ProfessorTim Dwyer

Professor Dwyer has previously taught at the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University and Macquarie University.

His research focuses on the critical evaluation of media and communications industries, regulation, media ethics and AI, law and policy in an era of post convergent media, algorithmic mediatisation and the mass scale targeted use of personal data. His research also explores how automated news practices are evolving in platformised media ecologies, and analyses the implications of these transformations for media diversity and pluralism policies.

Professor Dwyer is a chief investigator on Valuing News: Aligning Individual, Institutional and Societal Perspectives. Flew T, Park S, Wilding D, Fisher C, Schapals A. K, Napoli P, Picard R. Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP). 2023-2027.

This project aims to identify the links between the preparedness of individuals to pay for news, the value of news brands and organisational cultures of news publishers, and the social value of news in promoting a democratic public sphere. Its significance arises with the ongoing crisis of news media business models, which is raising new questions about the future of journalism, and the changing role of governments worldwide in financing news production. Its expected outcomes include advancing debates about how to support public interest journalism, and the value of news as both a commodity and a public good. It will be of benefit to industry, policymakers and the community in addressing the prospects for sustainable Australian journalism.

Professor Dwyer was the lead Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2018-2024) with Professor Derek Wilding (UTS), Professor Saba Bebawi (UTS), Dr Jonathon Hutchinson (USyd) and Dr Kari Karppinen (Helsinki). The project, titled 'Media Pluralism and Online News' aims to chart dynamic developments in the way news is produced and consumed online and to account for this in public policy designed to promote media pluralism.

AVAILABILITY

Currently not taking on new research supervisions