Kate Raynes-Goldie

Kate Raynes-Goldie is a Canadian-New Zealand

Her PhD thesis was titled Privacy in the Age of Facebook: Discourse, Architecture, Consequences.[8] The thesis was the 5th most downloaded thesis of all time from the Curtin University library repository as of July 2022.^[9]

Raynes-Goldie spoke at

Raynes-Goldie received funding from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative,^[11] which resulted in her co-authored a chapter that examined young people's use of social media for activism and engagement in Civic Life Online, published by MIT press.^[12]

Play and games

Her games have been featured at international venues including Indiecade (San Francisco), Come Out and Play (New York), the National Theatre (London), Playpublik (Berlin), Fresh Air (Melbourne) and the TIFF Sprockets (Toronto).^{[citation needed][13]}

She gave a talk on play and games as enablers of connection at

She has a BA(hons.) in Philosophy and Semiotics from the University of Toronto^{[citation needed]} and holds a PhD in internet studies from Curtin University.

Awards

In 2016, she was awarded the Australian Computer Society's Digital Disruptors Awards' "ICT Professional of the Year",^[17] and also won WAITTA Incite's Achiever of the Year.^[18] In 2015 and 2016, she was named one of the 75 most influential women in the games industry in Australia and New Zealand by MCV^[13] and a finalist for Curtin University's Alumni Professional Achievement Award in Humanities.^[19]

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