Jonathon Hutchinson
Associate Professor Jonathon Hutchinson is the Chair of the Media and Communication Discipline at the University of Sydney, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Policy & Internet journal. His area of research is digital media, specifically cultural and digital intermediation within cultural production and consumption. His specialist expertise is young people and digital media built on public service media and digital media environments that integrate algorithms and automation within cultural production. His existing body of research developed the field of digital intermediation by integrating research of automation, datafication, platform politics and algorithmic culture within the context of public media. He is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council (ARC) LIEF project The International Digital Policy Observatory, an Associate Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making + Society, and is also a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project, Australian Experiences of Algorithmic Culture on TikTok. He is the Editor in Chief of the Policy & Internet Journal. His recent third book, Social Media in Society, is available through Palgrave MacMillan.
