Emeritus Professor

Graeme Turner

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Background

Graeme Turner is one of the founding figures in media and cultural studies in Australia, and a leading figure internationally. He has published 23 books with international publishers, his work has been translated into 9 languages, and many of his books have gone into multiple editions. A former ARC Federation Fellow, a past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the founding Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (2000-2012), his most recent projects have been focused on television and new media, and the formation of national communities. His most recent publications include (with Anna Cristina Pertierra) Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (Routledge, 2013), What's Become of Cultural Studies? (Sage, 2012), Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn (S(Sage, 2010), and (with Jinna Tay) Television Studies after TV: Understanding television in the post-broadcast era (Routledge, 2009). He is an Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies..

Availability

Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Communication and media studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Sydney
  • Masters (Coursework), Queen's University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of East Anglia
  • Academy of Humanities, Academy of Humanities

Search Professor Graeme Turner’s works on UQ eSpace

137 works between 1991 and 2024
All (137) Journal Article (63) Book Chapter (46) Conference Publication (2) Book (17) Edited Outputs (9)

1 - 20 of 137 works

2024

Journal Article

One Year On … The Nation's Still Shrinking

Turner, Graeme (2024). One Year On … The Nation's Still Shrinking. Journal of Australian Studies, 48 (4), 543-546. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2024.2417487

One Year On … The Nation's Still Shrinking

2022

Journal Article

John Fiske and the building of cultural studies

Turner, Graeme (2022). John Fiske and the building of cultural studies. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (1), 3-13. doi: 10.1177/13678779211052607

John Fiske and the building of cultural studies

2021

Journal Article

Book Review: Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 Years On by Belinda Middleweek

Turner, Graeme (2021). Book Review: Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 Years On by Belinda Middleweek. Media International Australia, 191 (1) 1329878X211064279, 1329878X2110642-183. doi: 10.1177/1329878x211064279

Book Review: Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 Years On by Belinda Middleweek

2021

Journal Article

Thomas ‘Tom’ Andrew O’Regan FAHA 1956–2020

Cunningham, Stuart, Turner, Graeme and Carter, David (2021). Thomas ‘Tom’ Andrew O’Regan FAHA 1956–2020. Media International Australia, 180 (1), 7-11. doi: 10.1177/1329878x211010781

Thomas ‘Tom’ Andrew O’Regan FAHA 1956–2020

2021

Journal Article

First contact: reading Raymond Williams

Turner, Graeme (2021). First contact: reading Raymond Williams. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (4), 1030-1034. doi: 10.1177/13675494211026335

First contact: reading Raymond Williams

2020

Book

Essays in media and cultural studies: In transition

Turner, Graeme (2020). Essays in media and cultural studies: In transition. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429322716

Essays in media and cultural studies: In transition

2019

Journal Article

The Humanities as Heuristic: Coordinating the Sector

Turner, Graeme (2019). The Humanities as Heuristic: Coordinating the Sector. Cultural Studies Review, 25 (2), 61-65. doi: 10.5130/csr.v25i2.6876

The Humanities as Heuristic: Coordinating the Sector

2019

Journal Article

Persistence

Turner, Graeme (2019). Persistence. Cultural Studies Review, 25 (2), 286-287. doi: 10.5130/csr.v25i2.6926

Persistence

2019

Journal Article

Television studies, we need to talk about “binge-viewing”

Turner, Graeme (2019). Television studies, we need to talk about “binge-viewing”. Television and New Media, 22 (3), 152747641987704-240. doi: 10.1177/1527476419877041

Television studies, we need to talk about “binge-viewing”

2019

Journal Article

Dealing with diversity: Australian television, homogeneity and indigeneity

Turner, Graeme (2019). Dealing with diversity: Australian television, homogeneity and indigeneity. Media International Australia, 174 (1), 1329878X1986948-28. doi: 10.1177/1329878x19869481

Dealing with diversity: Australian television, homogeneity and indigeneity

2019

Journal Article

Approaching the cultures of use: Netflix, disruption and the audience

Turner, Graeme (2019). Approaching the cultures of use: Netflix, disruption and the audience. Critical Studies in Television, 14 (2), 222-232. doi: 10.1177/1749602019834554

Approaching the cultures of use: Netflix, disruption and the audience

2018

Journal Article

Netflix and the reconfiguration of the Australian television market

Turner, Graeme (2018). Netflix and the reconfiguration of the Australian television market. Media Industries, 5 (2). doi: 10.3998/mij.15031809.0005.208

Netflix and the reconfiguration of the Australian television market

2018

Journal Article

The media and democracy in the digital era: is this what we had in mind?

Turner, Graeme (2018). The media and democracy in the digital era: is this what we had in mind?. Media International Australia, 168 (1), 3-14. doi: 10.1177/1329878X18782987

The media and democracy in the digital era: is this what we had in mind?

2018

Journal Article

We don't need another hero: a personal celebration of Meaghan Morris

Turner, Graeme (2018). We don't need another hero: a personal celebration of Meaghan Morris. Cultural Studies Review, 24 (1), 9-14. doi: 10.5130/csr.v24i1.5967

We don't need another hero: a personal celebration of Meaghan Morris

2018

Book

Making Culture: commercialisation, transnationalism and the state of 'nationing' in contemporary Australia

David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton eds. (2018). Making Culture: commercialisation, transnationalism and the state of 'nationing' in contemporary Australia. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315106205

Making Culture: commercialisation, transnationalism and the state of 'nationing' in contemporary Australia

2018

Book Chapter

Indigeneity, cosmopolitanism and the nation: the project of NITV

Dibley, Ben and Turner, Graeme (2018). Indigeneity, cosmopolitanism and the nation: the project of NITV. Making culture: commercialisation, transnationalism and the state of 'nationing' in contemporary Australia. (pp. 129-139) edited by David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315106205-11

Indigeneity, cosmopolitanism and the nation: the project of NITV

2018

Book Chapter

Television: commercialization, the decline of 'nationing' and the status of the media field

Turner, Graeme (2018). Television: commercialization, the decline of 'nationing' and the status of the media field. Making culture: commercialisation, transnationalism and the state of 'nationing' in contemporary Australia. (pp. 64-74) edited by David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315106205-6

Television: commercialization, the decline of 'nationing' and the status of the media field

2018

Book Chapter

Introduction: making culture

Rowe, David, Turner, Graeme and Waterton, Emma (2018). Introduction: making culture. Making culture: commercialisation, transnationalism, and the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary Australia. (pp. 1-12) edited by David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingodm: Routledge.

Introduction: making culture

2018

Book Chapter

Introduction: Making Culture

Rowe, David , Turner, Graeme and Waterton, Emma (2018). Introduction: Making Culture. Making Culture: Commercialisation, transnationalism, and the state of 'nationing' in contemporary Australia. (pp. 1-12) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge.

Introduction: Making Culture

2017

Journal Article

Review of Why cultural studies?, by Gilbert B. Rodman, Malden, MA, Wiley Blackwell, 2015, vii–xxii + 232 pp., $44.95 (paperback), iSBn 978-1-4051-2797-4

Turner, Graeme (2017). Review of Why cultural studies?, by Gilbert B. Rodman, Malden, MA, Wiley Blackwell, 2015, vii–xxii + 232 pp., $44.95 (paperback), iSBn 978-1-4051-2797-4. Continuum, 31 (5), 729-731. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2016.1186608

Review of Why cultural studies?, by Gilbert B. Rodman, Malden, MA, Wiley Blackwell, 2015, vii–xxii + 232 pp., $44.95 (paperback), iSBn 978-1-4051-2797-4

Past funding

  • 2014 - 2016
    Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics (ARC Discovery Project led by the University of Western Sydney)
    University of Western Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Locating television: an international study of the changing socio-cultural functions of television
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2012
    Australian Television and Popular Memory: New Approaches to the Cultural History of the Media in the Project of Nation-building (administered by QUT)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2011
    Television in the post-broadcast era: the role of old and new media in the formation of national communities
    ARC Federation Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2009
    The Cultural Research Network
    ARC Research Networks
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2005
    Talkback radio in Australia: Content, audience and influence
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 1999 - 2001
    A Cultural History of Current Affairs Programming on Australian Television
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant
  • 1997 - 1998
    The production of celebrity in the Australian media
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant

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  • Talkback radio
  • Television
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