Welcome!

I am Dr Jonathon Hutchinson and I am a Senior Lecturer in Online Communication and Media at the University of Sydney. I am a Chief Investigator on the eSafety Commissioner funded project, Emerging Online Safety Issues: Co-creating social media education with young people. I am also a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Online News and Media Pluralism. My research explores Public Service Media, cultural intermediation, everyday social media, automated media, and algorithms in media. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Policy & Internet journal, and the Treasurer for the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). I am an award-winning author and my latest book is Cultural Intermediaries: Audience Participation and Media Organisations (2017), published through Palgrave Macmillan.

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Research Projects

Research projects drive my academic trajectory by providing a longitudinal view of specific aspects of digital media. To date I have done research projects on onloine communities, community managers, public service media, YouTube, algorithmic media, social media influencers and agencies, and more recently media regulation and policy.

The four most recent research projects I am working on and have worked on previously include:

University of Canberra Faculty of Arts and Design (FAD) Distinguished Fellowship Program (2022),
eSafety Commissioner funded project for Emerging online safety issues: co-creating social media education with young people (2022-2023),
Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme project, Media Pluralism and Online News (2018-2022),
Algorithmed Public Sphere Fellow, Leibniz-Institut Für Medianforschung, Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg Germany (2019).

University of Canberra Faculty of Arts and Design Distinguished Fellow Program

Consultancy

Beyond my academic work, I also run the consultancy business, Digital Dialect. As a consultancy service, Digital Dialect provides research and strategy services, content production, social media analytics and metrics analyses, short course delivery for tailored business communications, and general media insights for all sorts of digital media content. Get in contact to discuss how these services can assist you or your business.

Research

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Design

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Photography

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Development

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Get in touch

Email

jonathon[dot]hutchinson[at]sydney[dot]edu[dot]au

jonathon[dot]hutchinson[at]gmail[dot]com