Rate My Professor Sam Hinton

Hinton's research specializations include virtual, mixed, and augmented reality; real-time graphics; location-based gaming; web design; creative data visualisation; and computational design. His scholarly contributions notably include co-authoring "Understanding Social Media" with Larissa Hjorth, published by SAGE in 2013 and updated in a second edition in 2019. This work provides a critical conceptual framework for social media evolution and practices. Additional key publications encompass the chapter "Playful Resistance of Data Futures" in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art (2020), editorship of Electronic Visualisation and The Arts Australasia 2016: Conference Papers (2017), and co-authorship of the Canberra Urban Activation Study: Play, Creativity and Culture (2017) for the ACT Government. Hinton has led or collaborated on several funded projects, such as the Sam Hinton ECR application (2007), Wakul and remote Indigenous media (2022), and the University of Canberra/Peet Research Hub for the Built Environment (2023-2031). He actively supervises PhD and Masters by research students in digital media-related topics and maintains an interest in the technical and social dimensions of computational technologies.