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

136 works between 1991 and 2022
All (136) Journal Article (62) Book Chapter (46) Conference Publication (2) Book (17) Edited Outputs (9)

21 - 40 of 136 works

2016

Journal Article

Celebrities and the environment: the limits to their power

Turner, Graeme (2016). Celebrities and the environment: the limits to their power. Environmental Communication, 10 (6), 811-814. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2016.1209327

Celebrities and the environment: the limits to their power

2016

Journal Article

Surviving the post-broadcast era: the international context for Australia's ABC

Turner, Graeme (2016). Surviving the post-broadcast era: the international context for Australia's ABC. Media International Australia, 158 (1), 17-25. doi: 10.1177/1329878X15616514

Surviving the post-broadcast era: the international context for Australia's ABC

2016

Book Chapter

The nation-state and media globalisation: Has the nation-state returned -- or did it never leave?

Turner, Graeme (2016). The nation-state and media globalisation: Has the nation-state returned -- or did it never leave?. Global media and national policies: the return of the state. (pp. 92-195) edited by Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis and Jeanette Steemers. New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137493958_6

The nation-state and media globalisation: Has the nation-state returned -- or did it never leave?

2016

Book Chapter

Celebrity, participation and the public

Turner, Graeme (2016). Celebrity, participation and the public. A Companion to Celebrity. (pp. 83-97) edited by P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell.

Celebrity, participation and the public

2016

Book Chapter

Setting the scene for commercial nationalism: the nation, the market, and the media

Turner, Graeme (2016). Setting the scene for commercial nationalism: the nation, the market, and the media. Commercial nationalism: selling the nation and nationalizing the sell. (pp. 14-26) edited by Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic. New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan.

Setting the scene for commercial nationalism: the nation, the market, and the media

2016

Book

Re-inventing the media

Turner, Graeme (2016). Re-inventing the media. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315675206

Re-inventing the media

2015

Journal Article

The mark of cultural studies on communication research: a perspective from the audience

Turner, Graeme (2015). The mark of cultural studies on communication research: a perspective from the audience. Cultural Studies, 29 (1), 51-54. doi: 10.1080/09502386.2014.917233

The mark of cultural studies on communication research: a perspective from the audience

2015

Journal Article

Afterword: So … what has become of Australian cultural studies?

Turner, Graeme (2015). Afterword: So … what has become of Australian cultural studies?. Cultural Studies, 29 (4), 609-614. doi: 10.1080/09502386.2014.1000612

Afterword: So … what has become of Australian cultural studies?

2015

Book Chapter

Culture, politics and the cultural industries: reviving a critical agenda

Turner, Graeme (2015). Culture, politics and the cultural industries: reviving a critical agenda. The Routledge companion to the cultural industries. (pp. 535-544) edited by Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315725437-58

Culture, politics and the cultural industries: reviving a critical agenda

2015

Book Chapter

The Media and Democratization

Turner, Graeme (2015). The Media and Democratization. The Routledge companion to global popular culture. (pp. 56-65) edited by Toby Miller. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.

The Media and Democratization

2015

Book

Television histories in Asia: issues and contexts

Jinna Tay and Graeme Turner eds. (2015). Television histories in Asia: issues and contexts. Media, culture, and social change in Asia series, Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203736500

Television histories in Asia: issues and contexts

2015

Book Chapter

British cultural studies

Turner, Graeme (2015). British cultural studies. International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. (pp. 852-855) edited by James D. Wright. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.95049-9

British cultural studies

2015

Book Chapter

Introduction. Television histories in Asia: nation-building, modernization and marketization

Tay, Jinna and Turner, Graeme (2015). Introduction. Television histories in Asia: nation-building, modernization and marketization. Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts. (pp. 1-18) edited by Tay, Jinna and Turner, Graeme. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Introduction. Television histories in Asia: nation-building, modernization and marketization

2014

Journal Article

Is celebrity news, news?

Turner, Graeme (2014). Is celebrity news, news?. Journalism, 15 (2), 144-152. doi: 10.1177/1464884913488719

Is celebrity news, news?

2014

Journal Article

Reflections On Mia On the Occasion of its 150Th Issue

Turner, Graeme (2014). Reflections On Mia On the Occasion of its 150Th Issue. Media International Australia, 150 (150), 29-31. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1415000108

Reflections On Mia On the Occasion of its 150Th Issue

2014

Book

Mapping the humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia

Turner, Graeme and Brass, Kylie (2014). Mapping the humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia. Canberra, Australia: Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Mapping the humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia

2014

Book Chapter

Reality television and the demotic turn

Turner, Graeme (2014). Reality television and the demotic turn. A companion to reality TV. (pp. 309-323) edited by Laurie Oullette. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118599594.ch17

Reality television and the demotic turn

2014

Book Chapter

"For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies": Graeme Turner interviewed by Noel King, November 9, 2007, Brisbane

Turner, Graeme and King, Noel (2014). "For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies": Graeme Turner interviewed by Noel King, November 9, 2007, Brisbane. Interviews. (pp. 43-59) edited by Noel King and Deane Williams. Fishponds, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

"For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies": Graeme Turner interviewed by Noel King, November 9, 2007, Brisbane

2013

Journal Article

Practising cultural studies today

Turner, Graeme (2013). Practising cultural studies today. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14 (3), 463-467. doi: 10.1080/14649373.2013.801621

Practising cultural studies today

2013

Book Chapter

'It works for me': British cultural studies, Australian cultural studies, Australian film

Turner, Graeme (2013). 'It works for me': British cultural studies, Australian cultural studies, Australian film. Cultural Studies. (pp. 640-653) Boca Raton, FL United States: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203699140

'It works for me': British cultural studies, Australian cultural studies, Australian film

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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  • Australian studies
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  • Popular culture
  • Radio - culture analysis
  • Society and media
  • Talkback radio
  • Television
  • Television personalities

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