+++++ bio

Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (my website).

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++ new Blog for discussion on new book Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004). Info and chapter also

   
  ++ Internet Class 04, CCCS, UQ, Brisbane 6-8 December 2004
   

+++++ email

g.goggin@uq.edu.au

gg@gerardgoggin.net

 

+++++ affiliations

   
  Public member, Board of Telephone Information Services Standards Council (TISSC)
  Board member, Disability Studies and Research Institute (DSaRI)
   
  Editorial Collective Member of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
   
  Editorial Board Member of Media International Australia
   
  Editorial Board member of Scan: Journal of Media Arts and Culture

 

 

++++++ books

  Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid (2005), with Christopher Newell

Virtual Nation:The Internet in Australia (2004)

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Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (2003), with Christopher Newell

 

  

 

  

 

+++++ projects    
     
'Mobile Culture', ARC-funded study of mobile phone culture, policy, and regulation   'Cultural History of Internet', study of how Internet developed in Australia
     
'Histories of Mobile Telephony', special issue of Southern Review, 2005, with Julian Thomas +++cfp  

'The Uses of the Internet', special issue of Media International Australia, 107 (May 2003) , with Elaine Lally
     

'Mobile Phone Culture', special issue of Continuum, August 2006

 

   'Disability and Diversity', special issue of Australian Journal of Communication, 30.3 (2003), with Christopher Newell
     

'Technology and Disability', special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly, 2005, with Christopher Newell +++ cfp

  List of my publications

 

++++ talks
''Mobile Phones and Cultural Theory', Seminar, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Brisbane, 10 November 2004, 1pm
 
'Mobile Phone Culture', at Cultural Studies Department, Lingnan University Hong Kong (October 2004)
 
'Communications Policy at a Premium: SMS/MMS and the Politics of Convergence', Communications Research Forum, Canberra, 29-30 September 2004; with Christina Spurgeon.
 
'The Internet and Postcolonialism: The Case of Australia', Seminar, Contemporary Studies Program, University of Queensland at Ipswich, 7 September 2004
 
No Fixed Address —What People Do With Mobiles and Wireless and Why Should We Care.’ Keynote address for TCCC Mobiles and Wireless Culture Forum, 23 July 2004, Sydney
 
‘Disability and the Politics of Creativity: New Media, Cultural Diversity, and Innovation’. Keynote address to ‘Ideas and Innovations’ High Beam Festival, 6-7 May 2004, Adelaide; with Christopher Newell