Emma A. Jane (born 1969), previously known as Emma Tom, is an Australian professor, author, and

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. She once wrote a weekly column for ''

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'' newspaper and made regular appearances on Australian television and radio. She received an Edna Ryan Award in 2001 for humour. Jane has written ten books including ''Deadset'', a

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which won the 1998

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for Best First Book for South East Asia and the South Pacific. Jane completed a PhD at the

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' Journalism and Media Research Centre (JMRC), where she then became an associate professor. Her areas of research include communication, media studies, culture, and gender and sexuality. She has sung and played bass in Australian rock bands

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(with her then-husband

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) and 16dd."Rock their jocks off"
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'' (10 February 2006)

Bibliography

*''Deadset'', Vintage, 1997, *''Babewatch'', Hodder Headline, 1998, *''Evidence'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2002, *''Something about Mary: From Girl about Town to Crown Princess'', Pluto Press, 2005, *''Bali: paradise lost?'', Pluto Press Australia, 2006, *''Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones: Your One-Stop Survival Guide to Staying Sane During Pregnancy'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2009, *''Modern Conspiracy – The Importance of Being Paranoid'', coauthored with Chris Fleming, Bloombury Publishing, 2014. *''Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice'', coauthored with Chris Barker, SAGE, 2016. *''Cybercrime and its Victims'', coauthored with Elena Martellozzo, Routledge, 2017. *''Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History'', SAGE, 2017.

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