Professor Ellie Rennie

Professor Ellie Rennie is an ARC Future Fellow and Principal Research Fellow in RMIT's Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also a member of RMIT's Blockchain Innovation Hub and an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Ellie's current research is focused on social and policy questions arising from automation technologies, including blockchain. She has worked extensively on the topic of digital inclusion, particularly in relation to remote Australia and Indigenous communities. She is an ARC Future Fellow, working on 'Cooperation through code: The social outcomes of blockchain technology' (FT190100372). The project aims to show the social consequences of using distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, for compliance, registries and regulatory processes and is generating new knowledge of how technology is changing administrative coordination between government and non-government entities. Ellie is also Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (commencing August 2020).

Her book publications include: Wi-Fi (Polity, forthcoming, with Julian Thomas and Rowan Wilken); Using Media for Social Innovation (Intellect, with Aneta Podkalicka, 2018). Internet on the Outstation: The digital divide and remote Aboriginal communities (multi-authored, Institute for Network Cultures, 2016), Life of SYN: A Story of the Digital Generation (Monash University Press, 2011); Community Media: A Global Introduction (Rowan & Littlefield, 2006).

Ellie Rennie's full list of academic publications can be found via Google Scholar

Additional research reports are located on the Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO)

Twitter: @elinorrennie