Julian Thomas

Professor Julian Thomas

Director, ARC Centre of Excellence
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Details

  • College: School of Media & Communication
  • Department: School - Media & Communication
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • julian.thomas@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is also Program Lead for the ARDC/NCRIS-funded Australian Internet Observatory.

 

Julian 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 the Sage Handbook of the Digital Economy (Sage, 2023, edited with Terry Flew and Jennifer Holt), Wi-Fi (Polity 2021; with Ellie Rennie and Rowan Wilken), Measuring the Digital Divide: the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (Telstra, 2016-), Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities (INC, 2016), and The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2015).

 

At ADM+S he works on the Mapping the Digital Gap project, the Australian Digital Inclusion Index, and other projects relating to the social aspects of AI, emerging digital services and automated media industries,

Julian was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2017.

Supervisor projects

  • Social Innovation and Digital Proficiency in Australian Not-For-Profit Organisations: Originality, Opportunities and Obstacles
  • 21 Sep 2023
  • Social Cartoon Influencer Culture in Vietnam: Social Implications of Automated Content Production
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • 'Impact of the VOD era on content decisions made by media organizations operating in France'.
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • The Augmented Worker: Understanding automated decision-making systems in Australia's supermarket warehouses and distribution networks
  • 1 Mar 2021
  • The Political Economy of Data Infrastructures and Credit Platforms in China's Corporate Social Credit System
  • 5 Feb 2021
  • Digital inclusion program design: an ethnographic approach to strengthening digital ability.
  • 29 Jul 2020
  • Political struggles over the Russian Internet
  • 15 Sep 2017
  • For Better or Worse: When Technology Intersects with Domestic Violence and the Lived Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Women
  • 3 Jul 2017
  • Where is the Evidence? Research Publishing and Public Policy in Australia
  • 13 Mar 2017

Teaching interests

Media, communications and information policy, Histories of new communications technologies, Digital inclusion and inequality

Research interests

Histories of new communications and computing technologies; media and communication law, policy and regulation; digital inclusion and inequality

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