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BA, MGenStud (Media Studies), MLegStud (Hons), PhD. Prof. Dwyer is the author or co-author of several books including New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence (2007), Media Convergence (2010), Legal and Ethical Issues in the Media (2012), Convergent Media and Privacy (2015) and Sharing News Online (2019). His most recent book, co-authored with Derek Wilding (2023), is titled Media Pluralism and Online News: The Consequences of Automated Curation for Society. Prof. Dwyer has been awarded five Australian Research Council (ARC) grants and is currently a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project Valuing News: Aligning Individual, Institutional, and Societal Perspectives. He researches media regulation, media laws, ethics and AI, in an era of post convergent media and algorithmic mediatisation. 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. He is supervising several PhD projects related to digital platforms, journalism and news, short video formats in China (‘Dianying Jieshuo’ on Douyin/Tiktok), global media concentration, and digital transition in Bhutan.
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Professor Tim Dwyer
Professor of Communication, School of Information and Communication Studies
Bathurst
Building 1400, Room 130