STAFF PROFILE
Professor Julian Thomas
Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He has written widely about digital inclusion, automation and other topics relating to the pasts and futures of new communications and computing technologies. His publications include Wi-Fi (Polity 2021; with Ellie Rennie and Rowan Wilken), Measuring the Digital Divide: the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (Telstra, 2016-2021), Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities (INC, 2016), and The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2015).
Thomas was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2017, and is a member of the Academy's Council. Among other roles he is also a member of the Board of the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network, Humanitech (a venture of the Australian Red Cross), and the OECD's Global Science Forum's Expert Working Group on Mobilising Science in Crises.
- BA (Honours), PhD, Australian National University.
- Featherstone, D.,Thomas, J.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Holcombe-James, I.,Hawkins, L.,Kennedy, J. (2023). Mapping the digital gap: Djarindjin and Lombadina, West Kimberley, WA, community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Featherstone, D.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Holcombe-James, I.,Hawkins, L.,Thomas, J.,Kennedy, J. (2023). Mapping the digital gap: Kalumburu, Kimberleys, WA community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Featherstone, D.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Holcombe-James, I.,Hawkins, L.,Ganambarr, G.,Ganambarr, D.,Thomas, J.,Kennedy, J. (2023). Mapping the digital gap: Gangan, Arnhem Land NT community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Thomas, J. (2022). Reframing culture: Stuart Cunningham's legacies In: Media International Australia, 182, 44 - 47
- Wilken, R.,Thomas, J. (2022). Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry In: New Media and Society, 24, 2531 - 2547
- Featherstone, D.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Holcombe-James, I.,Hawkins, L.,Bukulatjpi, Y.,Bukulatjpi, C.,Thomas, J.,Kennedy, J. (2022). Mapping the digital gap: Galiwin'ku, East Arnhem Land NT community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Featherstone, D.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Holcombe-James, I.,Hawkins, L.,Charles, D.,Thomas, J.,Kennedy, J. (2022). Mapping the digital gap: Yuelamu, Northern Territory community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Featherstone, D.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Holcombe-James, I.,Hawkins, L.,Thomas, J.,Kennedy, J. (2022). Mapping the digital gap: Tennant Creek, Barkley region, Northern Territory community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Featherstone, D.,Holcombe-James, I.,Ormond-Parker, L.,Hawkins, L.,Gutchen, L.,Mye, N.,Thomas, J.,Kennedy, J. (2022). Mapping the digital gap: Erub (Darnley Island), Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) Queensland community outcomes report 2022 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
- Thomas, J.,Barraket, J.,Parkinson, S.,Wilson, C.,Holcombe-James, I.,Kennedy, J.,Mannell, K.,Brydon, A. (2021). Measuring Australia’s digital divide: the Australian digital inclusion index 2021 In: Telstra Melbourne, Australia
2 PhD Completions7 PhD Current Supervisions
- Automated Decision Making (VHESIF Pool 1). Funded by: Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund (VHESIF) - Pool 1 from (2021 to 2025)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Funded by: 009-ARC Centres of Excellence 2014 onward from (2020 to 2027)
- Linked semantic platforms for social & physical infrastructure & wellbeing (administered by Swinburne University of Technology). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2020)
- Cyber Safety in remote Aboriginal Communities. Funded by: Telstra Corporation Limited Contract from (2017 to 2022)
- Legal and social dynamics of ebook lending in Australia's public libraries (Administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grant 2016 from (2017 to 2023)