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Professor Terence Lee is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Murdoch University, where he served for 25 years as a media and communication academic. He holds a PhD in Politics and Communication from the University of Adelaide, an MA in Cultural and Media Policy from Griffith University Queensland, and a BA with First Class Honours in Communication from Murdoch University. Prior to academia, he was a Media Policy Executive with the former Singapore Broadcasting Authority (now Info-Comm Media Development Authority) in the mid-1990s, involved in research and policy framing for transitioning national broadcasting from analogue to digital systems. He also worked briefly as a media journalist in Singapore in the 1990s. Subsequently, he was Professor of Communication and Politics and Inaugural Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Sheridan Institute in Australia from 2022 to 2024, and since 2025, Professor in New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
Terence Lee's research specializations include digital governance covering new media, global Internet and AI policy; Southeast Asian media, culture and politics with emphasis on Singapore and Malaysia; discourses on creativity and the creative industries; political communication and the politics of media systems; Michel Foucault's governmentality, pastoral power, arts and technologies of governing; cultural and media policy; and critical theory and methods. Notable publications encompass his book 'The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore' (Routledge, 2010), 'AI governance in Asia: policies, praxis and approaches' (Communication Research and Practice, 2024, co-authored), 'Artificial intelligence: governing Singapore’s smart digital journey' (Communication Research and Practice, 2024), and various editorials in Communication Research and Practice. He exerts considerable influence through professional leadership as President of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) in 2013-14, Lifetime Membership in the Asian Media and Information Centre, and editorial contributions including Editor-in-Chief of Communication Research and Practice (2022-2024, now Managing Editor), Essay Editor of Asian Journal of Communication, Media/Culture Editor of Asian Studies Review, and editorial board service for Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and Media International Australia. A seasoned supervisor, he has examined over 25 PhD and MPhil theses internationally.
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