Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
Amelia Johns is an Associate Professor in Digital and Social Media at University of Technology Sydney. Her work spans the fields of digital media and digital citizenship studies, with a focus on young people’s negotiation of digital rights, safety and trust in networked publics and on private messaging platforms. Her most recent projects have examined diaspora youth and digital citizenship education in and beyond school, misinformation and hate speech on social media and WhatsApp as a platform for private and public communication. She is the author of three books: 'Battle for the Flag' (2015), 'Negotiating Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest, Culture' (2016) and WhatsApp: from a one-to-one messaging app to a global communication platform (2024).
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