Fiona is a PhD candidate at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS), Australia. She has been awarded an MA in in Photo-media digital design from the University of New South Wales, as well as a BFA in creative practice from the college formally known as COFA. Prior to undertaking her PhD, Fiona worked in a number of areas of digital media design including artistic, medical, and publishing fields in which she specialised in digital photographic practice.

Her current PhD research is located in a visual culture paradigm and focuses on vernacular practices of looking in social media as interactive social relationships. Considering selfies and the PGUF meme, I demonstrate that although people may be awarded agency through photographic performance within participatory culture, the agency of looking is interactive and constantly shifting within vernacular practices of looking.