Dr. John Postill
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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john.postill@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4463-4780
About
Dr Postill is a Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications, aligned to the Global Cities Research Institute.
Research fields
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 4401 Anthropology
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 4410 Sociology
- 4702 Cultural studies
- 4404 Development studies
- 4405 Gender studies
- 4408 Political science
- 4609 Information systems
- 4301 Archaeology
Supervisor projects
- Defining and disrupting the effects of misinformation
- 2 Feb 2024
- A compared analysis of media violence in Brazil, Chile and Argentina: its perversive influence in contemporary South America
- 19 Dec 2023
- Chinas Digital Public Diplomacy: Evaluation of Strategies and Effects
- 15 Mar 2023
- The Rise of Indonesia’s Religious Influencers: Between Strategic Content, Visual Authority, and Active Audience.
- 20 May 2022
- A study of Chinese young females' digital political action and online everyday political talk
- 16 Feb 2022
- The digital bridge: Wechat ecology and Chinese students in Melbourne
- 10 Dec 2021
- Mapping the Politics of Indonesian Hip Hop
- 23 May 2020
- Digital Homemaking – The Vlogging Practices of Indonesian Marriage Migrants
- 23 Mar 2020
- Women’s Political Underrepresentation in Ghana: A Study of the 2020 Ghanaian Elections
- 30 Jan 2020
- The Return of Socialist Counterpublics in a ‘Digital Age’: The Victorian Socialists’ Strategy for Organising a Counterpublic
- 25 Feb 2019
- Urban Vakavanua: Reconciling Tradition and Urban Development
- 18 May 2017
- Exploring Digital Bereavement: Young People, Digital Media, and Grief
- 19 Aug 2016
- Digital ghost stories in Indonesia
- 29 Feb 2016
- Intimate Sensing in Climate Research
- 22 Feb 2016
- A Theory of Coworking: Entrepreneurial Communities, Immaterial Commons and Working Futures
- 15 Feb 2016
- Radical Transparency, WikiLeaks, and the Global (Dis)Order: Correcting Geopolitical Historiography
- 2 Mar 2015
- Political struggles over the Russian Internet
- 21 Mar 2014
- The Impact of Life Changes on Social Media Practices: An Ethnographic Study of Young Chinese Adults Living in Australia
- 1 Jul 2013
- BEHIND THE VEIL: An Ethnographic Study of Mobile Media and Illicit Relationships in Saudi Arabia
- 1 Oct 2012
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
• Activism
• Social media
• Digital media
• Social movements
• Sociocultural change
• Media anthropology
• Indonesia
• Spain
• Malaysia
• SE Asia
• Europe
• Activism
• Social media
• Digital media
• Social movements
• Sociocultural change
• Media anthropology
• Indonesia
• Spain
• Malaysia
• SE Asia
• Europe
