As part of my commitment to foster a collegial and reciprocal academic culture,
I have been volunteering my services at Professional, Association, and University levels.
PROFESSIONAL & ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP
Australia & New Zealand Communication Association
- Executive Committee Member (as MIA Editor-in-Chief) (September 2021–)
Association of Internet Researchers
- Executive Committee Member (Open Seat) (October 2019–September 2021, October 2017–September 2019)
- Executive Duties on subcommittees of Code of Conduct, Diversity & Inclusivity, Institutional Memory, Nominations, Public Communications, Satellite Symposia, Translations, Travel Grant (October 2019–September 2021, October 2017–September 2019)
- Member (June 2014–)
Australian Network of Student Anthropologists
- State Representative for Western Australia (September 2012–August 2015)
Fame and Persona Research Consortium
- Consortium that brings together over 50 top global researchers on celebrity studies
- Advisory Board Member and Early Career Membership Chair (June 2017–)
Editorial board member for journals & publishers:
- Bloomsbury Press ‘Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies’ series (July 2021–)
- Bloomsbury Press ‘Fandom Primers’ series (August 2022–)
- Bloomsbury Press ‘Studies in Digital Cultures’ series (October 2021–)
- Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (September 2022–)
- Celebrity Studies (June 2023–)
- Convergence: The International Journal of New Media Technologies (April 2018–)
- Cultural Science Journal (July 2017–)
- Global Media and China (February 2023–)
- Global Perspectives – Technology and Global Change section (February 2021–)
- Journal of Communication (September 2019–)
- Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (October 2021–)
- Journal of Sociotechnical Critique (April 2019–)
- Media International Australia (July 2022–) *Editor-in-Chief
- Social Media + Society (November 2015–)
- Television & New Media (March 2022–)
TikTok Cultures Research Network
- Founder (October 2020–)
PROFESSIONAL & ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTIONS
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association
- Invited Panelist at the “Postgraduate/Early Career Researcher Day” (July 2017)
Australian Network of Student Anthropologists
- Web Officer & Social Media Curator (September 2012–August 2015)
Children’s Digital Futures Consortium
- Network of Australian researchers focusing on children’s media
- Inaugural Member (March 2017)
Digitizing Early Childhood International Steering Committee
- International committee of scholars working on publications and conferences pertaining to topics on digitizing early childhood
- Swedish and Social Media Liaison (October 2017)
Hey Girl Global
- International research and pedagogical network that mentors young women to produce independent research on young women’s issues
- Pioneer Member (November 2015)
National University of Singapore
- Class Ambassador for the Sociology Honours Cohort 2010/2011 (June 2011–)
Postdigital Intimacies
- Network to create new knowledge on intimacy in a postdigital context, thinking about intimacy as a relational concept, or series of relationalities
- Pioneer Member (Feb 2021–)
Selfies Pedagogy Group
- Pedagogy network brings together international lecturers to develop specialized selfies syllabi and run regional workshops
- Pioneer Member (Aug 2014–)
The Selfies Research Network
- Network which brings together almost 3,000 selfie researchers, of which I was the only Western Australian member in the pioneer group of 12 who debut the first interactive course programme
- Pioneer Member (Feb 2014–)
WA Communication Culture and Media
- Curtin University Representative (January 2021–)
- Invited ECR Panelist at the “How to Handle Feedback” session (February 2017)
EDITORIAL & REVIEWING CONTRIBUTIONS
Peer reviewer for journals:
- African Journalism Studies
- Anthropological Forum
- Asiascape: Digital Asia
- Celebrity Studies
- Communication, Culture and Critique
- Convergence
- Global Media and China
- Information, Communication and Society
- International Journal of Communication
- International Journal of Cultural Studies
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Journal of Gender Studies
- Limina
- M/C Journal
- Media International Australia
- New Media & Society
- Persona Studies
- Poetics
- Popular Communication
- Qualitative Research
- Social Media + Society Journal
- The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Peer reviewer for publishers:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Emerald Publishing
- Lexington Books
- MIT Press
- Oxford University Press
- Palgrave
- Routledge
- SAGE Publishing
Peer reviewer for conferences:
- Association of Internet Researchers
- Australia New Zealand Communication Association
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- International Communication Association
Peer reviewer for grants:
- Australian Research Council
- National Science Foundation
UNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONS
Curtin University
- Faculty Academic Promotions Committee, Faculty of Humanities (May 2023–)
- Research and Creative Practice Committee, iSchool (March 2022–March 2023)
- Advisory Board, MCASI (July 2021–)
- Executive Board Member, Tourism Research Cluster, Curtin Business School (May 2021–)
- ERA Readiness Taskforce, MCASI (March 2021–)
- ECR Rep, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty of Humanities (March 2021–March 2023)
- Mentor, Curtin Global Campuses Mentoring Programme (2021)
- Reviewer, Human Research Ethics Committee (July 2020–)
- Mentor, Curtin Staff Mentoring Programme (2020)
- Reviewer, HASS Grant Success Panel, Research Office (October 2019)
- Invited panelist at “All Faculties ARC Rejoinder Session”, Curtin Grant Success Panel (June 2019)
- Mentor at the “Cultures of Knowledge: Creative Economy and China Summer School and Conference” (February 2017)
Jönköping University
- Expert Panelist at the “JIBS Entrepreneurship Challenge” (April 2015)
Other Universities
- Invited Panelist at the Ethical dilemmas of internet researchers, University of Tartu (October 2017)
- Invited Instructor at the “Social Media Research Masterclass” for the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at the RMIT (May 2015)
- Invited Postgraduate Panelist at the “Postgraduate Support Symposium” in Murdoch University (May 2013)
University of Western Australia
- Postgraduate Representative for the Department of Anthropology & Sociology (July–December 2013, July–November 2014)
- Invited Postgraduate Panelist at the “ALVA Supervision Workshop” hosted by the Graduate Research School, UWA (May 2014)
- Mailing List Administrator for the Department of Anthropology & Sociology (April 2012–January 2013, July–December 2013)
- Advisory Group Member and Facilitator at the “Intercultural Interviews Workshop Trial Honours Project” with the Study Abroad programme at UWA (August–October 2013)
- Postgraduate Representative for various events such as Open Day (August 2012, August 2013, August 2014)
- Research Features for various Graduate Research School events such as the Postgrad and Honours Expo (September 2013), Graduate Welcome Tea (August 2012, September 2013)
- Contributing writer, photographer, and model for various entitles such as Open Day (August 2013), Student Services (July 2013), Information Services (January 2012); Postgraduate Students Association (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
- Postgraduate Mentor to Honours Year Anthropology & Sociology Students at UWA (October–December 2012)
- Coordinator & Discussant for various postgraduate writing groups and work-in-progress workshops (2011-2015)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
- Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2014–
- Australian Anthropological Society (AAS), 2012–2016
- Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA), 2015–2016
- International Communications Association (ICA), 2016–2020
- Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA), 2019–
- The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), 2017–
RESEARCH & COMMUNITY GROUPS
- Asia Life Digital Project, 2014–2015
- Australian Network of Student Anthropologists (ANSA), 2012–2015
- Children’s Digital Futures Consortium, 2017–
- Cultural Science Society, 2017–
- Fame and Persona Research Consortium, 2017–
- Fembot Collective, 2015–
- Hey Girl Global, 2015–
- Identity Research Network, 2014–
- PopAnth, 2013–
- Postgraduate Students Association (UWA), 2011–2015
- Selfies Pedagogy Group, 2014–
- The Selfies Research Network, 2014–
- Western Australian Anthropological and Sociological Students Association (WAASSA), 2012–2015
- Western Australia Communication, Culture, Media (WACCM), 2016–
This page was last updated on 09 June 2023.
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