Scott McQuire

Scott McQuire is Professor of Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD in the Politics Department from the University of Melbourne in 1995. McQuire joined the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne in 2001, where he co-founded the Spatial Aesthetics research program focused on interdisciplinary studies of media, architecture, and urban space. Previously associated with the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy in the Faculty of Humanities, his career includes roles such as Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Culture and Communication. He served as Deputy Director (Research) of the Melbourne Networked Society Institute and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Unit in Public Cultures.

McQuire's research specializations encompass digital media, media architecture, urban communication, and the transformation of public space by media technologies. His primary interest is listed as digital media. Key publications include The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space (Sage, 2008), Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera (Sage, 1998), Immaterial Architectures: Urban Space After Mass Media (Space, Place and Society series, 2007), Art Seen Under Digital Light: Photography, The Image, and the Aesthetics of Data (Lyon Housemuseum, 2018), and Architecture, Media and Spaces of Urban Communication (Routledge, 2020). He has written or edited nine books. McQuire was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) in 2013. His scholarship has garnered over 3,500 citations on Google Scholar, influencing fields such as media studies, urban theory, and cultural policy. He has contributed to projects including Communicative Cities, Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere, and Digital Art as Urban Communication.

Professional Email: mcquire@unimelb.edu.au