Doctor Amanda Third

Doctor Amanda Third

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW,
Institute for Culture & Society

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Comm Cult Stud Curtin University of Technology
  • MA Curtin University of Technology
  • BA University of Western Australia

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture & Society

Contact

Email:A.Third@uws.edu.au
Extension:6028
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Location:1.G.60
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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Richardson, I. and Third, A. (2009), 'Cultural Phenomenology and The Material Culture of Mobile Media', Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches, Peter Lang 9781433103025.
  • Third, A. (2009), 'Reframing the 'Whiteness' of U.S. Feminism: The Protest Movement, Radical Feminism, and the Abjection of Whiteness', New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Between the Lines 9781897071519.
  • Third, A. and Kao, K. (2007), 'ICT Leapfrogging Policy and Development in the Third World', Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security, IGI Global 9781591409878.
  • Third, A. (2006), 'Feminist Terrorists/Terrorist Feminists: Tracking the Rise of the Violent Feminist Threat', Violent Depictions: Representing Violence Across Cultures, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781847180995.
  • Third, A. (2006), 'Does the Rug Match the Carpet? Gender, Race, Authenticity and the Redheaded Woman', The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture, Duke University Press 9780822337409.

Journal Articles

  • Third, A. (2010), 'Imprisonment and Excessive Femininity: Reading Ulrike Meinhof's Brain', Parallax, 18.
  • Fitch, K. and Third, A. (2010), 'Working girls: Revisiting the gendering of public relations', PRism, 13.
  • Third, A. and De Bruyn, D. (2009), 'Introduction: An Animated Dialogue: Moving into the Local', Animation Studies, 6.
  • Spoors, G., Blaber, R. and Third, A. (2009), 'Editorial: 'Futures' in retrospect', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 8.
  • Third, A. (2006), 'Shooting from the hip': Valerie Solanas, SCUM and the apocalyptic politics of radical feminism', Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 29.
  • Wilson, D., Third, A. and Pickering, S. (2004), 'Media, Secrecy and Guantanamo Bay', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 6.
  • Pickering, S. and Third, A. (2003), 'Castrating Conflict: Gender(ed) Terrorists and Terrorism Domesticated', Social Alternatives, 8.
  • Third, A. (2002), 'Nuclear Terrorists: Patty Hearst and the Terrorist Family', Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 18.

Conference Papers

  • Richardson, I., Third, A. and Maccoll, I. (2007), ''Moblogging and Belonging: New Mobile Phone Practices and Young People's Sense of Social Inclusion'', DIMEA 2007: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, Perth.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - Engaging Creativity Through Technologies P2:P2
Years:2013-01-01 - 2016-06-30
ID:P00021345
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third, Kerry Robinson, Nida Denson and Peter Bansel
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)
Title:Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - Mapping digital inclusion and exclusion: Understanding technologies to improve digital inclusion for vulnerable young people [via Murdoch Uni]
Years:2013-01-01 - 2016-06-30
ID:P00021358
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third and Ann Dadich
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)
Title:eSmart Schools Evaluation and Monitoring Project [via Foundation for Young Australians]
Years:2013-01-22 - 2014-12-19
ID:P00021327
UWS Researchers:Philippa Collin and Amanda Third
Funding:
  • The Alannah and Madeline Foundation
Title:Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - [via Inspire Foundation]
Years:2011-07-01 - 2016-06-30
ID:P00019362
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)
Title:Young People, Technology, and Wellbeing Research Facility
Years:2010-01-01 - 2014-03-21
ID:P00018053
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third and Philippa Collin
Funding:
  • Inspire Foundation
  • Fox Interactive Media Australia Pty Limited
  • NSW Commission for Children and Young People
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Telstra Foundation
  • The Foundation For Young Australians
  • National Children's and Youth Law Centre
  • Starlight Children's Foundation Australia
  • BoysTown
Title:CRC Young People, Technology and Well Being (YAW) HDR Scholarships
Years:2011-07-18 - 2014-12-31
ID:P00020402
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - Technologies for supportive communities: Creating and evaluating meaningful online and technology-facilitated connections for vulnerable young people [via RMIT Uni]
Years:2012-09-01 - 2016-06-30
ID:P00021653
UWS Researchers:Natalie Bolzan and Amanda Third
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)
Title:Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - Research Program Leaders' Support
Years:2012-04-01 - 2014-04-01
ID:P00021025
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third and Philippa Collin
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)

Previous Projects

Title:Promoting Parents' Web Literacy to Enhance Young People's Online Safety (YAWCRC) [via Google Australia]
Years:2012-06-27 - 2012-11-30
ID:P00021039
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)
Title:Intergenerational Attitudes to Cyber-safety and Social Networking: A Living Lab [via Inspire Foundation]
Years:2011-02-16 - 2011-08-31
ID:P00019447
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third and Natalie Bolzan
Funding:
  • Google Australia Pty Ltd (CRC)
Title:Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre - YAWCRC - Livewire Chat and Chat Host Evaluation
Years:2011-09-01 - 2012-02-29
ID:P00020674
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (CRC)
Title:CRC - YAW Admin Support
Years:2012-02-20 - 2013-02-20
ID:P00020744
UWS Researchers:Amanda Third
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

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