A collection of resources to provide you with further information and learning opportunities.
Resources
Downloads
Downloadable resources for your use:
Top Tips for Tech Balance & Digital Wellness
Tips for making mindful choices and improving interactions with technology.
Top Tips for Taking Time Out
Tips for how women can make more guilt-free self-care room in their lives, in particular with our always-on lifestyles.
DE Presentations & Videos
Click the icons to view slides (on slideshare), videos (on youtube) or download handouts.
View all presentations on SlideShare
Podcasts, Panels, & Interviews
Interview Feature
June 2022
Bagby Digital Wellness Collaborative Report
Edition 2022-2023: Leigh-Chantelle, Founder of Digital Equilibrium
Read on Bagby.co or SlideShare
Podcast Interview
March 2021
Aussie Ambitions Podcast with Scott Springer
Episode 36: Digital Wellness Educator, Leigh-Chantelle
Listen on iTunes, Listen Notes, PlayerFM, Spotify, YouTube
Seminar Panel
November 2020
Griffith University’s School of Applied Psychology
SoAP Box Seminar: A reflection on teaching Applied Psychology for 30 years and what lies ahead
Watch on YouTube
Written Interview
October 2020
Griffith University Health Check
A Stepping Stone to a Career in Cyberpsychology
Read on Griffith University website
Research
As of February 2021, Leigh-Chantelle is undertaking her PhD on autonomous vehicles and blockchain technologies. You can READ her original proposal (September 2020) here. She is a PhD research candidate of the Cities Research Institute and Institute for Integrated and Intelligence Systems.
Leigh-Chantelle is also a Sessional Tutor for undergraduate students at Griffith University in the following subjects: Interpersonal Skills (Trimester 1); Positive Psychology (Trimester 2); Group Facilitation and Coaching Skills (Trimester 2).
Find Leigh-Chantelle’s Research on the following links:
PhD
Autonomous Vehicle Research
Looking at the benefits and challenges of the rollout of autonomous vehicles (AV) in Australia for my PhD research.
Want to be involved?
I am looking to interview:
- PEOPLE in Australia who may be impacted by the AV rollout. This includes those who own electric vehicles (EV).
- Those who work in INDUSTRIES in Australia who may be impacted by the AV rollout (e.g., transport & logistics; technology & cybersecurity – including blockchain technology; lawmakers & governments; EV services, etc.)
Getting involved means sharing your views in a focus group and filling in a consent form with some experience and demographic questions. Please see the poster and link for more information.
Please spread the word to those who may be interested in participating!
Honours
My Honours research looked at how preschoolers engaged with a social robot (NAO) vs a human instructor.
See my OCURA2020 presentation and my video on NAO for more info (both listed above under Presentations & Videos)
Publications
26 July 2023
Preschool children’s engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor with (my supervisor) Michelle Neumann (Education), Jason Zagami (Education), David Reilly (Psychology), & David Neumann (Psychology).
Published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
APA citation: Neumann, M. M., Koch, L.-C., Zagami, J., Reilly, D., & Neumann, D. L. (2023). Preschool children’s engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 65(4th Quarter), 332-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.07.010
31 May 2023
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task with (my supervisor) Michelle Neumann (Education) & David Neumann (Psychology).
Published in the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. Previously published online on 29 August 2022.
APA (updated) citation: Neumann, M. M., Neumann, D. L., & Koch, L.-C. (2023). Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 31(3), 421–436. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293x.2022.2116653
Related Websites
AUS
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
ASPI is an independent, non-partisan think tank that produces expert and timely advice for Australia’s strategic and defence leaders.
Digital Rights Watch
Digital Rights Watch exists to ensure fairness, freedoms and fundamental rights for all people who engage in the digital world.
Humane Technology Australia
Bringing the ongoing global discussion on how technology is impacting society into an Australian context.
Reset Australia
The Australian affiliate of Reset, the global initiative working to counter digital threats to democracy.
US
Center for Humane Technology (CHT)
Their mission is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports our well-being, democracy and shared information environment.
Common Sense Media
Improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.
Data & Society
Producing original research on topics including AI and automation, the impact of technology on labor and health, and online disinformation.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Established to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues in the information age.
Looking at the questions surrounding how we are influenced by social media. View this 12min documentary made by Mozilla on YouTube.
Ranking Digital Rights
Works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights.
This documentary-drama hybrid reveals how social media is reprogramming civilization with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
TikTok, Boom
Site for the Documentary 'TikTok, Boom', which explores the power and complexity of technology through the lens of TikTok and the Gen Z influencers who know it best.
UK
Big Brother Watch UK
A UK civil liberties campaign group fighting for a free future.
Demos
A dynamic “think-and-do” tank that powers the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy.
A weekly newsletter about the policies, products, platforms and people shaping content moderation, now and in the future.
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)
The academic research arm of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) and aims to better understand the ways in which terrorists use technology.
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ExpressVPN
I recommend this VPN service for stronger dataprotection and privacy (www.expressvpn.com). If you use the referral link below, we both get 30 days free.
Word Wide Web Foundation
An independent, international organisation fighting for digital equality.
Recommended Reading
Reviews on my favourite technology, psychology and cyberpsychology books:
Targeted
: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, BREXIT and Facebook Broke Democracy
This book combines some of my favourite things: technology, psychology, politics, and the consequences for society when these things are combined by people who don’t have the best motives.
Ciaran Mc Mahon is a historian, and philosopher of psychology, whose research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and technology, including cybersecurity and social media.
The Death of the Gods
: The New Global Power Grab
This book is a thorough justification for the concerns myself, Carl and others have with technology undermining our privacy, politics, and above all, power. As Carl says, Power is more available, but that doesn’t mean it’s more equal.
The People vs Tech
: How the Internet is Killing Democracy
In this book Jamie urges that people and our elected officials need to think outside the square, and get the balance right between control and freedom.
Generation Me
This book will help you work out just “why today’s young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled – and more miserable than ever before.”
Future Crimes
: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World
About the adverse effects of technology, on us and the world around us. Motto: when everything is connected, those who do not understand the technologies are more than vulnerable. We might use the Internet or social media in good faith, but the data and digital traces we leave can be used by others for many ulterior motives.
Pinpoint
: How GPS is changing technology, culture, and our minds
I wanted to read this because of his oft-quoted chapter Death by GPS which speaks about the way it may be altering human cognition and even rearranging the grey matter in our heads. We’re using technology to TELL us where to go, but have no real concept of HOW to get somewhere, or any awareness of what (and who) is around us.