Dr. John Postill
Senior Lecturer
Details
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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john.postill@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-4463-4780
About
Dr Postill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication
Research fields
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 4401 Anthropology
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 4410 Sociology
- 4702 Cultural studies
- 4404 Development studies
- 4405 Gender studies
- 4408 Political science
- 4609 Information systems
- 4301 Archaeology
Supervisor projects
- Navigating Digital Inequality: Media Practices, Aspirations, and Risk Among Disadvantaged Rural Youth in Indonesia
- 13 Nov 2025
- Relinquishing Power: The Struggle Over Internet Infrastructure Between a Technical Community and the State in Russia
- 17 Feb 2025
- Pathways to Social Impact: Examining Public Engagement with Translated Social Science Research
- 17 Dec 2024
- The discursive construction of green spaces in Philippine Smart Urban Developments
- 13 Dec 2024
- Chinas Digital Public Diplomacy: Evaluation of Strategies and Effects
- 15 Mar 2023
- The Rise of Indonesia’s Religious Influencers: Between Strategic Content, Visual Authority, and Active Audience.
- 20 May 2022
- A study of Chinese young females' digital political action and online everyday political talk
- 16 Feb 2022
- ‘It’s Coming Unstuck!’ WeChat Stickiness and the Social Lives of Chinese Students in Melbourne
- 10 Dec 2021
- Digital Homemaking – The Vlogging Practices of Indonesian Marriage Migrants
- 26 Aug 2020
- Mapping the Politics of Indonesian Hip Hop
- 23 May 2020
- Women’s Political Underrepresentation in Ghana: A Study of the 2020 Ghanaian Elections
- 30 Jan 2020
- The Return of Socialist Counterpublics in a ‘Digital Age’: The Victorian Socialists’ Strategy for Organising a Counterpublic
- 25 Feb 2019
- Urban Vakavanua: Reconciling Tradition and Urban Development
- 18 May 2017
- Digital Hantulogi: An Ethnography of Indonesian Horror Content on YouTube
- 29 Feb 2016
- A Theory of Coworking: Entrepreneurial Communities, Immaterial Commons and Working Futures
- 15 Feb 2016
- Radical Transparency, WikiLeaks, and the Global (Dis)Order: Correcting Geopolitical Historiography
- 2 Mar 2015
- The Impact of Life Changes on Social Media Practices: An Ethnographic Study of Young Chinese Adults Living in Australia
- 1 Jul 2013
- BEHIND THE VEIL: An Ethnographic Study of Mobile Media and Illicit Relationships in Saudi Arabia
- 1 Oct 2012
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
• Activism
• Social media
• Digital media
• Social movements
• Sociocultural change
• Media anthropology
• Indonesia
• Spain
• Malaysia
• SE Asia
• Europe
• Activism
• Social media
• Digital media
• Social movements
• Sociocultural change
• Media anthropology
• Indonesia
• Spain
• Malaysia
• SE Asia
• Europe
