Research Students

Research Students

• Mubarak Abdulla Alkebaisi (Alkubaisi)
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Internet distributed television and the disruption of the business model of cultural goods: Netflix in the Arabian States of the Gulf

• Christel Antonites
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Closing the digital gender divide in South Africa: Evaluating the role of small-scale digital inclusion initiatives

• Dennis Assenmacher
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Unsupervised Social Media Analytics for Detecting Social Bots, Hate Speech and Fake News

• Abdul Aziz
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Rohingya diaspora: Negotiating identity and integration in the digital age

• Alia Azmi
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The role of The Conversation Indonesia in communicating scientific knowledge: Indonesia's digital debates on sexual violence

• Anand Badola
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Analysing the Discursive Dynamics in Social Media

• Louisa Bartolo
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - You might like this, but at what cost? Considering the social responsibilities of digital platforms' recommender systems

• Dominique Carlon
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The life stories of bots in Reddit’s platform culture

• Kunal Chand
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Unveiling the Artificial Intelligence “Black Box”: A study into how artificial intelligence systems profile users based on their data and how these systems work.

• Tegan Cohen
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The Datafied Polity: Voter Privacy in the Context of Political Campaigning

• Sarah Collier
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis - A critical examination of the current workplace systems and culture in the Australian Visual Effects (VFX) Industry through the lens of its labour force

• Rene Cornish
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Dismissal for Social Media Misconduct in the Global South

• Souleymane Coulibaly
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Developing digital inclusion for better health outcomes within African migrant and refugee communities in Australia

• Dan Dai
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Comparative analysis of COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech on Chinese Weibo and the Australian Twittersphere

• Claire Darling
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Remaking authority: A critical exploration of established and emergent digital news organisations and their news-making practices in a post-truth era

• Sean Di Lizio
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Imaginary containers and imaginary coins: e-publishing using smart contracts

• Oliver Eklund
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The Regulatory Gap: Local Content Regulation on Australian Television and the Navigation of Disruptive Distribution

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• Akhmad Firmannamal
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The role of social media for Indonesia's presidential communication strategy

• Mohammed Foysal Chowdhury
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Global Streaming Services Re-shaping the Television and Film Industry of Bangladesh

• Diana Girle
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The legal implications of Australian workers wearing wearable and mobile technologies at work

• Lisa Harrison
  

  DCI Candidate | Thesis - What makes an influencer? Personal branding strategies of successful social media users

• Shubhangi Heda
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Evolving Media Environment in Repressive Regimes: Cultural , Social and Political Implication of Internet Distributed Television

• Aimee Hourigan
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Emerging digital technologies for international development: New digital inclusion agendas

• Yuan Jiang
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Framing the Belt & Road Initiative: Chinese soft power narratives and Australian and Russian Media

• Samantha Kies-Ryan
  

  DCI Candidate | Thesis - Exploring the potential for storytelling as a way of culturally mapping water resources in the Solomon Islands

• Katrin Langton
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - A walk-through of infant feeding apps: understanding the construct of contemporary parenthood

• Dennis Leeftink
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - No tool is a box: Unpacking embedded knowledge to chart digital methods, tools and workflows

• Haili Li
  

  PhD Candidate | Rela and HER: A study of dating application cultures among Chinese queer women in Australia

• Xuan Li
  

  PhD Candidate

• Maxwell Melit
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis - Value perception and consumption habits of online news amongst young Australian adults during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

• Gabriela Monteiro Lunardi
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Exploring the 'Brazilian-ness' of Brazilian YouTube

• Zin Mar Myint
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Peace journalism and conflict reporting practices in Myanmar

• Ashwin Nagappa
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Becoming DTube: The biography of a decentralised video streaming platform

• Bikalpa Rajbhandari
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Data Portability Rights in Australian Digital Agriculture: Improving Data Governance for Sustainable Agriculture

• Robert Rattle
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Negotiating privacy and trust in the geoaware smart city

• Sam Regi
  

  MPhil Student

• Camila Nunes Rinaldi
  

  MPhil Candidate | Thesis - How Non-Binary People Experience Advertising on Instragram

• Aleesha Rodriguez
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - A controversy analysis of Tesla’s (big) battery in Australia

• Sahana Sarkar
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Women’s Experiences and Responses to Cyber-Violence in India and Australia

• Amy Schoonens
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The Online Book Consumption Practices of Teen Readers: Mapping the Digital Ecology of Teen Reading

• Dr Tariq Segal
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - My digital ‘friend’: Design considerations when deploying chatbots in trusted companionship roles

• Yu Shan
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Virtual reality content and business models in China's creative industries

• Hira Sheikh
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s)

• Rhyle Simcock
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Explaining Automated Decision-Making: Enhancing algorithmic transparency in machine learning systems used in public sector decision-making

• Godwin Simon
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Digital Nollywood: Implications of digital distribution for the Nigerian video industry

• Jessica Thiel
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Bridging the gap between education and access to education through the use of OER

• Luke Troynar
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Decoding the Political Ideology of Internet Meme Subcultures Using Pragmasemiotic Methods

• Kirsty Unger
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The automation of decision making in revenue administration: The complexity of the legal issues in an administrative law framework

• Brydon Wang
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Machine superintendence: Automating contract administrative functions and the role of the trusted intermediary in Australian standard form construction contracts

• Yi Wang
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - A Comparative Analysis Between Shenzhen and Brisbane Through Triple Helix Framework

• Xiaoting Yu
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Inclusive Creativity: Wanghong Economy and the Chinese Social Media Entertainment Ecology

• Guangnan Zhu
  

  PhD Candidate