Gerard Goggin is an Australian Research Fellow, working on an Australian Research Council-funded five-year project on mobile phone culture and regulation. He co-edited (with Julian Thomas) a 2005 issue of Southern Review on ‘the histories of mobile telephony', and a 2006 issue of Continuum on ‘mobile phone culture'.
In late 2007, Gerard Goggin took up a position as Professor of Digital Communication and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Gerard has researched and published widely in media, cultural, and communication studies, with a focus on Internet, mobiles, telecommunication, and disability.
He holds two major ARC grants for research into mobiles. Gerard's 2004-2009 Australian Research Fellowship project 'Mobile Culture: A Biography of the Mobile Phone' examines mobile phone culture and regulation. With Kate Crawford, he undertaking a second ARC Discovery project entitled 'Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media and Youth Culture in Australia'.
Gerard's books on mobiles include 'Global Mobile Media' (forthcoming, Routledge, 2009), and 'Cell Phone Culture' (Routledge, 2006), as well as the edited collections 'Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media' (Routledge, 2008; with Larissa Hjorth), 'Mobile Phone Cultures' (Routledge, 2007; also a special issue of 'Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture'), and 'Mobile Media' (2007, with Larissa Hjorth).
Gerard also has an interest in Internet cultures and histories, currently with a Cultural Research Network-supported project with Mark McLelland on 'Internet Histories'. Gerard is working on a book on Internet theory, and previously has published the collection Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (UNSW Press, 2004).
Gerard holds a PhD in literature from the University of Sydney for a thesis entitled Turbulent Preceptors: Mentoring, Maternity and Masculinity in Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Gerard also has an interest in disability research and policy. With Christopher Newell, he is author of Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Australian Apartheid?: Encountering Disability in Society (UNSW Press, 2004). He has also written on disability and media representation, editing with Christopher Newell a themed issue of the Australian Journal of Communication on ‘Disability and Diversity' (30.3, 2003).
From 1992-1996, Gerard was Policy Advisor for Consumers' Telecommunications Network. Presently, he is a Public Member on the Telephone Information Service Standards Council (TISSS; www.tissc.com.au), regulating premium rate voice telephone services.
Email:
g.goggin@unsw.edu.au
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