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Alex Beattie

Observed names: Alexander Beattie, Beattie, Alex, Beattie, Alexander
ORCID: 0000-0001-8537-7672
Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-8537-7672
OpenAlex ID: A5011049568
Fighting COVID-19 with the team of 5 million: Aotearoa New Zealand government communication during the 2020 lockdown
2021 · Alex Beattie, Rebecca Priestley · Social Sciences & Humanities Open · 91
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More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research
2024 · Alexandra F. Gibson, Alexander Beattie · Qualitative Research in Psychology · 49
Framing 'digital well-being' as a social good
2020 · Alex Beattie, Michael Daubs · First Monday · 37
Locative disconnection: The use of location-based technologies to make disconnection easier, enforceable and exclusive
2020 · Alex Beattie, Elija Cassidy · Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies · 36
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“It’s like the Wild West”: User Experience (UX) Designers on Ethics and Privacy in Aotearoa New Zealand
2023 · Alex Beattie, Cherie Lacey, et al. · Design and Culture · 17
Selective and consistent news avoidance in Aotearoa New Zealand: motivations and demographic influences
2024 · Alex Beattie, John Kerr, et al. · Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online · 12
The demographics of digital disconnection: prevalence, motives and barriers to disconnecting from the Internet in Aotearoa New Zealand
2024 · Alex Beattie, John Kerr, et al. · Communication Research and Practice · 11
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From Poacher to Protector of Attention: The Therapeutic Turn of Persuasive Technology and Ethics of a Smartphone Habit-breaking Application
2021 · Alex Beattie · Science Technology & Human Values · 10
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches
2025 · Alex Beattie · Media Culture & Society · 6
Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing
2021 · Aleena Chia, Alex Beattie · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks · 3
Move Slow And Contemplate Things
2020 · Alex Beattie · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks · 3
Messenger, inquisitor and newsgatherer? Press Gallery journalists on their role(s) at COVID‐19 briefings in Aotearoa New Zealand
2022 · Alex Beattie · Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2
Doubt and Disengagement: Technologies and Practices of Digital Disconnection
2019 · Ethan Plaut, Kate Mannell, et al. · AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research · 2
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As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?
2025 · Alex Beattie · The Conversation · 1
Something felt ‘off’ – how AI messed with our human research, and what we learned
2024 · Alexandra Gibson, Alex Beattie · The Conversation · 1
A Temporal Sense of Place: The Politics of Attention and Information Architecture
2021 · Alex Beattie · Journal of Information Architecture · 1
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Disconnection: Designs and Desires
2020 · Tero Karppi, Aleena Chia, et al. · AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research · 1
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“You can’t challenge the narrative”: Conservative-leaning New Zealanders on power, truth and politics in science
2026 · Alex Beattie, Natalia Albert, et al. · Public Understanding of Science
NZ’s floated social media ban for under-16s could unite two groups that rarely agree
2026 · Alex Beattie · The Conversation
Rethinking Undergraduate Is Education: A Three-Level Scaffold For Developing Future Digital Architects
2026 · Doyle, Cathal, Drechsler, Andreas, et al. · Journal of the Association for Information Systems
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Avec les restrictions d’âge sur les réseaux sociaux, Internet entre-t-il dans une nouvelle ère de contrôle moral ?
2025 · Alex Beattie · The Conversation
10 reasons why banning social media for New Zealanders under 16 is a bad idea – and will affect adults too
2025 · Alex Beattie · The Conversation
News blues: study reveals why 60% of Kiwis avoid the news at least some of the time
2024 · Alex Beattie, John Kerr, et al. · The Conversation
AI in the Academy: A Collaborative Debate
2024 · Alex Beattie, Sarah-Jane O'Connor, et al.
The struggle to unplug: why Kiwis find it so hard to disconnect from the internet
2024 · Alex Beattie, John Kerr · The Conversation
Works count: 35
Citation count: 285
H-index: 8
I10-index: 8
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