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Kath Albury

Researcher at Swinburne University of Technology

Publications -  64
Citations -  1543

Kath Albury is an academic researcher from Swinburne University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Reproductive health. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1258 citations. Previous affiliations of Kath Albury include University of New South Wales.

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Sexting, consent and young people's ethics: Beyond Megan's Story

TL;DR: In this paper, the Megan's Story campaign, a recent Australian media and policy response to sexting (the act of taking and transmitting naked or semi-naked pictures via mobile phones) is compared with interview responses drawn from an Australian study that has asked young people about mobiles, and the authors argue that there is an emerging ethics around the issue of consent being developed by young people.
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Porn and sex education, porn as sex education

TL;DR: An overview of the field of pornography as pedagogy can be found in this article, with a focus on pornography literacy as a potential addition to the secondary state school curriculum in the United Kingdom and Australia.
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"It would be weird to have that on Facebook": young people's use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information.

TL;DR: The findings point to the complex ways in which young people use social media, and the unlikelihood of traditional take-home sexual health messages having traction in social media spaces.
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Selfies, sexts and sneaky hats: young people's understandings of gendered practices of self-representation

TL;DR: The Young People and Sexting in Australia project as mentioned in this paper conducted interviews with three mixed-sex groups of 16 and 17-year-olds in Sydney, Australia, as part of the Young People, and the participants explicitly and implicitly explored complex and at times contradictory understandings of the interplay of sexuality, gender, and representation, pointing to a significant gap between young people's own interpretations of their ordinary or everyday digital practices and adults' interpretations of these practices.
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Safe on My Phone? Same-Sex Attracted Young People’s Negotiations of Intimacy, Visibility, and Risk on Digital Hook-Up Apps

TL;DR: In this article, focus group interviews with same-sex attracted Australian men and women aged 18-29, to reflect on their accounts of the perceived risks and opportunities offered by hook-up apps such as Grindr, Blendr, and Hornet.