Biography
Associate Professor James Meese studies how news institutions are being remade by digital infrastructures, with a focus on personalisation, recommendation and the public value of news. Working across media and telecommunications policy and journalism studies, he brings normative media theory together with empirical and computational research on news recommendation, platform regulation and the changing relationship between platforms and the press. He is based at RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication and holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, Aligning Personalised News Recommendations with the Public Interest (2023 – 2027), having previously held an ARC DECRA on algorithmic distribution in the Australian media industry.
He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and the author of Digital Platforms and the Press (Intellect, 2023) and Authors, Users, Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity (MIT Press, 2018). His next book, Automating Media, is forthcoming with Polity. He has published more than 45 journal articles, book chapters and reports in leading media and communication journals and has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Meta, the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.