Robbie Fordyce, PhD.
Originally from the lands of the Ngāi Tahu people in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa New Zealand, I now live with my family on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people in Naarm/Melbourne.
The last quarter century has seen the rise of massive commercial information systems that capture so much of our private and public life. From Microsoft to Google, Netflix to Tik Tok, tech firms roll out platforms and services that have become commonplace, if not expected, parts of modern society. These systems have a big influence on how we perceive ourselves, our peers, our society, and our future. My research investigates these contexts, with a focus on the interplay between technology, politics, and social life.
Where to find me
Professionally, I’m housed in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, where I am a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies. Here I lead the Information Nations research group, and am also a co-convenor of the Digital Cultures Research Group.
I’m a DECRA fellow for the DE25 round, where my research will be focusing on the impacts of AI for creative and intellectual workers of different sorts.
I’m also an Associate Investigator at the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, and an Affiliate of the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Email me at robbie.fordyce@protonmail.com or contact me at my institutional email linked in my profile above for more reliable communications.
I periodically maintain a research blog; it mostly has recent academic materials and musings, as well as collections of professional resources that I’ve found useful over the years.
Publications at Google Scholar [↗].
Code at my GitHub [↗] account and on Zenodo [↗].
Socials on Instagram for pictures of my dog, find my effectively-dead X/Twitter account, or my much-neglected accounts on Mastodon or on Bluesky.
Find me on LinkedIn, if we must.