Jathan Sadowski

Jathan Sadowski is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centred Computing at Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology. He also holds an affiliation with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society. His research focuses on the political economy of information technology, exploring how digital capitalism shapes societal structures through smart technologies. Sadowski's work bridges academia and public engagement, including a weekly podcast This Machine Kills, addressing technology and political economy.

Education: PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University (2016).

Research Interests:

• Insurance technology and actuarial governance
• Surveillance capitalism and data extraction
• Smart city imaginaries and urban informatics
• Platform economy and rentier capitalism

Key Projects:

• Everyday Insurtech: Impacts of Emerging Technology for Insurance (DECRA Fellowship)
• Implications of 'data hunger' in rental housing
• City of Melbourne Visual Sensing Language project

Awards: ABC Top 5 Humanities (2021), multiple 'Most cited article' recognitions (2022).

Grants & Advising: Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2022–2024), accepting PhD students in social-political-economic studies of technology.

Labs & Teams: Emerging Technologies Research Lab (Monash University), ARC Centre of Excellence collaborations.