Naomi Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federation University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6509-1199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How to Be a Military Spouse: Short-Form Video and the New Genre of Wife Content
Military spouses have frequently turned to social media platforms to navigate the complexities of military life. As civilians who are connected to, but not formally part of, the military, they experience many of the impacts of service and can feel unseen and unsupported. This paper draws on a qualitative analysis of TikTok and Instagram content produced by military spouses to reveal how this social media content serves as both a performative spac…
Open Habitats, Heritage Opportunities: How the Thetford Forest Open Habitat Plan Can Aid the Management of Archaeology in Woodland
Thetford Forest, in Norfolk, is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for rare plants, invertebrates and ground-nesting birds. The Open Habitats project was developed to improve SSSI conditions, to meet the target set in the UK Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan: 75% of SSSIs to be in ‘favourable condition’ by 2042. The project aims to achieve this by creating open habitat in a form that best suits the widest range of spec…
Hope, hustle, and hype: The rise and fall of Art Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
This article examines the technological emergence trajectory of Art Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), exploring their initial promise and then failure as transformative commodities disrupting art economies. Operating within an analytical framework of hope, hustle and hype, death and taxes, we investigate the interplay of technological, cultural, and economic trends shaping this trajectory towards failure. We identify the sociotechnical imaginaries clot…
AI and Aesthetic Alienation: The Image and Creativity in Contemporary Culture
In this comment piece, we argue that mass-produced generative AI (GenAI) images, commonly referred to as “AI slop” should be considered a form of aesthetic alienation. Specifically, we focus on GenAI images of fall, arguing that GenAI images alienate not only artists from their art, but produces an alienating aesthetic in and of itself. Closely attending to the aesthetic registers of GenAI images opens up important sociological questions about th…
Locality‐based social media: The impact of content consumption and creation on perceived neighborhood crime, safety, and offline crime prevention
Locality‐based social media (LBSM) allow members of the community to exchange news, connect with local people, and raise awareness of problems such as crime. This study aims to better understand the influence of LBSM on perceptions of community crime, safety, and crime prevention. Drawing on survey data from 1000 Australians, we assess the extent to which frequency of exposure to crime on LBSM and intensity of engagement on LBSM influence percept…
Thinking Space: Four arguments for the ‘fixing’ of the Olympics in the Anthropocene
It is impossible not to be affected at some level when watching, even just the highlights, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The endorphin-pumping procession enrolled multiple music cultures, spectacular and theatrical light shows, and played to Paris's sardonic historical relations and geographical strengths while generating a 'spectacle' that would be hard to match or forget (even if we wanted to). This truly was a city that g…
Special Issue: What do misinformation practices feel like? Embodiment, health and digital spaces
This editorial explores how misinformation is expressed across a range of health practices and contexts
Healing, faith and fear: Church opening in the United States during Covid-19 restrictions
This article examines how resistance to stay-at-home orders was framed to congregants through sermons and in statements to media outlets. Using an approach informed by grounded theory, we analysed news articles of church behaviour and the YouTube videos of sermons from pastors that protested against COVID-19 guidelines from March 2020 to November 2020. We also draw on legal filings to identify churches that most actively resisted closures. In ana…
One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in 'What I Eat In A Day' videos
This article traces how misinformation occurs and is negotiated in What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD) videos. Data were collected from 84 WIEIAD videos across 59 YouTube accounts. Our discourse analysis demonstrated that misinformation is presented in ways that invoke expertise, scientific credibility and personal experience, making it more difficult to identify and respond to. Our analysis illustrates how misinformation arises in seemingly mundane sit…
FreeBritney and the Pleasures of Conspiracy
Introduction There are many competing explanations for why people are drawn to conspiracy theories. Increasingly, conspiracy theories are mainstream sites of cultural engagement (Barkun). Conspiracy theorising, then, is part of, or at least brushes up against, people’s daily sense-making practices. However, many still think of conspiracy theorising and the communities that form around them as deviant, pathological or deficient (Swami et al.). In …
Conspiracy
Conspiracies have been a cultural mainstay for decades (Melley). While often framed as an American problem (Melley), social media has contributed to their global reach (Gerts et al.). Bruns, Harrington, and Hurcombe have traced the contemporary movement of conspiracy theories into the cultural mainstream from fringe conspiracist groups on social media platforms such as Facebook through their greater uptake in more diverse communities and to subst…
Who uses digital drugs? An international survey of ‘binaural beat’ consumers
It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification
The impact of gentrification in cities is well established. The continuous evolution in geolocation and social media is intensifying the contest between competing stakeholder claims to authenticity about gentrifying places. In this article, we examine the way that different geolocative social media define a struggle over the rights to authenticity in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brisbane, Australia. Local voices are often submerged by th…
Mothering Ideology: A Qualitative Exploration of Mothers’ Perceptions of Navigating Motherhood Pressures and Partner Relationships
Spirituality as ‘detachment’ and ‘comfort’ in the context of depression
For this study, 40 people with a diagnosis of depression were interviewed about their conceptualisations of spirituality and religion, and whether or not this had an effect on their personal recovery from depression. The aim of the study was to explore the meanings of spirituality in the context of depression. Using a thematic analysis guided by a multi-perspective approach, this paper adds two novel qualities to the meanings of spirituality in t…
Between, Behind, and Out of Sight: Conversation in Dark Social Spaces
Introduction I am on the phone with a journalist discussing my research into anti-vaccination. As the conversation winds up, they ask a question I have come to expect: "how big do you think this is?" My answer is usually some version of the following: that we have no way of knowing. I and my fellow researchers can only see the information that is public or in the sunlight. How anti-vaccination information spreads through private networks is dark …
Memetic Moments: The Speed of Twitter Memes
This paper examines how speed shapes internet culture. To do so, it analyses ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter, short-lived and rapidly circulated memes that quickly reach saturation. The paper examines two ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter in 2018 and 2019 to assess how they develop over time. Each case study comprises a week’s worth of relevant tweets that were analysed for temporal patterns. We analyse these ‘memetic moments’ through Lefebvre’s (2004) w…
Global Carbon Budget 2019
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere– the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand theglobal carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, andproject future climate change. Here we describe data sets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. Foss…
Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook
Over the past decade, anti-vaccination rhetoric has become part of the mainstream discourse regarding the public health practice of childhood vaccination. These utilise social media to foster online spaces that strengthen and popularise anti-vaccination discourses. In this paper, we examine the characteristics of and the discourses present within six popular anti-vaccination Facebook pages. We examine these large-scale datasets using a range of m…
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban popul…
ASMR, affect and digitally-mediated intimacy
Governing with Ignorance: Understanding the Australian Food Regulator’s Response to Nano Food
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed 'offline' socially marginalised identity in an 'online' environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised id…
New jobs old roles - working for prevention in a whole-system model of health and social care for older people: Working for prevention for older people
The Partnerships for Older People Projects programme provided government funding for local and health authorities to pilot prevention and intervention services in partnership with the voluntary sector and older people between 2006 and 2009. This local evaluation of a pilot in southern England undertaken between 2007 and 2009 used a Theory of Change approach to gathering and reflecting on data with different groups involved in the delivery of this…
Secondary Disability Prevention: Involving Consumers in the Development of a Public Health Surveillance Instrument
Recent legislation has directed the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service to develop a program of disability prevention. Importantly, this new program focuses attention on preventing secondary disabilities—conditions that occur after an individual has acquired a primary (or first) disability. An important influence on the agenda of secondary disability prevention involves identifying the conditions that define the problem for i…
Mothering Ideology: A Qualitative Exploration of Mothers’ Perceptions of Navigating Motherhood Pressures and Partner Relationships
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban popul…
ASMR, affect and digitally-mediated intimacy
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed 'offline' socially marginalised identity in an 'online' environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised id…
One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in 'What I Eat In A Day' videos
This article traces how misinformation occurs and is negotiated in What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD) videos. Data were collected from 84 WIEIAD videos across 59 YouTube accounts. Our discourse analysis demonstrated that misinformation is presented in ways that invoke expertise, scientific credibility and personal experience, making it more difficult to identify and respond to. Our analysis illustrates how misinformation arises in seemingly mundane sit…
It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification
The impact of gentrification in cities is well established. The continuous evolution in geolocation and social media is intensifying the contest between competing stakeholder claims to authenticity about gentrifying places. In this article, we examine the way that different geolocative social media define a struggle over the rights to authenticity in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brisbane, Australia. Local voices are often submerged by th…
AI and Aesthetic Alienation: The Image and Creativity in Contemporary Culture
In this comment piece, we argue that mass-produced generative AI (GenAI) images, commonly referred to as “AI slop” should be considered a form of aesthetic alienation. Specifically, we focus on GenAI images of fall, arguing that GenAI images alienate not only artists from their art, but produces an alienating aesthetic in and of itself. Closely attending to the aesthetic registers of GenAI images opens up important sociological questions about th…
Healing, faith and fear: Church opening in the United States during Covid-19 restrictions
This article examines how resistance to stay-at-home orders was framed to congregants through sermons and in statements to media outlets. Using an approach informed by grounded theory, we analysed news articles of church behaviour and the YouTube videos of sermons from pastors that protested against COVID-19 guidelines from March 2020 to November 2020. We also draw on legal filings to identify churches that most actively resisted closures. In ana…
Memetic Moments: The Speed of Twitter Memes
This paper examines how speed shapes internet culture. To do so, it analyses ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter, short-lived and rapidly circulated memes that quickly reach saturation. The paper examines two ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter in 2018 and 2019 to assess how they develop over time. Each case study comprises a week’s worth of relevant tweets that were analysed for temporal patterns. We analyse these ‘memetic moments’ through Lefebvre’s (2004) w…
New jobs old roles - working for prevention in a whole-system model of health and social care for older people: Working for prevention for older people
The Partnerships for Older People Projects programme provided government funding for local and health authorities to pilot prevention and intervention services in partnership with the voluntary sector and older people between 2006 and 2009. This local evaluation of a pilot in southern England undertaken between 2007 and 2009 used a Theory of Change approach to gathering and reflecting on data with different groups involved in the delivery of this…
Secondary Disability Prevention: Involving Consumers in the Development of a Public Health Surveillance Instrument
Recent legislation has directed the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service to develop a program of disability prevention. Importantly, this new program focuses attention on preventing secondary disabilities—conditions that occur after an individual has acquired a primary (or first) disability. An important influence on the agenda of secondary disability prevention involves identifying the conditions that define the problem for i…
Tokugawa Japan as a Field for the Student of Social Organisation
Although the cultural debt which Japan owes to foreign nations is often understressed by Japanese, it is also over-emphasized by foreigners and the student of economic conditions will, if he digs even a little into her past, find a wealth of material quite unlike anything to be found elsewhere. Japan is unique in the fact that, in spite of her bursts of borrowing from overseas duling the last 1500 years, she has not changed many of her fundamenta…
Secondary Disability Prevention: Involving Consumers in the Development of a Public Health Surveillance Instrument
Recent legislation has directed the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service to develop a program of disability prevention. Importantly, this new program focuses attention on preventing secondary disabilities—conditions that occur after an individual has acquired a primary (or first) disability. An important influence on the agenda of secondary disability prevention involves identifying the conditions that define the problem for i…
New jobs old roles - working for prevention in a whole-system model of health and social care for older people: Working for prevention for older people
The Partnerships for Older People Projects programme provided government funding for local and health authorities to pilot prevention and intervention services in partnership with the voluntary sector and older people between 2006 and 2009. This local evaluation of a pilot in southern England undertaken between 2007 and 2009 used a Theory of Change approach to gathering and reflecting on data with different groups involved in the delivery of this…
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed 'offline' socially marginalised identity in an 'online' environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised id…
Governing with Ignorance: Understanding the Australian Food Regulator’s Response to Nano Food
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban popul…
ASMR, affect and digitally-mediated intimacy
Global Carbon Budget 2019
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere– the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand theglobal carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, andproject future climate change. Here we describe data sets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. Foss…
Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook
Over the past decade, anti-vaccination rhetoric has become part of the mainstream discourse regarding the public health practice of childhood vaccination. These utilise social media to foster online spaces that strengthen and popularise anti-vaccination discourses. In this paper, we examine the characteristics of and the discourses present within six popular anti-vaccination Facebook pages. We examine these large-scale datasets using a range of m…
Spirituality as ‘detachment’ and ‘comfort’ in the context of depression
For this study, 40 people with a diagnosis of depression were interviewed about their conceptualisations of spirituality and religion, and whether or not this had an effect on their personal recovery from depression. The aim of the study was to explore the meanings of spirituality in the context of depression. Using a thematic analysis guided by a multi-perspective approach, this paper adds two novel qualities to the meanings of spirituality in t…
Between, Behind, and Out of Sight: Conversation in Dark Social Spaces
Introduction I am on the phone with a journalist discussing my research into anti-vaccination. As the conversation winds up, they ask a question I have come to expect: "how big do you think this is?" My answer is usually some version of the following: that we have no way of knowing. I and my fellow researchers can only see the information that is public or in the sunlight. How anti-vaccination information spreads through private networks is dark …
Memetic Moments: The Speed of Twitter Memes
This paper examines how speed shapes internet culture. To do so, it analyses ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter, short-lived and rapidly circulated memes that quickly reach saturation. The paper examines two ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter in 2018 and 2019 to assess how they develop over time. Each case study comprises a week’s worth of relevant tweets that were analysed for temporal patterns. We analyse these ‘memetic moments’ through Lefebvre’s (2004) w…
FreeBritney and the Pleasures of Conspiracy
Introduction There are many competing explanations for why people are drawn to conspiracy theories. Increasingly, conspiracy theories are mainstream sites of cultural engagement (Barkun). Conspiracy theorising, then, is part of, or at least brushes up against, people’s daily sense-making practices. However, many still think of conspiracy theorising and the communities that form around them as deviant, pathological or deficient (Swami et al.). In …
Conspiracy
Conspiracies have been a cultural mainstay for decades (Melley). While often framed as an American problem (Melley), social media has contributed to their global reach (Gerts et al.). Bruns, Harrington, and Hurcombe have traced the contemporary movement of conspiracy theories into the cultural mainstream from fringe conspiracist groups on social media platforms such as Facebook through their greater uptake in more diverse communities and to subst…
Who uses digital drugs? An international survey of ‘binaural beat’ consumers
It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification
The impact of gentrification in cities is well established. The continuous evolution in geolocation and social media is intensifying the contest between competing stakeholder claims to authenticity about gentrifying places. In this article, we examine the way that different geolocative social media define a struggle over the rights to authenticity in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brisbane, Australia. Local voices are often submerged by th…
Mothering Ideology: A Qualitative Exploration of Mothers’ Perceptions of Navigating Motherhood Pressures and Partner Relationships
Special Issue: What do misinformation practices feel like? Embodiment, health and digital spaces
This editorial explores how misinformation is expressed across a range of health practices and contexts
Healing, faith and fear: Church opening in the United States during Covid-19 restrictions
This article examines how resistance to stay-at-home orders was framed to congregants through sermons and in statements to media outlets. Using an approach informed by grounded theory, we analysed news articles of church behaviour and the YouTube videos of sermons from pastors that protested against COVID-19 guidelines from March 2020 to November 2020. We also draw on legal filings to identify churches that most actively resisted closures. In ana…
One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in 'What I Eat In A Day' videos
This article traces how misinformation occurs and is negotiated in What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD) videos. Data were collected from 84 WIEIAD videos across 59 YouTube accounts. Our discourse analysis demonstrated that misinformation is presented in ways that invoke expertise, scientific credibility and personal experience, making it more difficult to identify and respond to. Our analysis illustrates how misinformation arises in seemingly mundane sit…
Locality‐based social media: The impact of content consumption and creation on perceived neighborhood crime, safety, and offline crime prevention
Locality‐based social media (LBSM) allow members of the community to exchange news, connect with local people, and raise awareness of problems such as crime. This study aims to better understand the influence of LBSM on perceptions of community crime, safety, and crime prevention. Drawing on survey data from 1000 Australians, we assess the extent to which frequency of exposure to crime on LBSM and intensity of engagement on LBSM influence percept…
Thinking Space: Four arguments for the ‘fixing’ of the Olympics in the Anthropocene
It is impossible not to be affected at some level when watching, even just the highlights, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The endorphin-pumping procession enrolled multiple music cultures, spectacular and theatrical light shows, and played to Paris's sardonic historical relations and geographical strengths while generating a 'spectacle' that would be hard to match or forget (even if we wanted to). This truly was a city that g…
Open Habitats, Heritage Opportunities: How the Thetford Forest Open Habitat Plan Can Aid the Management of Archaeology in Woodland
Thetford Forest, in Norfolk, is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for rare plants, invertebrates and ground-nesting birds. The Open Habitats project was developed to improve SSSI conditions, to meet the target set in the UK Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan: 75% of SSSIs to be in ‘favourable condition’ by 2042. The project aims to achieve this by creating open habitat in a form that best suits the widest range of spec…
Hope, hustle, and hype: The rise and fall of Art Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
This article examines the technological emergence trajectory of Art Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), exploring their initial promise and then failure as transformative commodities disrupting art economies. Operating within an analytical framework of hope, hustle and hype, death and taxes, we investigate the interplay of technological, cultural, and economic trends shaping this trajectory towards failure. We identify the sociotechnical imaginaries clot…
AI and Aesthetic Alienation: The Image and Creativity in Contemporary Culture
In this comment piece, we argue that mass-produced generative AI (GenAI) images, commonly referred to as “AI slop” should be considered a form of aesthetic alienation. Specifically, we focus on GenAI images of fall, arguing that GenAI images alienate not only artists from their art, but produces an alienating aesthetic in and of itself. Closely attending to the aesthetic registers of GenAI images opens up important sociological questions about th…
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