Jonathon Hutchinson

Assoc Professor Jonathon Hutchinson is Chair of the Discipline of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. He holds a Visiting Researcher role and serves as President of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association (2023-2024) and Editor-in-Chief of the Policy & Internet Journal. His research focuses on digital policy, online safety, and cultural production through digital intermediation.

He leads the Australian Research Council LIEF project The International Digital Policy Observatory and co-leads the eSafety Commission's Emerging online safety issues project. His recent book Digital Intermediation (Routledge, 2023) examines unseen infrastructures in cultural production.

Key affiliations include the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) QUT Node and the DMRC GenAI Lab. His work bridges media studies, policy analysis, and sociotechnical systems research.