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Amy Shields Dobson is an Associate Professor in Digital and Social Media at Curtin University, located on Whadjuk Noongar boodja (land). She holds dual roles as the Humanities Gender Research Champion for Curtin’s Gender Research Network and leads the Digital Intimacies research stream at the Centre for Culture and Technology. Her work critically examines intersections of gender, sexuality, and digital media, with a focus on youth cultures, postfeminism, and social justice.
- Education: Prior to Curtin, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland and lectured in Sociology and Gender at Monash University.
Research interests include digital media cultures, gender politics, youth studies, and postfeminist subjectivity. She has authored Postfeminist Digital Cultures (2015) and co-edited Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media (2018), exploring topics like sexting, body image, and algorithmic governance. Recent projects address #MeToo responses, facial editing apps, and nightlife advertising.
Publications emphasize critical analyses of platform cultures, including studies on China’s social credit system, algorithmic advertising, and young people’s digital practices. Her work bridges feminist theory, media studies, and sociology, contributing to debates about digital intimacy, neoliberalism, and resistance.
