Associate Professor Esther Milne

Biography

Associate Professor Esther Milne holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She lectures in the Social Media Major at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Esther initiated and delivered the first Honours Program in Media at Swinburne University and has extensive experience in PhD supervision and mentorship. Her research interests involve the history of analogue and digital media forms and she is the author of two monographs exploring the interrelation between new and old media (Letters Postcards Email, Routledge 2010; Email and the Everyday, MIT 2021).  Her research also examines the impact of celebrity culture and reality TV and co-authored the only scholarly book on the long running hit television program Grand Designs (Aneta Podkalicka, Esther Milne and Jenny Kennedy, Grand Designs: Consumer markets and home-making, Palgrave 2018).