Tim Dwyer

Tim Dwyer is the Degree Director of the Master of Media Practice at the University of Sydney and a visiting foreign professor at the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University. His research focuses on the critcal evaluation of media and communications industries, regulation, media ethics, law and policy in an era of convergent media, algorithmic mediatization and the use of personalised data. His current Australian Research Council funded research is investigating the links between the preparedness of individuals to pay for news, the value of news brands and organizational cultures of news publishers, and the social value of news in promoting a democratic public sphere. He is the author of several books including Sharing News Online (2019) (with Fiona Martin) and Convergent Media and Privacy (2016). His new Intellect book (with Derek Wilding) is Media Pluralism and Online News: The Consequences of Automated Curation for Society.