Amy Dobson

Amy Shields Dobson convenes the Digital and Social Media program at Curtin University and is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. Amy also leads the Digital Intimacies research stream in Curtin’s Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT). They are an expert across gender and feminism, gendered subjectivities, youth, and social media.  Amy has published widely on youth sexting, gendered representations in contemporary popular media and digital cultures, and contemporary feminine subjectivities. They are the author of Postfeminist Digital Cultures (2015), and editor of Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media with Nicholas Carah and Brady Robards (2018). Amy’s recent research projects include work on young people’s responses to #MeToo and gender violence awareness; facial image editing apps, body image, and selfies in youth cultures; and below-the-line youth-targeted alcohol and nightlife marketing on social media.