isolation' What role do we want technology to play in connecting our art practices to the wider world? What skills are artists working in isolated or remote parts of the world equipped with? Can issues such as digital saturation and digital inequality be overcome in order to create a more sustainable future? Like many regional artists, Kim Goldsmith and Alana Hunt often create work in relatively isolated part...s of Australia. In contrast, Jessica Olivieri and Emile Zile both practice in metropolitan areas, but have been no less impacted by the isolation imposed by lockdowns. What can these artists teach each other about isolation and digital connection, and how might this inform our thinking about where to next as arts practitioners? 25 Nov 2020 3:30pm - 4:30pm AEST (Registration is required) Photo credit: Lake Tyrell Workshop - photographer Gareth Hart, on Boorong country https://conversationseries.artlands.com.au//connection-in- See more

03.01.2022 Were a few days late posting this, but hey thats #2020. Everyone meet the next #DERCresearcheroftheweek Natalie Hendry! In the spirit of #wearitpurpleday this past Friday, we are so excited to have Natalie take over our socials this week. Her work with youth and mental health has never been more relevant than in these uncertain times. More about Natalie below ... Natalie Hendry is a Vice Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Media and Communications. Her research explores everyday social media and digital technology practices in the context of critical approaches to education, mental health, media, wellbeing, youth studies and policy. This research draws on her experience prior to academia, working in community education, secondary schools and hospital settings, and consulting for health organisations and industry. Natalies postdoctoral research investigates the role of social media and digital governance in the lives of young people whose parents or adult family members are experiencing mental ill-health. Using digital ethnography and creative workshop methods, this project explores emerging and potential online opportunities to enhance digital outreach and support for these and other diverse families. She completed her PhD in Media and Communication at RMIT University and her thesis explored visual social media practices and the experiences of young people engaged with adolescent psychiatric services in Melbourne. #DERCFAM #DERC #DERCresearch #YOUTH #mentalhealth #ethnographymatters #covid19 #DERC30

03.01.2022 DERCs Natalie Hendry was interviewed for an ABC Life story about digital toxic positivity. "Struggle, pain, confusion, boredom, distress all things that are just as human as happiness, joy or feeling fulfilled are shut down by overly positive messages," Dr Hendry says. www.abc.net.au//toxic-positivity-on-social-media-/12432790

02.01.2022 A quick update for todays #DERC30 with Daniel Reeders. Facebook Live isnt cutting it today... so were heading over to Instagram at 16:30pm AEST. Less than an hour away! Ill keep this post up if you have questions or comments (so useful if youre not an Instagram user). And of course after the session well share the recording here and on Twitter. Thanks for moving through social media with us! (Natalie Hendry) https://www.instagram.com/dercresearch/

02.01.2022 This week DERCs PhD Moses Iten is presenting The DJ-as-Researcher Approach: Methods emerging through digital cumbia fieldwork at the 7th Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology. The title of this online symposium is Performing, Engaging, Knowing, hosted by The Lucerne School of Music, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education of mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, and the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology. #cumbiaresearch

02.01.2022 Call for papers Influencer Marketing: Interdisciplinary and Socio-Cultural Perspectives Journal of Marketing Management Special issue Submission Deadline 1 September 2021 Guest Editors: Lauren Gurrieri, RMIT University, Australia, Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago, USA, & Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, Australia... The objective of this special issue is to discuss, problematise and stimulate debate on how influencer marketing, its consumption and wider implications for the contemporary world can be examined and re-thought from socio-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. Submissions are encouraged to harness methodologies that seek deep understanding and rich insights on the production, consumption, and lived experiences of influencer marketing. Transdisciplinary empirical, conceptual and theoretical contributions are invited. https://www.jmmnews.com/influencer-marketing/ See more

02.01.2022 Some fabulous lockdown news: DERC Professor Anna Hickey-Moody and her research team including Christine Horn, Marissa Willcox and Eloise Florence have just signed a book contract with Palgrave to be published in their Pivot series. The book titled "Arts based methods for research with children" will be out before the end of the year and will focus on the methods in the Interfaith Childhoods project.

02.01.2022 DERC’s Indigo Holcombe-James is speaking at the Australian Academy of the Humanities 51st Symposium next Monday at 4pm. She will be discussing the potential for technology-driven future creative futures to generate innovative engagement with and between arts communities, art forms and cultural activity, and the influence that digital exclusion has on achieving these. Attendance is free! Register here: https://t.co/LLytH8fPOh?amp=1

02.01.2022 DERC’s Ingrid Richardson and Larissa Hjorth and Jordi Piera-Jimenez's article in New Media & Society, 'The emergent potential of mundane media: Playing Pokémon GO in Badalona, Spain'. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820965879

02.01.2022 Emile Zile presents a new performance in the Gothic and Medieval galleries of NGV International for Triennial EXTRA. Referencing the scientific measurement of light and the once-new technology of the candle as a participant in the development of the Western artistic tradition, his new performance takes place in a subdued, dark environment surrounded by five hundred year old devotional wood carvings. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/triennial-extra-2020/

02.01.2022 Catherine Gomes & Shanton Change have a new book - 'Digital Experiences of International Students: Challenging Assumptions and Rethinking Engagement' This book covers frameworks for understanding the diversity of international students' digital experiences, practical advice and approaches on working in the digital environment to engage with international students. There are a number of assumptions being challenged in this book, while proposing new thinking around engagement. This is not only relevant during a time where much of higher education is conducted in a digital environment but also informs research and practice, going forward. http://ow.ly/bd1I50BMIOM

01.01.2022 DERC's Tania Lewis has a new book chapter: Food politics and the media in digital times: researching household practices as forms of digital food activism In Research Methods for Digital Food Studies Edited By Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager https://www.routledge.com//Leer-Kroga/p/book/9780367819279

01.01.2022 Meet Catherine! #dercfam Associate Professor Catherine Gomes is an ethnographer whose work contributes to the understanding of the evolving migration, mobility and digital media nexus. As a migration and mobility scholar, Catherine specialises on the social, cultural and communication spaces of transient migrants, especially international students, their wellbeing and their digital engagement. Catherines work covers the themes of identity, ethnicity, race, memory and gender.... She is a specialist on the Asia-Pacific with Australia and Singapore being significant fieldwork sites. Catherine has also written about gender and audience reception in Chinese cinemas, and multiculturalism in Singapore cinema. Catherine is editor of the Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies book series (Amsterdam University Press) and founding editor of Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Books). She will be very happy to hear from people with special issue and book ideas! #COVID19conference Catherine is co-convening one of the first global international conferences to bring scholars and practitioners together looking at the impact of the global pademic on international students. Titled Coronavirus and its impact on international students: International education in the time of global disruptions, the event will be held on 10 February 2021. Read more about Catherine here: https://www.rmit.edu.au//gomes-associate-professor-catheri #DERCfam #DERC #DERCresearch #digitalethnography #ethnographymatters #rmit

01.01.2022 On November 5, 2020, DERC Professor Annette Markham will give a public lecture at Linnaeus University on the limits of speculative thinking. Keynote will be recorded. Background for the talk can be found in her recent _New Media & Society_ article https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820929322

01.01.2022 DERC's Larissa Hjorth, co-authors Sarah Pink, Heather Horst and Jolynna Sinanan will be discussing their book Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship through Data. Thursday, 26 November 2020. 3:00 PM 4:30 PM AEDT Registration required. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/book-release-digital-media-