Debra Dudek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Dudek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudek |
| SIGNATURE | DUDEK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2882-8830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse
Young people’s experiences with sexual content online are a regularly featured popular topic in news media, feeding heated ongoing policy and academic debates. Concerns and calls for further regulation and youth’s self-regulation are exacerbated when celebrities and popular public figures share statements and confessions about their own sexual lives at a young age. In this article, we study the discursive conditions of media coverage and the cele…
Young people’s perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
Harm—and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by adolescents themselves—is a key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography. This essay situates the topic of this special issue—adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content—within a broader context of the discourses and practices that inform research in this field. We show how discourses of harm an…
Predator and Prey
Wondering about a Love Literacy
Romancing the Fantasy: #Booklove TikTok has been credited with encouraging young readers to #booklove through its BookTok community. However, the BookTok “trend for ‘spicy’ (i.e. sexy) books has led to fears children may be reading titles with adult content” (Knight). To ascertain the tenor of the adult content in these sexy books, we analyse a popular BookTok novel known for its spicy sex scenes: A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOMAF), a novel by Sar…
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities
This book is both a reflection and a call for a greater understanding of the complexity and importance of love in our lives and in our world.
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities
Tox and Detox
Introduction The public sphere includes a range of credible discourses asserting that a proportion of teenagers (“teens”) has an unhealthy dependence upon continuous connection with media devices, and especially smartphones. A review of media discourse (Jaunzems et al.) in Australia, and a critical review of public discourse in Australia and Belgium (Zaman et al.), reveal both positive and negative commentary around screentime. Despite the “emoti…
‘Own your narrative’
Netflix’s Sex Education both represents sex education and educates viewers about sex. From the opening scene of the first episode, viewers are positioned to see this series as one that is not afraid to represent explicitly the details of a range of sexual experiences. The series’ frank depiction of sexual relationships between characters, and its exploration of characters’ hopes, fears, and choices regarding ways to express their sexual desire is…
Metaphysics of Children’s Literature
Metaphysics of Children’s Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains." English Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Silent sequences and ontological entanglement in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Pat Grant’s Blue
Shaun Tan’s The Arrival depicts the story of a man who leaves his partner and daughter to find a new home for them all in a far away place. Rendered entirely without words, the story is ultimately a utopian narrative that portrays a world in which migrants are greeted with generosity and kindness by the people they encounter upon their arrival. Pat Grant’s Blue also features a story about migration. In Blue, however, the immigrants are treated wi…
Disturbing Thoughts
Two picture books titled The Island, one written and illustrated by Armin Greder and the other written by John Heffernan and illustrated by Peter Sheehan, address the treatment of refugees in Australia and function as an allegory for any situation in which a community mistreats an outsider. Readers bear witness to unethical behaviour by a group that is offset by the compassionate actions of an individual. The books differ in the means by which th…
Young people’s perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
Harm—and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by adolescents themselves—is a key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography. This essay situates the topic of this special issue—adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content—within a broader context of the discourses and practices that inform research in this field. We show how discourses of harm an…
Disturbing Thoughts
Two picture books titled The Island, one written and illustrated by Armin Greder and the other written by John Heffernan and illustrated by Peter Sheehan, address the treatment of refugees in Australia and function as an allegory for any situation in which a community mistreats an outsider. Readers bear witness to unethical behaviour by a group that is offset by the compassionate actions of an individual. The books differ in the means by which th…
Silent sequences and ontological entanglement in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Pat Grant’s Blue
Shaun Tan’s The Arrival depicts the story of a man who leaves his partner and daughter to find a new home for them all in a far away place. Rendered entirely without words, the story is ultimately a utopian narrative that portrays a world in which migrants are greeted with generosity and kindness by the people they encounter upon their arrival. Pat Grant’s Blue also features a story about migration. In Blue, however, the immigrants are treated wi…
Tox and Detox
Introduction The public sphere includes a range of credible discourses asserting that a proportion of teenagers (“teens”) has an unhealthy dependence upon continuous connection with media devices, and especially smartphones. A review of media discourse (Jaunzems et al.) in Australia, and a critical review of public discourse in Australia and Belgium (Zaman et al.), reveal both positive and negative commentary around screentime. Despite the “emoti…
‘Own your narrative’
Netflix’s Sex Education both represents sex education and educates viewers about sex. From the opening scene of the first episode, viewers are positioned to see this series as one that is not afraid to represent explicitly the details of a range of sexual experiences. The series’ frank depiction of sexual relationships between characters, and its exploration of characters’ hopes, fears, and choices regarding ways to express their sexual desire is…
Metaphysics of Children’s Literature
Metaphysics of Children’s Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains." English Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities
This book is both a reflection and a call for a greater understanding of the complexity and importance of love in our lives and in our world.
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities
Wondering about a Love Literacy
Romancing the Fantasy: #Booklove TikTok has been credited with encouraging young readers to #booklove through its BookTok community. However, the BookTok “trend for ‘spicy’ (i.e. sexy) books has led to fears children may be reading titles with adult content” (Knight). To ascertain the tenor of the adult content in these sexy books, we analyse a popular BookTok novel known for its spicy sex scenes: A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOMAF), a novel by Sar…
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse
Young people’s experiences with sexual content online are a regularly featured popular topic in news media, feeding heated ongoing policy and academic debates. Concerns and calls for further regulation and youth’s self-regulation are exacerbated when celebrities and popular public figures share statements and confessions about their own sexual lives at a young age. In this article, we study the discursive conditions of media coverage and the cele…
Young people’s perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
Harm—and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by adolescents themselves—is a key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography. This essay situates the topic of this special issue—adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content—within a broader context of the discourses and practices that inform research in this field. We show how discourses of harm an…
Predator and Prey
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (3 works)