About Me

Dr Philip Pond is a DECRA Fellow and Associate Professor Digital Media Research Methods at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in the study of software systems and their influence on the production of time and meaning.

He is author of several books – the newest is called Asynchronicity and is a study of temporal disorder in the modern world. It explains what time means, how it is produced, and shows how changes in the production of time can stress (and sometimes break) important social structures.

In his research, he builds software to support the application these ideas in the study of media and politics. Currently, he is chief investigator on two major projects. Extremism and the Australian Imaginary is a Special Research Initiative exploring Australian 'anti-publics' and their influence on mainstream political speech. In his DECRA fellowship, he is attempting to measure the relationship between social media speed and the type of speech that drives rumour, disinformation and irrationality in these different political spaces.

He has published in major international journals including New Media and Society and Information, Communication and Society, on subjects including software, time theory and the temporal analysis of digital politics.