Portrait of Dr. Owsley posing with a new book.

New book chapter out (Springer, 2025):
“Moving Mass Media Journalism from Wire to Wireless.”
In Raising Class Consciousness: Labor Movements and Communication Power in the Information Age. In it, I trace how technologies at the turn of the 21st century reshaped the news industry.
#thisPhDlife

Cover of Winter 2026 Midwest Quarterly

Table of contents for Midwest Quarterly

Article page in Midwest quarterly journal.

New article out in The Midwest Quarterly (Winter 2026):
“Artificial Intelligence as Agent in Journalism: A Concept Explication.”
This article introduces a three-level framework (assistant, collaborative, autonomous) to clarify how AI operates within journalistic workflows. #PorP #thisPhDlife #AI

Yesterday, I became well and truly Dr Dela Cruz at the University of Melbourne.

A most memorable ending to #ThisPhDLife