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Every day, citizens, publics, media and organisations co-create meaning in contexts embedded, implicated, and problematised by digital technologies, and the political, economic, and cultural forces that sustain them. The UTS Technology, Media & Strategy (TMS) Group seeks to make sense of these forces through engaged scholarship and theorising.

The Technology, Media, and Strategy Research Group at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a dedicated team of researchers who study how technology shapes cultural and creative media industries; impacts consumer and audience experiences; and influences strategic choices for businesses, governments, and community groups. 

This group engages in both theoretical and applied research, collaborating with industry partners and contributing to academic discourse through publications, conferences, community outreach and other public facing projects. Our work is informed by, and informs the future of, industry practices, policy, and public understandings of the impact of technology and media in a variety of forms. 

When conducting research, the Technology, Media, and Strategy Research Group draws on the guiding principles of interdisciplinary collaboration, impactful research, and industry engagement. Our research outputs and outcomes include traditional high-quality peer reviewed academic publications, non-traditional creative research pieces, industry reports, public facing events and expert consultancy. 

We invite collaboration with external partners and can offer expertise in research design, media analysis, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, critical and creative thinking, and public outreach. 

Research themes

Some of the research themes covered by the group includes:

  • Audience and community (including consumer insights and processes)
  • Creative and cultural industries (including media forms from across and beyond Australia)
  • Cultural histories (including historically informed analyses of contemporary issues relating to technology and media)
  • Culturally appropriate communication in community engagement 
  • Digital literacies (including problem solving with and beyond artificial intelligence (AI))
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in media, journalism and strategic communication
  • Emergency and disaster risk resilience
  • Health and wellbeing communication (including mental health and LGBTIQA support)
  • Organisational and crisis communication, public diplomacy, and strategic communication
  • Social media influence and engagement (including mis/disinformation and hate speech)

Group members

  • Evangeline Aguas
  • Saba Bebawi 
  • Paul Byron
  • Tisha Dejmanee
  • Kate Delmo
  • Sameera Durrani
  • Heather Ford
  • Liz Giuffre
  • Suneel Jethani
  • Amelia Johns
  • Christine Kearney
  • Susie Khamis
  • Soojin Kim 
  • Natalie Krikowa
  • Belinda Middleweek
  • Bhuva Narayan
  • Andrew Stapleton
  • Wanning Sun
  • Jonathan Marshall
  • Monica Attard

Current research projects

#MeToo; #HimToo: Popular Feminism and Hashtag Activism in the Kavanaugh Hearings, 1 Jul 2020, International Journal of CommunicationTisha Dejmanee
Alliance or/and enemy? Debunking perceptual antecedents, attitudinal changes and behavioural outcomes toward diplomatic relationships with China (ACRI fund) Soojin Kim 
ARC Discovery Project: Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected WorldAmelia Johns
Austrade in Asia – Pacific: Post COVID.Sameera Durrani
Bodies in JournalismBelinda Middleweek
Branding and Crises: Resilience and Adaptability in an Interconnected World (Forthcoming, Routledge)Susie Khamis
Climate Technologies: Mobile apps and sustainable community engagement in disaster risk communication in AustraliaKate Delmo, Natalie Krikowa
Co-designing interactive experiencesNatalie Krikowa
Community determined data: The ethical, legal and social implications of collecting and linking data for LGBTQ+ population health and wellbeing (UTS cross-faculty grant)Paul Byron
Digital/Social Chinese-language Media in Australia: the Making of a New Transnational SubjectWanning Sun
Diversity in Australia’s Advertising & PR Agencies.  cross faculty collaboration with Professor Maureen Taylor, Dr Kaye Chan, Associate Prof David Waller, and the Media Federation of Australia.  Susie Khamis
Domestic Tourism in the COVID era.Sameera Durrani
From #BlackLivesMatter to #BlackOutTuesday: Race and Mainstream Digital Engagement on Instagram, Research Cultivation Grant, National Communication AssociationTisha Dejmanee
Future of Travel.Sameera Durrani
LGBTQ+ young people, mental health and digital peer supportPaul Byron
Nostalgic nationalism and the banal Anthropocene on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, 8 Apr 2021, Screen62(1):83-91Oxford University Press (OUP)Tisha Dejmanee
Innovative approaches to journalism education: Combining constructive journalism and work-integrated learningChristine Kearney
Kidfluencers (children of social media influencers) and Strategic Communication Practice with Dr Catherine Archer, Edith Cowan UniversityKate Delmo
Nostalgic nationalism and the banal Anthropocene on Diners, Drive-Ins and DivesTisha Dejmanee
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data scienceSuneel Jethani
QMAP: Mapping journeys of digital and face-to-face mental health support in LGBTQA+ young people living in Australia (INQYR) https://www.inqyr.org/projects/qmap)Paul Byron
Queer Interruptions (2021) - An online documentary exploring queer time, melancholy and queer death onscreen.Evangeline Aguas
Queer Representation Matters (2023) – online interactive documentary exploring trauma and tropes in LGBTIQA+ screen representationBelinda Middleweek
Cultural Competency of Emergency Responders in engaging with CALD communities - a joint research project with Fire and Rescue NSW Kate Delmo, Natalie Krikowa, Melinda McDonald
Sexual harassment of LGBTQ young people in the workplace and workplace training (ANROWS) Paul Byron
Social media and crisis communication Kate Delmo
Spontaneous Volunteerism in Emergencies and Disasters in AustraliaKate Delmo
The Food Network’s Heartland Kitchens: Cooking up neoconservative comfort in the United StatesTisha Dejmanee
The Intimate Consequences of Inequality: China’s Young Rural MigrantsWanning Sun
The semiotics of analgesic interventionSameera Durrani
Vaccine Messaging in Australia  Sameera Durrani
Webcare: exploring online complaint management practices of tourism and hospitality organisations in AustraliaKate Delmo
WeChat and Chinese diasporaWanning Sun
WhatsApp: from a one-to-one messaging app to a Global Communication PlatformAmelia Johns
Climate change politics and the building of (dis)information Jonathan Marshall
Gen AI and Journalism (Monica Attard, Centre for Media Transition)
Information systems and modeling for community energy Jonathan Marshall

Funded research

ARC funding:

  • ARC Discovery Project: Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World
  • ARC Discovery Project: Media Pluralism and Online News
  • ARC Grant: Chinese-language Digital/Social Media in Australia: Rethinking Soft Power
  • ARC Grant: Inequality in Love: Romance and Intimacy among China's Young Migrant Workers

Other external funding:

  • Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
  • Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC 
  • Facebook Australia
  • International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience
  • National Communication Association (USA)
  • NSW Reconstruction Authority Disaster Risk Reduction Fund
  • Office of the eSafety Commissioner
  • Office of the Inspector-General of Emergency Management (IGEM) QLD
  • UNESCO
  • UTS ACRI - Australia-China Relations Institute

Current HDR projects

Screenwriting from a transnational positionAzade Falaki
Towards Cultural Humility in Australian Fire Services: Communication, curiosity, and collaboration as transformative tools Melinda McDonald
Co-experiencing conversational voice AI: An ethnographic exploration of affective and embodied interaction in individual and collaborative voice assistant useIndra McKie
How does China's Internet censorship challenge the LGBT+ communities' willingness to fight for their equal rights?     Xuanyu Bai
Digital Safety Influences on Chinese LGBTQ People on Social Media Platforms      Yuanzheng Zhang
Marketing the self: advertising and women 35-50 in the complex search for intimate online relationships Narelle Lancaster

Industry and government partnerships

  • CommandPost
  • Fiftyfive-5 Agency (Sydney)
  • Fire and Rescue NSW
  • Media Forum Australia
  • World Health Organisation (WHO) International
  • Resilient Lismore
  • World Health Organisation Western Pacific Region (WPRO)

Contact us

Research Group convenor: Suneel.Jethani@uts.edu.au 

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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