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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Ashford, T. and Smith, N. (2024) ‘Thinking Space: four arguments for the ‘fixing’ of the Olympics in the Anthropocene’, Australian Geographer. Available at: https://doi/10.1080/00049182.2024.2389597

Zahnow, R. and Smith N. (2024) ‘Locality-based social media: The impact of content consumption and creation on perceived neighborhood crime, safety, and offline crime prevention’, Journal of Community Psychology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.23135

Wagstaff, D., Wood, N. and Smith, N. (2024) ‘Comparing, Competing, and the Good Mum Ideology—Maternal Well-Being in the Context of Social Media’, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000348

Smith, N. and Snider A.M. (2023) ‘Healing, faith and fear: Church opening in the United States during COVID-19 restrictions’, Journal of Contemporary Religion. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537903.2023.2206206?src=

Topham, J. and Smith, N. (2023) ‘One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos’, Journal of Sociology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783323116136

Walters, P. and Smith, N. (2022) ‘It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification’, Space and Culture. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312221090428

Barratt, M. J, Maddox, A., Smith, N., Davis, J., Goold, L., Winstock, A. and Ferris, J. (2022) ‘Who uses digital drugs? An international survey of ‘binaural beat’ consumers’, Drug and Alcohol Review. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13464

Smith, N. and Southerton, C.  (2022) ‘#FreeBritney and the Pleasures of Conspiracy’, M/C Journal, 25(1): https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2871

Smith, N. and Copland, S. (2021) ‘Memetic Moments: The Speed of Twitter Memes, Journal of Digital Social Research , 4(3): 23-48. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v4i1.95

Snider, A.M. and Smith, N. (2021) ‘Spirituality as Detachment and Comfort in the context of Depression’ Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 1(2): 117-129

Smith, N. (2021) ‘Between, behind and out of sight: conversation in dark social spaces’, M/C Journal, 24(2): https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2764.

 Davis, J. L., Altmann, E., Barnes, N.,  Chouinard, J., Compton, D. R., Crowell, A. R. Cook, P., Copland, S., Dunstan, L.,  Gary, K., Jobin, A., Julien, C., Keane, H., Killen, G.,  Hùòng L., Lê, J.,  Lockie, S. D., Lyall, B.,  Maitahitui, Maddox, A. … Smith, N… and Wong, M. (2020) ‘A crowdsourced sociology of COVID-19’, Contexts.

 Snider, A.M. and Smith, N. (2020) ‘Recovery from depression: re-envisioning the connection between recovery and spirituality’ Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 25(1): 88-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-08-2020-0056

Smith, N. and Holtum. P.J. (2019) ‘New Subjectivities of Work?: Technology, Capitalism and the Future of Work’ Arena Journal, 51: 153-176.

Smith, N. and Snider, A.M. (2018) ‘ASMR, Affect and Digitally-Mediated Intimacy’, Emotion, Space and Society, 30:41-48

Smith, N. and Walters, P. (2017) ‘Desire Lines and Defensive Architecture in Modern Urban Environments’ Urban Studies, 55(13): 2980-2995

Lyons, K. and Smith, N. (2017)Governing  with Ignorance: Understanding Australiana’s Food Regulator’s Response to Nano Food Industries’ NanoEthics, 12(1): 27-38

Smith N. and Graham, T. (2017) ‘Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook’ Information, Communication and Society, 22(9): 1310-1327.

Smith, N., Wickes, R. and Underwood, M. (2015) “Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat  acceptance cybercommunities”, Journal of Sociology, 51 (4): 950-967.

Book Chapters

Smith, N., Maddox, A., Davis, Jenny L., and Barratt, M. (2024), Wellness Washing: Wellness, Work and the Transformation of Pleasure, in eds. N. Smith, C. Southerton, and M. Clark, Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures, pp. 95-109. Leeds: Emerald Publishing.

Smith, N., Clark, M. and Southerton, C. (2024), "Looking Good, Feeling Good and Refusing the Jab: Tracing the Relationships Between Healthism, Wellness Culture and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy", Smith, N., Southerton, C. and Clark, M. (Ed.) Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures, pp. 47-60. Leeds: Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-584-220241004

Smith, N. and Snider, A. M. (2021) The Headphone, in ed. H. Schulze, The Bloomsbury Handbook of The Anthropology of Sound, pp. 27-42, London: Bloomsbury.

Smith, N. (2020) Social media, community and rural crime prevention, in ed. A. Harkness, Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques, Routledge.

Yell, S. and Smith, N. (2020) The dynamics of place-based virtual communities: Social media in a region in transition, in eds. M. Duffy, B. Edmondson and A. Campbell, Located research: methodologies and approaches to regional research, pp. 203-222, Palgrave MacMillan

 Editor: Journal Special Issues

Smith, N., Southerton, C. Maddox, A. and Baker, S. (March 2022,) ‘Conspiracy’, M/C Journal, 25(1) Available at: https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/issue/view/conspiracy.

Smith, N. and Southerton, C. (2023) ‘What do misinformation practices feel like? Wellness culture and digital health in a post-COVID world.’ Journal of Sociology (Special Issue)

Edited Books

Smith, N., Southerton, C. and Clark, M. ( 2024) Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures, Leeds: Emerald Publishing 10.1108/9781804555842