Associate Professor
Stephen Harrington
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Stephen Harrington is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, and a Chief Investigator in the Digital Media Research Centre. His work focuses on popular media (and satire in particular) as evolving forms of journalism practice, and understanding how these contemporary innovations shape and affect the relationships between ordinary citizens and politics. He is author of Australian TV News: New Forms, Functions, and Futures (Intellect, 2013), editor of Entertainment Values: How Do We Assess Entertainment, and Why Does it Matter? (Palgrave, 2017), and co-Author of Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and Producer Perceptions of the Political Public Sphere (Routledge, 2017). He also writes regularly about the media, politics and popular culture in non-academic outlets, having done so for publications such as The Punch (News Ltd. opinion site), The Conversation, the ABC’s The Drum, Crikey, and Pedestrian. Stephen is a former Chair (2016-2018) of the International Communication Association (ICA) Popular Communication division, and is a member of the editorial board of Journalism Studies.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Research field
Communication and media studies, Creative and professional writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, CIF (Queensland University of Technology)
- B. of Creative Industries (Honours) (Queensland University of Technology)
Teaching
Stephen has taught extensively into the Journalism, Media and Communication undergraduate program for more than a decade, and has pioneered new approaches to teaching and learning in that time.
Publications
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.harrington
Selected research projects
- Title
- Understanding Twenty-First Century Media Uses and Purposes
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP250101051
- Start year
- 2025
- Keywords
- Title
- Understanding and Combatting 'Dark Political Communication'
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP240103362
- Start year
- 2024
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.