James Meese
James Meese is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University. He holds an early career research fellowship from the Australian Research Council and is currently co-editing a collection with Sara Bannerman on the algorithmic distribution of news.
James has also received research funding from the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. His two books are Authors, Users, Pirates: Subjectivity and Copyright Law (MIT Press) and Death and Digital Media (Routledge, co-authored) and he has published work in a variety of leading journals.
Themes
Automation and Social Futures
Automation and Social Futures engages with the ethical, political, social, organisational, cultural and governance implications of machine learning, algorithmic decision-making and digital infrastructures.
Projects
Understanding algorithmic distribution in the Australian media industry
This project examines how the use of algorithms to distribute content on social media platforms is affecting the Australian news media sector.
Publications
In support of tolerated use: Rethinking harms, moral rights and remedies in Australian copyright law
Death and Digital Media
Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media.
Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity
James Meese reveals the messy, complex historical and sociological realities of copyright law lying underneath the overheated rhetoric of copyright stakeholders.
News
DERC Researchers Rowan Wilken and James Meese awarded ARC Discovery Project
November 14, 2020
Rowan Wilken and James Meese have been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project for their project 5G and the Future of Public Telecommunications.
DERC’s research on COVID continues to surge ahead
July 21, 2020
We may have been in lockdown, but that didn’t stop DERC researchers from launching several projects to study the pandemic.