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Biography

Bjørn Nansen is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, where he works across social and human-centred computing perspectives. He has a background in communication and digital technology studies and works with interdisciplinary teams and approaches to research the social impacts of digital technology design and practice. Drawing on a mix of qualitative, ethnographic, and digital research methods, Bjørn examines the social and embodied contexts in which people interact with digital technologies, interfaces, platforms, and data, focusing in particular on family settings.

His current research interests include children’s use of mobile technology and social software, household technology infrastructures and adoption, the design and use of digital memorials, and family data tracking technologies. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and is the author of Young Children and Mobile Media: Producing Digital Dexterity (2020, Palgrave), and co-author of Death and Digital Media (2018, Routledge) and Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life (2020, Oxford University Press). works in the media and communications program at the University of Melbourne. His research explores digital technologies in family life, and covers areas including children’s mobile technology use, digital parenting, household technology adoption, death and digital memorialisation, and family data tracking technologies.

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Employment (1)

The University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2015-01-01 to present | Associate Professor (School of Computing and Information Systems)
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Funding (4)

The Future Cemetery

2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: LP180100757
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Disposal of the dead: beyond burial and cremation

2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DP180103148
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Digital commemoration

2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DP140101871
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Children's active video games: family perceptions, uses and negotiations

2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DE130100735
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