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David SavatDavid's main background is in political theory, but his specific research interests are focused on technologies of communication, especially digital media, and some of their political, economic, and social effects. Through this work he has also developed an interest in biopolitics, surveillance technologies, and the emergence of new forms of political action, including the theorisation thereof. Some of his other research interests include game design, online gaming and related emergent media, as well as the construction of time in the context of using global digital media. With Professor Mark Poster he is co-editor of Deleuze and New Technology (2009), and he is a contributer to the International Handbook of Internet Research (2009). David is also the executive editor of the interdisciplinary journal Deleuze Studies http://www.eupjournals.com/journal/dls published by Edinburgh University Press with the support of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. He supervises a range of PhD projects on topics such as "Machines in the Museum", "Globalisation and Digital Art", "Digital Time", "The representation of climate change in the media", and "Governmentality in the digital context". David is the coordinator of Communication Studies. | |
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Ian SaundersIan has teaching and research interests in virtual cultures and hypertexts, screen studies, cultural and environment studies, and Australian literature. He has a particular interest in new media as a social and political phenomenon, and has for a number of years published an annual review of work in this area for The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press). |
Chantal BourgaultMy research background is in history, feminist theory and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on the construction of self, genre fiction, modernity, masculinity, and screen cultures. My book, The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within (IB Tauris, 2006) explores the ways in which the popular cultural figure of the werewolf illuminates these themes. I am also a film producer and screenwriter. My first feature film, The Sculptor, which I co-wrote and co-produced for Skyview Films, is currently in post-production. Current research interests include: the pedagogy of self-reflection and creativity; the theory and practice of writing story, particularly in relation to screenwriting; cultural (and especially film) policy. | |
Tauel HarperTauel’s research interests are oriented around critical theory and he believes firmly that good communication can make the world a better place. Subsequently much of his research focuses on what constitutes good communication and how good communication can be used to solve contemporary environmental, social and economic problems. His doctorate examined the effects of media upon democratic systems, focussing upon the influence of the internet upon the public sphere. Tauel’s other research interests include the relationship between technology and subjectivity, mass media and policy, and research methods and advertising. Tauel has recently returned to WA from Liverpool where, amongst other things, he taught international aid workers how to change government policy through the media. | |
Larissa Sexton-FinckI am a screenwriter and director and have recently written my first feature film, which I hope to direct in the next few years. My current research interests include autoethnography, character-centred cinema, film feminism, and French poststructuralism, with a particular focus on the representation of female subjectivity and agency in and on screen. | |
David DenemarkDavid is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and teaches courses on "American Politics", and "Elections, Voting and the Mass Media." He has published numerous articles on elections, campaigns, and media effects in Australian and New Zealand politics. His two most recent articles examine the role of TV election campaign news coverage in voter decision making. The first of these looks at TV-conveyed issues in the context of the 1996 Australian federal election; the second explores the 2001 Australian election, in which TV coverage helped to make the international issues of terrorism and asylum-seekers vitally important to the reelection of the Coalition. | |
Leitha DelvesLeitha started in the Multimedia Centre in 1998 as a Support assistant and is now the Student Projects Manager. She is responsible for coordinating the development of innovative teaching and learning projects within the Faculty as well as overseeing the day to day running of the Multimedia Centre's teaching facilities. As well as assisting other Communication Studies staff with the management of digital media projects within their units, Leitha teaches Flash to first and third year Communication Studies students. She has had many years of experience developing interactive applications in Flash and has received training at an advanced level in the use of ActionScript (Flash's own scripting language) in both Perth and Melbourne. |
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