For more than 10 years, Greg Hearn has been a national leader in assessing the effects and outcomes of new digital technologies. His consulting and research has focused on the cultural impacts and opportunities of global communication networks for a
...MoreFor more than 10 years, Greg Hearn has been a national leader in assessing the effects and outcomes of new digital technologies. His consulting and research has focused on the cultural impacts and opportunities of global communication networks for a range of organisations and industries.
In 1994, Hearn was a consultant to the Broadband Services Expert Group, the national policy group that formulated Australia's foundation framework for the information superhighway. He was also involved in high-level consultancy and applied research with organisations including British Airways and many Australian government agencies, focusing on adaptation to new media technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 16 major industry reports.
Hearn has also worked internationally, and has been a visiting fellow at Brunel University's Centre for Research in Innovation, Culture and Technology in the UK, and Cornel University in the US.
From 1990 to 1996, Hearn was assistant director of QUT's Communication Centre, and led many research project teams and successfully negotiated and executed industry research. In 1999, he received the Henry Mayer Prize for writing the most provocative theoretical article in the Australian Journal of Communication.
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