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)

121 - 136 of 136 works

2000

Book

Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia

Turner, G., Bonner, F. J. and Marshall, P. D. (2000). Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia

2000

Book Chapter

Studying television

Turner, G. (2000). Studying television. The Australian TV Book. (pp. 3-12-12) edited by Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin.

Studying television

2000

Journal Article

Media wars: Journalism, cultural and media studies in Australia

Turner, G. (2000). Media wars: Journalism, cultural and media studies in Australia. Journalism: Theory, practice and criticism, 1 (3), 353-365. doi: 10.1177/146488490000100305

Media wars: Journalism, cultural and media studies in Australia

2000

Edited Outputs

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy.

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy.. (2000). 94

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy.

2000

Edited Outputs

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy.

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy.. (2000). 95

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy.

1999

Journal Article

Tabloidization, journalism and the possibility of critique

Turner, Graeme (1999). Tabloidization, journalism and the possibility of critique. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2 (1), 59-76. doi: 10.1177/136787799900200104

Tabloidization, journalism and the possibility of critique

1999

Journal Article

Review of The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety by Peter Pierce

Turner, Graeme (1999). Review of The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety by Peter Pierce. Australian Literary Studies, 19 (2), 230-233.

Review of The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety by Peter Pierce

1999

Journal Article

(Book Review) The country of lost children: An Australian anxiety

Turner, Graeme (1999). (Book Review) The country of lost children: An Australian anxiety. Australian Literary Studies, 19 (2), 230-233.

(Book Review) The country of lost children: An Australian anxiety

1999

Book Chapter

Making it National reconsidered: The uses of nationalism in contemporary Australia

Turner, G. (1999). Making it National reconsidered: The uses of nationalism in contemporary Australia. Australian nationalism reconsidered: Maintaining a monocultural tradition in a multicultural society. (pp. 18-28) edited by Adi Wimmer. Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenberg Verlag.

Making it National reconsidered: The uses of nationalism in contemporary Australia

1999

Conference Publication

Australian literature & the public sphere

Turner, G. (1999). Australian literature & the public sphere. 21st annual Conference of ASAL, Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, 3-7 July, 1998. Toowoomba: Association for the Study of Aust. Literature.

Australian literature & the public sphere

1999

Book

Film as Social Practice

Turner, G. (1999). Film as Social Practice. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Film as Social Practice

1999

Journal Article

Celebrity and the media

Bonner, Frances, Farley, Rebecca, Marshall, David and Turner, Graeme (1999). Celebrity and the media. Australian Journal of Communication, 26 (1), 55-70.

Celebrity and the media

1999

Journal Article

Tabloidisation, journalism and the possibility of critique

Turner, G. (1999). Tabloidisation, journalism and the possibility of critique. International journal of cultural studies, 2 (1), 59-78.

Tabloidisation, journalism and the possibility of critique

1999

Conference Publication

Australian popular music & everyday life

Turner, G. (1999). Australian popular music & everyday life. 6th National Aust/NZ IASPM etc, Univ. of SA, June, 1998. Kent Town, SA: Wakefield.

Australian popular music & everyday life

1994

Journal Article

Australian Essay Reviews

Turner G. (1994). Australian Essay Reviews. Popular Music, 13 (3), 339-342. doi: 10.1017/S0261143000007248

Australian Essay Reviews

1991

Journal Article

Youth attitudes to the arts

Emmison, Mike, Frow, John and Turner, Graeme (1991). Youth attitudes to the arts. Culture & Policy, 2 (2-3), 77-110.

Youth attitudes to the arts

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
  • Celebrity, media and culture
  • Cultural studies
  • Culture - Australia
  • Media analysis
  • Media reform
  • Popular culture
  • Radio - culture analysis
  • Society and media
  • Talkback radio
  • Television
  • Television personalities

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