Dr Lauren Rosewarne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She is a writer, researcher and frequent media commentator on issues relating to gender, sexuality, pop culture and the media.
Lauren is the author of eight books: Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy (2007), Cheating On The Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism (2009), Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture and Kink Management (2011) and Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television (2012), American Taboo (2013) and Masturbation in Pop Culture: Screen, Society, Self (2014). This year, Lauren will have two books published: Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes (2016) and Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections (2016).
For more information, please visit her website: www.laurenrosewarne.com and feel free to get in touch at [email protected].
From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the "Weinstein Effect"
Nov 11, 2017 00:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
As the Weinstein effect sweeps Hollywood, the sex/gender/pop culture clash that is my passion project has led to lots of conversations, oftentimes on air. At some point during interviews therell be a question about change:...
Trigger Warnings, Evidence-Based Policy and Media Literacy
Apr 28, 2017 07:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With complete disregard for irony, Conservatives are sometimes triggered laughably easily. When the brown folks forget their station, for example. When we ladies get too ballsy. And God forbid if anyone dares fuck with...
13 Reasons Why and Ageing Out of Pop Culture
Apr 16, 2017 14:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Youd think Id have learnt my lesson. It was, after all, the same social media feed chiming that 13 Reasons Why was as enjoyable for angsty adults as adolescents that also claimed Kendrick Lamar was Gods gift to...
The False Feminism of Kendrick Lamar's "Humble"
Apr 02, 2017 00:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne In a mediascape where women are routinely sexualised and oftentimes overtly objectified in music videos, the most thoroughly tokenistic deviations can achieve...
Beyonce's Lemonade: tell all or fizzy, soap-operatic art object?
Apr 28, 2016 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Its no accident that so much energy has been poured into analysing Beyoncés latest offering, Lemonade. It was designed for this very purpose. Sure, its a video and an album and catnip for fans, but its also equal...
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