(Sorry, couldn’t resist the cheesy title).. I received a rather exciting email about my thesis today:

Dear Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie

I am writing to let you know that your thesis, which is in the Curtin institutional repository, espace@Curtin, has been particularly popular with readers around the globe.

Your thesis, Privacy in the age of facebook : discourse, architecture, consequences, has been downloaded a total of 2794 times as of 20^th May 2014. This places your work as the 6^th most downloaded thesis of all time in espace@Curtin as of 20^th May 2014.

You can access your download statistics here: http://espace-stats.library.curtin.edu.au/author_statistics.pl?author=Raynes-Goldie,_Kate_Sarah

We would like to offer you our congratulations for the overall popularity of your work in espace@Curtin.

Now I just gotta get on that book deal…