Mobile phones
Report
Smartphones and equal access for people who are blind or have low vision
This research report finds that that while around 80 per cent of the country’s blind and low vision community own a smartphone, many users are finding limitations with the technology, such as general features being inaccessible or unaccommodating.
Report
Use of mobile phones to buy and sell illicit drugs
This study explores how police detainees in Australia use mobile phones within the illicit drug market.
Conference paper
Digital landscape of women’s safety
In the context of increasingly digitised urban governance, this paper investigates the use of digital technology in the advocacy for women’s safety in the city.
Audio
Disconnect: The dish
If you’ve driven through the Northern Territory lately you may have seen these structures, always in places where there is no mobile phone reception. No reception, that is, until you rest your phone on one of these bush hotspots.
Audio
Disconnect: Killswitch
When you live in a place with mobile phone reception you can switch off your device, but the network stays on. But what if you wanted the whole thing switched off? In some remote Australian communities, it can be.