Up and coming

‘Performing alternatives to hegemonic geek masculinity in online gaming spaces’, co-author Mat Hart, AANZCA 2025, University of the Sunshine Coast, November 26-29 2025

Done and dusted

Where possible, I will link to write-ups, slides, or recordings.

”Dynamic intimate selves in platformed gaming worlds’, Keynote address at Digital Gaming Intimacies Summit, Melbourne International Games Week, RMIT University, 8 October 2025, https://www.youtube.com/live/qiz8zIVPa7I?si=NxpwFk1_NqXiUfLJ&t=1497

‘Misinformation and Democracy’, Invited keynote presentation at Legal Education Teachers Association of South Australia Annual Conference, August 22 2025, Festival Centre, Flinders University

‘Community-Building Language Features in the Performances of Minecraft Content Creators’, AANZCA 2024, RMIT University, Melbourne, 25-27 November

‘Improvisation, collaboration, and post-production storytelling in episodic YouTube series Hermitcraft‘, to be presented at SSAAANZ 2024, Flinders University, Adelaide, 4-6 December 2024

‘Playing politics in Minecraft: Monarchy, rebellion, and just staying out of it in
YouTube series Hermitcraft’, co-authors Caitlin Adams & Tariq Osman (repeat presentation), Department of Media Seminar Series, University of Adelaide, 18 October 2024

‘”Oh Shiny”: From academic persona to Minecraft YouTube’, Invited Keynote at Non/Human Creativity: Limits and Realities, UniSA Creative 2024 Colloquium, Adelaide, Australia, 10 October 2024

‘Playing politics in Minecraft: Monarchy, rebellion, and just staying out of it in
YouTube series Hermitcraft’, co-authors Caitlin Adams & Tariq Osman, Presentation to IAMCR 2024, Otautahi Christchurch, New Zealand, 30 June-4 July 2024

‘Hermitcraft as collaborative emergent transmedia storytelling: Crafting narrative through player interaction and identity’, Presentation to ANZCA 2023 Ka mua, ka muri: Bridging communication pasts and futures, Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington, 21-24 November 2023

‘”It’s publicly available, so I can use it, right?” Ethical and legal considerations when researching on and with social networking sites’, Workshop, The University of Adelaide, 14 November 2023

‘“Am I a bad mum?”: seeking validation and reassurance on Reddit’, co-author Rachel Neef, Presentation to ANZCA 2022 Communicating through Chaos: Connection, Disruption, Community, University of Wollongong, 22-25 November 2022.

‘Deficit Production: Using Metatheory and the Deficit Model to rethink communicative (digital and media) literacy’, co-authors Steven Maras (lead), Rachel Ankeny, and Heather Bray, Presentation to ANZCA 2022 Communicating through Chaos: Connection, Disruption, Community, University of Wollongong, 22-25 November 2022.

‘Teaching and assessing communication’, Roundtable discussion, facilitator Lesley Irvine, co-panelists Dennis Bruining, Margaret Van Heekeren, and Sonja Molnar, ANZCA 2022 Communicating through Chaos: Connection, Disruption, Community, University of Wollongong, 22-25 November 2022.

‘Small Data Research (in a big data world)’, Invited webinar for the University of Adelaide Digital Humanities Lab series, 2 August 2022, recording available here: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/library-services/servic-es-for-researchers/digital-humanities/events

‘Media Literacy and Democracy’, Civics and Citizenship Teachers Professional Development Seminar, Parliament of South Australia, 28 June 2022.

‘The Motherhood Persona Matrix’, presentation to the Department of Media Seminar Series, 3 June 2022

‘A Conversation with Kim Barbour’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLiI6dyooCs&t=20, as part of the Oggetti Socievoli series hosted by Prisca Arosio, 1 April 2022. Oggetti Socievoli is a project that investigates home objects that have been discovered, re-discovered and re-interpreted during social isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Saira Ali and Kim Barbour, 2021, ‘A sense of home: two perspectives of migrant persona building in 2020’, Persona Studies Conference, July 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhirggIWvU

‘How do you know who to trust? Markers of expertise and relevance in online scientific discussions’, Webinar presentation as part of the Public Engagement in Science and Technology Adelaide (PESTA) panel for National Science Week, 20 August 2020.

‘The new normal – a whole new world’, Online workshop with Laura Grenfell, Claudia Szabo, and Aaron Humphrey, for the Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching Community of Practice, The University of Adelaide Festival of Learning and Teaching, 21-22 July 2020.

‘Migrant Online Personas’, Presentation as part of the Department of Media Seminar Series, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 26 June 2020.

‘Being and feeling “too much” – activism and emotion’, as part of the pre-constituted panel Digital Media and Women’s Activism, International Communication Association conference, Gold Coast, 21-25 May 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbQR1zl95rU.

‘Persona Studies? A debate about how a new field assists the exploration of the public, private, mediatized, strategic, and collective constitutions of online culture’, conference Fishbowl session, with P. David Marshall, C. Moore, T. Senft, and N. Henderson – presented at Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane, October 2-5 2019.

‘Doing online activism: feminism and digital technology’, conference presentation – to be presented at ANZCA, Canberra, AU, July 3-5 2019.

‘Australian online feminisms: intersectional activist personas’, conference presentation – to be presented at the Inaugural Persona Studies conference, Newcastle, UK, June 25-26 2019.

‘Scientific persona performance online: targeting biographical statements’, conference presentation (authored with R. Ankeny, J. Conduit, & C. Plewa) – to be presented at the Inaugural Persona Studies conference, Newcastle, UK, June 25-26 2019. SLIDES

Barbour, K., Ankeny, R., Plewa, C., & Conduit, J. (2018). Engaging the public: scientific persona performance in online, public-facing biographical statements. In Scientific Persona in Cultural Encounters (SPICE) Conference. Stockholm, Sweden.

Barbour, K. & Heise, L. (2018). Sharing #home on Instagram. ANZCA 2018. The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 3-6 July (now published here: https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X19853305).

Barbour, K. (2018) Invited Panelist at Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge, Open Access Week 2018, The University of South Australia, 23 October 2018.

Barbour, K. (2017). Credit where it’s due: the ethics of naming. Invited panelist for ‘Communication Research in Online Worlds: Ethical Approaches to Design and Participation in Social Media Research’. ANZCA 2017, University of Sydney, Australia, 4-7 July.

Marshall, P.D, Barbour, K & Moore, K (2017). Why Persona Studies: The value of the Persona Studies approach for research into Online Identity and the Transformation of the Public Self (Panel presentation and workshop). Social Media and Society Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto. 19-21 July.

Barbour, K. (2016). Unexpected celebrity: when activist art goes viral. In Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling. Barcelona, Spain.

Barbour, K. (2016). The performance of community activist: networked persona and everyday change-making. In PSi22: Performance Climates. Melbourne, Australia.

Marshall, P., D’Cruz, G., Barbour, K., & McDonald, S. (2016). Roundtable: Professions and Celebrity: Online Visibility, Prestige and Contentious Authenticity in the Professional Persona. In Celebrity Studies Journal Conference. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Barbour, K. (2016). Public sharing of private spaces: #watchingtv. In Symposium of the Digital Intimacies: interrogating the interface between intimate lives and calculative digital media platforms. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland. Retrieved from https://iash.uq.edu.au/event/1310/digital-intimacies-interrogating-interface-between-intimate-lives-and-calculative-digital

Barbour, K. (2014). Vaginal knitting and disgusting the internet. In Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference: Provocations (pp. 28-29). University of Wollongong, NSW: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Retrieved from http://lha.uow.edu.au/hsi/csaa2014/program/index.html

Barbour, K. (2014). Registers of performance: negotiating the professional, personal, and intimate. In Proceedings of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association 2014 Conference (pp. 1). Bournemouth, UK: Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association. Retrieved from http://ocs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/meccsa/meccsa2014/paper/view/321

Barbour, K. (2013). “It can be quite difficult to have your creativity on tap” : balancing client expectations and artistic practice in the tattoo industry. In C. da Rocha Brito, & M. M. Ciampi (Eds.), Projections – Proceedings of WCCA’13 – IV World Congress on Communication and Art (pp. 1-5). Geelong, Vic.. Retrieved from http://www.copec.org.br/wcca2013/

Barbour, K. (2012). The online identity: towards a hermeneutic phenomenological approach (short paper). In Digital Humanities Australasia 2012 Conference: Building, Mapping, Connecting (pp. 1). Canberra, ACT: The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities. Retrieved from http://aa-dh.org/conferences/conference-2/

Barbour, K. (2012). The artist in a networked society. In Celebrity Studies Inaugural Conference Program (pp. 47-48). Melbourne, Vic.: Centre for Memory, Imagination, and Invention.

Barbour, K. (2012). Phenomenology and the online: the importance of studying experience. ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30050604

Ng, E., Barbour, K., Moore, C., & Marshall, P. D. (2012). Operationalising persona: the academic public identity. In Celebrity Studies Inaugural Conference Program (pp. 33-34). Melbourne, Vic.: Centre for Memory, Imagination, and Invention.

Barbour, K., & Marshall, P. D. (2012). Academic identity and the PLE. In Personal Learning Environment Conference. Melbourne, Vic.: PLE Conference. Retrieved from http://prezi.com/9bjzaqbouwjl/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Vincs, K., Yip, W. Y., Mac, V., & Barbour, K. (2009). Choreographer-mathematician collaboration: developing machine segmentation techniques for motion capture analysis of dance. In HCSNet Workshop on Movement and Motion Capture (pp. 1-29). Sydney, N.S.W.. Retrieved from http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30021424