Ümit Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ümit Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ümit |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY Ü |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2567-088X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deleting Life Online after Death
When a person dies, they will leave behind a significant digital archive of their life. Their social media posts alone—on sites like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok—constitute a mediated record of the person’s life. This archive of life is not static or stationary, nor is it secure or safe, as we assume records and archives to be. What happens to a person’s digital archive of life after they die is usually determined by their family. The loved one…
The Value of Vlogs
In the 20 years since its launch in 2005, millions of people around the world have gathered on YouTube, and later other platforms, to share and consume human experience through video. Vlogging has become a global phenomenon where ordinary individuals share their everyday lives online and, in doing so, build connection and community with others. Sharing life through video has resulted in a collective database of knowledge, memory, culture, movemen…
Preserving Personhood
Networked Justice
“The Earth Is Dying, Bro”
Climate Change and Children Australian children are uniquely situated in a vast landscape that varies drastically across locations. Spanning multiple climatic zones—from cool temperate Tasmania to the tropical North—Australia is home to flora and fauna specific to diverse regions, including arid desert and rainforests, mountainous woodlands, and unique mangrove estuaries and coastal regions. Many of Australia’s endemic species—about 85%—are found…
“These Vlogs Aren’t Real”
Introduction – Family Influencers Family vlogging on YouTube is a practice gaining in popularity and scope. An increasing number of couples are giving up their jobs to become full-time “vloggers” or, in industry terms, “creators”. This involves parents filming their everyday lives with their children and uploading the footage to YouTube in daily or weekly instalments for others to watch and respond to. Vlogging reflects a current Western obsessio…
Stitchers of Instagram
Embroidery: A Subversive History Embroidery has a long history as a woman’s craft. Traditionally, the gendered history of embroidery as domestic, practical (utilitarian), and relational has placed it firmly in the category of craft, resulting in its exclusion from the male-dominated arena of art in public space (Emery; Durham; Jefferies). This traditional view of embroidery, and textile work in general, has been thoroughly challenged over the las…
Arriving on YouTube
Vlogging on YouTube is a process of self-formation whereby a vlogger constructs and presents their identity in relationship with the platform, technology and all of its participants. I frame vlogging as Automedia — a process of being and becoming — forged through the merging of self with networked digital media. In order to understand this process, I argue the researcher must engage in the same activity of automediality. I detail my autoethnograp…
The Vulnerability of Contemporary Digital Autobiography
Increasingly, people are using digital media such as YouTube to share their lives with others, constructing their life narratives and identities in the process.1 These online life-writing practices
The Vulnerability of Contemporary Digital Autobiography
Increasingly, people are using digital media such as YouTube to share their lives with others, constructing their life narratives and identities in the process.1 These online life-writing practices
The Vulnerability of Contemporary Digital Autobiography
Increasingly, people are using digital media such as YouTube to share their lives with others, constructing their life narratives and identities in the process.1 These online life-writing practices
Arriving on YouTube
Vlogging on YouTube is a process of self-formation whereby a vlogger constructs and presents their identity in relationship with the platform, technology and all of its participants. I frame vlogging as Automedia — a process of being and becoming — forged through the merging of self with networked digital media. In order to understand this process, I argue the researcher must engage in the same activity of automediality. I detail my autoethnograp…
Stitchers of Instagram
Embroidery: A Subversive History Embroidery has a long history as a woman’s craft. Traditionally, the gendered history of embroidery as domestic, practical (utilitarian), and relational has placed it firmly in the category of craft, resulting in its exclusion from the male-dominated arena of art in public space (Emery; Durham; Jefferies). This traditional view of embroidery, and textile work in general, has been thoroughly challenged over the las…
“The Earth Is Dying, Bro”
Climate Change and Children Australian children are uniquely situated in a vast landscape that varies drastically across locations. Spanning multiple climatic zones—from cool temperate Tasmania to the tropical North—Australia is home to flora and fauna specific to diverse regions, including arid desert and rainforests, mountainous woodlands, and unique mangrove estuaries and coastal regions. Many of Australia’s endemic species—about 85%—are found…
“These Vlogs Aren’t Real”
Introduction – Family Influencers Family vlogging on YouTube is a practice gaining in popularity and scope. An increasing number of couples are giving up their jobs to become full-time “vloggers” or, in industry terms, “creators”. This involves parents filming their everyday lives with their children and uploading the footage to YouTube in daily or weekly instalments for others to watch and respond to. Vlogging reflects a current Western obsessio…
The Value of Vlogs
In the 20 years since its launch in 2005, millions of people around the world have gathered on YouTube, and later other platforms, to share and consume human experience through video. Vlogging has become a global phenomenon where ordinary individuals share their everyday lives online and, in doing so, build connection and community with others. Sharing life through video has resulted in a collective database of knowledge, memory, culture, movemen…
Preserving Personhood
Networked Justice
Deleting Life Online after Death
When a person dies, they will leave behind a significant digital archive of their life. Their social media posts alone—on sites like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok—constitute a mediated record of the person’s life. This archive of life is not static or stationary, nor is it secure or safe, as we assume records and archives to be. What happens to a person’s digital archive of life after they die is usually determined by their family. The loved one…
Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works)