N A Hendry
Biographic Data
| ID | 57102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N A Hendry |
| GIVEN NAMES | N A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendry |
| SIGNATURE | HENDRY N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2591-420X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ontologies of risk in research with young people
Research practices can be framed by ontologies that position the very people and practices we aim to make sense of (and with) in our research. Research examining young people’s digital media experiences can often start from positions of risk that conflate marginality, risk, harm and vulnerability. We question this framing, examining how risk emerges in research practices. Focused on digital research, where new (and older) forms of risk have (re)e…
Beyond colonial-capitalist logics
Guiding young people’s social media use in school policies
Guiding young people’s social media use in school policies: opportunities, risks, moral panics, and imagined futures
Young adults and investing for the future
Young adults' lives are increasingly characterised by uncertainty, which has heightened since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an expectation that they transition into adulthood as entrepreneurial, responsible subjects. In this context, greater numbers of young people are participating as retail investors, motivated by the growing accessibility of financial technologies, including digital brokers. Yet this technological accessibility does not ex…
Digital arts and culture in Australia
This article critically interrogates the promissory discourse underpinning the cultural sectors' 'digital pivot' in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021; namely, that artistic and creative work could be done lucratively online, offer equal opportunities for all, and assure ongoing audience consumption. Drawing on empirical data from two research projects with arts and culture workers in Australia during COVID-19 restrictions, we inv…
Communicating Care - Healing, Therapy and Influencer Practices on Social Media
Building on two case studies, this paper will discuss emerging healing, health and therapy cultures on social media and the role of (micro-)influencers within these cultures. While influencer cultures have become an important field of internet research over the last decade (see for example Abidin, 2015), scholars typically focus on commercial influencers in the context of fashion, beauty, travel, lifestyle genres, and adjacent genres. This paper …
Young citizens in intersecting crises
Contemporary Youth Studies
Teachers of TikTok
During a tumultuous period marked by a global pandemic, forced lockdowns, and educational institutions going 'digital by default', TikTok has emerged as a key platform for teachers to connect and share their experiences. These digital practices have been widely celebrated for providing teachers with an outlet during a challenging time, though little is known about the particulars of TikTok's appeal among teachers and their followers. This article…
Information, influence, ritual, participation
This article draws on Epstein's theorisations of the 'ideal' of sexual health and wellbeing to argue that young people's access to digital sexual health content should not be understood primarily as a process of 'information seeking'. Where digital practices are too narrowly viewed through a lens of information seeking and transmission, there may be an excessive focus on whether sexual health content is 'factual' - overlooking the question of whe…
Hey lovely! Don't miss this opportunity!' Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance
For the wellness industry, email communication, albeit mundane, remains an essential practice even as wellness entrepreneurs embrace newer digital technologies. Drawing on ongoing insights from a larger Australian digital ethnographic project, I explore how these 'wellness emails' - electronic mail communication (outside of social media) that typically circulate wellness-related content through automated email list subscriptions - promise an alwa…
Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The arts and creative industries are among those most affected by government measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This article discusses a qualitative survey study, open between August and October 2020, with creative arts workers living in Victoria, Australia. The study explored experiences of disruptions to work and broader impacts on daily lives during the pandemic. In this article, we examine how participants discuss their work and circu…
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘ influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines
Health and wellness influencers are often criticised as dubious and unqualified sources of health education, presenting highly curated, commercialised lifestyles via social media platforms such as Instagram. While these critiques are important, they also present a narrow reading of complex digital cultures. In this paper, we examine a digital ethnographic case study of Australian entrepreneur and health influencer, Ashy Bines. We argue that Bines…
Platform Specificities
Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analy…
Methods That Move Us
For scholars exploring digital youth cultures, creative research methods offer the potential to disrupt existing power imbalances, form empowering creative practices or closely engage with knowledge production that is dynamic, embodied and socially contextual. Yet the experience of doing creative research methods poses challenges that are often under- or unacknowledged in our work. This roundtable brings together researchers from different countr…
Mediating Mental Illness
How is mental illness conceptualised, designed, experienced or produced by digital life? This panel explores how digital technologies and media are transforming the performance, recognition, and experience of mental illness. We bring together different methodological and theoretical contributions towards an interdisciplinary study of mental illness and digital life. Our first two papers analyse specifically chatbots and ingestible sensors that ar…
Young Women's Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition
What 'counts' as a mental illness-related image matters. Most research attention has focused on distressing or recognizable mental illness-related visual practices, yet this offers partial insight into youth mental health. Using visibility and practice theories, I share an in-depth case study exploring the social media practices of four young women, aged 14-17 years, engaged with an Australian adolescent psychiatric service. They describe how bei…
Untangling the conflation of ‘young adults’ and ‘young people’ in STI and sexual health policy and sex education
Young adults, aged 18–30 years, are disproportionally mentioned in sexually transmissible infection surveillance data both in Australia and internationally. This contributes to categorising young adults as an ‘at risk’ group in health policy. How young adults are framed in policy, and what informs this, have direct implications for policy priorities and responses, including the development of health promotion programmes. In this paper, we provide…
Investigating young people’s sexual cultures
A Snapshot of Social Media
This paper provides a short summary on some of the key debates emerging around visual social media. In particular we discuss the role of camera phones in issues of intimacy and co-presence
Harry Potter and the Millennials
Harry Potter and the Millennials: research methods and the politics of the Muggle generation." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(6), pp. 742–743
Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The arts and creative industries are among those most affected by government measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This article discusses a qualitative survey study, open between August and October 2020, with creative arts workers living in Victoria, Australia. The study explored experiences of disruptions to work and broader impacts on daily lives during the pandemic. In this article, we examine how participants discuss their work and circu…
A Snapshot of Social Media
This paper provides a short summary on some of the key debates emerging around visual social media. In particular we discuss the role of camera phones in issues of intimacy and co-presence
Teachers of TikTok
During a tumultuous period marked by a global pandemic, forced lockdowns, and educational institutions going 'digital by default', TikTok has emerged as a key platform for teachers to connect and share their experiences. These digital practices have been widely celebrated for providing teachers with an outlet during a challenging time, though little is known about the particulars of TikTok's appeal among teachers and their followers. This article…
Young Women's Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition
What 'counts' as a mental illness-related image matters. Most research attention has focused on distressing or recognizable mental illness-related visual practices, yet this offers partial insight into youth mental health. Using visibility and practice theories, I share an in-depth case study exploring the social media practices of four young women, aged 14-17 years, engaged with an Australian adolescent psychiatric service. They describe how bei…
Information, influence, ritual, participation
This article draws on Epstein's theorisations of the 'ideal' of sexual health and wellbeing to argue that young people's access to digital sexual health content should not be understood primarily as a process of 'information seeking'. Where digital practices are too narrowly viewed through a lens of information seeking and transmission, there may be an excessive focus on whether sexual health content is 'factual' - overlooking the question of whe…
Young adults and investing for the future
Young adults' lives are increasingly characterised by uncertainty, which has heightened since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an expectation that they transition into adulthood as entrepreneurial, responsible subjects. In this context, greater numbers of young people are participating as retail investors, motivated by the growing accessibility of financial technologies, including digital brokers. Yet this technological accessibility does not ex…
Guiding young people’s social media use in school policies
Guiding young people’s social media use in school policies: opportunities, risks, moral panics, and imagined futures
Digital arts and culture in Australia
This article critically interrogates the promissory discourse underpinning the cultural sectors' 'digital pivot' in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021; namely, that artistic and creative work could be done lucratively online, offer equal opportunities for all, and assure ongoing audience consumption. Drawing on empirical data from two research projects with arts and culture workers in Australia during COVID-19 restrictions, we inv…
Harry Potter and the Millennials
Harry Potter and the Millennials: research methods and the politics of the Muggle generation." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(6), pp. 742–743
Harry Potter and the Millennials
Harry Potter and the Millennials: research methods and the politics of the Muggle generation." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(6), pp. 742–743
Investigating young people’s sexual cultures
A Snapshot of Social Media
This paper provides a short summary on some of the key debates emerging around visual social media. In particular we discuss the role of camera phones in issues of intimacy and co-presence
Untangling the conflation of ‘young adults’ and ‘young people’ in STI and sexual health policy and sex education
Young adults, aged 18–30 years, are disproportionally mentioned in sexually transmissible infection surveillance data both in Australia and internationally. This contributes to categorising young adults as an ‘at risk’ group in health policy. How young adults are framed in policy, and what informs this, have direct implications for policy priorities and responses, including the development of health promotion programmes. In this paper, we provide…
Methods That Move Us
For scholars exploring digital youth cultures, creative research methods offer the potential to disrupt existing power imbalances, form empowering creative practices or closely engage with knowledge production that is dynamic, embodied and socially contextual. Yet the experience of doing creative research methods poses challenges that are often under- or unacknowledged in our work. This roundtable brings together researchers from different countr…
Mediating Mental Illness
How is mental illness conceptualised, designed, experienced or produced by digital life? This panel explores how digital technologies and media are transforming the performance, recognition, and experience of mental illness. We bring together different methodological and theoretical contributions towards an interdisciplinary study of mental illness and digital life. Our first two papers analyse specifically chatbots and ingestible sensors that ar…
Young Women's Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition
What 'counts' as a mental illness-related image matters. Most research attention has focused on distressing or recognizable mental illness-related visual practices, yet this offers partial insight into youth mental health. Using visibility and practice theories, I share an in-depth case study exploring the social media practices of four young women, aged 14-17 years, engaged with an Australian adolescent psychiatric service. They describe how bei…
Platform Specificities
Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analy…
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘ influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines
Health and wellness influencers are often criticised as dubious and unqualified sources of health education, presenting highly curated, commercialised lifestyles via social media platforms such as Instagram. While these critiques are important, they also present a narrow reading of complex digital cultures. In this paper, we examine a digital ethnographic case study of Australian entrepreneur and health influencer, Ashy Bines. We argue that Bines…
Communicating Care - Healing, Therapy and Influencer Practices on Social Media
Building on two case studies, this paper will discuss emerging healing, health and therapy cultures on social media and the role of (micro-)influencers within these cultures. While influencer cultures have become an important field of internet research over the last decade (see for example Abidin, 2015), scholars typically focus on commercial influencers in the context of fashion, beauty, travel, lifestyle genres, and adjacent genres. This paper …
Young citizens in intersecting crises
Contemporary Youth Studies
Teachers of TikTok
During a tumultuous period marked by a global pandemic, forced lockdowns, and educational institutions going 'digital by default', TikTok has emerged as a key platform for teachers to connect and share their experiences. These digital practices have been widely celebrated for providing teachers with an outlet during a challenging time, though little is known about the particulars of TikTok's appeal among teachers and their followers. This article…
Information, influence, ritual, participation
This article draws on Epstein's theorisations of the 'ideal' of sexual health and wellbeing to argue that young people's access to digital sexual health content should not be understood primarily as a process of 'information seeking'. Where digital practices are too narrowly viewed through a lens of information seeking and transmission, there may be an excessive focus on whether sexual health content is 'factual' - overlooking the question of whe…
Hey lovely! Don't miss this opportunity!' Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance
For the wellness industry, email communication, albeit mundane, remains an essential practice even as wellness entrepreneurs embrace newer digital technologies. Drawing on ongoing insights from a larger Australian digital ethnographic project, I explore how these 'wellness emails' - electronic mail communication (outside of social media) that typically circulate wellness-related content through automated email list subscriptions - promise an alwa…
Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The arts and creative industries are among those most affected by government measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This article discusses a qualitative survey study, open between August and October 2020, with creative arts workers living in Victoria, Australia. The study explored experiences of disruptions to work and broader impacts on daily lives during the pandemic. In this article, we examine how participants discuss their work and circu…
Digital arts and culture in Australia
This article critically interrogates the promissory discourse underpinning the cultural sectors' 'digital pivot' in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021; namely, that artistic and creative work could be done lucratively online, offer equal opportunities for all, and assure ongoing audience consumption. Drawing on empirical data from two research projects with arts and culture workers in Australia during COVID-19 restrictions, we inv…
Guiding young people’s social media use in school policies
Guiding young people’s social media use in school policies: opportunities, risks, moral panics, and imagined futures
Young adults and investing for the future
Young adults' lives are increasingly characterised by uncertainty, which has heightened since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an expectation that they transition into adulthood as entrepreneurial, responsible subjects. In this context, greater numbers of young people are participating as retail investors, motivated by the growing accessibility of financial technologies, including digital brokers. Yet this technological accessibility does not ex…
Ontologies of risk in research with young people
Research practices can be framed by ontologies that position the very people and practices we aim to make sense of (and with) in our research. Research examining young people’s digital media experiences can often start from positions of risk that conflate marginality, risk, harm and vulnerability. We question this framing, examining how risk emerges in research practices. Focused on digital research, where new (and older) forms of risk have (re)e…
Beyond colonial-capitalist logics
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social media (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works)