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Biography
Julian Thomas is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology. His research interests are in new media, information policy and the history of communications technologies. Before coming to Swinburne in 2000, he taught new media at RMIT, and worked on the staff of the Productivity Commission's Broadcasting Inquiry.
Julian is an Associate Editor of the website Australian Policy Online, and was co-editor with Peter Browne of Briefings, a public policy book series published by UNSW Press. He is a board member and Treasurer of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation, a member of the Consumer Consultative Forum of the Australian Media and Communications Authority, and is Convenor of the Swinburne University node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI).
Research Interests
Media and communications policy Histories of new communications technologies Intellectual property and information policy
Publications Include
Go to Swinburne Research Bank
Awards and Grants
Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation ARC Discovery (DP110101455) Informal Media Economies and Audiovisual Industries
Postgraduate Supervision
Bill Birnbauer (The future of investigative reporting in Australia) Scott Ewing (The evolving relationship between the internet and television) Jennifer Newton-Farrelly (Fairness and Equity in Electoral Redistributions in Australia) Josefine Raasch (Concepts of (historical) justice among teenagers.) Gregory Wee (Film funding in Malaysia in the context of National Cinema) Chris Wilson (Frequently Modulating: Australian Radio's Relationship With Youth) Katherine Wilson (The New Luddities)
Other Projects
Home Internet for Remote Indigenous Communities Digital Futures: The World Internet Project CCI Centre of Excellence Project Youthworx. Youth Media and Social Enterprise Amateur Hour: the sociolegal construction of user-generated media Audiovisual code: software, policy, and copyright issues relating to the control of digital television content