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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
Current Research Activites
- Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation
- 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
- ARC Linkage (LP0775215) The Searchers: Australian Information Seekers and Citizens
Publications and Other Research Outputs
 Go to Swinburne Research Bank
Postgraduate Supervision
Current Students
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)
David Prater (Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Literautre)
Josefine Raasch (Concepts of (historical) justice among teenagers.)
Gregory Wee (Film funding in Malaysia in the context of National Cinema)
Chris Wilson (Young People, Sounds and Citizenship: Just what have young people got to do with radio in 21st Century Australia?)
Katherine Wilson (The New Luddities)
Completions
Dr Glen Jessop (2008) Motor Telephony: Social and policy dimensions of phoning and driving
Dr Ian McShane (2008) Community Facilities and Public Value
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