John Hartley

Who is John Hartley?

John Hartley is an ARC Federation Fellow and a Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, where he is Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation. He was Foundation Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, and before that Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK. He has been visiting professor at Peking University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. In 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Originally from London, John Hartley completed a BA at the University of Wales in 1972 and published his first book, Reading Television, in 1978. The best-selling book, co-authored with John Fiske, was the first to analyse television from a cultural perspective, and is considered a defining publication in the field. This work also established Hartley as a pioneer and international leader in contemporary television and cultural studies.

He has published twenty books in media, journalism, cultural studies and the creative industries including: The Uses of Digital Literacy, Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World, Television Truths; Creative Industries. Malden, MA and Oxford; Reading Television: 25th Anniversary Edition; A Short History of Cultural Studies; Communication, Media and Cultural Studies: The Key Concepts; The Indigenous Public Sphere: the reporting and reception of Aboriginal issues in the Australian media; American Cultural Studies: A Reader; Uses of Television; Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture; Telling Both Stories: Indigenous Australians and the Media.; The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media; Tele-ology. Studies in Television; Making Sense of the Media; Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies; Understanding News; Reading Television. Hartley's works have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Danish, Greek, Romanian, Croatian, Slovenian and Spanish, and have sold more than 100,000 copies in English.