Aleesha Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleesha Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleesha |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9898-2561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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 …
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children
This short commentary is intended to be provocative, as we argue the importance of considering ‘other’ aspects of children's everyday experiences of TikTok. We argue the need to be cautious about how the risks of TikTok, and digital platforms at large, for children are often amplified at the expense of erasing public awareness about the joy, connection, and creativity that many children and young people also experience on these emerging platforms…
“My Little Influencer”: A Toy Ringlight as Proxy to Media Practices and Technopanics
Introduction Wooden toys have been a staple in many family homes. Even LEGO's iconic plastic building blocks had humble beginnings as wooden toys (Lauwaert). Arguably, the materiality of wooden toys evokes normative feelings of nostalgia for a simpler past, where the uncomplicated nature of the wooden product provided the space for all sorts of imaginative play. It is through this lens that we find the adaptation of wooden toys into playsets that…
Humor That Harms? Examining Racist Audio-Visual Memetic Media on TikTok During Covid-19
During times of crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, digital platforms are under public scrutiny to guarantee users’ online safety and wellbeing. Following inconsistencies in how platforms moderate online content and behavior, governments around the world are putting pressure on them to curb the spread of illegal and lawful harmful content and behavior (e.g., UK’s Draft Online Safety Bill). These efforts, though, mainly focus on overt abuse and …
Technological Agnosticism and Climate Change: Platform Culture on Technology Forum Whirlpool
This paper explores the (limited) discussion of climate change within energy debates on Australian technology forum Whirlpool. These discussions are characterised by $2 , which is an attitude that no technology is $2 or $2 than any other because different technologies have different applications depending on the requirement. By completing a thematic analysis of all Whirlpool replies within four threads centred on energy debates (n = 3,101), I obs…
The Sociomateriality of Rating and Ranking Devices on Social Media: A Case Study of Reddit's Voting Practices
Rating and ranking devices are everywhere on social media. While these devices may seem like objective tools to measure value and rank content, research shows how they profoundly shape social interaction and emotional expression and are central to platform moderation. Yet, very little is known about how users themselves talk about these devices, much less what this can tell us about how these devices co-constitute social reality on platforms. To …
‘Please Read the Comments’: Commenting Cultures Across Platforms
An old adage about the internet goes “Don’t Read The Comments”. It is a cynical word of caution from supposedly more experienced and savvy internet users, against a slew of negative, abusive, and unhelpful comments that are usually rampant online, stemming from trolling behaviour (Phillips 2015). “Don’t Read The Comments” has become an internet meme. Alongside parody websites (i.e. @AvoidComments n.d.), trawling through the comments section in se…
You Made This? I Made This: Cultures of Automatic (Mis)attribution on Tiktok
In 2019, TikTok captivated international attention as a breakout short-video platform. A key affordance for user-generated content creators on TikTok is how easy the platform makes reproducing popular videos. The video creation interface allows users to make new videos based on the one they were just watching with just one tap. While these features make it fun and easy for users to replicate popular videos, it can also obscure the identity of the…
The Sociomateriality of Rating and Ranking Devices on Social Media: A Case Study of Reddit's Voting Practices
Rating and ranking devices are everywhere on social media. While these devices may seem like objective tools to measure value and rank content, research shows how they profoundly shape social interaction and emotional expression and are central to platform moderation. Yet, very little is known about how users themselves talk about these devices, much less what this can tell us about how these devices co-constitute social reality on platforms. To …
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children
This short commentary is intended to be provocative, as we argue the importance of considering ‘other’ aspects of children's everyday experiences of TikTok. We argue the need to be cautious about how the risks of TikTok, and digital platforms at large, for children are often amplified at the expense of erasing public awareness about the joy, connection, and creativity that many children and young people also experience on these emerging platforms…
‘Please Read the Comments’: Commenting Cultures Across Platforms
An old adage about the internet goes “Don’t Read The Comments”. It is a cynical word of caution from supposedly more experienced and savvy internet users, against a slew of negative, abusive, and unhelpful comments that are usually rampant online, stemming from trolling behaviour (Phillips 2015). “Don’t Read The Comments” has become an internet meme. Alongside parody websites (i.e. @AvoidComments n.d.), trawling through the comments section in se…
You Made This? I Made This: Cultures of Automatic (Mis)attribution on Tiktok
In 2019, TikTok captivated international attention as a breakout short-video platform. A key affordance for user-generated content creators on TikTok is how easy the platform makes reproducing popular videos. The video creation interface allows users to make new videos based on the one they were just watching with just one tap. While these features make it fun and easy for users to replicate popular videos, it can also obscure the identity of the…
Technological Agnosticism and Climate Change: Platform Culture on Technology Forum Whirlpool
This paper explores the (limited) discussion of climate change within energy debates on Australian technology forum Whirlpool. These discussions are characterised by $2 , which is an attitude that no technology is $2 or $2 than any other because different technologies have different applications depending on the requirement. By completing a thematic analysis of all Whirlpool replies within four threads centred on energy debates (n = 3,101), I obs…
The Sociomateriality of Rating and Ranking Devices on Social Media: A Case Study of Reddit's Voting Practices
Rating and ranking devices are everywhere on social media. While these devices may seem like objective tools to measure value and rank content, research shows how they profoundly shape social interaction and emotional expression and are central to platform moderation. Yet, very little is known about how users themselves talk about these devices, much less what this can tell us about how these devices co-constitute social reality on platforms. To …
Humor That Harms? Examining Racist Audio-Visual Memetic Media on TikTok During Covid-19
During times of crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, digital platforms are under public scrutiny to guarantee users’ online safety and wellbeing. Following inconsistencies in how platforms moderate online content and behavior, governments around the world are putting pressure on them to curb the spread of illegal and lawful harmful content and behavior (e.g., UK’s Draft Online Safety Bill). These efforts, though, mainly focus on overt abuse and …
“My Little Influencer”: A Toy Ringlight as Proxy to Media Practices and Technopanics
Introduction Wooden toys have been a staple in many family homes. Even LEGO's iconic plastic building blocks had humble beginnings as wooden toys (Lauwaert). Arguably, the materiality of wooden toys evokes normative feelings of nostalgia for a simpler past, where the uncomplicated nature of the wooden product provided the space for all sorts of imaginative play. It is through this lens that we find the adaptation of wooden toys into playsets that…
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children
This short commentary is intended to be provocative, as we argue the importance of considering ‘other’ aspects of children's everyday experiences of TikTok. We argue the need to be cautious about how the risks of TikTok, and digital platforms at large, for children are often amplified at the expense of erasing public awareness about the joy, connection, and creativity that many children and young people also experience on these emerging platforms…
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 …
Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Social media (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works)