Lauren Bliss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6748411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Bliss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Bliss |
| SIGNATURE | BLISS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6025-9829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Platforming pocket money: Family finance apps and the datafication of child economies
Family finance apps are digital platforms that offer possibilities for reshaping children’s consumer socialization and economic agency. These finance apps incorporate functions for both parents and children through the setting and tracking of chores, the payment of allowances or pocket money, as well as the monitoring and management of children’s saving and spending. With these apps, children’s economic experiences and participation are increasin…
Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps
Children’s FinTech apps are digital mobile platforms that incorporate features for managing children’s financial activities ranging from the setting and tracking of chores, the payment of allowances or pocket money, the capacity for saving and spending, and the facilitation of investment options. As we show in this paper, a key aspect of these child money and finance apps is the inclusion of playful affordances such as gamified interface designs …
Reaction Media As A Cross-Platform Practice: A Case Study Of Friction And Flow In Uncle Roger’s Reaction Media On Youtube, Tiktok, Douyin, And Bilibili
Studies of reaction media within global networked culture have emphasized the political economy and hegemonic meanings of reaction videos and particularly considered the role of the close-up as creating the meaning of the “reaction.” This article alternatively examines Uncle Roger’s reaction media through a medium-specific and cross-platform perspective, considering both textual and audiovisual image-based reactions, to explore the nuances of rea…
Finance Apps and the Datafication of Children’s Economic Lives
Children’s finances are increasingly datafied through the emergence and development of applications for managing chores, saving, and spending. These finance apps incorporate features for both parents and children, enabling the setting and tracking of chores, the payment of allowances or pocket money, as well as supporting and managing children’s saving and spending habits. The paper draws on and contributes to children’s financial socialisation a…
Professional development through collaborative action research for early career academics - a collaborative auto-ethnography during the Covid-19 pandemic
Early career academics (ECAs) constitute a significant part of the teaching responsibilities in higher education.However, ECAs, especially those employed on sessional or fixed-term contracts are particularly impacted by a lack of sustainable professional development.This article presents findings from collaborative reflection by a small group of ECAs.They explored their experiences in learning to use pedagogical action research in their own teach…
(Re)imagining ambivalent Australia: The curriculum as a tool of nation
This paper explores how Australian literature mandated for study in the Victorian senior English curriculum creates opportunities for problematizing central myths about Australia. We engage with Homi Bhabha’s notion of ambivalence to demonstrate how representations of colonization, rurality and migration reflect discursive formations of Australia. We consider how each discourse serves a pedagogic function, essentializing a set of myths about Aust…
Would you rather?’ Weirdness and affect in reaction videos to porn
Reaction videos to porn are popular forms of memetic media that circulate widely on YouTube and TikTok. However, analysis remains limited and little attention has been paid to how they mediate porn. This research seeks to understand and clarify the range of reaction videos to porn on YouTube, and analyses how they expose the mutable and shifting cultures of pornographic spectatorship, from being ostensibly private and sexual to affecting and inhe…
Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium
This paper unearths the archeology of reaction media across cinema, television and the Internet. We show how reaction content exists in high and low modes, tracing their reoccurrence and remediation from art-house and horror in cinema, to television soap opera, to animated GIFS, and YouTube compilations. Because reactions can be readily repackaged and resourced, we argue that they are a form of inter-media; operating in-between media text and med…
What counts? Inclusion and diversity in the senior English curriculum
The Maternal Imagination of Film and Film Theory
Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium
This paper unearths the archeology of reaction media across cinema, television and the Internet. We show how reaction content exists in high and low modes, tracing their reoccurrence and remediation from art-house and horror in cinema, to television soap opera, to animated GIFS, and YouTube compilations. Because reactions can be readily repackaged and resourced, we argue that they are a form of inter-media; operating in-between media text and med…
The Maternal Imagination of Film and Film Theory
What counts? Inclusion and diversity in the senior English curriculum
Would you rather?’ Weirdness and affect in reaction videos to porn
Reaction videos to porn are popular forms of memetic media that circulate widely on YouTube and TikTok. However, analysis remains limited and little attention has been paid to how they mediate porn. This research seeks to understand and clarify the range of reaction videos to porn on YouTube, and analyses how they expose the mutable and shifting cultures of pornographic spectatorship, from being ostensibly private and sexual to affecting and inhe…
Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium
This paper unearths the archeology of reaction media across cinema, television and the Internet. We show how reaction content exists in high and low modes, tracing their reoccurrence and remediation from art-house and horror in cinema, to television soap opera, to animated GIFS, and YouTube compilations. Because reactions can be readily repackaged and resourced, we argue that they are a form of inter-media; operating in-between media text and med…
(Re)imagining ambivalent Australia: The curriculum as a tool of nation
This paper explores how Australian literature mandated for study in the Victorian senior English curriculum creates opportunities for problematizing central myths about Australia. We engage with Homi Bhabha’s notion of ambivalence to demonstrate how representations of colonization, rurality and migration reflect discursive formations of Australia. We consider how each discourse serves a pedagogic function, essentializing a set of myths about Aust…
Finance Apps and the Datafication of Children’s Economic Lives
Children’s finances are increasingly datafied through the emergence and development of applications for managing chores, saving, and spending. These finance apps incorporate features for both parents and children, enabling the setting and tracking of chores, the payment of allowances or pocket money, as well as supporting and managing children’s saving and spending habits. The paper draws on and contributes to children’s financial socialisation a…
Professional development through collaborative action research for early career academics - a collaborative auto-ethnography during the Covid-19 pandemic
Early career academics (ECAs) constitute a significant part of the teaching responsibilities in higher education.However, ECAs, especially those employed on sessional or fixed-term contracts are particularly impacted by a lack of sustainable professional development.This article presents findings from collaborative reflection by a small group of ECAs.They explored their experiences in learning to use pedagogical action research in their own teach…
Platforming pocket money: Family finance apps and the datafication of child economies
Family finance apps are digital platforms that offer possibilities for reshaping children’s consumer socialization and economic agency. These finance apps incorporate functions for both parents and children through the setting and tracking of chores, the payment of allowances or pocket money, as well as the monitoring and management of children’s saving and spending. With these apps, children’s economic experiences and participation are increasin…
Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps
Children’s FinTech apps are digital mobile platforms that incorporate features for managing children’s financial activities ranging from the setting and tracking of chores, the payment of allowances or pocket money, the capacity for saving and spending, and the facilitation of investment options. As we show in this paper, a key aspect of these child money and finance apps is the inclusion of playful affordances such as gamified interface designs …
Reaction Media As A Cross-Platform Practice: A Case Study Of Friction And Flow In Uncle Roger’s Reaction Media On Youtube, Tiktok, Douyin, And Bilibili
Studies of reaction media within global networked culture have emphasized the political economy and hegemonic meanings of reaction videos and particularly considered the role of the close-up as creating the meaning of the “reaction.” This article alternatively examines Uncle Roger’s reaction media through a medium-specific and cross-platform perspective, considering both textual and audiovisual image-based reactions, to explore the nuances of rea…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)