Leaver, Tama

Contributions

• It’s All about the Toys!
  Editorial
  Toys: quintessentially the objects of childhood, their role in culture is anything but child’s play. Toys offer a site for young children to learn anything and everything from the commodification of time, through gendered and racial positioning of subjectivities (or the subversion of these positionings), through to social expectations around reading, sharing, and relative wealth and access....Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 26 No. 2 (2023): toys
• The Social Media Contradiction: Data Mining and Digital Death
  Articles
  Introduction Many social media tools and services are free to use. This fact often leads users to the mistaken presumption that the associated data generated whilst utilising these tools and services is without value. Users often focus on the social and presumed ephemeral nature of communication – imagining something that...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 16 No. 2 (2013): mining
• Going Dark
  Feature
  The first two months of 2021 saw Google and Facebook ‘go dark’ in terms of news content on the Australia versions of their platforms. In January, Google ran a so-called “experiment” which removed or demoted current news in the search results available to a segment of Australian users. While Google was only darkened for some, in February news on Facebook went completely dark, with the company...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021): dark