Bjørn Nansen

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October 2, 2026

What should parents consider when tracking their child’s location?

Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne and Lauren Bliss, The University of Melbourne

Location tracking means parents can easily check in on their kids while allowing them more freedom. But there are risks too.

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February 10, 2026

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers, The University of Melbourne and Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne

If you buy a video game today, you may have no way of knowing whether generative AI was used to make it.

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May 25, 2025

Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it

Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne

Just as we prepare wills for our physical possessions, we need to plan for our digital remains.

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March 26, 2020

Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead

Tamara Kohn, The University of Melbourne; Hannah Gould, The University of Melbourne; Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne; Fraser Allison, The University of Melbourne, and Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne

Funeral homes, crematoria and morgues face many challenges in the months ahead as the coronavirus death toll rises.

Viewers can now select what they want to watch and when they want to watch it. Shutterstock/Rasulov

June 8, 2016

Computing changed the ‘flow’ of watching television

Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne

The switch from analogue to digital television transmission transformed the way audiences consume content.

The possibility of a posthumous digital social life seriously challenges our notions of death. Shimal Ahmed (Fulhi)

December 1, 2014

Tweets from the afterlife: social networking with the dead

Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne; James Meese, The University of Melbourne; Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne; Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne, and Tamara Kohn, The University of Melbourne

Media technologies have operated as both a means of communicating news of a death and memorialising the deceased for a significant period of time, moving from traditional epitaphs, eulogies, wakes and…

Remote households trying to telecommute rely on satellite connections to high-speed broadband – which sometimes don’t work. AnnieAnniePancake/Flickr

November 26, 2014

NBN benefits regional centres, but rural Australia is still left wanting

Rowan Wilken, Swinburne University of Technology; Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne; Jenny Kennedy, The University of Melbourne; Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne, and Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull reiterated the importance of the National Broadband Network (NBN) for regional and rural Australia in an address to the NBN Rebooted conference in Sydney last week…

Do selfies belong at funerals? Daniel Incandela

November 24, 2014

Death and the selfie: welcome to a grave new world

Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne; James Meese, The University of Melbourne; Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne; Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne, and Tamara Kohn, The University of Melbourne

Funerals increasingly employ digital media; and a growing body of research addresses the intersection of digital culture and traditional memorialising practices. Commonly-used digital media include PowerPoint…

Status update: this party’s dead, and so am I. Eddi van W.

November 14, 2014

From here to Eterni.me – the quest for digital immortality

James Meese, The University of Melbourne; Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne; Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne; Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne, and Tamara Kohn, The University of Melbourne

Earlier this year, start-up Eterni.me emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship Development program. The company’s tagline – “simply become immortal” – quickly attracted media…

A disparity exists between media representations and public perceptions of the NBN. Flood

September 3, 2013

Australia, what do you think of the NBN?

Craig Bellamy, The University of Melbourne; Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne; Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne, and Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne

It goes without saying that the National Broadband Network (NBN) – regardless of who steers the rest of the build – is a major infrastructure project for Australia. And we all know its cost, technical…

Children’s freedom to travel around their neighbourhood without adults has dramatically declined over the past 30 years. Image from shutterstock.com

August 28, 2013

Ditch the cotton wool and let kids travel independently

Lisa Gibbs, The University of Melbourne and Bjørn Nansen, The University of Melbourne

If you grew up in the 1970s or before, you probably have fond memories of traipsing around the neighbourhood with your friends and siblings, going to the shops or the park, and walking to and from school…

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