Dr Mark Gibson
Profile
Mark joined the National Centre for Australian Studies in 2007, primarily to teach in the Master in Communications and Media Studies program. He has previously taught and researched in media, communication and cultural studies at Murdoch University, Central Queensland University, the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Canberra. He is editor of the international refereed journal Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , Vice President of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and convenor of the 'Cultural Literacies' node of the ARC Cultural Research Network.
Research interests and supervision
Mark has broad research interests in communication and media studies, particularly from a cultural perspective. His major recent publication is Culture and Power - A History of Cultural Studies (Oxford: Berg, 2007), a study of theories and histories of the concept of power. He has participated in funded projects on the everyday uptake of new technologies in master-planned suburban developments and on the development of creative industries in the suburbs. He has also published on television, everyday life, cultural literacy, corporate culture and Australian cultural history. He has supervised PhD theses in a range of areas including the mainstream 'incorporation' of hip hop and skateboarding subcultures, film sound and children's media.
Publications
Selected Publications 2000-2006
Single-authored monograph
Culture and Power - A History of Cultural Studies , Oxford: Berg, 2007
Edited collections
Everyday Transformations - the Twenty-First Century Quotidian , Special Issue of Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 19(4), December 2005 (with Debbie Rodan)
The New Humanism , Special Issue of Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 18(2), June 2004 (with Terry Flew)
Refereed journal articles and book chapters
'Monoculture versus Multiculinarism: Trouble in the Aussie Kitchen' (with Felicity Newman) in Joanne Hollows and David Bell (eds.), Ordinary Lifestyles: Popular Media, Consumption and Taste , Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 2005
'Mourning, Monomyth and Memorabilia: Consumer Logics of Collecting September 11' (with Mick Broderick) in Dana Heller (ed.) Commodity Terrorism: The Selling of 9/11 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 200-220
'Desert Wanderings: The Search for Hope in "Post-Tampa" Australia',Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 17(2), 2003, 215-222
'The Geography of Theory - Channel Crossings, Continental Invasions and the Anglo-American 'Natives'', Symploke 11(1-2), 2003, 16-29
'The Powers of the Pokémon: Histories of Television, Histories of the Concept of Power', Media International Australia 104, August 2002, 107-115
'Monday Morning and the Millennium: Transmodern Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century' in David Buchbinder (ed.) Start Trek and End Game: Millennial Politics/Narratives/Images , Perth: Black Swan Press, 2002, 59-68
'Interdisciplinarity' (with Alec McHoul) in Toby Miller (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Cultural Studies , New York: Blackwell, 2001, 23-35
'Myths of Oz Cultural Studies: The Australian Beach and 'English' Ordinariness', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 15/3, 2001, 275-288