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Larissa Hjorth

Larissa Hjorth

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
39
Citations
7962
World Ranking
5592
National Ranking
403

Overview

Larissa Hjorth is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia and works primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science. Their research cover a range of interdisciplinary topics related to technology, culture, and society.

The main fields of study of Larissa Hjorth include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Subfields of study encompass:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Demography
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Larissa Hjorth's research interests engage with the following topics:

  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Persona Design and Applications
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Recent publications by Larissa Hjorth or including their collaboration are:

  • "Shelfie" (2020), published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • "'Unprepared for the depth of my feelings' - Capturing grief in older people through research poetry" (2022), in Age and Ageing
  • "Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan" (2021), in International Journal of Cultural Studies
  • "Higher Degree Students (HDR) during COVID-19" (2021), in Journal of International Students
  • "Introduction: Caring media futures" (2021), in International Journal of Cultural Studies

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Heather A. Horst
  • Jolynna Sinanan
  • Kana Ohashi
  • Fumitoshi Kato
  • Ingrid Richardson

Key publication venues for their work feature:

  • International Journal of Cultural Studies
  • Mobile Media & Communication
  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
  • Social Sciences
  • New Media & Society

Larissa Hjorth also has a record of book publications. They have published three books with Amsterdam University Press, including "Doing Digital Migration Studies" (2024) and two editions of "Digital Media Practices in Households" (2020). Additionally, they authored "Ambient Play" published by The MIT Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice

    Sarah Pink;Heather Horst;John Postill;John Postill;Larissa Hjorth

  • The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

    Larissa Hjorth;Heather Horst;Anne Galloway;Genevieve Bell

  • Understanding Social Media

    Sam Hinton;Larissa Hjorth

  • Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and The Art of Being Mobile

    Larissa Hjorth

  • New visualities and the digital wayfarer: Reconceptualizing camera phone photography and locative media

    Larissa Hjorth;Sarah Pink

  • Mobile intimacy in an age of affective mobile media

    Larissa Hjorth;Sun Sun Lim

  • Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media

    Larissa Hjorth

  • Playful Urban Spaces

    Adriana De Souza E Silva;Larissa Hjorth

  • Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

    Larissa Hjorth;Jean Burgess;Ingrid Richardson

  • Gaming in Social, Locative and Mobile Media

    Larissa Hjorth;Ingrid Richardson

  • Snapshots of Almost Contact: the Rise of Camera Phone Practices and a Case Study in Seoul, Korea

    Larissa Hjorth

  • Understanding physical activity through 3D printed material artifacts

    Rohit Ashok Khot;Larissa Hjorth;Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

  • Pokémon GO: Mobile media play, place-making, and the digital wayfarer

    Larissa Hjorth;Ingrid Richardson

  • The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

    Gerard Goggin;Larissa Hjorth

  • Tactile digital ethnography: Researching mobile media through the hand:

    Sarah Pink;Jolynna Sinanan;Larissa Hjorth;Heather Horst

  • Emplaced Cartographies: Reconceptualising Camera Phone Practices in an Age of Locative Media:

    Sarah Pink;Larissa Hjorth

  • EdiPulse: Investigating a Playful Approach to Self-monitoring through 3D Printed Chocolate Treats

    Rohit Ashok Khot;Deepti Aggarwal;Ryan Pennings;Larissa Hjorth

  • A snapshot of social media : camera phone practices

    Larissa Hjorth;Natalie Hendry

  • The Mourning After: A Case Study of Social Media in the 3.11 Earthquake Disaster in Japan

    Larissa Hjorth;Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim

  • Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

    Larissa Hjorth;Michael Arnold

  • Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media

    Gerard Goggin;Larissa Hjorth

  • Gaming cultures and place in Asia-Pacific

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Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink Monash University
Jean Burgess
Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology
Helen Christensen
Helen Christensen University of New South Wales
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns Queensland University of Technology
Matthew Zook
Matthew Zook University of Kentucky
Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton University of New South Wales

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