Kate Bowles is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications at the University of Wollongong, Australia, specialising in historical shifts in media technology practices since the spread of cinema in the early twentieth century In 2012-2013 she was appointed Head of Learning Design at the University of Wollongong, supporting institutional transition to a new LMS. She writes about higher education, technology and labour activism at musicfordeckchairs.com and actualcasuals.wordpress.com, and can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KateMfD