Michael Dezuanni
Biographic Data
| ID | 307947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Dezuanni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Dezuanni |
| SIGNATURE | DEZUANNI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2278-8455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unlearning journalism through decolonising, Indigenous approaches
Journalism has both contributed to shaping and been shaped by colonialism and has reproduced the status quo at the expense of those on the margins. Considering this reality, this study explores how journalism education and practice can be unlearned through a decolonising, Indigenous standpoint. It does this through an Indigenous co-led approach that brings together journalism students, journalism academics, and working journalists with family con…
Mistrust as a precondition for critical thinking and media literacy
Media literacy can help individuals identify misinformation, including content that is deliberately and falsely presented as news. A key yet underexplored component of media literacy is how mistrust acts as a precondition for a critical disposition towards information sources and the claims they make. This study introduces the concept of mistrust within the context of verifying information and explores its relationship to media literacy. We condu…
Digital citizenship education with 3–5-year-olds in an Australian kindergarten
In an increasingly digitally complex world, it is important that young children develop an understanding of digital technology. Digital Citizenship Education is often introduced in primary school or even secondary school contexts. However, recent research has called for introducing Digital Citizenship Education earlier to include children attending early childhood education and care settings. This study reports on a project where an early childho…
Everyday encounters with misinformation online: Examining sources, topics and modes
Moving In and Out of Reading: Teens Talking About Books, Digital Games, Social Media and Fanfiction
This article examines teens' recreational reading activities as they move between books and digital media. It uses the model of connected reading to understand connections between teen reading practices and digital pastimes. Using focus group data, we draw on participants' experiences with books, fan texts, video games, and social media and video content to explore recreational reading alongside engagement with digital media. The article suggests…
The Digital Childhood Industry
Many children lead lives that are heavily influenced by the digital world, whether that’s through digital products, services, and practices made for them, or made about them. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions, including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life. In this panel, we examine some of the ways digital childhood is mediated through Industry. In partic…
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy
Children in current times are likely to encounter algorithms, particularly recommendation systems, as part of their everyday media experiences. In this paper we consider children’s use of algorithms from a media literacy perspective, namely through curatorship practices. We detail a pilot workshop where children had opportunities to develop understandings and critically reflect on algorithms through non-digital media production. Children engaged …
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children
This article examines current Australian research about digital media use by families with young children. Informed by a scoping review of 55 publications (2017–2022), we use select findings as departure points to consider how Australian media and communications research can meaningfully contribute to both local and international knowledge. We find that current Australian research largely mirrors international trends, particularly in its lack of …
BookTok's Peer Pedagogies: Invitations to Learn About Books and Reading on TikTok
This article extends the idea of media pedagogies to consider how TikTok provides a site of social learning about books and reading. It uses the concept of 'peer pedagogies' to identify how the #BookTok hashtag is used to invite book and reading enthusiasts to take up learning positions. The article uses an exploratory approach to identify contrasting videos in which learning about books and reading is made available, and it undertakes an in-dept…
Using YouTube to seek answers and make decisions: Implications for Australian adult media and information literacy
This article argues that it is necessary to develop new approaches to media and information literacy (MIL) education to respond to information seeking on YouTube. The article draws on data from a survey of adult Australians (N=3,510), focusing on their media literacy attitudes, experiences, and needs. A subset of this data focuses on respondents who use YouTube to seek information for a purpose. The article interrogates the data to ask who uses Y…
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement
Internet and media use can provide accessible, diverse, and timely opportunities for civic engagement. However, to use media and the internet to interact and collaborate, citizens need to be equipped with particular skills and knowledge. This study draws on a national survey of Australian adults (N = 3,510) to examine how media abilities and online interaction activities are related to their civic engagement. The findings suggest that the more ac…
Selfies and shelfies on #bookstagram and #booktok – social media and the mediation of Australian teen reading
This article explores how selfies and shelfies on the digital platforms Instagram and TikTok contribute to the dynamics of intermediation for Australian teen readers by presenting two contrasting case studies. The first features Australian Bookstagrammer @BookBookOwl whose social media accounts feature aspirational content in which identity construction is attached to her expertise as a bookstagrammer and book lover. The second is the TikTok acco…
How news media literacy is taught in Australian classrooms
Critical factors of digital AgTech adoption on Australian farms: From digital to data divide
As global agricultural production methods and supply chains have become more digitised, farmers around the world are adopting digital agricultural technologies (AgTech) such as drones, IoT, remote sensors, blockchain and satellite imagery to inform on-farm decision-making. Yet, on the backdrop of a persistent digital divide between rural and urban communities, many Australian farmers are not taking up digital AgTech. It has been argued that these…
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences
Studies that examine the news engagement practices of school students usually examine children or teenagers, and this precludes an examination of the similarities and differences between these groups. In 2020, we carried out a nationally representative survey of the news practices and experiences of young Australians aged 8–16 years and we compared the results for those aged 8–12 years and 13–16 years. The findings demonstrate that family is the …
Rural Data Divides: Critical Factors of Digital Agtech Adoption on Australian Farms
This paper details a qualitative investigation of human factors relating to adoption of digital agricultural technologies on Australian farms. We employed an ‘ecosystems’ approach to undertake a case study of a cotton farm’s transition to digital farming. Interviews and participant observation were conducted across the farm’s supply chain to understand how the experiences, perceptions, and activities of different stakeholders constituted a commun…
Tiktok’s Peer Pedagogies - Learning About Books Through #Booktok Videos
This paper eschews normative constructions of formalized ‘online learning’ to argue that learning with ‘the internet’ is mostly vernacular, ordinary, messy and constant. It uses the example of #booktok short videos to argue that individuals frequently learn from and with peers in online spaces, where ‘peerness’ is defined broadly. The paper draws on traditions within education, media and communications research such as theories of media pedagogie…
In their own voice: The role of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts Paper Writers in ensuring equitable access to quality Arts education in Australia
Re-visiting the Australian Media Arts curriculum for digital media literacy education
Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms: Learning with Minecraft Let's Play Videos
How a popular entertainment genre on YouTube—Let's Play videos created by Minecraft players—offers opportunities for children to learn from their peers. Every day millions of children around the world watch video gameplay on YouTube in the form of a popular entertainment genre known as Let's Play videos. These videos, which present a player's gameplay and commentary, offer children opportunities for interaction and learning not available in tradi…
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index
Although Australia's population is concentrated in major urban centres along its coastal fringe, its less populous rural communities are important to society and the economy—supporting sectors like agriculture, which occupies over half the continent's land mass and accounts for 2.2% of value added gross domestic product (GDP) (Jackson et al., 2020). The vast distances between urban and rural centres present challenges to the provision of essentia…
Advancing children’s news media literacy: Learning from the practices and experiences of young Australians
Social media use has redefined the production, experience and consumption of news media. These changes have made verifying and trusting news content more complicated and this has led to a number of recent flashpoints for claims and counter-claims of ‘fake news’ at critical moments during elections, natural disasters and acts of terrorism. Concerns regarding the actual and potential social impact of fake news led us to carry out the first national…
Towards understanding young children’s digital lives in China and Australia
This article develops insights and generates new lines of inquiry into young children’s digital lives in China and Australia. It brings to dialogue findings from a national study of young children's digital media use in urban settings in China with findings from studies in Australia. This is not presented as a direct comparison, but rather as an opportunity to shed light on children’s digital lives in two countries and to account for the impact o…
Teachers' curation of Australian screen content for school-based education
This article outlines how teachers curate Australian screen content for use in classrooms from pre-school to senior secondary school. It suggests teachers use their professional knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy to arrange screen resources, curriculum concepts and student experiences to promote learning. This complex curatorial process adds value to broadcaster and producer curation processes that aim to position cut-down clips and educational…
Screen production for education: Digital Disruption in an 'Ancillary' Market
The thoroughgoing digital disruption of the entertainment-based screen industries has now been well documented. But the factors that drive such disruption are in no way unique to mainstream media industries. The distribution and use of screen content in education in many ways parallel the experience of the broader screen industries. Just as traditional entertainment and information are being challenged by new online services, so too traditional m…
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index
Although Australia's population is concentrated in major urban centres along its coastal fringe, its less populous rural communities are important to society and the economy—supporting sectors like agriculture, which occupies over half the continent's land mass and accounts for 2.2% of value added gross domestic product (GDP) (Jackson et al., 2020). The vast distances between urban and rural centres present challenges to the provision of essentia…
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences
Studies that examine the news engagement practices of school students usually examine children or teenagers, and this precludes an examination of the similarities and differences between these groups. In 2020, we carried out a nationally representative survey of the news practices and experiences of young Australians aged 8–16 years and we compared the results for those aged 8–12 years and 13–16 years. The findings demonstrate that family is the …
Advancing children’s news media literacy: Learning from the practices and experiences of young Australians
Social media use has redefined the production, experience and consumption of news media. These changes have made verifying and trusting news content more complicated and this has led to a number of recent flashpoints for claims and counter-claims of ‘fake news’ at critical moments during elections, natural disasters and acts of terrorism. Concerns regarding the actual and potential social impact of fake news led us to carry out the first national…
Prosuming» across Cultures: Youth Creating and Discussing Digital Media across Borders
The Scratch Online Community enables young people to share their creative digital projects internationally with a level of ease that was impossible only a few years ago. Like all creative communities, Scratch is not just a space for sharing products, work, techniques and tips and tricks, but also a space for social interaction. Media literacy educators have unprecedented challenges and opportunities in digital environments like Scratch to harness…
Towards understanding young children’s digital lives in China and Australia
This article develops insights and generates new lines of inquiry into young children’s digital lives in China and Australia. It brings to dialogue findings from a national study of young children's digital media use in urban settings in China with findings from studies in Australia. This is not presented as a direct comparison, but rather as an opportunity to shed light on children’s digital lives in two countries and to account for the impact o…
Prince Charming Has Perfect White Teeth: Performativity and Media Education
This paper argues that Judith Butler's post-structuralist theory of performativity provides a valuable tool for understanding how students might contest prevailing hegemonic gender discourses in media education classrooms. It suggests an alternative to structuralist 'empowerment' and 'critical pedagogy' approaches, which continue to motivate many media educators, despite serious questions being asked about their effectiveness. The paper draws on …
Prosuming» across Cultures: Youth Creating and Discussing Digital Media across Borders
La «Scratch Online Community» permite a los jóvenes compartir sus proyectos digitales internacionalmente con una facilidad impensable años atrás. Como todas las comunidades creativas de este tipo, no es solo un espacio para compartir productos, trabajos, técnicas o consejos, sino también un espacio para la interacción social. Los educadores del ámbito de la alfabetización en los medios encuentran en estas iniciativas retos y oportunidades sin pre…
Prosuming» across Cultures: Youth Creating and Discussing Digital Media across Borders
The Scratch Online Community enables young people to share their creative digital projects internationally with a level of ease that was impossible only a few years ago. Like all creative communities, Scratch is not just a space for sharing products, work, techniques and tips and tricks, but also a space for social interaction. Media literacy educators have unprecedented challenges and opportunities in digital environments like Scratch to harness…
Disciplining the screen through education: The Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry in Australia
In this article, we investigate the complex relationship between concerns about children and young people's exposure to cinema in 1920s Australia and the use of film in education. In part, the Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry in Australia aimed to 'ascertain the effect and the extent of the power of film upon juveniles' and Commissioners spoke to educationalists, psychologists, medical professions, police officers and parents to …
A Deweyan Experience Economy for Higher Education
In this essay we argue that a Deweyan experience economy will best support the higher education (HE) sector in the future, and we draw a contrast between that economy and the sector’s current focus on informational concerns, as expressed by the recent rush to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other mass online informational offerings. We base our argument on current developments in music education and music technology that we see as being p…
Teachers' curation of Australian screen content for school-based education
This article outlines how teachers curate Australian screen content for use in classrooms from pre-school to senior secondary school. It suggests teachers use their professional knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy to arrange screen resources, curriculum concepts and student experiences to promote learning. This complex curatorial process adds value to broadcaster and producer curation processes that aim to position cut-down clips and educational…
Screen production for education: Digital Disruption in an 'Ancillary' Market
The thoroughgoing digital disruption of the entertainment-based screen industries has now been well documented. But the factors that drive such disruption are in no way unique to mainstream media industries. The distribution and use of screen content in education in many ways parallel the experience of the broader screen industries. Just as traditional entertainment and information are being challenged by new online services, so too traditional m…
Towards understanding young children’s digital lives in China and Australia
This article develops insights and generates new lines of inquiry into young children’s digital lives in China and Australia. It brings to dialogue findings from a national study of young children's digital media use in urban settings in China with findings from studies in Australia. This is not presented as a direct comparison, but rather as an opportunity to shed light on children’s digital lives in two countries and to account for the impact o…
Advancing children’s news media literacy: Learning from the practices and experiences of young Australians
Social media use has redefined the production, experience and consumption of news media. These changes have made verifying and trusting news content more complicated and this has led to a number of recent flashpoints for claims and counter-claims of ‘fake news’ at critical moments during elections, natural disasters and acts of terrorism. Concerns regarding the actual and potential social impact of fake news led us to carry out the first national…
Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms: Learning with Minecraft Let's Play Videos
How a popular entertainment genre on YouTube—Let's Play videos created by Minecraft players—offers opportunities for children to learn from their peers. Every day millions of children around the world watch video gameplay on YouTube in the form of a popular entertainment genre known as Let's Play videos. These videos, which present a player's gameplay and commentary, offer children opportunities for interaction and learning not available in tradi…
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index
Although Australia's population is concentrated in major urban centres along its coastal fringe, its less populous rural communities are important to society and the economy—supporting sectors like agriculture, which occupies over half the continent's land mass and accounts for 2.2% of value added gross domestic product (GDP) (Jackson et al., 2020). The vast distances between urban and rural centres present challenges to the provision of essentia…
Rural Data Divides: Critical Factors of Digital Agtech Adoption on Australian Farms
This paper details a qualitative investigation of human factors relating to adoption of digital agricultural technologies on Australian farms. We employed an ‘ecosystems’ approach to undertake a case study of a cotton farm’s transition to digital farming. Interviews and participant observation were conducted across the farm’s supply chain to understand how the experiences, perceptions, and activities of different stakeholders constituted a commun…
Tiktok’s Peer Pedagogies - Learning About Books Through #Booktok Videos
This paper eschews normative constructions of formalized ‘online learning’ to argue that learning with ‘the internet’ is mostly vernacular, ordinary, messy and constant. It uses the example of #booktok short videos to argue that individuals frequently learn from and with peers in online spaces, where ‘peerness’ is defined broadly. The paper draws on traditions within education, media and communications research such as theories of media pedagogie…
In their own voice: The role of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts Paper Writers in ensuring equitable access to quality Arts education in Australia
Re-visiting the Australian Media Arts curriculum for digital media literacy education
Selfies and shelfies on #bookstagram and #booktok – social media and the mediation of Australian teen reading
This article explores how selfies and shelfies on the digital platforms Instagram and TikTok contribute to the dynamics of intermediation for Australian teen readers by presenting two contrasting case studies. The first features Australian Bookstagrammer @BookBookOwl whose social media accounts feature aspirational content in which identity construction is attached to her expertise as a bookstagrammer and book lover. The second is the TikTok acco…
How news media literacy is taught in Australian classrooms
Critical factors of digital AgTech adoption on Australian farms: From digital to data divide
As global agricultural production methods and supply chains have become more digitised, farmers around the world are adopting digital agricultural technologies (AgTech) such as drones, IoT, remote sensors, blockchain and satellite imagery to inform on-farm decision-making. Yet, on the backdrop of a persistent digital divide between rural and urban communities, many Australian farmers are not taking up digital AgTech. It has been argued that these…
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences
Studies that examine the news engagement practices of school students usually examine children or teenagers, and this precludes an examination of the similarities and differences between these groups. In 2020, we carried out a nationally representative survey of the news practices and experiences of young Australians aged 8–16 years and we compared the results for those aged 8–12 years and 13–16 years. The findings demonstrate that family is the …
Using YouTube to seek answers and make decisions: Implications for Australian adult media and information literacy
This article argues that it is necessary to develop new approaches to media and information literacy (MIL) education to respond to information seeking on YouTube. The article draws on data from a survey of adult Australians (N=3,510), focusing on their media literacy attitudes, experiences, and needs. A subset of this data focuses on respondents who use YouTube to seek information for a purpose. The article interrogates the data to ask who uses Y…
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement
Internet and media use can provide accessible, diverse, and timely opportunities for civic engagement. However, to use media and the internet to interact and collaborate, citizens need to be equipped with particular skills and knowledge. This study draws on a national survey of Australian adults (N = 3,510) to examine how media abilities and online interaction activities are related to their civic engagement. The findings suggest that the more ac…
BookTok's Peer Pedagogies: Invitations to Learn About Books and Reading on TikTok
This article extends the idea of media pedagogies to consider how TikTok provides a site of social learning about books and reading. It uses the concept of 'peer pedagogies' to identify how the #BookTok hashtag is used to invite book and reading enthusiasts to take up learning positions. The article uses an exploratory approach to identify contrasting videos in which learning about books and reading is made available, and it undertakes an in-dept…
The Digital Childhood Industry
Many children lead lives that are heavily influenced by the digital world, whether that’s through digital products, services, and practices made for them, or made about them. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions, including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life. In this panel, we examine some of the ways digital childhood is mediated through Industry. In partic…
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy
Children in current times are likely to encounter algorithms, particularly recommendation systems, as part of their everyday media experiences. In this paper we consider children’s use of algorithms from a media literacy perspective, namely through curatorship practices. We detail a pilot workshop where children had opportunities to develop understandings and critically reflect on algorithms through non-digital media production. Children engaged …
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children
This article examines current Australian research about digital media use by families with young children. Informed by a scoping review of 55 publications (2017–2022), we use select findings as departure points to consider how Australian media and communications research can meaningfully contribute to both local and international knowledge. We find that current Australian research largely mirrors international trends, particularly in its lack of …
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (17 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Digital media (8 works)