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Media, Digital Media and Games at Swinburne

Media, Digital Media and Games Studies

Staff from the media, digital media, journalism and games area teach in the following areas:

Staff in Media, Digital Media and Games

Person Position Research interests
Mr Jim Barbour Lecturer - Media and Communications
  • Multi-channel audio broadcasting, delivery and production
  • Aural perception
  • Radio production
Professor Trevor Barr Professor - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
Dr Anthony Bartel Lecturer - Digital Media
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
  • Audio (principal supervisor to a PhD student in sound classification)
  • Teaching methodologies in Multimedia
Dr Diana Bossio Lecturer - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Masters level)
  • Media representation
  • Journalism practice
  • Journalism education
  • representation of insecurity, war and terrorism in the media
  • the relationship between government communication and journalism practice
Mr Peter Ciszewski Senior Lecturer - Digital Media
Dr Steven Conway Lecturer - Games and Interactivity
(Available to supervise to Masters level)
Dr Raya Darcy Lecturer - Media and Communications
Dr Wendy Doubé Lecturer - Digital Media
(Available to supervise to Masters level)
  • Multimedia and its intersection with cognition and motivation
Dr Mark Finn Senior Lecturer - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
Professor Jock Given Professor
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
  • Communications law and policy, especially digital TV, radio, film
  • Media history, especially the history of Australian, New Zealand and trans-national media enterprises
  • International trade in audiovisual services
  • Telecommunications, including broadband and universal service
Ms Lisa Gye Senior Lecturer - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
  • critical theory and new media
  • media production
  • alternative media practices
  • authoring for new media
  • online publishing and editing
  • gender and AFL football
Dr Troy Innocent Senior Lecturer - Games and Interactivity
Mr Dean Keep Lecturer - Digital Media
  • Emerging Mobile and convergent media cultures/art forms.
  • Transmedia storytelling and hybrid narratives.
  • Digital art and practices around memory/remembrance.
Dr Ramon Lobato Research Fellow
  • Audiovisual distribution
  • Film and music industries
  • Media geography
  • Intellectual property
  • Piracy
  • Media and cultural policy
  • Informal economies
  • Transnational cultures
  • Cultural theory
Dr Anthony McCosker Lecturer - Media and Communications
  • Participatory media cultures and online community
  • Technology, embodiment and affect
  • Mediatised conflict, crisis, disaster and suffering
  • Television futures
  • Digital and critical literacies
Dr Esther Milne Senior Lecturer - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
  • new media
  • nineteenth century networks of communication
  • the postal history of networked intimacy, affect & presence
  • distributed identity and affect
  • the production of celebrity and its techno-institutional frameworks
Professor Julian Thomas Director, The Swinburne Institute
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
  • Media and communications policy
  • Histories of new communications technologies
  • Intellectual property and information policy
Professor Darren Tofts Professor - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Doctoral level)
  • Media arts
  • Cyberculture
  • Critical and Cultural Theory
  • Cultural Convergence
Dr Rowan Wilken Lecturer - Media and Communications
(Available to supervise to Masters level)
  • mobile and locative media
  • social & spatial theory
  • old and new media
  • theory and practice of everyday life
  • domestic technology consumption