AdjAssocProf Paul Jones
Adjunct Associate Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Social Sciences
Paul K. Jones has published widely on the work of Raymond Williams, public sphere theory, Australian media policy and related areas of critical theory, media sociology and cultural sociology. He has held grants for two empirically based research projects on mediated political communication and mobile phones respectively. His most recent book is Critical Theory and Demagogic Populism (Manchester UP, 2020).
He was a member of the executive board of The International Sociological Association's Sociological Theory research committee (RC16) 2006-2014. He has been a Visiting Fellow or Visiting Academic at the London School of Economics (Sociology & Media and Communications) and University of California, Berkeley (History) and Yale University's Centre for Cultural Sociology.
He was Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences 2011-2013.
He became an adjunct Associate Professor in 2016.
Research Areas
Critical theory, media sociology, cultural sociology, public spheres, populism, political communication, social theory, cultural theory.
Current Research Projects
He is currently working on a reconstruction of Theodor Adorno's neglected media analytics (physiognomics and psychotechnics) and its relevance to the digital present.
Affiliation and Memberships
- Editorial Board Kritische Theorien in der globalen Moderne book series (Wiesbaden, Springer) 2022-
- Executive Board The International Sociological Association's Sociological Theory research committee (RC16), and co-editor of its newsletter 2008-2014.
- Editorial Board (founding member) Cultural Sociology (a journal of the British Sociological Association), 2006-2024.
- Editorial Advisory Board Cultural Sociology (a journal of the British Sociological Association), 2024-
- Editorial Advisory Board, Fibreculture Journal, 2007-
- Editorial Advisory Board, Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 2006-
E-mail
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- ARC Discovery: ‘Political Communication and Media Regulation in Australia’ (DP0665146) (2006- 2010), lead CI with co-CI Professor Michael Pusey
- ARC Linkage: ‘The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life Balance’ (LP0667674) (2006-2008), co-CI with Professors Judy Wacjman (Australian National University) and Professor Michael Bittman (University of New England, NSW)
- UNSW Goldstar (2012) 'Populism & Communicative Mediation'.
My Teaching
Teaching:
Not applicable
Areas of HDR supervision:
Unavailable as new primary supervisor due to adjunct status
Current HDR supervision:
- Edwina Throsby, PhD Sociology Problematizing 'the Swinging Voter' (joint supervisor with Mark Rolfe)
- Megan Russell, PhD Sociology, Kawaii Fashion Subcultures (cosupervisor - Melanie White primary)
- Dita Svelte, PhD Sociology, Fashion, utility, futility (cosupervisor - Melanie White primary)
Recent HDR completions:
- Laura Fisher, PhD Sociology, Hope, Ethics & Disenchantment: a critical sociological inquiry into the Aboriginal art phenomenon
- Christopher Nash, PhD Sociology, Fields of Conflict: Communication in the construction of Sydney as a global city 1983-2008
- Neil Huthnance, PhD Sociology, Creativity in the bioglobal age: Sociological prospects from seriality to contingency
- Christyana Bambaccas , PhD Sociology, Wedding Culture
- Cynthia Fernandez-Roich, PhD Criminology, Argentina through the eyes of the press: Media discourse on crime during the 1990s (joint supervision with Alyce McGovern)
- Tomoki Wakatsuki, PhD Sociology, Haruki Murakami & Japanese Cosmopolitanism
- Ele Jansen Misfit Lifestyles: Institutionalizing Collaboration And Play Among Creative Storytelling Collectives.