Our wonderful and talented Sumudu Mallawaarachchi wrote a blog post for SBS Australia. Read here reflections here
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Is it just me, or does this look a lot like predatory behaviour?
Two stories in the media recently seem to me to reflect predatory behaviour by tech companies. The first is a story about an 8 year old boy from California who has been contracted to play Fortnite as a professional. He was paid US$33,000 and gifted a US$5000 computer. He can’t legally play competition Fortnite until […]
Should we be banning smartphones in schools? France did, with not much fuss at all.
French President Emmanuel Macron has delivered on an election promise to ban smartphones and tablets from the classrooms of all French students up to the age of 15 (see related article). Under the new legislation that will come into effect at the beginning of the new school year (September), students must either leave portable […]
10 years of the iPhone in Australia
Hi everyone! Today I’m posting a recent opinion piece that I wrote for the Melbourne Herald Sun. The iPhone was really the true beginning of the smartphone era, and was launched in the US in 2007. It took a year to be released in Australia, and this year marks it’s 10th anniversary. Melbourne Herald Sun, […]
Welcome to BlackScreens!
Hi! Thanks for visiting the BlackScreens website, I hope you find the information here useful. Let me tell you a bit about the BlackScreens program. My name is Dr Sharon Horwood, and I’m a lecturer at Deakin University. My main areas of research are personality and health, with a specific focus on the health costs […]