K Albury
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 21246 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K Albury |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | Albury |
| ASSINATURA | ALBURY K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9043-8126 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 293 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Glitchy Sextech
Sextech devices offer new opportunities for sexual exploration, learning, and play. In Cindy Gallop’s (2015) influential definition of sextech as technologies ‘designed to enhance, innovate and disrupt in every area of human sexuality and human sexual experience’, an almost revolutionary power to transform sex is at the forefront. But sextech is also inherently glitchy as apps, platforms, and connections are bound to fail or break, making interru…
Exploring LGBTQ+ people’s perception of belonging in sport and leisure
Digital determinants of sexual and reproductive health—workforce perspectives on digital and data literacies
This article explores the impact of digital transformation on sexual and reproductive health promotion from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the implications of rapidly evolving policy landscapes for the Australian health promotion workforce. We draw on 29 key informant interviews and workshops with 18 current sexual and reproductive health professionals (aged 18–29). Both groups were invited to reflect on how digital and data litera…
Sextech Industries and Cultures
The industry of sextech is on the rise. But while the term sextech has been applied to a wide range of intimate technologies, it is often understood in terms of technologies that enhance or improve sex in an individualist manner. This panel instead furthers an understanding less concerned with sexuality as a question of technological optimisation, and more invested in sextech as technologies, not only for pleasure and health, but also for regulat…
From Tech-Solutionism to Community-Centred Data Capability for Disaster Preparedness
The urgency of enhancing community resilience in the face of escalating disasters necessitates a shift in disaster preparedness strategies. This paper presents a novel approach developed in collaboration with the Australian Red Cross, focusing on community-centred data practices for disaster resilience. Recognising the limitations of traditional digital humanitarianism, which largely relied on crowdsourcing and social platform data, our project s…
Revitalising the Concept of the Everyday in Internet Research
In an academic milieu in which a lot of critical attention is dedicated to the data-grabbing, algorithmically biased, and asymmetrical power of massive techno-corporations, this panel explores how a focus on situated ordinary practices can provide us with a more complex, nuanced, and even at times contradictory account of what happens when pervasive digital technologies are experienced in everyday life. It does so via a combination of empirical r…
User Input in the Development of Digital Sexual Health Tools
Between commodified and improvisational pleasures
Sexual pleasure is a question of sexual justice and sexual rights in so far as who is allowed or denied pleasure is a vital issue for queer, trans, and nonbinary people. Pleasure is also intimately a technological question as sex was always entangled with and regulated by technologies. In this article, we seek to delineate a queer politics of pleasure by exploring LGBTQ+ people’s uses and experiences of sextech in Australia and Sweden with a spec…
From Digital Health Literacy to a Digital and Data Capabilities Approach to Sexual Health
Introduction This article presents a narrative review of scholarly literature addressing the intersection of digital technologies and sexual health, to better understand how digital literacy is currently defined and assessed in this context. It critically reflects on cross-disciplinary literature from across sexual health, digital literacy, and data literacy, to better understand the implications of emergent Australian policy agendas for sexual h…
It’s not just pink, fluffy handcuffs
Sextech is often marketed as a novel, progressive and innovative field that combats stigma, enhances pleasure and redresses health inequities. However, where it straddles aspirations for social change, business entrepreneurship and capital-raising, the visions and investments of sextech can be in conflict. In this paper, we explore tensions in sextech design as they emerged at a three-day virtual Public Interest Sextech Hackathon. The deliberatio…
Data for Social Good
This open access book provides guidance for organisations in the community sector on how to get started with community data science projects.
Sex tech entrepreneurs
Sextech is currently experiencing a golden age, promising technological innovation to improve sexual health and well-being. However, the privacy and security vulnerabilities of smart sex toys have been the subject of media attention. Dating apps, menstrual trackers and sex toy companies have paid millions in compensation for non-consensually collecting or sharing intimate data. In this article, we share findings from a research workshop with pros…
A Qualitative Exploration of Young Australians’ Lived Experiences of Social Media Use and Sexual Agency
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…
Surveillance does not equal safety
As dating apps continue to receive pressure from civil society, media and governments to address a range of safety concerns, technology companies have developed and deployed a spate of new safety features. Taken together, these features rely upon increased surveillance and partnerships with both technology start-up companies and law enforcement agencies proposed as responses to sexual harassment and abuse. In this article, we draw on empirical ac…
Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods
In this paper, we explore the methodologies underpinning two participatory research collaborations with Australian non-profit organisations that aimed to build data capability and social benefit in data use. We suggest that studying and intervening in data practices in situ, that is, in organisational data settings expands opportunities for improving the social value of data. These situated and collaborative approaches not only address the 'exper…
Men seeking women
This paper draws on qualitative research conducted with cis men aged 18–35, who used dating apps to meet women both before and during COVID-19 lockdown. Men in our study — which sought to better understand the aspects of app use that make young people feel safer or less safe — offered affectively loaded accounts of app use, which featured racialized and gendered experiences of ‘awkwardness’, shame, and contempt. Our analysis engages with Bollen a…
Hooking up with friends
Research exploring digital intimate publics tends to consider social media platforms and dating/hook-up apps separately, implying distance between social and sexual communication practices. This paper troubles that delineation by drawing on LGBTQ+ young people’s accounts of negotiating safety and risk in dating/hook-up apps, in which friendship practices are significant. We explore four key themes of friendship that arose in our analysis of inter…
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
Not your unicorn
The Feminist Press] framework of 'pharmacopornographisation', the analysis aims to contextualise participants' experiences of being 'seen' and 'known' by health professionals and other app users. Our findings indicate that both dating apps and sexual health services rely on reductive systems of sorting and categorisation that reinforce binary understandings of genders and sexualities in order to facilitate data management and information sharing …
Digital Cultures of Care, Safety and Wellbeing
Practices of self-care and social support have long been identified across social media platforms and apps, as people find new ways of using and adapting digital technologies to mediate and address personal and public health issues. But digital health participation is considerably contested and unevenly experienced, whether through the commodified ‘platformization’ of the health sector, or in the potentially ‘unhealthy’ engagement with dominant s…
Older People's Digital Lives
Drawing from a conceptual framework that problematises and redefines the digital lives of older people aged 65 years and over, this panel explores how older people engage with digital communication tools and skills, and the way this plays out in their everyday lives. Each paper situates older people as experiencing a rich social life integrated with digital technologies and understood in terms of multi-faceted disparities in internet use, skills …
I still want to know they’re not terrible people’
Digital media has played a historical role in orienting LGBTQ+ young people’s notions of ‘community’ around performances of identity and selfhood. In our research with LGBTQ+ dating app users aged 18–35, ‘queer community’ materialised in relation to participants’ expectations of ethical alignment with others, with an emphasis on performing a reflexive self who was clear and consistent in what they sought on apps. Participants described apps as pr…
Dating apps as public health 'problems
In this paper we examine how popular media reporting positions dating and hookup app use as a 'social problem' that impacts on health and wellbeing. The paper adopts a mixed-methods media studies approach to create and analyse a dataset of over 6,000 international news articles published within a 12-month period, drawing on thematic content analysis and inductive and deductive techniques. These analyses are framed in relation to online consultati…
Sexting, consent and young people's ethics
This article contrasts the Megan's Story campaign, a recent Australian media and policy response to sexting (the act of taking and transmitting naked or semi-naked pictures via mobile phones) with interview responses drawn from an Australian study that has asked young people about mobiles and sexting. It considers local and international responses to sexting as ‘child pornography,’ raising questions about the adequacy and appropriateness of crimi…
Safe on My Phone? Same-Sex Attracted Young People's Negotiations of Intimacy, Visibility, and Risk on Digital Hook-Up Apps
This article draws on focus group interviews with same-sex attracted Australian men and women aged 18-29, to reflect on their accounts of the perceived risks and opportunities offered by hook-up apps such as Grindr, Blendr, and Hornet. Until recently, scholarly accounts of same-sex attracted men hooking up online have primarily focused on measuring the safety of sexual encounters in relation to HIV and 'risky' sexual practices. This article exten…
Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps
The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concerns about privacy arising in the context of mobile and locative media. Despite their wide adoption and economic importance, mobile dating apps have received little scholarly attention from this perspect…
Porn and sex education, porn as sex education
Both popular and academic discussions of pornography have explored the question of sexually explicit texts as pedagogy. While many commentators and scholars have acknowledged the educational qualities of pornography, there is no universal consensus as to what porn teaches its consumers and how it works as an educator. Pornography is increasingly itself the subject of educational texts, with ‘porn literacy’ being debated as a potential addition to…
Reading Porn Reparatively
Feminist thinking on pornography since the early 1980s has tended to polarize into 'pro' and 'anti' camps. Within both camps, there is a tendency to rely on moral frameworks that rely on either/or understandings of what pornography is, and what it does. This article draws on Michel Foucault's theory of ethics to offer, in Eve Sedgwick's terms, a reparative yet still critical model for feminist porn studies
It would be weird to have that on Facebook
In today's media environment, information is not simply passed from producers to consumers, but is mediated by participants of new media cultures, including information on sexual health. In focus groups held in Sydney and regional Australia in 2011, we asked young people aged 16-22 about the potential for sexual health promotion via Facebook and other social media. Our findings point to the complex ways in which young people use social media, and…
Just because it’s public doesn’t mean it’s any of your business
This article engages with media responses to the 2015 Ashley Madison hack (which largely exposed the sexual details of adult heterosexual men) and the 2014 ‘Fappening’ hack (which exposed private sexual images of adult female celebrities). It draws on Petchesky’s concept of positive sexual rights and Warner’s framework of sexual ethics to reflect on the ways current educational and policy responses to ‘teen sexting’ (or sharing nude/semi-nude pic…
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
I still want to know they’re not terrible people’
Digital media has played a historical role in orienting LGBTQ+ young people’s notions of ‘community’ around performances of identity and selfhood. In our research with LGBTQ+ dating app users aged 18–35, ‘queer community’ materialised in relation to participants’ expectations of ethical alignment with others, with an emphasis on performing a reflexive self who was clear and consistent in what they sought on apps. Participants described apps as pr…
Hooking up with friends
Research exploring digital intimate publics tends to consider social media platforms and dating/hook-up apps separately, implying distance between social and sexual communication practices. This paper troubles that delineation by drawing on LGBTQ+ young people’s accounts of negotiating safety and risk in dating/hook-up apps, in which friendship practices are significant. We explore four key themes of friendship that arose in our analysis of inter…
Queering Sexting and Sexualisation
Recent Australian research on 'sexting' (the production and exchange of naked and semi-naked digital pictures) has observed that formal legal and educational discourses have failed to fully account for young people's understandings and experiences. While there is a proliferation of scholarly and popular texts focusing on the risks that sexting might pose to young (heterosexual) women, there is a relative absence of academic, educational or popula…
Too Much? Too Young? The Sexualisation of Children Debate in Australia
This article considers the origins and focus of current Australian debates around the alleged 'sexualisation' of children and young people. It explores the popular discourses around youth and sexuality and unpacks the assumptions and contradictions that underwrite them, by addressing the terms of reference of the Australian Senate's 2008 Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media Inquiry. The article concludes by outlining some proposed …
Sex tech entrepreneurs
Sextech is currently experiencing a golden age, promising technological innovation to improve sexual health and well-being. However, the privacy and security vulnerabilities of smart sex toys have been the subject of media attention. Dating apps, menstrual trackers and sex toy companies have paid millions in compensation for non-consensually collecting or sharing intimate data. In this article, we share findings from a research workshop with pros…
Locked down apps versus the social media ecology
This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought…
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…
Surveillance does not equal safety
As dating apps continue to receive pressure from civil society, media and governments to address a range of safety concerns, technology companies have developed and deployed a spate of new safety features. Taken together, these features rely upon increased surveillance and partnerships with both technology start-up companies and law enforcement agencies proposed as responses to sexual harassment and abuse. In this article, we draw on empirical ac…
Not your unicorn
The Feminist Press] framework of 'pharmacopornographisation', the analysis aims to contextualise participants' experiences of being 'seen' and 'known' by health professionals and other app users. Our findings indicate that both dating apps and sexual health services rely on reductive systems of sorting and categorisation that reinforce binary understandings of genders and sexualities in order to facilitate data management and information sharing …
Dating apps as public health 'problems
In this paper we examine how popular media reporting positions dating and hookup app use as a 'social problem' that impacts on health and wellbeing. The paper adopts a mixed-methods media studies approach to create and analyse a dataset of over 6,000 international news articles published within a 12-month period, drawing on thematic content analysis and inductive and deductive techniques. These analyses are framed in relation to online consultati…
Recognition of competition' versus Will to App
Recent Australian research has found that young people (broadly defined as 15-30-year-olds) express a strong preference for seeking out digital sexual health information that is produced by authoritative sources (e.g. government websites), but are more likely to share material that is funny and/or features intimate first-person narratives. This produces a tension for sexual health messaging that aims to flag credibility, but also 'spreadability' …
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…
Full-body-mega-kundalinigasm
It’s not just pink, fluffy handcuffs
Sextech is often marketed as a novel, progressive and innovative field that combats stigma, enhances pleasure and redresses health inequities. However, where it straddles aspirations for social change, business entrepreneurship and capital-raising, the visions and investments of sextech can be in conflict. In this paper, we explore tensions in sextech design as they emerged at a three-day virtual Public Interest Sextech Hackathon. The deliberatio…
Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods
In this paper, we explore the methodologies underpinning two participatory research collaborations with Australian non-profit organisations that aimed to build data capability and social benefit in data use. We suggest that studying and intervening in data practices in situ, that is, in organisational data settings expands opportunities for improving the social value of data. These situated and collaborative approaches not only address the 'exper…
A Qualitative Exploration of Young Australians’ Lived Experiences of Social Media Use and Sexual Agency
Introduction
Spanking stories
(1998). Spanking stories: Writing and reading bad female heterosex. Continuum: Vol. 12, Censorship and pornography, pp. 55-68
Instant Sexpert
This paper investigates the notion of academic expertise in relation to medico/sexual matters within the context of an anecdotal account of the author's transformation from scholarly academic researcher to satirist and media 'sexpert'. In examining these different modes of knowing about sex and sexuality, the paper raises questions about their relative value, and explores the nature of both academic and media expectations of experts. What, the pa…
Spaceship Triple J
This article explores Triple J's evolution from radical Sydney radio station to 'National Youth Network'. In particular, it discusses Triple J's successful construction of a 'national youth audience', according to Thornton's (1994, 1995) definitions of 'subcultural capital
Full-body-mega-kundalinigasm
Full-body-mega-kundalinigasm
Homer versus Homer
Despite growing work on the educational potential of digital media, literacy debates in Australia have remained locked in a banal opposition between serious educational aims and trivial entertainment media. To reinvigorate these debates, this article overviews progressive approaches to media literacy and case studies debates around the sexualisation of girls and young women in popular media. Ultimately, the authors - drawing on their submission t…
Reading Porn Reparatively
Feminist thinking on pornography since the early 1980s has tended to polarize into 'pro' and 'anti' camps. Within both camps, there is a tendency to rely on moral frameworks that rely on either/or understandings of what pornography is, and what it does. This article draws on Michel Foucault's theory of ethics to offer, in Eve Sedgwick's terms, a reparative yet still critical model for feminist porn studies
Healthy Sexual Development
A group of Australian researchers from a range of disciplines involved in studying children's sexual development developed a framework for researching healthy sexual development that was acceptable to all disciplines involved. The 15 domains identified were: freedom from unwanted activity; an understanding of consent; education about biological aspects; understanding of safety; relationship skills; agency; lifelong learning; resilience; open comm…
Too Much? Too Young? The Sexualisation of Children Debate in Australia
This article considers the origins and focus of current Australian debates around the alleged 'sexualisation' of children and young people. It explores the popular discourses around youth and sexuality and unpacks the assumptions and contradictions that underwrite them, by addressing the terms of reference of the Australian Senate's 2008 Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media Inquiry. The article concludes by outlining some proposed …
Introduction
Since the 2008 Australian Senate Inquiry into the Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media Environment, both the British and Scottish governments have conducted their own inquiries into the role that mediated representations of sex and/or sexuality play in the lives of children and young people. At the same time, scholars, commentators, activists and educators have continued to debate the boundaries between 'art' and 'pornography' in r…
Playing by the rules
In 2004, the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) commissioned the Playing By The Rules research project in response to allegations of sexual assault by members of a professional rugby league team. This article offers an overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches adopted by the team, and the subsequent workplace education programmes designed to promote ethical sexual behaviour and attitudes within NRL culture. The researchers ref…
Sexting, consent and young people's ethics
This article contrasts the Megan's Story campaign, a recent Australian media and policy response to sexting (the act of taking and transmitting naked or semi-naked pictures via mobile phones) with interview responses drawn from an Australian study that has asked young people about mobiles and sexting. It considers local and international responses to sexting as ‘child pornography,’ raising questions about the adequacy and appropriateness of crimi…
Young people, media and sexual learning
This paper outlines the ways in which media and cultural studies methodologies have been engaged with in order to conduct an investigation into the interplay between media and sexual learning in an Australian context. It brings ‘media practice’, ‘listening’ theory and ‘reparative reading’ together with interviews with Australian sexuality educators in order to consider how theoretical understandings of media's role in sexual learning might be pro…
It would be weird to have that on Facebook
In today's media environment, information is not simply passed from producers to consumers, but is mediated by participants of new media cultures, including information on sexual health. In focus groups held in Sydney and regional Australia in 2011, we asked young people aged 16-22 about the potential for sexual health promotion via Facebook and other social media. Our findings point to the complex ways in which young people use social media, and…
Porn and sex education, porn as sex education
Both popular and academic discussions of pornography have explored the question of sexually explicit texts as pedagogy. While many commentators and scholars have acknowledged the educational qualities of pornography, there is no universal consensus as to what porn teaches its consumers and how it works as an educator. Pornography is increasingly itself the subject of educational texts, with ‘porn literacy’ being debated as a potential addition to…
Queering Sexting and Sexualisation
Recent Australian research on 'sexting' (the production and exchange of naked and semi-naked digital pictures) has observed that formal legal and educational discourses have failed to fully account for young people's understandings and experiences. While there is a proliferation of scholarly and popular texts focusing on the risks that sexting might pose to young (heterosexual) women, there is a relative absence of academic, educational or popula…
Identity plus? Bi-curiosity, sexual adventurism and the boundaries of ‘straight’ sexual practices and identities
This article reflects on interview and survey data from a study of non-gay-and-lesbian-identified sex-partiers in New South Wales, Australia, to consider the ways that participants in ‘alternative’ sex sub-cultures (such as BDSM/fetish and swinging) challenge conventional understandings of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual identity. It seeks to unpack the various meanings that ‘sexual identity’ might hold for those who are both strongly heter…
Iloveclaude.com
While many sexual health promotion campaigns in Australia targeting gay men have utilized erotic imagery, this approach is rarely deployed by projects targeting other populations. This paper reflects on the development of an innovative project targeting sexually adventurous women, emphasizing sexual behaviour such as kink/multiple partner play rather than sexual identity. While the suite of resources include safer-sex and safer-piercing ‘play pac…
Safe on My Phone? Same-Sex Attracted Young People's Negotiations of Intimacy, Visibility, and Risk on Digital Hook-Up Apps
This article draws on focus group interviews with same-sex attracted Australian men and women aged 18-29, to reflect on their accounts of the perceived risks and opportunities offered by hook-up apps such as Grindr, Blendr, and Hornet. Until recently, scholarly accounts of same-sex attracted men hooking up online have primarily focused on measuring the safety of sexual encounters in relation to HIV and 'risky' sexual practices. This article exten…
Just because it’s public doesn’t mean it’s any of your business
This article engages with media responses to the 2015 Ashley Madison hack (which largely exposed the sexual details of adult heterosexual men) and the 2014 ‘Fappening’ hack (which exposed private sexual images of adult female celebrities). It draws on Petchesky’s concept of positive sexual rights and Warner’s framework of sexual ethics to reflect on the ways current educational and policy responses to ‘teen sexting’ (or sharing nude/semi-nude pic…
Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps
The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concerns about privacy arising in the context of mobile and locative media. Despite their wide adoption and economic importance, mobile dating apps have received little scholarly attention from this perspect…
Young people, digital media research and counterpublic sexual health
Porn and participation
In late 2016, I was invited by the editors of an academic news site to contribute an article presenting my views on whether or not porn should be screened as part of sexuality education classes. I
Locked down apps versus the social media ecology
This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought…
Introduction
Sociology (41 obras) · Political science (36 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (32 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (29 obras) · Psychology (27 obras) · Gender Studies (23 obras) · Law (19 obras) · Computer Science (17 obras) · Internet privacy (14 obras) · Media studies (13 obras)