Researcher Profile

  • Senior Lecturer at RMIT

  • Disinformation, misinformation, polarisation, geopolitics of technology and information.

  • Media and internet policy, social media platforms.

  • Meese, J. and Bannerman, S. (eds.) (forthcoming). Governing the Algorithmic Distribution of the News. Palgrave Macmillan.

    Bailo, F., Meese, J. and Hurcombe, E. (2021). The institutional impacts of algorithmic distribution: Facebook and the Australian news media. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org /10.1177/20563051211024963

    Meese, J. (2021). Journalism policy across the Commonwealth: Partial answers to public problems. Digital Journalism. 9(3), 255 – 275.

    Meese, J. Frith, J. Wilken, R. (2020). COVID-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures. Media International Australia. 177, 30 – 46.

    Meese, J. and Hurcombe, E. (2020). Facebook, news organizations and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms. New Media and Society. 23(8). https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820926472.

    Meese, J., Jagasia, P. & Arvanitakis, J. (2019). Citizen or consumer? Contrasting Australia and Europe’s data protection policies. Internet Policy Review, 8(2).

    Meese, J. & Chan Mow, I. (2016). The regulatory jewel of the South Pacific: Samoa’s decade of telecommunications reform. Mobile Media and Communication, 4(3), 295 - 309.

  • Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism; The Changing Character Of Competition; and Conflict in the Indo-Pacific


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    Email Address james.meese@rmit.edu.au

 

James Meese

Overview

James Meese is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at RMIT University. He has received an early career research fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study the algorithmic distribution of news. His research interests include media and telecommunications policy, artificial intelligence, and the geopolitics of technology and information. He has also received research funding from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network and Facebook. James regularly publishes work in leading media and communication journals.