K Mannell
Biographic Data
| ID | 50125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Mannell |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mannell |
| SIGNATURE | MANNELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8901-7041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is My Child Normal? Sciency Discourses in Online Parenting Advice Cultures
For some decades, scholars have documented the expansion of discourses of ‘intensive’ parenting in Anglo-American culture and the increasing mediation of family life. In this context, this article argues that online culture is increasingly responsible for an ever-present instructional address, in which parents are continually targeted with advice from many voices, automated, known and unknown, all claiming various kinds of expertise about how to …
Rupturing Digital Childhoods and Parenting in Australia? Social Media Bans, Privacy, Screen Time, and Generative Ai
In the current state of global political, environmental and social challenges, it is perhaps unsurprising that digital childhoods and parenting are in continuous flux as well, with families of all configurations experiencing digital and cultural ruptures. In Australia this discontent with the digital world has led to unprecedented legislation banning all children under the age of 16 from having accounts on social media platforms from December 202…
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 …
Taking the router shopping: How low-income families experience, negotiate, and enact digital dis/connections
Within digital media scholarship, there are significant bodies of literature investigating forced disconnection (‘digital exclusion’) and voluntary disconnection (‘digital disconnection’) but there is little research addressing entanglements between them. This article explores how bringing together these bodies of literature through an empirical study offers new pathways and considerations for both areas. In doing so, we draw on qualitative data …
Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy
This panel combines four papers which focus in different ways on the question of children’s data and privacy in the Australian context. All four are framed with children’s right to privacy as a core concern, consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as updated via the General Comment 25 on Child Rights in the Digital Environment. We examine four arenas where children’s data is either extracted or occluded in ways that make it m…
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: Limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science
This paper argues that the proposal for a ‘Hippocratic oath for data science’ is a severely limited form of data ethics for automated culture. Drawing on the oath used within medical professionalism, proponents as diverse as Wired and the European Data Protection Supervisor have argued for a Hippocratic oath for data science as a way of introducing a soft regulatory environment. In this paper, we analyse the history of the Hippocratic oath and th…
From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During Covid Lockdown
As Australia imposed some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns, governments and mental health organisations released advice for preserving mental wellbeing throughout the pandemic. One common suggestion was to avoid excessive news consumption. This article reports findings from a study that explored why, how, and with what outcomes people engaged in news avoidance practices. We conducted interviews with 20 participants from the Australian …
Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture: A View From Scuttlebutt
Recent research has highlighted the emergence of 'alternative social media' platforms. Developed by open source communities with non-commercial goals, these platforms can offer more expansive participatory cultures than corporate platforms. However, such platforms also involve new kinds of participatory challenges, such as requiring high technological literacy. This article examines the complexity of enacting participatory cultures by drawing on …
Access Denied: How Barriers to Participate on Zoom Impact on Research Opportunity
Introduction As social-distancing mandates in response to COVID-19 restricted in-person data collection methods such as participant observation and interviews, researchers turned to socially distant methods such as interviewing via video-conferencing technology (Lobe et al.). These were not new tools nor methods, but the pandemic muted any bias towards face-to-face data collection methods. Exemplified in crowd-sourced documents such as Doing Fiel…
Plural and Porous: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Mobile Messaging Group Chats
In the nascent literature on mobile messaging groups—commonly referred to as “group chats”—there is a tendency to see them as clearly bounded units of interaction with highly-defined borders. While valuable at times, this approach does not fully reflect how group chat boundaries are experienced by the people who encounter them. Accordingly, this article aims to broaden the terms on which group chats are understood by reconceptualizing their bound…
A typology of mobile messaging’s disconnective affordances
Mobile messaging is typically understood as a medium that connects people. This article argues that to better understand mobile messaging we must also attend to its disconnective affordances—the opportunities for disconnection facilitated by the material properties of messaging platforms and mobile devices. Drawing on interview research into the mobile messaging practices of 24 young people, this article proposes a typology of five disconnective …
From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During Covid Lockdown
As Australia imposed some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns, governments and mental health organisations released advice for preserving mental wellbeing throughout the pandemic. One common suggestion was to avoid excessive news consumption. This article reports findings from a study that explored why, how, and with what outcomes people engaged in news avoidance practices. We conducted interviews with 20 participants from the Australian …
A typology of mobile messaging’s disconnective affordances
Mobile messaging is typically understood as a medium that connects people. This article argues that to better understand mobile messaging we must also attend to its disconnective affordances—the opportunities for disconnection facilitated by the material properties of messaging platforms and mobile devices. Drawing on interview research into the mobile messaging practices of 24 young people, this article proposes a typology of five disconnective …
Access Denied: How Barriers to Participate on Zoom Impact on Research Opportunity
Introduction As social-distancing mandates in response to COVID-19 restricted in-person data collection methods such as participant observation and interviews, researchers turned to socially distant methods such as interviewing via video-conferencing technology (Lobe et al.). These were not new tools nor methods, but the pandemic muted any bias towards face-to-face data collection methods. Exemplified in crowd-sourced documents such as Doing Fiel…
Taking the router shopping: How low-income families experience, negotiate, and enact digital dis/connections
Within digital media scholarship, there are significant bodies of literature investigating forced disconnection (‘digital exclusion’) and voluntary disconnection (‘digital disconnection’) but there is little research addressing entanglements between them. This article explores how bringing together these bodies of literature through an empirical study offers new pathways and considerations for both areas. In doing so, we draw on qualitative data …
Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture: A View From Scuttlebutt
Recent research has highlighted the emergence of 'alternative social media' platforms. Developed by open source communities with non-commercial goals, these platforms can offer more expansive participatory cultures than corporate platforms. However, such platforms also involve new kinds of participatory challenges, such as requiring high technological literacy. This article examines the complexity of enacting participatory cultures by drawing on …
Plural and Porous: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Mobile Messaging Group Chats
In the nascent literature on mobile messaging groups—commonly referred to as “group chats”—there is a tendency to see them as clearly bounded units of interaction with highly-defined borders. While valuable at times, this approach does not fully reflect how group chat boundaries are experienced by the people who encounter them. Accordingly, this article aims to broaden the terms on which group chats are understood by reconceptualizing their bound…
A typology of mobile messaging’s disconnective affordances
Mobile messaging is typically understood as a medium that connects people. This article argues that to better understand mobile messaging we must also attend to its disconnective affordances—the opportunities for disconnection facilitated by the material properties of messaging platforms and mobile devices. Drawing on interview research into the mobile messaging practices of 24 young people, this article proposes a typology of five disconnective …
Plural and Porous: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Mobile Messaging Group Chats
In the nascent literature on mobile messaging groups—commonly referred to as “group chats”—there is a tendency to see them as clearly bounded units of interaction with highly-defined borders. While valuable at times, this approach does not fully reflect how group chat boundaries are experienced by the people who encounter them. Accordingly, this article aims to broaden the terms on which group chats are understood by reconceptualizing their bound…
Access Denied: How Barriers to Participate on Zoom Impact on Research Opportunity
Introduction As social-distancing mandates in response to COVID-19 restricted in-person data collection methods such as participant observation and interviews, researchers turned to socially distant methods such as interviewing via video-conferencing technology (Lobe et al.). These were not new tools nor methods, but the pandemic muted any bias towards face-to-face data collection methods. Exemplified in crowd-sourced documents such as Doing Fiel…
From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During Covid Lockdown
As Australia imposed some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns, governments and mental health organisations released advice for preserving mental wellbeing throughout the pandemic. One common suggestion was to avoid excessive news consumption. This article reports findings from a study that explored why, how, and with what outcomes people engaged in news avoidance practices. We conducted interviews with 20 participants from the Australian …
Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture: A View From Scuttlebutt
Recent research has highlighted the emergence of 'alternative social media' platforms. Developed by open source communities with non-commercial goals, these platforms can offer more expansive participatory cultures than corporate platforms. However, such platforms also involve new kinds of participatory challenges, such as requiring high technological literacy. This article examines the complexity of enacting participatory cultures by drawing on …
Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy
This panel combines four papers which focus in different ways on the question of children’s data and privacy in the Australian context. All four are framed with children’s right to privacy as a core concern, consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as updated via the General Comment 25 on Child Rights in the Digital Environment. We examine four arenas where children’s data is either extracted or occluded in ways that make it m…
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: Limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science
This paper argues that the proposal for a ‘Hippocratic oath for data science’ is a severely limited form of data ethics for automated culture. Drawing on the oath used within medical professionalism, proponents as diverse as Wired and the European Data Protection Supervisor have argued for a Hippocratic oath for data science as a way of introducing a soft regulatory environment. In this paper, we analyse the history of the Hippocratic oath and th…
Taking the router shopping: How low-income families experience, negotiate, and enact digital dis/connections
Within digital media scholarship, there are significant bodies of literature investigating forced disconnection (‘digital exclusion’) and voluntary disconnection (‘digital disconnection’) but there is little research addressing entanglements between them. This article explores how bringing together these bodies of literature through an empirical study offers new pathways and considerations for both areas. In doing so, we draw on qualitative data …
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 …
Is My Child Normal? Sciency Discourses in Online Parenting Advice Cultures
For some decades, scholars have documented the expansion of discourses of ‘intensive’ parenting in Anglo-American culture and the increasing mediation of family life. In this context, this article argues that online culture is increasingly responsible for an ever-present instructional address, in which parents are continually targeted with advice from many voices, automated, known and unknown, all claiming various kinds of expertise about how to …
Rupturing Digital Childhoods and Parenting in Australia? Social Media Bans, Privacy, Screen Time, and Generative Ai
In the current state of global political, environmental and social challenges, it is perhaps unsurprising that digital childhoods and parenting are in continuous flux as well, with families of all configurations experiencing digital and cultural ruptures. In Australia this discontent with the digital world has led to unprecedented legislation banning all children under the age of 16 from having accounts on social media platforms from December 202…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (4 works) · Internet privacy (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)