Mandy Salomon
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Senior Researcher, Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre (Melbourne)
Based at Swinburne University of Technology, Mandy is a senior researcher for the Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre.
Her specialist interest is online environments and communities, and their potential to impact on service delivery across government, education, business and industry.
Prior to this, Mandy worked a journalist, writer and producer in radio, television, newspapers, theatre and documentary film. In 2008-9, Mandy wrote the column Web Watch, for the Age Newspaper, which chronicles the disruptive nature of emerging web practices for a general readership.
Mandy holds degrees in Arts and Communication. She was a representative at the Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference, New York and LA and a panellist at the Harvard, Yale and New York Law School convened 'State of Play V' Conference in Singapore in 2007. Locally, Mandy has contributed to AMIA, AIIA, World Internet Partners (WIP), Monash Law School, AFTRS and Asia Link initiatives in this emergent field. She is associate editor of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (USA) and a foundation member and conference convenor of the Australasian Virtual World Association.
