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Publications

“Mind Body Spirit: the role of spirituality in youth work for resilience”, Journal of UnitingCare Victoria, Melbourne, March 2003.

“Resident evil: horror film and the construction of religious identity in contemporary media culture”, Colloquium 37:2, 2005.

“Crossing Over or Crossing Out? Young people, popular media and religious language”, Informit, Papers from the Trans-Tasman Research Symposium, ‘Emerging Research in Media, Religion and Culture’, RMIT Publishing, July 2005.

“Why bother with the mass media?”, The Eagle, 2:3, 2006.

“Religion 2.0: heralding a new wave of online religion”, Zadok Perspectives, 98, Autumn 2008.

(co-author with Dr Peter Horsfield), “A Mediated Religion: Historical perspectives on Christianity and the Internet”, Studies in World Christianity, 13:3, 2007.

Conference papers

Graffiti: rules and rituals for young people in the inner city – and the role of local government
Research paper for Port Phillip City Council, August 2000.

Mind Body Spirit: The role of spirituality in the prevention of youth suicide
Paper presented to the Australia New Zealand Adolescent Health Conference, Melbourne 2002

The quest for meaning of young rural Victorians
Paper presented to Reversing the drift, the biennial conference of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria, Shepparton 2002

Mind Body Spirit: Building a spirit of community for young people
Paper presented to the annual conference of the Victorian Council of Social Services, Melbourne 2002

The role of spirituality in young people’s resilience
Young people, spirituality and popular media
Two papers presented to the annual conference of Suicide Prevention Australia, Brisbane 2003

Resident Evil: Horror film and the construction of religious identity in contemporary media culture
Paper presented to the Sacred Media Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland 2003

Religious language across popular media platforms
Paper presented to the Colloquium on Virtual Theology, Auckland, New Zealand 2005

Crossing Over or Crossing Out? Young people, popular media and religious language
Paper presented to the Conference of the International Study Commission into Media, Religion and Culture, Melbourne 2005

Emerging church bloggers in Australia: Prophets, priests and rulers in God’s virtual world
Paper presented to the doctoral colloquium of AoIR 7.0, Brisbane 2006

Virtual faith
Paper presented to the annual conference of the Australian Student Christian Movement, Melbourne 2006

Christianity 2.0: A new religion for a new web
Paper presented to Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver 2007

Researching identity in the blogosphere: methodological challenges and prospects
Paper presented to Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver 2007

Emerging church bloggers in Australia: Prophets, priests and rulers in God’s virtual world
Paper presented to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, São Paulo 2008

Online religious advertising in Australia
Keynote address to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, São Paulo 2008

Web 2.0 Rhetoric and Realities: The case of authority, Technorati and religious bloggers
Paper presented to the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Copenhagen, 2008

Religious podcasting: in between religious audiences and podcasting communities
Paper presented to the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Copenhagen, 2008

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