Speaker Announcement: Professor Jock Given

ATOM and ACMI are excited to announce our first slate of speakers and presenters for the July Screen Futures Summit.

Jock Given is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University’s Institute for Social Research, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Digital Television and co-author of the 2015 report TV 2025: rethinking small screen media in Australia.

His work has been published in journals including Telecommunications Policy, the Journal of Information Policy, Business History and Studies in Australasian Cinema. ABC Radio National first broadcast his radio documentaries Crawfords: Television for the People and Empire State: Ernest Fisk and the World Wide Wireless in 2014 and 2012 respectively. Jock previously worked as Director of the Communications Law Centre, Policy Advisor at the Australian Film Commission, and Director, Legislation and Industry Economics in the Federal Department of Transport and Communications.