Dr Philip Pond

Philip Pond is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and convenor of the Fighting Harmful Online Communication Hallmark Initiative. His work explores the relationship between media and antidemocratic communication, especially misinformation and extreme ideologies. He has written three books, the most recent of which, Asynchronicity (2024), develops an expansive theory of time to explore the temporal dimensions of the Information Crisis. Currently, he is chief investigator on two major projects. Extremism and the Australian Imaginary is a Special Research Initiative exploring Australian 'anti-publics' and their influence on mainstream political speech. In his DECRA fellowship, he is attempting to measure the relationship between social media speed and the type of speech that drives rumour, disinformation and irrationality in these different political spaces.