Dr Nicola Johnson - Researcher Profile

Biography

Nicola works in the Office of the PVC & President Gippsland at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education. Nicola's research concerns Internet over-use, the social phenomena of Internet usage, technological expertise, and the integration of information and communication technologies within education. She was awarded an Early Career Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, University of Wollongong, 2009. Nicola teaches about curriculum, pedagogy and multiliteracies. She is the author of two books, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning (Ashgate, 2009) and Publishing from your PhD: Negotiating a Crowded Jungle (Gower, 2011). Nicola is currently analyzing the data collected from her competitive small grant entitled, ‘Problematic Internet Use? Exploring contestable notions of Internet obsession and addiction from an educational perspective’. Her website can be found at http://monash.academia.edu/NicolaJohnson

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Research & Supervision Interests

Internet over-use; ICT integration within education; social issues surrounding technology; sociological perspectives of expertise; teachers' negotiation of technology integration; impact of media and the social web

Keywords

Addiction, ICT, Learning, Sociology Education, Technology, expertise, media

Qualifications

PH.D

Institution: Deakin University / Australia

Year awarded: 2008

MED (CURRICULUM AND ADMINISTRATION STUDIES)

Institution: Deakin University / Australia

Year awarded: 2004

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

Institution: Bethlehem Tertiary Institute / New Zealand

Year awarded: 2000

Publications

Books

Johnson, N., 2011, Publishing from Your PhD: Negotiating a Crowded Jungle, Gower Publishing Limited, Farnham Surrey England.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning, Ashgate, Surrey, England.

Book Chapters

Johnson, N., 2010, Teaching with information and communication technologies, in Teaching: Making a Difference, eds Rick Churchill et al, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Milton, QLD., pp. 306-335.

Johnson, N., Gilbert, R., 2010, Using information and communication technologies in society and environment, in Teaching Society and Environment, eds Rob Gilbert and Brian Hoepper, Cengage Learning, South Melbourne, pp. 179-196.

Journal Articles

Johnson, N., 2011, 'No they're not digital natives and they're not addicted': an essay critiquing contestable labels, Fast Capitalism [E], vol 8, issue 2, Fast Capitalism, USA, pp. 1-5.

Dudek, D., Johnson, N., 2011, Return of the hacker as hero: fictions and realities of teenage technological experts, Children's Literature in Education [P], vol 42, issue 3, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 184-195.

Johnson, N., Humphry, N., 2011, The teenage expertise network (TEN): an online ethnographic approach, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education [P], vol E, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 1-17.

Tindall-Ford, S., Waters, K., Johnson, N.F., 2010, An evaluation of a Web-based ePortfolio system in an Australian pre-service teacher education program, The International Journal of Learning [P], vol 17, issue 4, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, USA, pp. 297-308.

Johnson, N., 2010, Globalizing education, educating the local: How method made us mad, Australian Educational Researcher [P], vol 37, issue 4, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 123-124.

Lee, A., Johnson, N., 2010, Probabilities and possibilities within Australia's future: Rethinking educational research, Australian Educational Researcher [P], vol 37, issue 4, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 1-7.

Johnson, N.F., 2010, Using an instructional design model to evaluate a blended learning subject in a pre-service teacher education degree, The International Journal of Learning [P], vol 17, issue 2, Common Ground Publishing LLC, Champaign, Illinois, USA, pp. 65-80.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, Contesting binaries: Teenage girls as technological experts, Gender, technology and development [P], vol 13, issue 3, SAGE publications, India, pp. 365-383.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, Cyber-relations in the field of home computer use for leisure: Bourdieu and teenage technological experts, E-Learning and Digital Media [E], vol 6, issue 2, Symposium Journals Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 187-197.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, Exchanging online narratives for leisure: A legitimate learning space, The International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society [E], vol 7, issue 1, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Vic., pp. 15-27.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, Generational differences in beliefs about technological expertise, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies [P], vol 44, issue 1, New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 31-45.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, Teenage technological experts' views of schooling, Australian Educational Researcher [P], vol 36, issue 1, Australian Association for Research in Education, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, pp. 59-72.

Johnson, N.F., 2009, The teenage expertise network: The online availability of expertise, The International Journal of Learning [P], vol 16, issue 5, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 211-220.

Johnson, N.F., MacDonald, D., Brabazon, T., 2008, Rage against the machine? Symbolic violence in E-learning supported tertiary education, E-Learning and Digital Media [E], vol 5, issue 3, Symposium Journals Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 275-283.

Johnson, N.F., 2007, Reframing the integration of computers in beginning teacher professional development, Computers in New Zealand Schools [P], vol 19, issue 3, Otago University Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 25-32, 44.

Johnson, N.F., 2006, Boys and girls are the same: Gender perceptions in using computers in the classroom, Computers in New Zealand Schools [P], vol 18, issue 3, Otago University Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 5-11, 33.

Johnson, N.F., Rowan, L., Lynch, J., 2006, Construction of gender in computer magazine advertisements: Confronting the literature, SIMILE [P], vol 6, issue 1, University of Toronto Press, Canada, pp. 1-9.

Conference Proceedings

Johnson, N., Bulfin, S., 2011, Secondary teachers' use of new media in an age of accountability, Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 Proceedings, 28 March 2011 to 1 April 2011, Association for Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), USA, pp. 1-5.

Johnson, N.F., Clarke, R.J., Herrington, J., 2008, The potential affordances of enterprise wikis for creating community in research networks, Proceedings of the Second Emerging Technologies Conference 2008, 18-21 June 2008, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, pp. 105-111.

Johnson, N.F., 2008, Understanding teenager technological expertise in out-of-school settings, AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, 25/11/2007 - 29/11/2007, Australian Association for Research in Education, Australia, pp. 1-13.

Johnson, N.F., 2005, Technological disadvantage of the digital age, AARE 2004 Conference Papers, 29/11/2004 - 02/12-2004, AARE, Coldstream, Victoria, pp. 1-8.

Teaching Commitment

EDF1303 Learning and educational inquiry 1

EDF1304 Learning and educational inquiry 2

EDF2301 Multiliteracies