John Hartley (academic)

Hartley was born in London. He attended Sir Roger Manwood's School, and completed a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) in English Language and Literature at the University of Wales in 1975.{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/hartley-john/biography.html|title=Professor John Hartley: Biography| publisher=Cardiff University | accessdate=21 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://au.linkedin.com/pub/john-hartley/b/7b5/82b|title=John Hartley|publisher=LinkedIn|accessdate=25 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141225191158/https://au.linkedin.com/pub/john-hartley/b/7b5/82b|archivedate=25 December 2014|df=dmy-all}} He moved to Australia in 1985.

Hartley has worked in Wales and Australia (Western Australia and Queensland). He was at the Polytechnic of Wales from 1975 to 1984, initially as a research assistant and tutor, and then as a lecturer in communication and cultural studies. From 1985 to 1995 he held a number of positions at Murdoch University, ranging from lecturer to Director of the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication. In 1990 he received a PhD in communications from Murdoch University. He was a professor at Edith Cowan University from 1995 to 1998.

From 1996 to 2000 Hartley was the head of the newly created Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, and Director of its{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/mediacentre/mediareleases/y2008/2966.html|title=Media conference attracts international speakers|at=Notes to Editors: 1. Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies|publisher=Cardiff University|date=8 January 2008|accessdate=25 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225154233/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/mediacentre/mediareleases/y2008/2966.html|archivedate=25 December 2014|df=dmy-all}} Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research. In 2000 he received a Doctor of Letters from the University of Wales. In 1998 Hartley founded{{cite journal|url=http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/162|title=Lament for a Lost Running Order? Obsolescence and Academic Journals|journal=M/C Journal|year=2006|author=John Hartley|volume=12 |issue=3 |doi=10.5204/mcj.162 |accessdate=30 December 2014|doi-access=free}}{{Better source needed|reason=The MC/Journal article used as a reference is written by Hartley|date=December 2014}} the International Journal of Cultural Studies, published by Sage Publications Ltd in London.{{cite web|url=http://ics.sagepub.com/|title=International Journal of Cultural Studies|publisher=Sage Journals|accessdate=26 December 2014}} He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001.{{cite web | url=http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1347/Hartley-John.aspx | title=Hartley, John, AM FAHA | publisher=Australian Academy of the Humanities | accessdate=13 December 2014 | archive-date=16 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216074032/http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1347/Hartley-John.aspx | url-status=dead }}

Hartley was Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology from 2000 to 2005.{{cite web|url=http://digitalstorytelling.ci.qut.edu.au/index.php/events/ajax_bio/john_hartley|title=John Hartley|publisher=Queensland University of Technology|work=Digital Storytelling|accessdate=12 December 2014}} He was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellow and Research Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology from 2005 to 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/participants/hartley.html|title=Distinguished Professor John Hartley|publisher=ARC Cultural Research Network|date=17 August 2006|accessdate=12 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/search/authors/view?firstName=John&middleName=&lastName=Hartley&affiliation=QUT|title=John Hartley (QUT, Australia)|publisher=M/C Journal|accessdate=12 December 2014|archive-date=11 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411134135/http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/search/authors/view?firstName=John&middleName=&lastName=Hartley&affiliation=QUT|url-status=dead}} In 2006 he was made a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, having been a member since 1996.

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the International Communication Association.{{cite web | url=http://www.icahdq.org/about_ica/fellows.asp | title=ICA Fellows | publisher=International Communication Association | accessdate=26 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213163338/http://www.icahdq.org/about_ica/fellows.asp | archivedate=13 December 2014 | df=dmy-all }} Between 2012 and 2019 Hartley was Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University,{{cite web | url=http://oasisapps.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/John.A.Hartley | title=Staff Profile | publisher=Curtin University | accessdate=12 December 2014}} and Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.{{cite web | url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/hartley-john.html | title=Professor John Hartley | publisher=Cardiff University | accessdate=14 December 2014}}

In December 2012 he was recognised for his academic contributions by being awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.{{cite web| url=http://ccat-lab.org/distinguished-professor-appointment-for-john-hartley/ | title=Distinguished Professor appointment for John Hartley | publisher=Curtin University | work=Centre for Culture and Technology | accessdate=12 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://secretariat.curtin.edu.au/awards/award-recipients-distinguished-visiting-prof.cfm|title=Honorary Award Recipients: List of John Curtin Distinguished Professors|date=12 May 2014 |publisher=Curtin University|accessdate=26 December 2014}} In 2014 the Queensland University of Technology announced the John Hartley Oxford Institute Summer Doctoral Programme Scholarship, to allow two students per year for the next five to six years to attend the Oxford Internet Institute's summer doctoral programme. The scholarship is funded in part by "a generous personal gift" from Hartley, matched by funds from the university.{{cite web | url=https://www.qut.edu.au/creative-industries/about/news/news?news-id=79735 | title=Scholarship support for digital media and communication research | publisher=Queensland University of Technology | date=3 October 2014 | access-date=13 December 2014}}

In 2017, Hartley was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=John Hartley |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/john-hartley/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}} He led the Digital Culture & New Media research program at Curtin University's CCAT. He is also a member of CCAT's Indigenous Culture and Digital Technologies; New Models of Publishing; and Digital China Lab research programs. He continues, {{as of|lc=y|2021}}, as an adjunct professor with the centre.{{Cite web |url=http://ccat-lab.org/management/distinguished-professor-john-hartley/ |title=Distinguished Professor John Hartley | Curtin University |access-date=5 September 2015 |archive-date=20 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220031633/http://ccat-lab.org/management/distinguished-professor-john-hartley/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://ccat-lab.org/programs/ |title=Programs | Curtin University |access-date=5 September 2015 |archive-date=13 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813073742/http://ccat-lab.org/programs/ |url-status=dead }}

Hartley has published over twenty books about communication, journalism, media and cultural studies,{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/john-hartley/|title=John Hartley|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|accessdate=29 December 2014}} and over 200 papers. His works have been translated into over a dozen languages.{{cite web | url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/hartley-john/index.html | title=Professor John Hartley, Publications | publisher=Cardiff University | access-date=13 December 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Jauk |first1=Daniel |last2=Centre For Culture And Technology |title=Ground-breaking TV studies book turns 40 |url=https://news.curtin.edu.au/stories/ground-breaking-tv-studies-book-turns-40/ |access-date=3 June 2021 |work=News and Events |publisher=Curtin University |date=2018-07-18 |location=Perth, Western Australia |language=en}}

He published his first book, Reading Television, in 1978. The 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fiskematters.com/|title=Fiske Matters|year=2010|access-date=20 December 2014}}{{cite journal|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cj/summary/v050/50.4.havens.html|title=Teaching the Lone Television Studies Graduate Seminar|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|journal= Cinema Journal|author=Timothy Havens|year=2011 |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=172–177 |doi=10.1353/cj.2011.0063 |s2cid=144852703 |access-date=20 December 2014}} It sold over 100,000 copies, in seven languages.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pt9nb10p6oIC&pg=PA10|title=Television Studies: The Basics|author=Toby Miller|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|page=10|access-date=29 December 2014|isbn=978-1136988868}}

• {{cite book|title=Reading Television|url=https://archive.org/details/readingtelevisio00fisk|url-access=registration|publisher=Methuen|year=1978}} (with John Fiske)
• {{cite book|title=Understanding News|publisher=Methuen|year=1982}}
• {{cite book|title=Making Sense of the Media|publisher=Comedia|year=1985}} (with others)
• {{cite book|title=Tele-ology: Studies in Television|publisher=Routledge|year=1992}}{{cite web|url=http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415068185/|title=Tele-ology: Studies in Television|publisher=Routledge|accessdate=26 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9870415015422|url-access=registration|publisher=Routledge|year=1993}}{{cite web|url=http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415015424/|title=The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media|publisher=Routledge|accessdate=26 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Telling Both Stories: Aboriginal Australia and the Media |publisher=Arts Enterprise, Edith Cowan University|year=1996}} (with Alan McKee){{cite web|url = http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/archive/participants/hartley.html|title = Professor John Hartley|publisher = ARC Cultural Research Network|accessdate = 12 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture|publisher=Arnold|year=1996}}
• {{cite book|title=Uses of Television|publisher=Routledge|year=1999}}
• {{cite book|title=American Cultural Studies: A Reader|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000}} (with others)
• {{cite book|title=The Indigenous Public Sphere: The Reporting and Reception of Aboriginal Issues in the Australian Media|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000}} (with Alan McKee)
• {{cite book|title=Reading Television: 25th Anniversary Edition |publisher=Routledge|year=2003}} (with John Fiske)
• {{cite book|title=A Short History of Cultural Studies|publisher=Sage Publications|year=2003}}
• {{cite book|title=Creative Industries|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2005}}{{cite web|url=http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405101482.html|title=Creative Industries|publisher=John Wiley & Son|accessdate=30 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=TV50|publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image|year=2006}}{{cite book|url=http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18904/|title=TV50|year=2006 |publisher=Queensland University of Technology|isbn=9781920805142 |accessdate=30 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2007}}{{cite web|url=http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140516980X.html|title=Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture|publisher=John Wiley & Son|accessdate=30 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=The Uses of Digital Literacy|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1059/The%20Uses%20Of%20Digital%20Literacy|title=The Uses of Digital Literacy|publisher=The University of Queensland Press|accessdate=21 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2009}} (with Kelly McWilliam){{cite web|url=http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405180595.html|title=Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World|publisher=John Wiley & Son|accessdate=30 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts|publisher=Routledge|edition=4th|year=2011|orig-date=1983}}{{cite web|url=http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415563239/|title=Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts, 4th Edition|publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group|accessdate=20 December 2014|archive-date=21 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221082334/http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415563239/|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book|title=Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies|url=https://archive.org/details/digitalfuturesfo0000hart|url-access=registration|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2012}}{{cite web|url=http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470671017.html|title=Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies|publisher=John Riley & Sons|accessdate=20 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Orality and Literacy|edition=30th Anniversary|publisher=Routledge|author=Walter J Ong|year=2012}} (Foreword, afterword){{cite web|url=http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415538381/|title=Orality and Literacy, 30th Anniversary edition|publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group|accessdate=30 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Key Concepts in Creative Industries|publisher=Sage Publication|year=2013}} (with others){{cite web|url=http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book236863|title=Key Concepts in Creative Industries|publisher=Sage Publications|accessdate=20 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=A Companion to New Media Dynamics|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2013}} (with others){{cite web|url=http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444332244.html|title=A Companion to New Media Dynamics|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|accessdate=20 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2014}} (with Jason Potts){{cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-science-9781849666022/|title=Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|accessdate=20 December 2014}}
• {{cite book|title=How We Use Stories and Why That Matters|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-we-use-stories-and-why-that-matters-9781501351631/|title=How We Use Stories and Why That Matters|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|accessdate=23 January 2020}}

In 2001 Hartley received the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and the humanities in cultural and communication studies".{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1126768|title= HARTLEY, John: Centenary Medal|publisher=Australian Government|work=It's an Honour website|access-date=26 December 2014}}

Hartley was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2009, for "service to education as an academic and commentator in the areas of journalism, culture and media studies".{{citation|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2009/Media%20Notes%20AM%20%28A-L%29%20%28final%29.pdf|title=Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia|page=55|publisher=Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General, Commonwealth of Australia|accessdate=13 December 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://icabrisbane2014.com/program/keynote-speakers/professor-john-hartley/ | title=Professor John Hartley | publisher=ICA Brisbane | accessdate=13 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213133012/http://icabrisbane2014.com/program/keynote-speakers/professor-john-hartley/ | archivedate=13 February 2015 | df=dmy-all }}{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1140842|title= HARTLEY, John: Member of the Order of Australia|publisher=Australian Government|work=It's an Honour website|accessdate=26 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cci.edu.au/post/john-hartley-awarded-member-order-australia|title=John Hartley awarded Member of the Order of Australia|publisher=ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation|accessdate=21 December 2014|archive-date=21 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221144923/http://www.cci.edu.au/post/john-hartley-awarded-member-order-australia|url-status=dead}}

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