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Tanya Notley

Professor Tanya Notley

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I am especially interested in supervising students who want to examine digital inequality, digital inclusion, media literacy, social media engagement or the use of digital technologies to support positive social change.

20042027

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Biography

Dr Tanya Notley is Professor of Digital Media in the School of Arts and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society. Her research examines media justice, media infrastructures, digital inclusion and media literacy. Tanya has 20 years of experience working with NGOs, government agencies, cultural institutions, and the United Nations on research informed media initiatives.

Tanya currently leads a national project that uses media literacy to address online misinformation through a collaboration with national public cultural institutions. She is also a Chief Investigator on two ARC projects: one supports the media literacy of families living in low income households and the other examines the relationship between young people's news and civic engagement. Tanya leads two longitudinal survey projects—the first examines adult media literacy and the second young people’s news literacy.

Tanya co-leads the Advancing Media Literacy Program at WSU and is a founding member of Australian Media Literacy Alliance (AMLA) which she co-chaired 2019-2024.

Many of her publications can be downloaded here. She is co-author of the open access book Living with Misinformation: A Media Literacy Approach (Routledge) which can be downloaded here.

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Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology

Master of Social Change and Development

Bachelor of Arts - Communication Studies

External positions

ANU Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Dec 2024 → Dec 2026

Media Literacy Program Advisor, Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia

Dec 2024 → Dec 2025

Founding Member (previously Co-Chair), Australian Media Literacy Alliance (AMLA)

Jun 2020 → …

Research keywords

  • media literacy
  • digital inclusion
  • misinformation
  • artificial intelligence
  • social justice
  • data poverty
  • social media
  • media ethnography
  • news engagement
  • young people
  • lifelong education

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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