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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear Sydney based colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Myself and co-authors Anita Harris, Gilbert Caluya, Jessica Walton, Emily Booth, Patricia Alves and Alexandra Lee are inviting you to the launch of the final report on our
<b>ARC project: Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World</b>. The launch will be held on
<b>May 29<sup>th</sup>, at UTS Building 1, Ultimo, 5-7pm</b>. The program includes a 20-30 minute report presentation by the research team, followed by a 15-minute panel discussion and brief Q and A. The panel will feature stakeholders who support young people's
digital citizenship and invited guests from academia. After the main event food and drinks will be served. All welcome, but registration is essential and seating is limited so please RSVP here:
<a href="https://events.humanitix.com/fostering-global-digital-citizenship-diaspora-youth-in-a-connected-world-report-launch">
Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World report launch</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">About the report:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> The report’s findings highlight gaps and opportunities in designing and teaching digital citizenship for a culturally
diverse student population. The report specifically focuses on young people of migrant background who maintain connections with transnational family and diaspora communities using digital and social media, and aims to centre their voices and agency by asking
what it is that they do in their everyday digital media practices – not just as individuals, but as participants in globally connected diaspora communities- that fosters their digital citizenship. By asking this question, we aim to understand whether their digital
experiences, practices and aspirations align with or depart from how digital citizenship is framed in policy and taught in Australian schools. Further, the project brings to light the challenges faced by policymakers and educators who are responsible for designing
and delivering digital citizenship education and offers practical ways to create digital citizenship policy and resources that are more inclusive and responsive to the experiences of migrant background youth. Based on the evidence gathered in this report from
both young people and the stakeholders, we make recommendations for how educators and policymakers can incorporate the findings into their own work to foster more equitable and inclusive education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">You can read more about the project at our website:
<a href="youthdigitalcitizenship.com">youthdigitalcitizenship.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We look forward to seeing you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Amelia Johns</span></b><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Academic Liaison Officer, School of Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Pronouns: She/Her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">University of Technology Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">T: +61 2 9514 2294<br>
PO Box 123. Broadway NSW 2007 Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Recent publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">My latest book,
<i>WhatsApp</i>, is now available from Polity (2024): <a href="https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509550524" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509550524</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Labelling, shadowbans and community resistance: did Meta's strategy to suppress rather than remove COVID misinformation
and conspiracy theory on Facebook slow the spread? <i>Media International Australia</i>, co-authored with F. Bailo, E. Booth and M-A Rizoiu:
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X241236984"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X241236984</span></a> (2024, open access)</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Queering the ‘resourcing’ of LGBTQ+ young people in the Asia Pacific,
<i>Information, Communication & Society</i>, co-authored with N. Cheong and P. Byron:
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2249970"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2249970</span></a> (2023, open access)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">ARC Project website:
<a href="https://youthdigitalcitizenship.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://youthdigitalcitizenship.wordpress.com/</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.15pt;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People
of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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