G Turner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 15327 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Turner |
| PRENOMES | G |
| SOBRENOME | Turner |
| ASSINATURA | TURNER G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5967-7006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 477 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
One Year On … The Nation’s Still Shrinking
Urbanization, migration, and indigenous health in Peru
INTRODUCTION: We compare demographic, socioeconomic, and anthropometric characteristics and blood pressure (BP), between rural and urban Peruvian indigenous women. These are preliminary results from a project on urbanization, migration, and health. METHODS: Data were collected cross-sectionally (2019) and compared between a rural (n = 92) and an urban (n = 93) community. RESULTS: Height: μ = 148.3 ± 5.0 cm (range = 137-162), weight: μ = 62.0 ± 11…
Barriers to initiating and maintaining participation in parkrun
Interventions that increase population physical activity are required to promote health and wellbeing. parkrun delivers community-based, 5 km events worldwide yet 43% who register never participate in a parkrun event. This research had two objectives; i) explore the demographics of people who register for parkrun in United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and don't initiate or maintain participation ii) understand the barriers to participating in par…
John Fiske and the building of cultural studies
This article reflects on the career of cultural and media studies figure, John Fiske, from both a personal and a scholarly perspective. Fiske was an influential force within the development of cultural studies and television studies over the 1980s and 1990s, and a much-loved and respected teacher and mentor. He was also a controversial figure at times. Fiske was accused of cultural populism, of revisionism, and an unwarranted optimism about the p…
First contact
Cultural nationalism, Australian media studies, and Tom O’Regan
This article focuses upon the context within which much of Tom O’Regan’s early work took place, and which this work helped to frame. The importance of a particular formation of cultural nationalism to the beginnings of media and cultural studies in Australia is no longer front of mind for most of us today as we confront the challenges of a dramatically reconfigured transnational media landscape. However, it was particularly important to the devel…
Thomas 'Tom' Andrew O'Regan Faha 1956-2020
This Obituary for Tom first appeared on the website of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. With permission, it is reproduced here with minor changes. Tom was elected to the Academy in 2002 in recognition of his standing in cultural and communication studies
Dealing with diversity
This article focuses on how the Australian television industry deals with diversity: the extent to which the cultural diversity of Australian society has been reflected in the representations on our screens and in the provision of opportunity within the industry itself. While this has historically been approached by assessing the evidence of inclusiveness in the representations on screen, it is important to be reminded of the role played by the s…
Television Studies, We Need to Talk about “Binge-Viewing
This article argues that a crucial task for a renewed investment in television audience research now is to investigate the range of practices currently covered by the label of binge-viewing. Notwithstanding the widespread application of the concept of binge-viewing within both industry commentary and academic research, this article will suggest that the concept has reached the point where it has outlived its usefulness for television studies. Rat…
Approaching the cultures of use
This article draws on an empirical research project on cultural consumption in order to respond to particular concerns this project raised about our understanding of the current regimes of consumption for television, or what this article describes as the 'cultures of use'. While there are rich literatures around many aspects of television consumption, this article argues that there is a gap in our direct knowledge of how individuals and household…
Persistence
The Humanities as Heuristic
What follows are some personal reflections on what I see as the particular value which the introduction of a Cultural and Communications Studies Electoral Section into the Australian Academy of the
The media and democracy in the digital era
In the mass media era, the role of the media was universally regarded as fundamental to the proper functioning of the democratic state: the media's capacity to provide information freely to all citizens ensured they had equal access to the democratic process. There were many, though, who registered concern at the top-down, government-led and highly concentrated structures of power embedded here; it was easy to demonstrate how the flow of informat…
We Don't Need Another Hero
It was a great pleasure and an honour to be asked to contribute to the Meaghan Morris Festival at the University of Sydney in 2016, to acknowledge and celebrate Meaghan Morris's foundational contribution to cultural studies in Australia, and internationally. What follows is, more or less, what I said at the time.For many years now, Meaghan has been my most valued colleague in cultural studies; she has been the firmest of friends, and a doughty co…
Why cultural studies
Celebrities and the environment
I cannot claim to approach this special issue with expertise in the examination of environmentalisms, or indeed much in the way of experience in closely investigating particular environmental campa
Surviving the post-broadcast era
While much of the discussion of the current condition of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has been very much located within the Australian context, there is some point to widening the frame and considering the situation of the ABC within a more international context. In many locations, the rationale for the public broadcaster - the provision of information, education and entertainment for the public good - has not easily survived wha…
Henry Mayer Lecture
This is the expanded text of the Henry Mayer Memorial Lecture presented by Graeme Turner at the University of Queensland in November 2015. In it, he outlines his argument from his book, Re-inventing the Media, before going on to draw upon that argument to present a series of issues that need to be addressed by critical media studies in the future: the challenge of a bifurcating field, the thoroughgoing commercialisation of the media, and media st…
British Cultural Studies
Afterword
The Mark of Cultural Studies on Communication Research
This short afterword takes on the task of recording, from the perspective of a cultural studies person in the audience, an account of what was a disappointing experience for the cultural studies audience member, the plenary session to which the papers in this special section were delivered as part of the London 2013 conference of the International Communications Association
Understanding Celebrity
Reflections on MIA on the Occasion of its 150th Issue
Graeme Turner was MIA's editor from 1998 until 2002, establishing the newly merged Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy in its new home at the Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University in Brisbane
Interview with Graeme Turner
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGraeme TurnerGraeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, the founding director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies there, and one of the leading international figures in cultural and media studies. He has published 23 books and his work has been translated into nine languages. His most recent books include (with Anna Cristina Pertierra) Locating Television:…
Practising cultural studies today
British Cultural Studies
One of the markers of contemporary studies in the humanities and social sciences is the close, critical attention directed onto the mass media and popular culture. British cultural studies, emerging out of the expanded English university system in the 1970s, were among the first to develop and broadly disseminate the methodologies and approaches which made such attention possible. Focusing initially on the relations between language and ideology …
Approaching celebrity studies
The analysis of celebrity, celebrities and celebrity culture is one of the growth industries for the humanities and social sciences over the last decade.Psychologists warn us of the dangers of 'celebrity worship', sociologists interrogate young people about their personal expectations of fame, and even a discipline with as attenuated a relation to popular culture as literary studies now studies such things as 'post-colonial celebrity'.The textual…
The mass production of celebrity
In Understanding Celebrity, I coined the term ‘the demotic turn’ as a means of characterizing the increasing production of ‘ordinary’ celebrities through reality TV and DIY celebrity websites. Refusing the idea that this necessarily constituted a democratizing process - hence the term ‘demotic’ - I wanted to examine the role that the access to mass-mediated fame plays within the construction of cultural identities. In this article, I develop this…
A comparison of The Limits to Growth with 30 years of reality
Tabloidization, journalism and the possibility of critique
This article responds to what is regarded as a widespread critique of the phenomenon of tabloidization in television news and current affairs. Arguing that this is a phenomenon which cultural studies has found difficulty in critiquing - at least partly due to cultural studies’ populist heritage - this article sets out to suggest what kind of role cultural criticism should play in the analysis of contemporary television news and current affairs pr…
Media Wars
The relationship between journalism and cultural studies in the tertiary education system in Australia has never been a comfortable one. Communications studies, journalism studies, media studies and cultural studies programmes have all developed over the last two decades, but in an institution-specific manner. The tensions embedded in some of these ad hoc arrangements – tensions not necessarily confined to these disciplines but often implicit in …
Approaching the cultures of use
This article draws on an empirical research project on cultural consumption in order to respond to particular concerns this project raised about our understanding of the current regimes of consumption for television, or what this article describes as the 'cultures of use'. While there are rich literatures around many aspects of television consumption, this article argues that there is a gap in our direct knowledge of how individuals and household…
What is Television? Comparing Media Systems in the Post-Broadcast Era
This article emerges from the early stages of a large international study of the social, cultural and political role of television in the post-broadcast era where the convergence of media platforms has challenged conventional understandings of how the mass media work. Even though it might be premature to jump on the bandwagon which claims that national media systems are now irrelevant and that television, as the leading 'old media' format, is his…
Cultural Identity, Soap Narrative, and Reality TV
This article works from the established assumption that narratives produced for local audiences are always going to operate in some relation to established discourses of local or national cultural identities. In the case of Australian television soap opera, this is not in any way a radical assumption, given the format’s routine construction of a recognizable version of the local-everyday as the ground on which its narratives are staged. In this a…
After hybridity
What would I know about Muslim-Australians? Not very much, as it happens. This is something I have in common with many other members of the Anglo-Australian community. In what follows, I want to acknowledge at the outset, I am not drawing upon primary research into this sector of the Australian community in order to say something new about it. Rather, my examination reads aspects of the media representation of Muslim-Australians as symptomatic of…
The cosmopolitan city and its Other
In this article I argue that there has been a significant cultural change in the meanings attached to two specific sites in the Australian cultural imaginary—the city and the suburb. I see this change as the product of opposing versions of multicultural Australia. In several Australian cities, particularly Sydney, although the combination of multiculturalism and economic globalization has helped to create increasingly cosmopolitan inner city subu…
Television Studies, We Need to Talk about “Binge-Viewing
This article argues that a crucial task for a renewed investment in television audience research now is to investigate the range of practices currently covered by the label of binge-viewing. Notwithstanding the widespread application of the concept of binge-viewing within both industry commentary and academic research, this article will suggest that the concept has reached the point where it has outlived its usefulness for television studies. Rat…
Is celebrity news, news
In asking if celebrity news really is news as we know it, this article turns to an examination of the modes of production characteristic of celebrity news. Celebrity news is highly dependent upon the services of the publicity and promotions industries, and upon the provision of visual material from an increasingly well-organized set of paparazzi agencies. With the importance of the visual in today’s competitive media market, and the fact that mos…
Ethics, Entertainment, and the Tabloid
Talkback Radio
This paper presents early results from an ARC-funded research project on the content, audience and influence of Australian talkback radio. Drawing upon the analysis of data from a survey of three talkback programs — John Laws and Neil Mitchell from the commercial sector and Australia Talks Back from the ABC — the paper focuses upon two aspects: the topics canvassed and the participation of the callers. Although very preliminary, the results of th…
Of rocks and hard places
Celebrities and the environment
I cannot claim to approach this special issue with expertise in the examination of environmentalisms, or indeed much in the way of experience in closely investigating particular environmental campa
Politics, radio and journalism in Australia
This article draws on a research project examining the influence of talkback radio on politics in Australia, which focuses on the manner in which talkback formats have displaced the more conventional news and current affairs formats once prominent on the AM band in order to discuss the consequences of this change. An important consideration here is the fact that radio journalism has given way to the talkback host or entertainer at precisely the t…
Shrinking the Borders
This article argues that the political success of the economic discourses of globalization within Australia over the last two decades has been accompanied by a compensatory and regressive revival of an exclusivist model of cultural nationalism. Within a society that once prided itself upon developing the tolerance required to manage the cultural policy of multiculturalism, the reappearance of a nostalgic, monocultural nationalism has been unexpec…
Jonestalk
Alan Jones is among the most controversial, and reputedly the most influential, of talkback hosts in Australia. Governments appear to provide privileged access, and his media campaigns appear to achieve results. However, an increasing number of commentators have argued that his so-called influence is an illusion - the product of indefatigable self-promotion and a gullible public. While debate over what the radio audience might make of Alan Jones …
Television and cultural studies
This introductory article argues that the current state of debate on television within cultural studies is marked by considerable areas of theoretical and political uncertainty. The spread of deregulatory and privatizing public policies in relation to television, and the disarticulation of television from the idea of the national community and from the role of the citizen, have posed new problems for theorizing the relation between television and…
Discipline wars
The media and democracy in the digital era
In the mass media era, the role of the media was universally regarded as fundamental to the proper functioning of the democratic state: the media's capacity to provide information freely to all citizens ensured they had equal access to the democratic process. There were many, though, who registered concern at the top-down, government-led and highly concentrated structures of power embedded here; it was easy to demonstrate how the flow of informat…
Surviving the post-broadcast era
While much of the discussion of the current condition of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has been very much located within the Australian context, there is some point to widening the frame and considering the situation of the ABC within a more international context. In many locations, the rationale for the public broadcaster - the provision of information, education and entertainment for the public good - has not easily survived wha…
Talkback, advertising and journalism
Commercial radio in Australia was effectively deregulated in the late 1980s, when the statutory regulatory requirements were replaced by industry self-regulation. One of the effects of this deregulation has been a narrowing of the range of programming formats across the industry which has, in turn, dramatically increased the commercial power of the successful radio talkback hosts on the AM band. The eruption of a scandal involving a number of the…
Cultural Studies 101
This article draws on the contributions and responses to a panel on teaching presented at the 2007 conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia in order to raise some questions about the current state of the teaching of cultural studies in Australia. It presents an, admittedly personal, account which suggests that cultural studies is in danger of becoming the kind of discipline it was originally developed to displace: one that re…
Vertebrate Remains from Lekkerwater
Mateship, Individualism and the Production of Character in Australian Fiction
Examines the mode of characterisation prevalent in Australian fiction, a mode which presents character as â the product of social, extrinsic determinants rather than as the expression of an individuated, intrinsic selfâ (447). Argues that the prominence of this mode of characterisation in Australian narrative tradition undermines familiar assumptions about the centrality of individualism to the the literary version of Australian national or perso…
American Dreaming
Examines the relationship between Careyâ s fiction and international forms, particularly American forms and meanings
Socialists and Israel
Martin Gouterman has taken Orwellian language to new heights—and in an "independent socialist magazine" besides (Correspondence, January 1988).This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Ripping Yarns, Ideology, and *Robbery Under Arms
Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters and presentation of action is typical of adventure stories, but Turner concludes that these conventions limit the presentation of a more complex psychological novel
‘Look mum, no hands’
(1992). ‘Look mum, no hands’: The trivial pursuit of textual analysis. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 502-505
Of rocks and hard places
Nationalising the Author
The successful writer within Australia is, at least from time to time, as much a product of the promotional world of celebrity as of the review pages or of academic journals. In April 1988, Elle magazine, for instance, gave more space to an interview with Peter Carey (promoting Oscar and Lucinda) than did the Australian Book Review; the content was similar in both publications, foregrounding personal vision--the author as national voice--over pro…
British Cultural Studies
Is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, Turner discusses the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E. P.Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre fo…
Nation, Culture, Text
Copyright, Regulation and Power in the Recorded Music Industry
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Discipline wars
The Politics of Identity in Australia
Issues of identity are central to many historical and current debates in Australia. This superb collection of essays represents a significant rethinking of received ideas on identity, and reveals how issues of identity lie at the heart of Australian political thought, and form the foundation of Australian society and culture. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the political discourse surrounding Australian identity through key themes inc…
Transitions
Looking Ahead
Tabloidization, journalism and the possibility of critique
This article responds to what is regarded as a widespread critique of the phenomenon of tabloidization in television news and current affairs. Arguing that this is a phenomenon which cultural studies has found difficulty in critiquing - at least partly due to cultural studies’ populist heritage - this article sets out to suggest what kind of role cultural criticism should play in the analysis of contemporary television news and current affairs pr…
Talkback, advertising and journalism
Commercial radio in Australia was effectively deregulated in the late 1980s, when the statutory regulatory requirements were replaced by industry self-regulation. One of the effects of this deregulation has been a narrowing of the range of programming formats across the industry which has, in turn, dramatically increased the commercial power of the successful radio talkback hosts on the AM band. The eruption of a scandal involving a number of the…
Media Wars
The relationship between journalism and cultural studies in the tertiary education system in Australia has never been a comfortable one. Communications studies, journalism studies, media studies and cultural studies programmes have all developed over the last two decades, but in an institution-specific manner. The tensions embedded in some of these ad hoc arrangements – tensions not necessarily confined to these disciplines but often implicit in …
Television and cultural studies
This introductory article argues that the current state of debate on television within cultural studies is marked by considerable areas of theoretical and political uncertainty. The spread of deregulatory and privatizing public policies in relation to television, and the disarticulation of television from the idea of the national community and from the role of the citizen, have posed new problems for theorizing the relation between television and…
Ethics, Entertainment, and the Tabloid
Why does cultural studies want history?’
Cultural studies has often been accused of maintaining too strong a focus on the contemporary and the immediate as a result of its primary interest in popular culture and the media. The role of history, such criticisms suggest, has been displaced by this contemporary emphasis. Nonetheless, much cultural studies work takes a principled stand on the necessity of historicising the products of its research. Consequently, it is worth asking, with Brit…
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
After hybridity
What would I know about Muslim-Australians? Not very much, as it happens. This is something I have in common with many other members of the Anglo-Australian community. In what follows, I want to acknowledge at the outset, I am not drawing upon primary research into this sector of the Australian community in order to say something new about it. Rather, my examination reads aspects of the media representation of Muslim-Australians as symptomatic of…
Popularising Politics
This paper presents a history of the pioneering ABC TV current affairs program, This Day Tonight (TDT). This Day Tonight has mythic status in the history of Australian television news and current affairs, and is often used as a reference point for the kind of political Journalism that is now generally held to have disappeared from Australian television. The research for this paper does endorse this myth to some extent, but it also reminds us of t…
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