Professor Ellie Rennie
Professor
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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ellie.rennie@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Professor Ellie Rennie is based in the School of Media and Communication. She is also an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, including the Platform Economies Research Network.
Her research is examining permissionless systems and on-chain communities using ethnographic methods, including stablecoins, validator governance, contribution systems and infrastructures for the collective governance of knowledge. She previously worked on the topic of digital inclusion in remote Indigenous communities and media access. Ellie is currently a Research Director within the international research network Metagov.
Her book publications include: Wi-Fi (Polity, with Julian Thomas and Rowan Wilken); Using Media for Social Innovation (Intellect, with Aneta Podkalicka, 2018). Internet on the Outstation: The digital divide and remote Aboriginal communities (multi-authored, Institute for Network Cultures, 2016), Life of SYN: A Story of the Digital Generation (Monash University Press, 2011); Community Media: A Global Introduction (Rowan & Littlefield, 2006).
Supervisor projects
- An Ethnography of Blockchain Communities: An Empirical Look into Decentralized Governance
- 1 Mar 2023
- Underexposed: The digital transformation of fashion supply chain transparency
- 19 Jan 2023
- Speculative Carbon Cultures? Regenerative Finance and Climate Action
- 1 Jan 2021
- Digital inclusion program design: an ethnographic approach to strengthening digital ability.
- 29 Jul 2020
- Decentralised Technologies: ‘Self-Infrastructuring’ Resilience
- 4 May 2020
- For Better or Worse: When Technology Intersects with Domestic Violence and the Lived Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Women
- 3 Jul 2017
- Evaluation with Complexity in Mind
- 3 Mar 2017
- Barriers to digital participation within the Australian cultural sector: Mediating distance, unlocking collections
- 20 Feb 2017
Teaching interests
Indigenous media, Internet adoption and use in remote areas, Digital inclusion, Community media, Social aspects of blockchain innovation.
Research interests
Communication and Media Studies, Applied Economics, Specialist Studies in Education, Cultural Studies, Policy and Administration, Economic Theory
