Paul K. Jones has published widely on the work of Raymond Williams, public sphere theory, Australian media policy and related areas of critical theory, media sociology and cultural sociology. He has held grants for two empirically based research projects on mediated political communication and mobile phones respectively. His most recent book is Critical Theory and Demagogic Populism (Manchester UP, 2020). 

He was a member of the executive board of The International Sociological Association's Sociological Theory research committee (RC16) 2006-2014. He has been a Visiting Fellow or Visiting Academic at the London School of Economics (Sociology & Media and Communications) and University of California, Berkeley (History) and Yale University's Centre for Cultural Sociology.

He was Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences 2011-2013.

He became an adjunct Associate Professor in 2016.

Research Areas

Critical theory, media sociology, cultural sociology, public spheres, populism, political communication, social theory, cultural theory.

Current Research Projects

He is currently working on a reconstruction of Theodor Adorno's neglected media analytics (physiognomics and psychotechnics) and its relevance to the digital present. 

Affiliation and Memberships

• Editorial Board Kritische Theorien in der globalen Moderne book series (Wiesbaden, Springer) 2022-
• Executive Board The International Sociological Association's Sociological Theory research committee (RC16), and co-editor of its newsletter 2008-2014.
• Editorial Board (founding member) Cultural Sociology (a journal of the British Sociological Association), 2006-2024.
• Editorial Advisory Board Cultural Sociology (a journal of the British Sociological Association), 2024-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Fibreculture Journal, 2007-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 2006-