About ANZCA

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The ANZCA Committee for 1 September 2008 - 31 August 2009 is as follows:

Executive Committee Members: Jocelyn Williams (President), Terry Flew (Vice President), Marilyn Mitchell (Secretary), Jolyon Sykes (Treasurer), John Tebbutt (Immediate Past President), Roslyn Petelin (Australian Journal of Communication Representative), Gerard Goggin (Media International Australia, incorporating Culture & Policy Representative), Kerry McCallum (Public Officer and ACT Rep), Kate Fitch (WA Rep), Chika Anyanwu (SA Rep), Kerry Green (SA Rep), Simone Murray (Vic Rep), Scott Rickard (Vic Rep), Nick Sharman (Vic Rep), Anne Dunn (NSW Rep), Christina Spurgeon (Qld Rep), Verica Rupar (Tas Rep), Alison Henderson (NZ Rep), Colleen Mills (NZ Rep), Donald Matheson (NZ Rep), Diana Bossio (Postgraduate Rep, AUST), Lucie Morieson (Postgraduate Rep, AUST), Naomi Walter (Postgraduate Rep, NZ)
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President Jocelyn Williams

Jocelyn is a senior lecturer and Head of Communication Studies at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand, where she has managed the undergraduate programme and taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in communication since the mid-1990s.  Over that period Joce has also worked closely with colleagues at Massey University’s Department of Communication and Journalism through masters and doctoral study .

Her doctoral research in the mid 2000s took a community informatics approach to Digital Divide issues and policy in New Zealand.  The project examined the outcomes of free home internet access for low income city school communities, finding evidence for potential sustainability in community internet schemes amid declining internet use overall. The route to this study began with a number of solo and collaborative Knowledge Gap studies in 1998, 1999 and 2000, together creating an interest in the relative success of technologically determinist tactics favoured in ‘outside in’ or top-down community ICT strategies. More recently Joce worked with a team from Unitec researching public service broadcasting in other OECD countries for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, and has submitted a critique of the NZ government’s upgraded Digital Strategy released for consultation in 2008.   The first ANZCA conference Joce attended was held at the University of Waikato Management School in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1998. She has attended all but one of the annual gatherings since, finding a spirit of collegiality, challenge and encouragement through the association’s networks and activities.  ANZCA provides a rewarding pathway to scholarly achievement for academics at every stage of their career.

Vice President Terry Flew

Terry is Professor of Media and Communications in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Australia’s leading new media textbook, New Media: An Introduction. New Media (Oxford University Press), and Understanding Global Media (Palgrave Macmillan). He is leading an ARC Linkage grant on Citizen Journalism on Australia, an ARC Discovery on Creative Suburbia, and heads the Audience and Market Foresight program of Smart Services Co-operative Research Centre.

He is currently writing a book for Sage on Creative Industries, Culture and Policy.

 

Immediate Past President John Tebbutt

John currently lectures in Radio at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has been teaching media since 1986. Originally from Sydney he established the Journalism Program for Monash University at the Gippsland campus in 1995. He taught and administered in the Journalism program until 2000 when he moved to take the position at La Trobe University.

John has played an active role in national and international movements around radio studies. He was on the Organising Committee for the Radio Conference 2005: the second transnational forum and has been on international committees for radio conference in Italy (2004) and most recently for the next transnational forum conference in Lincoln University, England (2007). In May 2006 he organised the inaugural national radio studies forum Making histories: radio as a cultural technology, which was supported by the ARC’s Cultural Research Network. John is the convenor of the national Australian Radio-Audio Researchers Association (ARARA). John’s research interests include poststructural theories, media and history and Australian studies. He has been looking at the role of talk back radio in Australia and this research has been published in Australia in Media, Culture and Society, Southern Review and Media International Australia. In 2007 he began conducting a three year ARC Discovery grant, ‘A study of the ABC in Asia and its role in cultural exchange 1956-2006’. He has also published a number of book chapters on the role of media in foreign affairs. He completed his doctoral thesis, a cultural history of the Australian foreign correspondent, at the University of Sydney in 2003 (for details see, http://www.latrobe.edu.au/media/staffdir/tebbutt.html).