Ms Maria Brown
Affiliate of Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
Publications
Book Chapter
Brown, Maria Gemma, Carah, Nicholas and Dobson, Amy Shields (2025). The vibe factory: intimacy, affective capitalism, and digital media. Postdigital intimacies and the networked public-private. (pp. 1-27) edited by Adrienne Evans, Jamie Hakim, Jessica Ringrose, Amy Shields Dobson and Shaka McGlotten. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press.
Journal Articles
Brown, Maria Gemma, Carah, Nicholas, Tan, Xue Ying (Jane), Angus, Daniel and Burgess, Jean (2024). Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30 (5), 1710-1731. doi: 10.1177/13548565241270669
Brown, Maria-Gemma, Carah, Nicholas, Robards, Brady, Dobson, Amy, Rangiah, Lillian and De Lazzari, Chiara (2024). No Targets, Just Vibes: Tuned Advertising and the Algorithmic Flow of Social Media. Social Media + Society, 10 (1) 20563051241234691, 1-15. doi: 10.1177/20563051241234691
Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma, Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2023). The algorithmic flow of harmful industries advertising on social media platforms. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12985
Brown, Maria-Gemma (2023). Ghost in the mall: the affective and hauntological potential of dead mall ruins. Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry. doi: 10.22387/cap2022.70
Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma and Hickman, Sarah (2022). Optimizing looking and buying on Instagram: tracing the platformization of advertising and retail on mobile social media. Television and New Media, 24 (4), 152747642211230-396. doi: 10.1177/15274764221123033
Conference Papers
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
Burgess, Jean, Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma and Angus, Daniel (2023). #Cottagecore, #futurecore, #sadcore: using critical simulation to explore the interplay between machine vision and vernacular Instagram aesthetics. The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Dublin, Ireland, 2-5 Nov 2022. Champaign, IL USA: University of Illinois Libraries. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12980
Research Report
Robards, Brady, Carah, Nicholas, Rangiah, Lillian, Roberts, Steven, De Lazzari, Chiara, Brown, Maria-Gemma, Elliott, Karla, Tanner, Claire, Savic, Michael and Dobson, Amy (2023). A citizen science approach to monitoring unhealthy industry digital marketing to young people: The Social Media & Unhealthy Marketing Project: final report. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Monash University; The University of Queensland.
Data Collection
Brown, Maria-Gemma, Hickman, Sarah and Carah, Nicholas (2022). Timeline of the development of Instagram's promotional culture and advertising model (2010-2020). The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/7c94074