Ms Maria Brown
Casual Academic (General)
School of Communication and Arts
Casual Senior Research Assistant - Instagram Delivery
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Journal Articles
Brown, Maria-Gemma, Carah, Nicholas, Robards, Brady, Dobson, Amy, Rangiah, Lillian and De Lazzari, Chiara (2024). No Targets, Just Vibes: Tuned Advertising and the Algorithmic Flow of Social Media. Social Media + Society, 10 (1) 20563051241234691, 1-15. doi: 10.1177/20563051241234691
Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma, Dobson, Amy and Robards, Brady (2023). The algorithmic flow of harmful industries advertising on social media platforms. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12985
Burgess, Jean, Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma and Angus, Daniel (2023). #Cottagecore, #futurecore, #sadcore: using critical simulation to explore the interplay between machine vision and vernacular instragram aesthetics. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12980
Brown, Maria-Gemma (2023). Ghost in the mall: the affective and hauntological potential of dead mall ruins. Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry. doi: 10.22387/cap2022.70
Carah, Nicholas, Brown, Maria-Gemma and Hickman, Sarah (2022). Optimizing looking and buying on Instagram: tracing the platformization of advertising and retail on mobile social media. Television and New Media, 24 (4), 152747642211230-396. doi: 10.1177/15274764221123033
Research Report
Brady Robards, Nicholas Carah, Lillian Rangiah, Steven Roberts, Chiara De Lazzari, Maria-Gemma Brown, Karla Elliott, Claire Tanner, Michael Savic and Amy Dobson (2023). The Social Media & Unhealthy Marketing Project: Final Report. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Monash University, The University of Queensland & Vichealth.
Data Collection
Brown, Maria-Gemma, Hickman, Sarah and Carah, Nicholas (2022). Timeline of the development of Instagram's promotional culture and advertising model (2010-2020). The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/7c94074