Ms Kiah Hawker
Teaching Associate in Communication
Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies

Publications
Book Chapters
White, Niamh, Dobson, Amy, Coffey, Julia, Gill, Ros, Kanai, Akane and Hawker, Kiah (2024). Young Bodies, Images, and Social Media. Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. (pp. 301-316) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-8606-4_135
White, Niamh, Dobson, Amy, Coffey, Julia, Gill, Ros, Kanai, Akane and Hawker, Kiah (2023). Young bodies, images, and social media. Handbook of children and youth studies. (pp. 1-16) edited by Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill and Hernan Cuervo. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_135-1
Carah, Nicholas and Hawker, Kiah (2022). Popular music in a brand culture. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture. (pp. 445-466) New York, NY United States: Bloomsbury.
Journal Articles
Carah, Nicholas, Hayden, Lauren, Brown, Maria-Gemma, Angus, Daniel, Brownbill, Aimee, Hawker, Kiah, Tan, Xue Ying, Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2024). Observing “tuned” advertising on digital platforms. Internet Policy Review, 13 (2) 1779. doi: 10.14763/2024.2.1779
Hawker, Kiah and Carah, Nicholas (2020). Snapchat’s augmented reality brand culture: sponsored filters and lenses as digital piecework. Continuum, 35 (1), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827370
Conference Papers
Heemsbergen, Luke, Hawker, Kiah, Meyrick, Tonya and Greuter, Stefan (2025). Dying And Being Dead In XR: Immersive Rehearsals Of Death; Affective Artefacts Post-life. 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 30 October - 2 November 2024. Champaign, IL United States: University of Illinois Libraries. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13959
Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma, Tesiram, Rani, Kahukura, Hine, Enright, Lisa and Hawker, Kiah (2025). Scroll, Print, Algorithmically Cluster: A Co-analysis Approach To Explore The Interplay Between Users, Platforms And Algorithmic Models On Instagram. 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 30 October - 2 November 2024. Champaign, IL United States: University of Illinois Libraries. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13917
Thesis
Hawker, Kiah (2025). Crafting new realities: how augmented reality transforms our lived experience of the world. PhD Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/1239895
Preprint
Burgess, Jean, Angus, Daniel, Carah, Nicholas, Andrejevic, Mark, Hawker, Kiah, Lewis, Kelly, Obeid, Abdul Karim, Smith, Adam, Tan, Jane, Fordyce, Robbie, Trott, Verity and Li, Luzhou (2021). Critical simulation as hybrid digital method for exploring the data operations and vernacular cultures of visual social media platforms.
Research Reports
Hayden, Lauren, Brownbill, Aimee, Angus, Daniel, Carah, Nicholas, Tan, Xue Ying, Hawker, Kiah, Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2024). Buy now: the link between alcohol advertising, online sales and rapid delivery. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.
Hayden, Lauren, Brownbill, Aimee, Angus, Daniel, Carah, Nicholas, Tan, Xue Ying, Hawker, Kiah, Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2023). Alcohol advertising on social media platforms – A 1-year snapshot. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.
Hawker, Kiah, Carah, Nicholas, Angus, Daniel, Brownbill, Aimee, Tan, Xue Ying (Jane), Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2022). Advertisements on digital platforms: how transparent and observable are they?. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.