Research Programs
Julian Thomas
Julian Thomas
Director of the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University
Contact Phone:
61 3 9214 5466Professor Julian Thomas is Leader of Program 6: International Creative Content Cultures and Australian Advantage. Julian is also a Director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at Swinburne UniversityHis research interests are in new media, information policy and the history of communications technologies. Before coming to the ISR in 2000, he taught new media at RMIT, worked on the staff of the Productivity Commission's Broadcasting Inquiry, and was a senior research fellow at the former Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University.
He has written on broadcasting policy, intellectual property and new media, and community-based responses to information poverty. Julian is an associate editor of the website Australian Policy Online, and co-editor with Peter Browne of Briefings, a series of books on current issues in public policy published by UNSW Press. He is also associate editor of CCI's website Creative Economy, (www.creative.org.au), a gateway to research and analysis of Australia‚s creative industries
and their cultural and social impact.
Publications listed on the CCI website
- 11 February 2010
- 6 July 2009
- 1 December 2008
- 12 August 2008
- 1 November 2006
Asia broadcasting business community consumers copyright creative commons creative industries cultural institutions culture content economics education employment Indigenous innovation internet law leadership multimedia policy social media technology telecommunications youth software screen industries
- 17 March 2010
- 28 February - 28 March 2010
