Julia Coffey
@juliacoffey.bsky.social
Sociologist at University of Newcastle, Australia Researching youth, gender, social media and the body she/her https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/newcastle-youth-studies https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/julia-coffey#publications
The draft Digital Duty of Care legislation will be released this week. This ANZJPH commentary from @juliacoffey.bsky.social & @stevethreadgold.bsky.social critiques the social media minimum age act and looks ahead at how a Digital Duty of Care Act could reduce harm. doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
This article from @stevethreadgold.bsky.social and me published on the same day Meta agreed to significant changes to Instagram and Facebook. It is an unequivocal acknowledgement that wellbeing harms for children and young people are caused by platform design. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ah, the very specific heart sinking feeling of yet another ARC delayed announcement outcome
ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2mo agoARC have postponed #FutureFellowships FT26 outcome announcements; currently can't even say when they'll be. It only last year they were bragging publicly – even to the Senate – that they were "meeting & beating" announcement windows … that they set themselves. Now they can't even do that.
What if young men aren’t only buying crypto to get rich, but to feel more like men? Dan Cassino at Fairleigh Dickinson University (@fduwhatsnew.bsky.social) explores how crypto and meme stocks can offer “gender value” through risk, mastery, and independence. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1536...
Pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months' Greg Attwells told a Senate hearing that he "wasn't aware" of comments made by group founder, Wippa, that accused ban opponents of being paid by big tech. Except, he sent me an email on December 8 responding to my questions about those Wippa comments.
This article details the specific categories of editing practices people use to alter their photo and face when editing a selfie, and how identity and gender are made through editing. With Niamh White, Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai & Ros Gill @thesociologicalreview.org
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 4mo ago“When you start editing things to the point where you don’t look like yourself, that’s when it starts to really affect your self-image.” – Jacinta, Australia @juliacoffey.bsky.social on how young people experience image-editing technology. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/ygBjvci
Israeli army’s own database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians. Who will be held responsible for this historic massacre? www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.
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Shock! 🙄 Australia's social media ban for teens was always impractical, untenable, and missed the point
casey briggs@caseybriggs.com · last yr."I don't think the ban is viable," said Lisa Given, professor of information sciences at RMIT University, who has closely analysed the government's social media age restriction policy. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.
casey briggs@caseybriggs.com · last yr."I don't think the ban is viable," said Lisa Given, professor of information sciences at RMIT University, who has closely analysed the government's social media age restriction policy. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.
‘Perfect bodies and perfect lives’: how selfie-editing tools are distorting how young people see themselves
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‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025
This article presents findings from a qualitative study that aimed to provide some of the first detailed accounts of how young people use selfie-editing apps, a...
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Quit calling them hallucinations. Call it what it is: bullshit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...
AI's Bullshitting Obscures Who's to Blame for Its Mistakes
It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information
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Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.Trouble with AI 'hallucinations' spreads to big law firms reut.rs/4dC7y6G
Things that do not spark joy. Or digital literacy. AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search www.theverge.com/google-io/67...
AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search
The internet’s biggest search engine is going to be unrecognizable in just a few years.
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Cinch, filter, erase: Virtual bodies and the editable self @juliacoffey.bsky.social, Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai, Rosalind Gill, and Niamh White journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cinch, filter, erase: Virtual bodies and the editable self @juliacoffey.bsky.social, Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai, Rosalind Gill, and Niamh White journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cinch, filter, erase: Virtual bodies and the editable self - Julia Coffey, Amy Dobson, Akane Kanai, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025
Selfie-editing technologies (including in-phone editing tools, filters, and apps like Facetune) provide the ability digitally edit and “enhance” facial and body...
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Canberra people! @juliacoffey.bsky.social and I will be there Feb 17 and 18. On Monday we are presenting in the ANU Sociology seminar series on "Young people, platform practices & dimensions of the data gaze". Can register for in person or zoom here: sociology.cass.anu.edu.au/events/young... 1/3
Young people, platform practices and dimensions of the ‘data gaze’ | School of Sociology
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Love this from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about knitting together political projects through doing, and the limits of ideology as the basis for effective collective action. www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-....
The Bad Guys Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are
Infighting is a waste of energy.
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Here's my analysis on the rushing of the social media ban bill. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through?
Labor has been at pains to say people won’t need digital ID or to hand over their passport – but there’s nothing in legislation preventing it
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The government's analysis supporting the teen social media ban contains sweeping statements, repeated references and typos. It's also thin on evidence supporting the restriction of kids under 16 from social media, writes @cameronwilson.bsky.social. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/25/t...
Some quick insight from me on the social media ban from me. In writing this I will also say hats off to @crikeynews.bsky.social, they are clearly one of the only news outlets that have done any real journalism around this awful policy and the road we've travelled. theconversation.com/the-governme...
The government has introduced laws for its social media ban. But key details are still missing
The ban will affect platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. But the bill is vague about how exactly these platforms must comply.
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Pleased to have a few minutes on AM this morning trying one last time to caution against rushing under-scrutinised Social Media Bans for Under16s through the Australian Parliament: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Parliament to debate tough new social media laws - ABC listen
Legislation to ban under 16s from social media will be introduced to Parliament today as the government confirms visual messaging app Snapchat will be covered. There'll also be fines of up to $50 mil...
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So, the day before the Australian government table legislation to Ban Under16s From Social Media, the government are still not able to say HOW ages will be verified. Mind boggling. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Live: Laws to ban social media for kids to be introduced tomorrow
The federal government's legislation aims to get kids off social media by the end of the year. Follow live.
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I was in Canberra yesterday alongside other digital media experts to brief members of the cross bench and government on some of the key policies being debated at present, social media bans, age verification, and misinformation. @qutdmrc.bsky.social
Youth studies starter pack! A work in progress - please send suggestions (and feel free to nominate yourself) I miss our youth studies chat on the other place.... here we go! 💥 go.bsky.app/DbniWGw
