Associate ProfessorJonathon Hutchinson

Jonathon Hutchinson is an Associate Professor of Online Communication and Media in the Discipline of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. His specialist area of research is social/digital/synthetic media, specifically cultural and digital intermediation within cultural production and consumption. He applies public service media and digital media environments expertise to online content creation that integrates algorithms and automation within cultural production. His existing body of research has developed the field of digital intermediation by integrating research of automation, datafication, platform politics and algorithmic culture within the context of public media. A/Prof Hutchinson is an internationally leading digital media methods scholar with an interest in regulatory practices of digital media communication.

A/Prof Hutchinson is the Immediate Past President of the Australian And Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) and a Commissioning Editor for the Policy & Internet Journal. He is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project, Australian Experiences of Algorithmic Culture on TikTok, and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making + Society. His recent third book, Social Media in Society, is available through Palgrave MacMillan.