Professor
Julian ThomasProfile page
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence
School - Media & Communication
- Director, ARC Centre of ExcellenceSchool - Media & Communication
- City Campus, Australia
BIO
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.
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision