Organisation

Queensland University of Technology

Acronym:
QUT
Report

Homelessness and leaving care: the experience of young adults in Queensland and Victoria and implications for practice


The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the post care experience of young people who leave care in terms of homelessness and risk of homelessness with specific reference to prevention of homelessness.
Report

Social media in the media: Australian media perceive social media as political tools


This report, produced by CCI in collaboration with the University of Oslo, investigates how the political uses of social media are portrayed in the Australian mainstream media, in order to understand the perceptions that help shape how politicians, citizens and journalists employ new media tools to support their political objectives. Through a longitudinal comparative analysis...
Journal article

‘Let’s get sexting’: risk, power, sex and criminalisation in the moral domain

This article explores the criminalisation and governance of sexting among young people.
Report

The right to choose an assisted death: time for legislation?


This report on voluntary euthanasia law reform by think-tank Australia21 and QUT Health Law Research Centre was launched as Parliament House in Canberra on 26 April 2013. The report recommends state governments legislate to permit voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide in particular circumstances, urges the Australian Government to restore powers to the Territories to enable...
Discussion paper

The politics of twitter data


Our paper approaches Twitter through the lens of “platform politics” (Gillespie, 2010), focusing in particular on controversies around user data access, ownership, and control. We characterise different actors in the Twitter data ecosystem: private and institutional end users of Twitter, commercial data resellers such as Gnip and DataSift, data scientists, and finally Twitter, Inc. itself...