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)

81 - 100 of 137 works

2006

Book Chapter

Celebrity, the tabloid and the democratic public sphere

Turner, G (2006). Celebrity, the tabloid and the democratic public sphere. The celebrity culture reader. (pp. 487-500) edited by P. D. Marshall. New York: Routledge.

Celebrity, the tabloid and the democratic public sphere

2006

Book Chapter

Celebrity

Turner, G (2006). Celebrity. The media and communications in Australia. (pp. 357-367) edited by S. Cunningham and G. Turner. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Celebrity

2006

Book Chapter

The media and communications today: Introduction

Turner, G and Cunningham, S. (2006). The media and communications today: Introduction. The media and communications in Australia. (pp. 1-9) edited by S. Cunningham and G. Turner. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

The media and communications today: Introduction

2006

Book Chapter

Spectacle versus narrative

Turner, G (2006). Spectacle versus narrative. Film as Social Practice. (pp. 35-39) edited by G. Turner. Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Spectacle versus narrative

2006

Book Chapter

Public relations

Turner, Graeme (2006). Public relations. The media and communications in Australia. (pp. 227-237) edited by S. Cunningham and G. Turner. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin.

Public relations

2006

Book

Film as social practice

Turner, Graeme (2006). Film as social practice. 4th ed. London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203825198

Film as social practice

2005

Journal Article

Cultural identity, soap narrative, and reality tv

Turner, G. (2005). Cultural identity, soap narrative, and reality tv. Television & New Media, 6 (4), 415-422. doi: 10.1177/1527476405279864

Cultural identity, soap narrative, and reality tv

2005

Book Chapter

Discipline wars: Australian studies, cultural studies and the analysis of national culture

Turner, G. (2005). Discipline wars: Australian studies, cultural studies and the analysis of national culture. Australian Studies Centre 25th Anniversary Collection. (pp. 5-19) edited by D. Carter and M. Crotty. St Lucia, Qld.: The Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland.

Discipline wars: Australian studies, cultural studies and the analysis of national culture

2005

Book

Ending the affair: The decline of television current affairs in Australia

Turner, Graeme (2005). Ending the affair: The decline of television current affairs in Australia. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.

Ending the affair: The decline of television current affairs in Australia

2004

Book Chapter

Television and democracy: Threats and opportunities

Turner, G. (2004). Television and democracy: Threats and opportunities. Contemporary World Television. (pp. 4-6) edited by J. Sinclair. London: British Film Institute Publishing.

Television and democracy: Threats and opportunities

2004

Journal Article

Introduction: Global Television

Turner, Graeme (2004). Introduction: Global Television. Television & New Media, 5 (1), 3-5. doi: 10.1177/1527476403259748

Introduction: Global Television

2004

Book Chapter

Audience decline

Turner, G. (2004). Audience decline. Contemporary World Television. (pp. 44-44) edited by J. Sinclair. London: British Film Institute Publishing.

Audience decline

2004

Book

Understanding celebrity

Turner, Graeme (2004). Understanding celebrity. London: Sage Publications.

Understanding celebrity

2004

Journal Article

(Review) Janet Harbord, Film Cultures

Turner, Graeme (2004). (Review) Janet Harbord, Film Cultures. Screen, 45 (3), 256-259. doi: 10.1093/screen/45.3.256

(Review) Janet Harbord, Film Cultures

2003

Journal Article

Ethics of research involving humans: Uniform processes for disparate categories?

Parker, M., Holt, J., Turner, G. and Broerse, J. (2003). Ethics of research involving humans: Uniform processes for disparate categories?. Monash Bioethics Review, 22 (3), 50-65. doi: 10.1007/bf03351397

Ethics of research involving humans: Uniform processes for disparate categories?

2003

Journal Article

After hybridity: Muslim-Australians and the imagined community

Turner, Graeme (2003). After hybridity: Muslim-Australians and the imagined community. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 17 (4), 411-418. doi: 10.1080/1030431032000151998

After hybridity: Muslim-Australians and the imagined community

2003

Book Chapter

Ethics, entertainment and the tabloid: The case of talkback radio in Australia

Turner, G. (2003). Ethics, entertainment and the tabloid: The case of talkback radio in Australia. Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics. (pp. 87-99) edited by C. Lumby and E. Probyn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511481550.007

Ethics, entertainment and the tabloid: The case of talkback radio in Australia

2003

Book

British Cultural Studies: An Introduction

Turner, Graeme (2003). British Cultural Studies: An Introduction. 3rd ed. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203994849

British Cultural Studies: An Introduction

2003

Journal Article

(Book Review) Australian beach cultures: The history of sun, sand and surf

Turner, Graeme (2003). (Book Review) Australian beach cultures: The history of sun, sand and surf. Australian Historical Studies, 34 (122), 421-422. doi: 10.1080/10314610308596265

(Book Review) Australian beach cultures: The history of sun, sand and surf

2003

Journal Article

Popularising politics: This Day Tonight and Australian television current affairs

Turner, G. (2003). Popularising politics: This Day Tonight and Australian television current affairs. Media International Australia, 1 (106), 137-150.

Popularising politics: This Day Tonight and Australian television current affairs

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
  • 1995
    Changes in Australian television news and current affairs formats from 1986 to the present, concentrating on recent trends in late night current affairs
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant

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

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