Rate My Professor Robert Hassan

Robert Hassan has taught, researched, and published extensively at the intersection of politics, media, technology, time, and philosophy of science for over two decades, with a primary interest in media theory. His work centers on the intersections of politics, media, political economy, technology, and temporality. He is the author of twelve books on these subjects, several translated into Chinese, Arabic, and Korean. Notable publications include Analog (MIT Press, 2022), which investigates human connection to analog technology in a digital era; The Condition of Digitality (University of Westminster Press, 2020), offering a neo-Marxist analysis of platform capitalism and political action; and Uncontained (Grattan Street Press, 2020), an autoethnographic exploration of digital disconnection during a sea voyage from Melbourne to Singapore. Other significant contributions encompass The Age of Distraction, Philosophy of Media, and numerous journal articles such as 'Network Time and the New Knowledge Epoch' and 'The Space Economy of Convergence.' From 2010 to 2022, he was Editor-in-Chief of Time and Society, influencing scholarship on temporality and society. His ongoing projects include Philosophy of Analog and Digital Journalism.