Alethea Kinsela
HDR studentBA (Hons.) Literature
Grad. Dip. Education
Grad. Dip. Archaeology
PhD thesis title
Everlasting Proof: How Social Media and Online Surveillance Affects Young People’s Lives
Thesis summary
Alethea’s interest in online surveillance and social media use was sparked in 2010, when The Wall Street Journal published an interview with Eric Schmidt in which he predicted, “apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.” Alethea’s creative work explores the consequences of uploading personal information to the internet, and her exegetical research examines surveillance theory, the practice of personal data collection, and how the surveillance of young people is portrayed in Australian young adult literature.
Proposed completion date: March 2017
Supervisors
Associate Professor Maria Takolander
Dr Adam Brown
Dr Elizabeth Bullen
Affiliations
Australian Society of Authors
Australian Publishers Association
Biography
Alethea was previously a high school teacher and is now a sessional tutor in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. She has a passion for young adult literature, and has written a young adult novel that is currently represented by Cameron’s Management in Sydney. She is also an archaeologist, and has published a high school textbook on Ancient Australia. She frequently presents at history and archaeology conferences on Indigenous Australian archaeology.
Contact
Email: tkinsela@deakin.edu.au