He is a well-known cultural critic who writes regularly for a range of national and international publications on issues to do with cyberculture, new media arts and critical and cultural theory.
He is Associate Editor of 21C magazine and is a member of the editorial boards of Postmodern Culture , Continuum, Scan Journal of Media Arts, Hyperrhiz, fibreculture journal , Rhizomes and RealTime , where he is a commissioning editor for new media arts.
Tofts teaches in the areas of Australian and International media arts, postmodernism and the historical avant-garde, literary history and twentieth century writing, critical and cultural theory and cyberculture.