John Hartley

John Hartley AM is an Australian academic and John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. He has also held professorships at Cardiff University and Queensland University of Technology, where he was founding dean of the Creative Industries Faculty. His research and writing span media, journalism, cultural studies, digital media, and creative industries. Hartley is a fellow of the International Communication Association, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Learned Society of Wales, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2009.

Hartley is a co-author of Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (2021), edited by Lucy Montgomery, and has written or co-written more than twenty books, including Reading Television, Popular Reality, Creative Industries, and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies.