Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth is a socially-engaged artist and digital ethnographer. Hjorth has two decades experience working in interdisciplinary, collaborative, playful and socially innovative digital media methods to explore intergenerational relationships in cross-cultural contexts. Hjorth has explored the socio-cultural dimensions of mobile media in many contexts such as Japan, South Korea, China and Australia. Hjorth has published over 100 publications on the topic—recent publications include Haunting Hands (with Cumiskey, Oxford Uni Press), Understanding Social Media (with Hinton, 2nd Edition, Sage), Creative Practice Ethnographies (with Harris, Jungnickel and Coombs, Rowman & Little) and Ambient Play (with Richardson, MIT Press).

Much of her participatory art projects seek to provide playful critical reflection on quotidian environment and media practices from mobile games about climate change, to transforming the gallery into a Minecraft/ Lego game to what happens to our data after we die (#dataofthedead).

Hjorth has occupied research leadership roles for a decade and is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2023-2027) exploring the cultural perceptions of grief in media as well as first CI on an Australian Council Research Discovery on Ageing in and through Data and Linkage with ACMI and AGaMA on social digital museum futures.

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4793-3233

Hjorth acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. She respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging. 

Always was and always will be.