Tama Leaver

Tama Leaver is a Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He's the President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), a regular media commentator, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.

His interests include digital infancy and childhood online, visual social media, digital death, the changing landscape of media distribution, including streaming media, and mobile gaming.

Tama has published in a number of journals including Social Media + Society, Information, Communication and Society, Popular Communication, Media International Australia, First Monday, Comparative Literature Studies, Communication Research and Practice and the Fibreculture journal, and is the author of Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology and Bodies (Routledge, 2012); co-editor of An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World’s Largest Social Network (Routledge, 2014) with Mike Kent; and Social, Casual and Mobile Games: The Changing Gaming Landscape (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) with Michele Willson; co-author of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (Polity, 2020) with Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin; and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children (Routledge, 2021) with Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson and Leslie Haddon; and most recently co-editor of Gaming Disability Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games (Routledge, 2023) with Katie Ellis and Mike Kent.

He is @tamaleaver on Twitter, and my web presence is www.tamaleaver.net.