Laura Vitis
Biographic Data
| ID | 6023801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Vitis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Vitis |
| SIGNATURE | VITIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8547-3402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Old patterns in new places
Since the publication of Serial in the United States, the true crime podcast market in Australia has expanded. The number of Australian true crime podcasts has increased, and there is a large podcast listenership across the country. As crime media can shape the public understanding of offences, victims and perpetrators through the selective emphasis on crime types and crime sources, the proliferation of true crime podcasts raises questions about …
‘. . .When you’ve walked the streets donned the uniform or lived with the consequences at home then you have the right to speak and be heard’
Since true crime podcasts emerged in the 2010s, short-form podcasts that post single episodes on discrete topics have become a popular style of true crime podcast. These episodes draw upon publicly available information or interviews with police, victims and criminalised people. As police appear routinely as guests, this article explores the role of contemporary short-form true crime podcasts in shaping the police image. Drawing from five Austral…
True Crime Podcasts in Australia
True crime podcasts (TCPs) are increasingly saturating the Australian media landscape. The most downloaded podcast in the country is the TCP, Casefile and overall true crime is a popular podcast genre. Despite this, there is limited Australian research exploring the perspectives of TCP listeners. Using data from a survey of 124 university students, this article identifies popular subject matter, listening patterns and stylistic attributes of TCPs…
Harnessing media as a site of change
Australian violence prevention policies have highlighted that media representations reinforce and challenge the public's understanding of violence against women.Current primary prevention strategies have attempted to harness the media's influence by focusing on improving the quality of news reportage and the working practice of professional journalists.These strategies focus explicitly on news media as the site of public engagement.However, viole…
Resilience and Resistance in the Community Sector
The COVID-19 pandemic led to increases in family violence in Australia and elsewhere. In response, organisations in the domestic and family violence (DFV) sector, had to adapt to the emerging public health measures and worked collaboratively to protect the most vulnerable in the community. These services, including courts, rapidly transformed their methods of service delivery that are likely to continue for some time. But what have been the impli…
Surveillant assemblage
This is not a case of gender inequality. This is a case of injustice’
In November 2018, Monica Baey, a student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was recorded by a fellow student while showering in university accommodation. After the perpetrator was issued a formal warning and a one-semester suspension, Baey posted about the case on social media and named the perpetrator. This generated public support, news coverage and institutional reform. In this article, we explore a range of responses to the Monica …
Weaponizing Covid-19
COVID-19 has increased threats to women's safety in Australia and globally. This research is based on a 2020 nationwide survey about the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic and family violence (DFV) services and allied sectors throughout Australia. This study focuses on how perpetrator behaviors-coercion, control, and violence-changed and intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two central themes identified from this qualitative analysis were the i…
The impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on Australian domestic and family violence services and their clients
During the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic, reports emerged that lockdowns were increasing the prevalence of domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia and across the world. The lockdowns and restrictions were necessary to contain the pandemic. However, leaders in the domestic family violence sector expressed concerns early during 2020 that these lockdowns would lead to the escalation of domestic and family violence. Calling it a shado…
Digital intrusions
Technologies have transformed self-expression, interactions and relationships. Temporal and geographic boundaries have been tested and overcome by instantaneous and borderless contact, communication and monitoring. Unfortunately, this has provided new channels and opportunities to extend and exacerbate gendered violence and other forms of hate. We contend that the unique features of digital harms warrant attention, but ultimately online harms can…
Media representations of camera sexual voyeurism in Singapore
This article examines the Straits Times’ coverage of camera sexual voyeurism (CSV) incidents in Singapore from 2004–2017. Utilising critical discourse analysis, I argue that the threat CSV poses to Singaporean exceptionalism was cohered through three distinct media discourses. Internalisation, which focused attention on medical explanations that pathologised perpetrators. Externalisation, which attributed CSV to camera technology and pornography …
Cruising, space and surveillance
The policing of homosexuality in Singapore through legislation and public policy are imbued with colonial legacies that have enshrined heteronormative values within its public sphere. However, communities within new online spaces in Singapore disrupt the heteronormative surveillance efforts deployed by the state within public, family and political landscapes. Through an analysis of a local online forum dedicated to cruising this article unpacks h…
Victims, perpetrators and paternalism
Dick pics on blast
This article brings to attention and explores women’s use of non-traditional forms of resistance to online sexual harassment. In this piece we use Anna Gensler’s Instagram art project Instagranniepants to examine how women are appropriating the language and practices of the cyber realm to expose online sexual harassment and to engender a creative resistance which is critical, comedic and entertaining. Drawing from interdisciplinary literature on …
Dick pics on blast
This article brings to attention and explores women’s use of non-traditional forms of resistance to online sexual harassment. In this piece we use Anna Gensler’s Instagram art project Instagranniepants to examine how women are appropriating the language and practices of the cyber realm to expose online sexual harassment and to engender a creative resistance which is critical, comedic and entertaining. Drawing from interdisciplinary literature on …
The impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on Australian domestic and family violence services and their clients
During the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic, reports emerged that lockdowns were increasing the prevalence of domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia and across the world. The lockdowns and restrictions were necessary to contain the pandemic. However, leaders in the domestic family violence sector expressed concerns early during 2020 that these lockdowns would lead to the escalation of domestic and family violence. Calling it a shado…
Media representations of camera sexual voyeurism in Singapore
This article examines the Straits Times’ coverage of camera sexual voyeurism (CSV) incidents in Singapore from 2004–2017. Utilising critical discourse analysis, I argue that the threat CSV poses to Singaporean exceptionalism was cohered through three distinct media discourses. Internalisation, which focused attention on medical explanations that pathologised perpetrators. Externalisation, which attributed CSV to camera technology and pornography …
Weaponizing Covid-19
COVID-19 has increased threats to women's safety in Australia and globally. This research is based on a 2020 nationwide survey about the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic and family violence (DFV) services and allied sectors throughout Australia. This study focuses on how perpetrator behaviors-coercion, control, and violence-changed and intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two central themes identified from this qualitative analysis were the i…
Resilience and Resistance in the Community Sector
The COVID-19 pandemic led to increases in family violence in Australia and elsewhere. In response, organisations in the domestic and family violence (DFV) sector, had to adapt to the emerging public health measures and worked collaboratively to protect the most vulnerable in the community. These services, including courts, rapidly transformed their methods of service delivery that are likely to continue for some time. But what have been the impli…
Surveillant assemblage
This is not a case of gender inequality. This is a case of injustice’
In November 2018, Monica Baey, a student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was recorded by a fellow student while showering in university accommodation. After the perpetrator was issued a formal warning and a one-semester suspension, Baey posted about the case on social media and named the perpetrator. This generated public support, news coverage and institutional reform. In this article, we explore a range of responses to the Monica …
Victims, perpetrators and paternalism
Dick pics on blast
This article brings to attention and explores women’s use of non-traditional forms of resistance to online sexual harassment. In this piece we use Anna Gensler’s Instagram art project Instagranniepants to examine how women are appropriating the language and practices of the cyber realm to expose online sexual harassment and to engender a creative resistance which is critical, comedic and entertaining. Drawing from interdisciplinary literature on …
Cruising, space and surveillance
The policing of homosexuality in Singapore through legislation and public policy are imbued with colonial legacies that have enshrined heteronormative values within its public sphere. However, communities within new online spaces in Singapore disrupt the heteronormative surveillance efforts deployed by the state within public, family and political landscapes. Through an analysis of a local online forum dedicated to cruising this article unpacks h…
Victims, perpetrators and paternalism
Digital intrusions
Technologies have transformed self-expression, interactions and relationships. Temporal and geographic boundaries have been tested and overcome by instantaneous and borderless contact, communication and monitoring. Unfortunately, this has provided new channels and opportunities to extend and exacerbate gendered violence and other forms of hate. We contend that the unique features of digital harms warrant attention, but ultimately online harms can…
Media representations of camera sexual voyeurism in Singapore
This article examines the Straits Times’ coverage of camera sexual voyeurism (CSV) incidents in Singapore from 2004–2017. Utilising critical discourse analysis, I argue that the threat CSV poses to Singaporean exceptionalism was cohered through three distinct media discourses. Internalisation, which focused attention on medical explanations that pathologised perpetrators. Externalisation, which attributed CSV to camera technology and pornography …
This is not a case of gender inequality. This is a case of injustice’
In November 2018, Monica Baey, a student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was recorded by a fellow student while showering in university accommodation. After the perpetrator was issued a formal warning and a one-semester suspension, Baey posted about the case on social media and named the perpetrator. This generated public support, news coverage and institutional reform. In this article, we explore a range of responses to the Monica …
Weaponizing Covid-19
COVID-19 has increased threats to women's safety in Australia and globally. This research is based on a 2020 nationwide survey about the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic and family violence (DFV) services and allied sectors throughout Australia. This study focuses on how perpetrator behaviors-coercion, control, and violence-changed and intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two central themes identified from this qualitative analysis were the i…
The impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on Australian domestic and family violence services and their clients
During the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic, reports emerged that lockdowns were increasing the prevalence of domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia and across the world. The lockdowns and restrictions were necessary to contain the pandemic. However, leaders in the domestic family violence sector expressed concerns early during 2020 that these lockdowns would lead to the escalation of domestic and family violence. Calling it a shado…
Surveillant assemblage
True Crime Podcasts in Australia
True crime podcasts (TCPs) are increasingly saturating the Australian media landscape. The most downloaded podcast in the country is the TCP, Casefile and overall true crime is a popular podcast genre. Despite this, there is limited Australian research exploring the perspectives of TCP listeners. Using data from a survey of 124 university students, this article identifies popular subject matter, listening patterns and stylistic attributes of TCPs…
Harnessing media as a site of change
Australian violence prevention policies have highlighted that media representations reinforce and challenge the public's understanding of violence against women.Current primary prevention strategies have attempted to harness the media's influence by focusing on improving the quality of news reportage and the working practice of professional journalists.These strategies focus explicitly on news media as the site of public engagement.However, viole…
Resilience and Resistance in the Community Sector
The COVID-19 pandemic led to increases in family violence in Australia and elsewhere. In response, organisations in the domestic and family violence (DFV) sector, had to adapt to the emerging public health measures and worked collaboratively to protect the most vulnerable in the community. These services, including courts, rapidly transformed their methods of service delivery that are likely to continue for some time. But what have been the impli…
Old patterns in new places
Since the publication of Serial in the United States, the true crime podcast market in Australia has expanded. The number of Australian true crime podcasts has increased, and there is a large podcast listenership across the country. As crime media can shape the public understanding of offences, victims and perpetrators through the selective emphasis on crime types and crime sources, the proliferation of true crime podcasts raises questions about …
‘. . .When you’ve walked the streets donned the uniform or lived with the consequences at home then you have the right to speak and be heard’
Since true crime podcasts emerged in the 2010s, short-form podcasts that post single episodes on discrete topics have become a popular style of true crime podcast. These episodes draw upon publicly available information or interviews with police, victims and criminalised people. As police appear routinely as guests, this article explores the role of contemporary short-form true crime podcasts in shaping the police image. Drawing from five Austral…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)