Curriculum Vitæ
Complete CV available on request.Last updated 17 September 2024.
CAREER HISTORY
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
School of Media, Film, and Journalism; Faculty of Arts;
Monash University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
Swinburne Institute of Social Research.
Swinburne University of Technology.
Melbourne Networked Society Institute
University of Melbourne
ARC Discovery Projects “Digital Commemoration” and “Avatars and Identity”
University of Melbourne
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
| R Fordyce. ‘Play, History and Politics: Conceiving Futures Beyond Empire’ Games and Culture. 16 (3) DOI: 10.1177/1555412020962430. |
| V Verdoodt, R Fordyce, L Archbold, F Gordon and D Clifford. ‘Esports and the Platforming of Child’s Play During covid-19’ The International Journal of Children's Rights. 29 (2): 496–520. |
| F Yang, L Heemsbergen and R Fordyce. ‘Comparative analysis of China’s Health Code, Australia’s COVIDSafe and New Zealand’s COVID Tracer Surveillance Apps: a new corona of public health governmentality?’ Media International Australia. 178 (1): 182–197. |
| V Verdoodt, R Fordyce, L Archbold, F Gordon and D Clifford. ‘Esports and the Platforming of Child’s Play During covid-19’ The International Journal of Children's Rights. 29 (2): 496–520. |
| S Jethani and R Fordyce. ‘Darkness, Datafication, and Provenance as an Illuminating Methodology’ M/C Journal. 24 (2). |
| R Fordyce and TH Apperley. ‘Exhausting Choices’ Reading Black Mirror. Transcript Verlag. |
| R Fordyce, B Nansen, M Arnold, T Kohn and M Gibbs. ‘Automating Digital Afterlives’ Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection. Oxford University Press. |
| L de Wildt, TH Apperley, J Clemens, R Fordyce and S Mukherjee. ‘(Re)Orienting the Video Game Avatar’ Games and Culture. 15 (8): 1–19. |
| R Fordyce. Media and Time. Oxford Bibliographies. |
| R Fordyce. ‘Dwarf Fortress: Laboratory and Homestead’ Games and Culture. 13 (1): 3–19. |
| R Fordyce, L Heemsbergen, TH Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell, M Luo and B Nansen. ‘Things, tags, topics: Thingiverse’s object-centred network’ Communication Research & Practice. 2 (1): 63–78. |
| R Fordyce, T Neale and TH Apperley. ‘Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism’ Fibreculture 27. |
| L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, B Nansen, TH Apperley, M Arnold and T Birtchnell. ‘Social practices of 3D printing: Decentralising control and reconfiguring regulation’ Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 4 (3): 110–125. |
| R Fordyce. L Heemsbergen, P Mignone and B Nansen, ‘3D printing and university makerspaces: Surveying countercultural communities in institutional settings’ Digital Culture and Education. 7 (2). |
| R Fordyce. ‘Manufacturing Imaginaries: Neo-nazis, Men’s Rights Activists, and 3D printing’ Journal of Peer Production. 6 (1). |
| R Fordyce and L van Ryn. ‘Ethical Commodities as exodus and refusal’ ephemera. 14 (1). |
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R Fordyce, ‘The Kulturtechniken of post-autonomist media theory’, Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Communications Association 2014 Conference. |
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R Fordyce. ‘Grasping at threads, and finding power in networks’ Asia Pacific Media Educator. 22 (1): 229–244. |
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R Fordyce. ‘Code, DDoS attacks, and Democracy’ SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture. 10 (2). |
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R Fordyce. ‘DDoS attacks as political assemblages’ PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication. 5 (1): 6–22. |
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R Fordyce, ‘Discourses of power: comparing Castells and Negri on global networks of power’, Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Communications Association 2013 Conference. |
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R Fordyce, ‘Collapsing action; or, games of life and death’, Association of Computing Machinery: Interactive Entertainment Conference 5 ‘Matters of Life and Death’. |
REPORTS
| F Yang, R Fordyce, and L Heemsbergen. WeChat and the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum: Key actors, public opinions, misinformation and disinformation. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/76uqf [Analytical Report] |
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J Meese, C Albarrán-Torres, K Albury, D Angus, A Bruns, J Burgess, N Carah, R Fordyce, J Goldenfein, T Graham, L Hayden, A Matamoros Fernandez, S Montaña-Niño, C O’Neill, C Parker, Z Stardust, N Suzor, K Weatherall. ADM+S Submission to The Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society. [Technical Report] |
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D Angus, A Obeid, J Burgess, C Parker, M Andrejevic, J Bagnara, N Carah, R Fordyce, L Hayden, K Lewis, C O'Neill, C Albarrárran-Torres, L Cellard. The Australian Ad Observatory Technical and Data Report. [Technical Report] |
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J Burgess, D Angus, N Carah, M Andrejevic, K Hawker, K Lewis, A Karim Obeid, A Smith, J Tan, R Fordyce, V Trott and L Li. ‘Critical simulation as hybrid digital method for exploring the data operations and vernacular cultures of visual social media platforms’, SocArXiv. [Working Paper] |
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G Duffy and R Fordyce “Submission to the Australian Federal Government’s consultation on the Privacy Bill” Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft, Consultation process. [Government Submission] |
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M Andrejevic, R Fordyce, L Li, and V Trott. National Facial Recognition Survey. Monash University. [White Paper] |
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M Andrejevic, R Fordyce, N Li, V Trott, and S Jethani. “Artificial Intelligence: Australia’s Ethics Framework: A Submission in Response to the Discussion Paper” Artificial Intelligence Ethics Framework Consultation. [Government Submission] |
| L Heemsbergen and R Fordyce “Submission in response to Data 61’s Artificial Intelligence: Australia's Ethics Framework” Artificial Intelligence Ethics Framework Consultation. [Government Submission] |
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K Mannell and R Fordyce “Submission to the Review into non-educational use of mobile digital devices in NSW schools” Review into Non-Educational Use of Mobile Devices in NSW Schools. [Government Submission] |
| M Gibbs, M Carter, D Cumming, R Fordyce and E Witkowski. Esports Spectatorship in Australia. Networked Society Institute. [White Paper] |
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L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, TH Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell and B. Nansen. 3D Printing: Civic Practices and Regulatory Challenges. Melbourne Networked Society: Melbourne. [White Paper] |
| L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, TH Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell and B. Nansen. 3D Printing Rights and Responsibilities: Consumer perceptions and realities. Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. [White paper] |
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTIONS
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M Andrejevic, R Fordyce, L Li and V Trott. ‘Automated culture: introduction’ Cultural Studies. 37(1): 1-19. |
| R Fordyce and TH Apperley. ‘Introduction: Special section on Platform Studies’, Digital Culture and Education. 8 (3). |
CODE REPOSITORIES
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R Fordyce. ‘headlineparse’. Zenodo. version 0.1. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.11069623. |
| R Fordyce. ‘Yet Another Computational HASS Tool for the Investigation of Mobile Platforms’ Zenodo. version 0.2.2-alpha. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10215442. |
| R Fordyce. ‘WeCapture’, Zenodo. version 0.1.3-alpha. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10215181. |
RESEARCH FUNDING
CATEGORY ONE GOVERNMENT FUNDING
| R Fordyce. ARC DECRA Fellowship. DE250101553. $479,413. |
CATEGORY TWO GOVERNMENT FUNDING
SELECT INTERNAL FUNDING