Robert Hassan

Professor Robert Hassan is Professor of Media and Communication in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He earned a BA in Politics and a PhD in Cultural Studies from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. He has been affiliated with the University of Melbourne since 2011, where he served as Head of Media and Communications from 2014 to 2018. Currently, he directs the media and communications MA program and teaches courses at undergraduate, master's, and PhD levels. Hassan has held visiting fellowships at Cardiff University and delivered guest lectures at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Baroda in India. He has also conducted workshops on the politics of time and memory in Srebrenica, Bosnia, and served as an IAS Fellow at Durham University in 2023, collaborating on projects examining risks to youth and studenthood amid commodification, transitions, and digital identities.

Robert Hassan has taught, researched, and published extensively at the intersection of politics, media, technology, time, and philosophy of science for over two decades, with a primary interest in media theory. His work centers on the intersections of politics, media, political economy, technology, and temporality. He is the author of twelve books on these subjects, several translated into Chinese, Arabic, and Korean. Notable publications include Analog (MIT Press, 2022), which investigates human connection to analog technology in a digital era; The Condition of Digitality (University of Westminster Press, 2020), offering a neo-Marxist analysis of platform capitalism and political action; and Uncontained (Grattan Street Press, 2020), an autoethnographic exploration of digital disconnection during a sea voyage from Melbourne to Singapore. Other significant contributions encompass The Age of Distraction, Philosophy of Media, and numerous journal articles such as 'Network Time and the New Knowledge Epoch' and 'The Space Economy of Convergence.' From 2010 to 2022, he was Editor-in-Chief of Time and Society, influencing scholarship on temporality and society. His ongoing projects include Philosophy of Analog and Digital Journalism.

Professional Email: hassanr@unimelb.edu.au