I will discuss the potential impacts of the proposed internet filter on HIV education in Australia at the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations '2010 HIV Educators' Conference next week. My presentation will draw on the Untangling The Net report, co authored by Professor Catharine Lumby, Professor Leilia Green, and Professor John Hartley

From the AFAO website: The AFAO HIV Educators Conference 2010 is designed for people who work in HIV education health promotion and policy, with a particular focus on education for gay men and people living with HIV.

The conference is an opportunity for HIV educators, policy makers, and researchers to network, highlight best-practice, and discuss practical and strategic health promotion responses to emerging issues in the HIV epidemic in Australia.

In June, I'll be presenting a paper at Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, London, UK. The paper, co-authored with Nina Funnell, is titled 'Sexting and citizenship: the limits of (self) representation'.

An expanded version of this work, co-authored with Nina Funnell and Estelle Noonan, will be included in the refereed stream of this year's Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference, 'Media, Democracy and Change' in July. The paper will be published in the conference proceedings, and I will post a URL when it becomes available.

Special issue of Media International Australia

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy publishes new scholarly and applied research on the media, telecommunications, and the cultural industries, and the policy regimes within which they operate.

Broadly inclusive and interdisciplinary, the journal welcomes the writing of history, theory and analysis, commentary and debate. While its primary focus is Australia, the journal also aims to provide an international perspective.

Issue 135 is a special themed issue focusing on 'Children, Young People, Sexuality, and the Media'. The issue was co-edited by Catharine Lumby and myself, and contains contributions from a range of scholars working in the field of media studies, education, gender studies, philosophy and art history. Articles address the Henson Case; popular debates around sexuality education in schools; the Australian inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the media; young women, schooling and sexuality; anxieties regarding young men's sexuality and feminist responses to the sexualisation debate. The issue is currently in press, and I will post a full list of contributors and table of contents shortly.