JENNY KENNEDY
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Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life

​By Jenny Kennedy
​Sharing is an important form of communication, and one that is championed in contemporary digital culture. This book asks what is sharing, and what roles do our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices?
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Sharing is more complex and problematic than first perceived. There are tensions especially when sharing occurs through digital devices and platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Drawing on original empirical data, this timely book reveals detailed descriptions of the symbolic processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. It draws out the relationship of sharing to privacy and control, the laboured strategies and boundaries of reciprocation, and our relationships with the technologies which mediate sharing practices.

Routledge
www.routledge.com/Digital-Media-Sharing-and-Everyday-Life
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Grand Designs
Consumer markets and home-making


​By Aneta Podkalicka, Esther Milne and Jenny Kennedy
​Situated within the genre of lifestyle TV, and depicting material practices of transformation, Grand Designs is motivated by the desires and aspirations of homeowners which the series follows on their journey to create a perfect home. As a cultural object, Grand Designs is both shaped by and enacts social discourses of home ownership, design value, consumption and taste.
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Positioned within burgeoning fields of Property TV and consumption studies this monograph pays particular attention to issues of materiality, social practices of consumption and sustainability. It focuses on Grand Designs and its spin-offs to provide the first detailed academic study of this popular and long-running program. 

Palgrave
​www.palgrave.com/gp/book/granddesigns

SELECTED OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Book chapters
*Kennedy, J., Rennie, E. and Thomas, J. (2019). AI in Public Services: Nadia and other Australian examples. Artificial Intelligence and Public Service Delivery: Report for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific. Bangkok: UNESCAP.
Kennedy, J. (2016). The intimacies of technologies in sharing practices online. In Messaris, P. and Humphreys, L. (eds.), Digital Media. Transformations in Human Communication. New York: Peter Lang.

Nansen, B., Wilken, R., Kennedy, J., Arnold, M. and Gibbs, M. (2016). Ethical concerns associated with digital ethnography in the domestic environment: informant burden and burdensome technologies. In Warr, D., Guillemin, M., Cox, S. and Waycott, J. (eds.),Visual Research Ethics: Learning from practice. London: Palgrave.

Kennedy, J., Wilken, R., Nansen, B., Arnold, M. and Harrop, M. (2016). Overcoming the tyranny of distance? High speed broadband and the significance of place. In Griffiths, M. and Barbour, K. (eds.), Making Publics, Making Places. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.

Kennedy, J. (2013). Rhetorics of Sharing: Imagination, data and desire. In Lovink, G. and Rasch, M. (eds.), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Institute of Networked Culture: Amsterdam.

Kennedy, J. (2011). Conceptualising Social Interactions in Networked Spaces. In Comunello, F. (ed.), Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships. IGI Global, Hershey, PA.

Refereed journal articles
Sadowski, J., Strengers, Y., and Kennedy, J. (2021). More work for Big Mother: Revaluing care and control in smart homes. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211022366

Kennedy, J., and Wilken, R. (2021). Liminoid media: On the enduring significance of USB portable flash drives. New Media & Society, 23(4), 672-691.

Kennedy, J., Holcombe-James, I., and Mannell, K. (2021). Access Denied: How Barriers to Participate on Zoom Impact on Research Opportunity. M/C Journal, 24(3).

Kennedy, J., Armitage, G. and Thomas, J. (2017). Household bandwidth and the “need for speed”: Evaluating the impact of active queue management for home internet traffic. Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy. 5(2): 113–130.

Kennedy, J., Meese, J. and van der Nagel, E. (2016). Regulation and social practice online. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 30(2): 146–157.

Kennedy, J. and Wilken, R. (2016). Disposable Technologies: The Halfwayness of USB Portable Hard Drives. Wi; Journal of Mobile Media. 10(1): 1–15.

Arnold, M., Nansen, B., Kennedy, J., Gibbs, M., Harrop, M. and Wilken, R. (2016). An Ontography of Broadband on a Domestic Scale. Transformations: Journal of Media and Culture. 27.

Kennedy, J. (2016). Conceptual boundaries of sharing. Information, Communication and Society. 19(4): 461– 474.

Kennedy, J. (2016). Theorising sharing practice in relation to digital culture. Media International Australia. 168(1): 108–121.

Kennedy, J., Arnold, M., Nansen, B., Wilken, R. and Gibbs, M. (2015). Digital housekeepers and domestic expertise in the networked home. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 21(4): 408–422.

Nansen, B., Kennedy, J., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M. and Wilken, R. (2015). Digital Ethnographic Techniques in
Domestic Spaces: Notes on Methods and Ethics. Visual Methodologies. 3(2): 86–97.

Wilken, R., Kennedy, J., Arnold, M., Gibbs, M. and Nansen, B. (2015). Framing the NBN: An Analysis of
Newspaper Representations. Communication, Politics and Culture. 47(3): 55–69.

Wilken, R., Nansen, B., Arnold, M., Kennedy, J. and Gibbs, M. (2013). National, Local and Household Media
Ecologies: The case of Australia’s National Broadband Network. Communication, Politics and Culture. 46(2):
136–154.

Fletcher, L., Milne, E. and Kennedy, J. (2013). The In/Visibilities of Code and Aesthetics of Redaction. Scan:
Journal of Media Arts Culture. 10(2): 1–10.

Kennedy, J. and Milne, E. (2013). Public Privacy: Reciprocity and silence. Platform. 5(1): 21–33.

Refereed conference proceedings
*Strengers, Y. Kennedy, J., Arcari, P., Nicholls, L. and Gregg, M. (2019). Protection, Productivity and Pleasure
in the Smart Home: Emerging Expectations and Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters. ACM
Proceeding CHI 2019, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, UK. Accepted 15 December 2018.

Nansen, B., Arnold, M., Carter, M., Wilken, R., Kennedy, J. and Gibbs, M. (2015). Proxy users, use by proxy:
Mapping forms of intermediary interaction. Being Human, Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
(OzCHI 15), Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2015, pp. 294–298.



Reports
Kennedy, J. Giblin, R., Weatherall, K., & Thomas, J. (2020). Driven by Demand: Public library perspectives on
the e-lending market. RMIT, Melbourne.

Thomas, J, Barraket, J, Wilson, CK, Holcombe-James, I, Kennedy, J, Rennie, E, Ewing, S, and MacDonald, T,
2020, Measuring Australia’s Digital Divide: The Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2020, RMIT and Swinburne
University of Technology, Melbourne, for Telstra.

Hjorth, L., Choi, J., Kennedy, J. and McGrane, C. (2018). Evaluate, Enhance & Embed: Victorian Trades Hall
GBV Training Package. RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University,
Melbourne, Australia.

Kennedy, J., Nansen, B., Meese, J., Wilken, R., Kohn, T. and Arnold, M. (2017). Mapping the Melbourne
Sharing Economy. Melbourne Networked Society Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Armitage, G., Kennedy, J., Nguyen, S., Thomas, J. and Ewing, S. (2017). Household internet and the ‘need for
speed’: evaluating the impact of increasingly online lifestyles and the internet of things. Centre for Advanced
Internet Architectures, Technical Report 170113A Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Reports, ministerial addresses and consulting
Kennedy, J., Holcombe-James, I., and Mannell, K. (2021). Connected Students Milestone Report Two: Interview
Findings. RMIT University, Melbourne, for Telstra.

Kennedy, J. and Holcombe-James, I. (2021). Connected Students Milestone Report One. RMIT University,
Melbourne, for Telstra.

NTROs
Stengers, Y. and Kennedy, J. (2020, 27 August). The “smart wife” in crisis: Outsourcing wifework to digital voice
assistants during the pandemic. ABC Religion and Ethics. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/yolande-strengers-andjenny-
kennedy-the-smart-wife-in-crisis/12565292

E-Lending Project. (2019). Interactive dashboard. http://elendingproject.org
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