Katarina Damjanov

BA (1st class Hons) Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts Belgrade
MA (research) University of Arts Belgrade
PhD University of Melbourne

Katarina joined UWA in mid-2013 as lecturer in digital media and communication design. She completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne where she also taught in the School of Social and Political Sciences and the School of Culture and Communication.

Katarina has an extensive professional background in media and creative industries as a producer, journalist, script/copywriter and director. She has worked on a range of successful commercial and artistic projects for film, television, radio, advertising and digital media. Katarina translates her industry experience into aspects of her teaching at UWA and her coordination of two popular media production units run in Perth, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Katarina’s research is concerned with the ways in which media technologies and practices are changing who we are. It spans inquiry into the political-economies underpinning media infrastructure and governance, social effects of the human mediatic condition and the environmental impact of technological progress.

Katarina is coordinator of the Masters in Strategic Communication program at UWA

She is available for the supervision of PhD projects engaging with areas corresponding to her research interests.

Katarina is currently coordinating:

SOCS5200 Digital Advocacy
COMM2002 Digital Media
COMM3002 Media Production Project
COMM4103 iGeneration
COMM5604 Media Governance

digital media and cultures
media innovation, governance and policy
social studies of science and technology
media production and creative industries
history and philosophy of media
environmental humanities
robotics and AI
space exploration