Assoc Prof Mark Gibson - Researcher Profile

Mark Gibson

Address

Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton

Biography

Mark joined the National Centre for Australian Studies in 2007 as coordinator of the Graduate Program in Communications and Media Studies. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney and Edith Cowan University. He has wide experience in research and teaching in communications, media  and cultural studies in Australia, having worked previously at Murdoch University, Curtin University, Central Queensland University, the University of Canberra and the University of Technology, Sydney.

Mark is General Editor of the international refereed journal Continuum – Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Continuum, has a long Australian history, having begun in Perth in 1987, but now receives submissions from Australasia, Asia, Europe and North America. A number of recent special issues have featured leading international scholars and been converted to book publications by Routledge. Mark has also been an officeholder in various roles with the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and has organised national conferences of the CSAA and the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association.

Mark believes that coursework postgraduate work should combine strong scholarship and vocational relevance, while also having an element of fun. Since taking on coordination of the Communications and Media Studies program, he has taken a number of initiatives to improve this mix. For example, he has initiated an International Field Trip subject within the Masters, drawing on experience developed in this area in the undergraduate journalism program by Andrea Baker. In 2008, students on the field trip visited leading media organizations in London and New York, including the BBC, The Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, the United Nations media unit, Time Out and Rolling Stone.

Qualifications

PHD
Institution: Edith Cowan University
Year awarded: 2002
ARTS (COMMUNICATIONS)
Institution: University of Technology, Sydney
Year awarded: 1992
ARTS (HONOURS
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 1987

Publications

Books

Gibson, M.N., 2007, Culture and Power - A History of Cultural Studies, Berg Publishers, Oxford UK.

Book Chapters

Flew, T., Gibson, M.N., 2012, Melbourne and Brisbane: The claims of suburbs, in Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance, eds Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Sage, Los Angeles USA, pp. 235-242.

Gibson, M., 2008, The Antipodean uses of literacy, in Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies, eds Sue Owen, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire UK, pp. 187-197.

Berry, M., Gibson, M.N., Nelson, A., Richardson, I., 2007, How smart is 'smart'? - smart homes and sustainability, in Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World, eds Anitra Nelson, Ashgate, Aldershot Hampshire UK, pp. 239-252.

Newman, F., Gibson, M.N., 2005, Monoculture versus Multiculinarism: trouble in the Aussie kitchen, in Ordinary Lifestyles: Popular Media, Consumption and Taste, eds David Bell and Joanne Hollows, Open University Press, Berkshire UK, pp. 82-98.

Broderick, M., Gibson, M.N., 2005, Mourning, monomyth and memorabilia: consumer logics of collecting 9/11, in The selling of 9/11 : how a national tragedy became a commodity, eds Dana Heller, Palgrave Macmillan, New York USA, pp. 200-220.

Gibson, M.N., 2002, 'Monday morning and the millennium': transmodern politics at the end of the twentieth century, in Start Trek and End Game: Millennial Politics Narratives Images, eds David Buchbinder, Black Swan Press, Perth WA Australia, pp. 59-68.

Gibson, M.N., McHoul, A.W., 2001, Interdisciplinarity, in A Companion to Cultural Studies, eds Toby Miller, Blackwell Publishing, New York USA, pp. 23-35.

Journal Articles

Gibson, M., 2012, Bildung in the 'burbs: Education for the suburban nation, International Journal of Cultural Studies [P], vol 15, issue 3, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 247-257.

Gibson, M., 2011, The Schillers of the suburbs - creativity and mediated sociality, The International Journal of Cultural Policy [P], vol 17, issue 5, Taylor & Francis, UK, pp. 523-537.

Felton, E., Gibson, M., Flew, T., Graham, P., Daniel, A., 2010, Resilient creative economies? Creative industries on the urban fringe, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies [P], vol 24, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 619-630.

Gibson, M.N., 2009, Noel Pearson and the 'cultural left': between listening and deaf opposition, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies [P], vol 23, issue 4, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, UK, pp. 465-476.

Gibson, M.N., 2008, Beyond literacy panics: digital literacy and educational optimism, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources [P], vol 1, issue 128, University of Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 73-79.

Gibson, M.N., 2007, The antipodean uses of literacy, International Journal of Cultural Studies [P], vol 10, issue 124, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, Los Angeles, New Delhi and Singapore, pp. 115-124.

Gibson, M.N., Rodan, D., 2005, Everyday transformations - the twenty-first century quotidian, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 19, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 439-444.

Gibson, M.N., 2003, Desert wanderings: the search for hope in 'post-Tampa' Australia, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 17, issue 2, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 215-222.

Gibson, M.N., 2003, The geography of theory: channel crossings, continental invasions and the Anglo-American 'natives', Symploke, vol 11, issue 1-2, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE USA, pp. 16-29.

Gibson, M.N., 2002, The powers of the Pokemon: histories of television, histories of the concept of power, Media International Australia, vol 104, issue August, University of Queensland, Media and Cultural Studies Centre, Australia, pp. 107-115.

Gibson, M.N., 2001, Myths of Oz cultural studies: the Australian beach and 'English' ordinariness, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 15, issue 3, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 275-288.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Are Vampires, Witches and Demons feeding Generation Z's Mystic Appetite?: Supernatural television an.
Supervisors:
Gibson, M (Joint), Singleton, A (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Branding Australia.
Supervisors:
Gibson, M (Main), Hutchins, B (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Ecosystems for innovation: A look into the workings of Hackerspaces..
Supervisors:
Gibson, M (Main), Moore, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Mainstream newspapers in Malaysia: impact of the online alternative media. .
Supervisors:
Gibson, M (Main), Tay, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Of trolls and protestors; how Anonymous culture and the internet hate machine became a global force for?something .
Supervisors:
Gibson, M (Main), Moore, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The significance of politicotainment in the cultural understanding of power.
Supervisors:
Gibson, M (Main), Baker, A (Associate).