PROF TANIA LEWIS
Prof Tania Lewis is an Affiliate of the the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University.
Tania is currently a Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Formerly a Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT, she has published widely on lifestyle politics, sustainability, waste, and ethical consumption, on global media culture and on everyday digital practices.
Her sole and co-authored research monographs include:
- Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform
- Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise
- Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices
- Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
Tania’s extensive video and ethnographic research has seen her venturing onto the sets of reality TV productions in India, Singapore and Australia; videoing the cool rooms, bins and kitchens of Australian cafés; hanging out with hard rubbish collectors; and doing (literally) backbreaking field work with permaculture communities in suburban backyards.
A former medical doctor, her current research interests include
- digital food, health and automation in urban environments
- automation and lifestyle advice
- digital cooperativism and agro-ecological politics
