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T.J. Thomson
T. J. Thomson is an associate professor of visual communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where he co-leads the News, Technology, and Society Network. Previously, he was a lecturer and senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, from 2018-2023, and a chief investigator at its Digital Media Research Centre, where he founded and led its News, Media, and Journalism Research Group.
He teaches and researches on visual communication topics, especially media representation, the production and reception of visual journalism, and visual culture. He has been an officer in several national and international societies and served as the associate editor of Visual Communication Quarterly from 2017-2025.
Thomson has critiqued the field of visual studies as being inundated with framing approaches and has both spearheaded and led the call for additional research and approaches that examine production influences on visual content that extend beyond such considerations. His work explores the human side of media production, such as the emotional toll of documenting trauma, as well as how freelancers learn and develop with lessened or absent institutional support.
In 2019, the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia jointly announced that Thomson was the recipient of the Anne Dunn Scholar of the Year Award, an international honour that recognises excellence in the fields of journalism and communication. His 2019 book, To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images, won the National Communication Association's 2020 Diane S Hope Book of the Year award. NCA reviewers called the book 'a signature achievement in understanding the process of media production and the ethics of photojournalism'. In 2022, he won both the National Communication Association's Communication and Ageing Outstanding Journal Article Award and the James Edwards Article of the Year Award.
He has also received international recognition for his teaching, including by winning the 2021 Visual Communication Teacher of the Year Award from the US-based Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the 2022 Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2022, the Australian Research Council awarded him a three-year DECRA Fellowship to study local visual news in regional Australia.
Thomson was awarded the 2023 Max Crawford Medal for "his exemplary career in which he helps to build media literacy and addresses misinformation and disinformation".
Thomson obtained a BA in communication from Chadron State College and a graduate certificate, MA, and PhD from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In 2022, his first alma mater, Chadron State, announced Thomson was the recipient of its Distinguished Young Alumnus Award for "exemplary achievement and success in one's chosen career."
T.J. Thomson
T. J. Thomson is an associate professor of visual communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where he co-leads the News, Technology, and Society Network. Previously, he was a lecturer and senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, from 2018-2023, and a chief investigator at its Digital Media Research Centre, where he founded and led its News, Media, and Journalism Research Group.
He teaches and researches on visual communication topics, especially media representation, the production and reception of visual journalism, and visual culture. He has been an officer in several national and international societies and served as the associate editor of Visual Communication Quarterly from 2017-2025.
Thomson has critiqued the field of visual studies as being inundated with framing approaches and has both spearheaded and led the call for additional research and approaches that examine production influences on visual content that extend beyond such considerations. His work explores the human side of media production, such as the emotional toll of documenting trauma, as well as how freelancers learn and develop with lessened or absent institutional support.
In 2019, the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia jointly announced that Thomson was the recipient of the Anne Dunn Scholar of the Year Award, an international honour that recognises excellence in the fields of journalism and communication. His 2019 book, To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images, won the National Communication Association's 2020 Diane S Hope Book of the Year award. NCA reviewers called the book 'a signature achievement in understanding the process of media production and the ethics of photojournalism'. In 2022, he won both the National Communication Association's Communication and Ageing Outstanding Journal Article Award and the James Edwards Article of the Year Award.
He has also received international recognition for his teaching, including by winning the 2021 Visual Communication Teacher of the Year Award from the US-based Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the 2022 Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2022, the Australian Research Council awarded him a three-year DECRA Fellowship to study local visual news in regional Australia.
Thomson was awarded the 2023 Max Crawford Medal for "his exemplary career in which he helps to build media literacy and addresses misinformation and disinformation".
Thomson obtained a BA in communication from Chadron State College and a graduate certificate, MA, and PhD from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In 2022, his first alma mater, Chadron State, announced Thomson was the recipient of its Distinguished Young Alumnus Award for "exemplary achievement and success in one's chosen career."