Anthony McCosker

Journal articles, book chapters & reports by research theme

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Data, AI & Society

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Yao, X., McCosker, A., & Kang, Y. B. (2025). Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms. Big Data & Society, 12(1), 20539517241311585. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241311585

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Jayaraman, P. P., McCosker, A., Banerjee, A., Kang, Y. B., Lundberg, R., Thirunavukkarasu, G., Ahmed, K., ... & Ravindran, B. (2024). Responsible AI for Net Zero: An Australia and India Collaborative Approach Towards Practice, Governance and Ethics in Energy Future. Swinburne University of Technology. doi.org/10.25916/sut.26866951

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Kamstra, P., Farmer, J., McCosker, A., Gardiner, F., Dalton, H., Perkins, D., ... & Bagheri, N. (2022). A Novel Mixed Methods Approach for Integrating Not-for-Profit Service Data via Qualitative Geographic Information System to Explore Authentic Experiences of Ill-Health: A Case Study of Rural Mental Health. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 15586898221135291. https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898221135291

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Kang, Y. B., McCosker, A., Kamstra, P., & Farmer, J. (2022). Resilience in Web-Based Mental Health Communities: Building a Resilience Dictionary With Semiautomatic Text Analysis. JMIR formative research, 6(9), e39013. https://doi.org/10.2196/39013

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McCosker, A., Shaw, F., Calyx, C., Kang, Y. B., & Albury, K. (2022). Mapping community resources for disaster preparedness: humanitarian data capability and automated futures. Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making + Society. https://apo.org.au/node/318449

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McCosker, A. (2022). Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube. New Media & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221093943.

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McCosker, A., Yao, X., Albury, K., Maddox, A., Farmer, J., & Stoyanovich, J. (2022). Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods. Big Data & Society, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221099882.

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Burgess, J., Albury, K., McCosker, A., & Wilken, R. (2022). Everyday Data Cultures. John Wiley & Sons.

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Yao, X., McCosker, A., Albury, K., Maddox, A., & Farmer, J. (2021). Building data capacity in the not-for-profit sector: interim report. Swinburne University of Technology. https://apo.org.au/node/314477, 

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Albury, K., Aryani, A., Farmer, J., Kelly, J., McCosker, A., Silva, S., Tucker, J. & Woo, J. (2021). Data for Good Collaboration. Swinburne University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.26185/x93d-4v29 

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McCosker, A., Kamstra, P., De Cotta, T., Farmer, J., Shaw, F., Teh, Z., & Soltani Panah, A. (2020). Social media for social good? A thematic, spatial and visual analysis of humanitarian action on Instagram. Information, Communication & Society, 1-21.

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McCosker, A., Farmer, J., De Cotta, T., Kamstra, P., Jovanovski, N., Soltani Panah, A., Teh, Z., Wilson, S. (2018) Mapping Humanitarian Action on Instagram, Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute and Australian Red Cross, Melbourne. https://doi.org/10.4225/50/58225b8340e9a

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McCosker, A. and Graham, T. (2018) ‘Data publics: Urban protest, analytics and the courts’, M/C Journal, 21(3)

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McCosker, A. (2017). ‘Data literacies for the postdemographic social media self’. First Monday, 22(10)

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Garrett, B. L., & McCosker, A. (2017). Non-human Sensing: New Methodologies for the Drone Assemblage. In Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research (pp. 13-23). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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McCosker, A. and Wilken, R. (2017) ‘“Things that should be short”: Perec, Sei Shōnagon, Twitter, and the uses of banality', in R. Wilken and J. Clemens, The Afterlives of Georges Perec, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.

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McCosker, A. (2015) ‘Drone media: Unruly systems, radical empiricism and camera consciousness’. Culture Machine. 16, (2015)

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McCosker, A. (2015) ‘Drone vision, zones of protest, and the new camera consciousness’. Media Fields Journal. 9.

 

McCosker, A., and Wilken, R. (2014) ‘Rethinking “Big Data” as visual knowledge: The sublime and the diagrammatic in data visualisation’. Visual Studies. 29(2), pp. 155-164.

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McCosker, A. and Milne, E. (2014) ‘Coding labour’. Cultural Studies Review. 20(1), pp. 4-29.

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McCosker, A. (2013) ‘De-framing disaster: Affective encounters with raw and autonomous media’. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 27(3), pp. 382-396

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Wilken, R. and McCosker, A. (2012) ‘The everyday work of lists’. M/C Journal. 15(5)

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Digital Citizenship (Literacies, Social Inclusion & Participation in the Digital Age)

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McCosker, A., & Tucker, J. (2025). Bootstrapping the digital divide: a situational analysis of digital demands and collective capabilities in low-income households. Information, Communication & Society, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2449007

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McCosker, A., Tucker, J., & Kennedy, J. (2024). Digitally skilled but socially disadvantaged: Enabling digital capabilities in low-income families. Convergence, 13548565241268277. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241268277

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Thomas J, McCosker A, Parkinson S, Hegarty K, Featherstone D, Kennedy J, Holcombe-James I, Ormond-Parker L, & Ganley L (2023) Measuring Australia’s Digital Divide: Australian Digital Inclusion Index: 2023. Melbourne: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology, and Telstra. https://doi.org/10.25916/528s-ny91

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Suchowerska, R., & McCosker, A. (2022). Governance networks that strengthen older adults' digital inclusion: The challenges of metagovernance. Government Information Quarterly, 39(1), 101649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101649

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McCosker, A., Critchley, C., Walshe, J., Tucker, J., & Suchowerska, R. (2021). Accounting for diversity in older adults’ digital inclusion and literacy: the impact of a national intervention. Ageing & Society, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21001550 - pdf

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Suchowerska, R., & McCosker, A. (2021). Governance networks that strengthen older adults' digital inclusion: The challenges of metagovernance. Government Information Quarterly, 101649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101649 - pdf

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Bossio, D., McCosker, A., Schleser, M., Davis, H., & Randjelovic, I. (2021). Not that old person: Older people’s responses to ageism revealed through digital storytelling. Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211040111

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McCosker, A., Tucker, J., Critchley, C., Hiruy, K., Walshe, J., Suchowerska, R., & Barraket, J. (2020). Improving the digital inclusion of older Australians: the social impact of Be Connected. DSS and Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. DSS, APO

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McCosker, A., Suchowerska, R., Wilson, C. (2019) Digital Mentors: The Heart of the Digital Revolution, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. APO

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Bossio, D., Exon, J., Schleser, M., McCosker, A., & Davis, H. (2019) The OPERA Project: Community co-design of digital interventions for primary prevention of ageism and elder abuse. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. APO

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McCosker, A., Teh, Z., Savic, M., Jayaraman, P. (2020) Co-Designing a Peer Support Platform for People with Low Vision & Blindness, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. APO

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Davis, H., McCosker, A., Bossio, D., & Schleser, M. (2018). 60+ Online: Enhancing digital inclusion of seniors via mobile digital stories and social media participation. The Journal of Community Informatics, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v14i1.3402

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McCosker, A., Bossio, D., Holcombe-James, I., Davis, H., Schleser, M., & Gleeson, J. (2018) 60+ online: engaging seniors through social media and digital stories. Telstra and Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute, Melbourne. http://doi.org/10.4225/50/5acac04852868.

 

Savic, M., McCosker, A., and Geldens, P. (2016) ‘Cooperative mentorship: Negotiating social media use within the family’. M/C Journal. 19(2) 

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McCosker, A. (2016) ‘Managing cyberbullying: The three layers of control in digital citizenship’, in A. McCosker, S. Vivienne and A. Johns (eds), Negotiating Digital Citizenship: control, contest and culture. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, Ch 2. pp. 21-39

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Vivienne, S., McCosker, A., and Johns, A. (2016) ‘Digital citizenship as fluid interface’, in A. McCosker, S. Vivienne and A. Johns (eds), Negotiating Digital Citizenship: control, contest and culture. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, Ch 1. pp. 1-17.

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McCosker, A. (2015) ‘Social media activism at the margins: Managing visibility, voice and vitality affects’. Social Media + Society. 1(2) 

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Johns, A., and McCosker, A. (2015) ‘Social media conflict: Platforms for racial vilification, or acts of provocation and citizenship?’ Communication, Politics and Culture. 47(3), pp. 44-54 

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McCosker, A. (2015) ‘Untangling digital citizenship’. Review Essay, Cultural Studies Review 21 (2), 241

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McCosker, A. (2014) ‘Trolling as provocation: YouTube's agonistic publics’. Convergence. 20(2), pp. 201-217. 

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McCosker, A. and Johns, A. (2014) ‘Contested publics: Racist rants, bystander action and social media acts of citizenship’. Media International Australia. No. 151, pp. 66-72. 

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McCosker, A. and Johns, A. (2013) ‘Productive provocations: Vitriolic media, spaces of protest and agonistic outrage in the 2011 England riots’. Fibreculture Journal. 22(FCJ-161).

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Wilken, R., and McCosker, A. (2014) ‘Social selves’, in Stuart Cunningham and Sue Turnbull (eds) The media and communications in Australia, (4th edn). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. Chapter 17, pp. 291-295

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Digital Technology & Health Participation

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Shaw, F., & McCosker, A. (2025). Relational ethics in the administration of healthcare technology: AI, automation and proper distance. Sociology of Health & Illness, 47(5), e70055. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70055

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McCosker, A., Kamstra, P., & Farmer, J. (2025). Moderating mental health: Addressing the human–machine alignment problem through an adaptive logic of care. New Media & Society, 27(2), 955-974. 14614448231186800. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231186800

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Kang, Y. B., McCosker, A., & Farmer, J. (2023). Leveraging stylometry analysis to identify unique characteristics of peer support user groups in online mental health forums. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 22979. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50490-w

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Grant, S., Soltani Panah, A., & McCosker, A. (2022). Weight-Biased Language across 30 Years of Australian News Reporting on Obesity: Associations with Public Health Policy. Obesities, 2(1), 103-114. https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4168/2/1/10 

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Wallace, C., McCosker, A., Farmer, J., & White, C. (2021). Spanning communication boundaries to address health inequalities: the role of community connectors and social media. Journal of Applied Communication Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2021.1934513

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Albury, K., McCosker, A., & Evers, C. (2021). Men seeking women: Awkwardness, shame, and other affective encounters with dating apps. First Monday, 26(4). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/11637/10101 

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Wallace, C., Farmer, J., White, C., & McCosker, A. (2020). Collaboration with community connectors to improve primary care access for hardly reached people: A case comparison of rural Ireland and Australia. BMC health services research, 20(1), 1-13.

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McCosker, A., & Gerrard, Y. (2020). Hashtagging depression on Instagram: Towards a more inclusive mental health research methodology. New Media & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820921349

 

Gerrard, Y., & McCosker, A. (2020) The perils of moderating depression on social media | If Instagram over-polices mental health content, it risks alienating people who use the platform to build community in healthy ways. WIRED 4 November 2020. 

 

McCosker, A., Farmer, J. & Soltani Panah, A. (2020) Community Responses to Family Violence: Charting Policy Outcomes Using Novel Data Sources, Text Mining & Topic Modelling. https://apo.org.au/node/278041.

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Albury, K., McCosker, A., Pym, T., & Byron, P. (2020). Dating apps as public health ‘problems’: cautionary tales and vernacular pedagogies in news media. Health Sociology Review, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1777885

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Albury, K, Byron, P, McCosker, A, Pym, T, Walshe, J, Race, K, Salon, D, Reeders, D, Wark, T, Botfield, J & Dietzel, C (2019), Safety, Risk and Wellbeing on Dating Apps: Final Report, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. https://apo.org.au/node/268156

 

McCosker, A., Albury, K., Pym, T., Byron, P. (2019), Swiping, Stealthing & Catfishing: Dating Apps in the Media, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. https://apo.org.au/node/258941

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Shaw, F., & McCosker, A. (2019). Mental health support apps and ‘proper distance’: relational ethics in mHealth. Media International Australia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X19848789

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Wallace, C., Farmer, J., & McCosker, A. (2019). 'Boundary spanning practices of community connectors for engaging ‘hardly reached’people in health services'. Social Science & Medicine, 232, 366-373.

 

Wallace, C., Farmer, J., and McCosker, A. (2018) ‘Community boundary spanners as an addition to the health workforce to reach marginalised people: A scoping review of the literature’, Human Resources for Health, 16(1).

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McCosker, A. (2018) ‘Engaging mental health online: Insights from beyondblue’s forum influencers.’ New Media & Society, 20(12) pp. 4748 – 4764 

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McCosker, A., & Hartup, M. (2018) Turning to online peer forums for suicide and self-harm support: “It does help having you guys”, Beyond Blue and Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute, Melbourne. http://doi.org/10.4225/50/5add34bd898a5. 

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McCosker, A. (2017). 'Tagging depression: social media and the segmentation of mental health.', in Digital media: Transformations in human communication, (2nd edn) Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys (eds.), Peter Lang, New York.

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McCosker, A. (2017) Networks of advocacy and influence: Peer mentors in beyondblue's mental health forums. Beyond Blue and Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute, Melbourne. http://apo.org.au/node/97236.

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McCosker, A. and Darcy, R. (2013) ‘Living with cancer: Affective labour, self-expression and the utility of blogs’. Information, Communication and Society. 16(8), pp. 1266-1285.

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McCosker, A. (2013). ‘Negotiating illness bloggers’ expressive worlds: adapting digital ethnography’. SAGE Research Methods Cases. Vol. 303, pp. 66-72

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McCosker, A. (2008) ‘Blogging illness; recovering in public’. M/C Journal, 11(6)

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Visual Culture & Cultural Studies

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McCosker, A. (2012) ‘Pain sense: Nociception, affect and the visual encounter’. Transformations. No. 22

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McCosker, A. and Wilken, R. (2012) ‘Cafe space, communication, creativity, and materialism’. M/C Journal. 15(2)

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McCosker, A. (2010) ‘Violent affect, aesthetic intimacy and salvific pain in The Passion of the Christ.’ Scope. 16(Feb)

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McCosker, A. (2005) ‘A vision of masochism in the affective pain of Crash’, Sexualities, 8(1), pp. 30-48

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McCosker, A. (2005) ‘Suffering with honour: The visual brutality of realism in the combat film’. Scope, 2(Jun)

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McCosker, A. (2004) ‘East Timor and the politics of bodily pain: A problematic complicity’. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 18(1), pp. 63-79

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McCosker, A. (2008) ‘Transformations of pain: Erotic encounters with Crash’, in V. Burr and J. Hearn (eds.), Sex, Violence and the Body: The erotics of wounding. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 7, pp. 103-118

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McCosker, A. (2004) 'Deleuze and the new camera consciousness'. Review essay, Cultural Studies Review, 10(2): 224-228

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Organizational Communication

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Bossio, D., McCosker, A., Milne, E., Golding, D., & Albarrán-Torres, C. (2019). Social media managers as intermediaries: negotiating the personal and professional in organisational communication. Communication Research and Practice, 1-16.

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McCosker, A. (2017). ‘Social media work: Reshaping organisational communications, extracting digital value.’ Media International Australia, 163(1), pp. 122-136.

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McCosker, A. and Dodd, A. (2013) ‘The future of sports delivery in Australia: NBN multicast, IPTV and the role of the ISPs’. Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy. 1(1)

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McCosker, A., Reid, D. and Farrell, C. (2016) Social media industries: Bridging the gap between theory and practice. Report. Australian Policy Online, Melbourne DOI: 10.4225/50/573D0512BE854, http://apo.org.au/node/63948.

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Teaching & Learning

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Larcombe, W., McCosker, A. and O'Loughlin, K. (2007) ‘Supporting education PhD and DEd students to become confident academic writers: An evaluation of thesis writers' circles’. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 4(1), 55

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