Joel Humphries is an academic researcher and writer working on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, Australia. He is a PhD candidate at RMIT University, where he examines queer community using emerging internet technologies, such as the metaverse and the blockchain. Joel’s practice interrogates the intersection of queerness and technology, culminating in his cult newsletter, Queer Computer.

His work has been published by Continuum (2025), Media International Australia (2025), Overland literary journal (2022) and Crawlspace (2023). Previously, Joel worked as the Curator of The Waiting Room Project and the Membership Coordinator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA).

You can contact me at joel@queercomputer.com or joel.humphries@rmit.edu.au

You can also find me on Bluesky: @joel.queercomputer.com

Cover, R., Humphries, J., Richardson, I., & Harris, D. (2025). Restricting young people from digital platforms in Australia: the experience of digital harms and freedom of expression in community support for youth social media age bans. Continuum, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2598632

Cover, R., Simcock, R., & Humphries, J. (2025). Digital harms and penalties: Australian regulation, platform moderation and the figure of the perpetrator. Media International Australia, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X251350727