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Tama Leaver

Professor of Internet Studies
Curtin University

Tama Leaver is a Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He's the President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), a regular media commentator, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.

Subjects: Communication Studies, Education, Media and Cultural Studies

Biography

Dr Tama Leaver is a senior lecturer in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. His research interests include online identity, social media, digital death and the changing landscape of media distribution. He has published in a number of journals including Popular Communication, Media International Australia, Comparative Literature Studies and the Fibreculture journal, and is the author of Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology and Bodies (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of the An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World’s Largest Social Network (Routledge, 2014). Tama has won teaching awards from the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and in 2012 received a national Australian Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Arts. He is @tamaleaver on Twitter, and online at www.tamaleaver.net.

Education

PhD, The University of Western Australia, 2006

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Social Media, Internet Studies, Media Distribution, Higher Education

Websites

Tama Leaver dot Net

Books

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