Associate Professor Michael Galvin

Associate Professor Michael Galvin is Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Communication, International Studies, and Languages. (Between 1993 and 2004, he was also the Head of School of Communication). His teaching and research interests are in Communication Studies, Writing, Media and Cultural Studies. He has recently published and delivered conference papers in the area of globalisation and communication, life writing, and creative non-fiction, the future of communication as a field of study. His previous professional experience includes communications consultancy work in Australia, Europe and the United States for a wide range of organisations.

• Communication as a field of study; professional writing; creative non-fiction; communication in the global context.

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association; Asian Media Information and Communication Association.

BA (Hons) MA (Hons) (Syd) DipTertEd (UNE) PhD (Macq)

Galvin, M. (2008) "Form and content in a media event: the presentation of China in everyday (global) life", published in the refereed online proceedings of "Sustaining Culture", 2008, CSAA annual conference December 6-8, 2007. www.unisa.edu.au/com/minisites/csaa/files/Galvin.pdf

Galvin, M. (2008) "Power and place, nodes and networks: Reflections on the status of postcolonial Malacca", refereed conference paper, ANZCA 2008, July

Galvin, M. (2004)"Converging and hybrid communications systems and September 11: a case study" in S. Venkatraman (Ed.) Media in a Terrorised World: Reflections in the Wake of 911, Eastern Universities Press: Singapore, pp. 14-33.

Galvin, M. (2003) "September 11 and the logistics of communication" in Continuum, Volume 17 (3), pp. 303-313.

Galvin, M. (2002) "Communication futures and the future of Communication" in Australian Journal of Communication, Vol.29(2), pp. 15-32.

Galvin, M. (1998) "Ambient computing, desktop icons and iconicity" in Woods, C. (Ed) Image, Text and Persuasion, Centre for Professional and Public Communication: University of South Australia, pp. 87-94.

Galvin, M. (1995) "Themes and variations in the discourse of technoculture" in Australian Journal of Communication, Vol.22 (1), pp. 62-76.

Galvin, M. (1995) "The Discourse of Technoculture" in P. Bishop et al. (Eds), Women, Computing and Culture, Research Centre for Gender Studies and School of Communication and Information Studies: University of South Australia, pp. 96-109.

Galvin, M. (1994) "Vectory in the Gulf: technology, communications and war" in L. Green and R. Guinery (Eds) Framing Technology, Allen and Unwin: Sydney, pp. 176-190.

Galvin, M., Prescott, D. and Huseman, R. (1992) (4th Ed) Business Communication: Strategies and Skills, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Sydney.

Galvin, M. (1990) "Notes towards a social critique of Australian communication studies" in Australian Journal of Communication, Vol.17 (3), pp. 163-173.

Galvin, M. (1990) "Imagining Japan" in Australian Communication Review, Vol.13 (3), pp. 53-60

Galvin, M. (1990) "State-sponsored lies, information officers and sources" in Media Information Australia, No 57, pp. 62-64.

Galvin, M. (1990) "Balancing competing expectations: two approaches to recent Australian literary history" in Southerly, 1, pp. 111-114.

Galvin, M. (1988) "Communication classics: A. Wilden's System and Structure - Essays in communication and exchange" in Australian Communication Review, Vol.9 (3), pp. 73-80.

Galvin, M. and West, P. (1988) A Changing Australia: Themes and Case Studies, Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch: Sydney.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Writerly resources and life writing", The Story of the Story conference, Flinders University, September 2009. "Makeovers, crossovers and the globalisation of biography", ANZCA annual conference, QUT Brisbane, July 2009. "Malaysian makeovers and the globalisation of biography: a communication model", SEARCH Conference, Petaling Jaya, May 2009. "Melaka, globalisation, and the 'heritage effect'", Cultural Studies Association of Australia annual conference, Adelaide, December 2007. "Global media events and screen culture: the challenge for China", Cultural Studies Association of Australia annual conference, Adelaide, December 2007. "Life writing reviewed", Australian Association of Writing Programs annual conference, Brisbane, November 2006. "Presenting China to the World: The Bejing 2008 Preview Performance at the Athens Olympics in 2004", Asian Media and Information Centre 14th annual conference, Beijing, July, 2005. "September 11, the mobile phone, and the logistics of communication". 11th Annual AMIC Conference, Fremantle, WA, June 26-28 2002. "Observations on the nature of theme parks". Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education 9th National Research Conference, Adelaide, February 1999. "The contemporary theme park: current inflections and observations", ANZCA annual conference, July 1999, University of Western Sydney. "Another variation on a theme park: Titanic, computers, and fin-de-siecle spectacle", Australian Cultural Studies annual conference, December 1998, Adelaide. "Reading icons on the computer screen: iconicity", Australian Cultural Studies annual conference, December 1997, Melbourne. "Paul Virilio and promotional culture", ANZCA annual conference, July 1997, Melbourne. "Ambient computing: speculations and critique", ANZCA annual conference, July 1997, Melbourne. "The computer as obscure object of desire", ANZCA annual conference, July 1995, Perth. "Writing about computers" and "Using CMC in a media studies course", two papers presented at the eighth annual international conference on Writing and Computers, University of London, UK, September 1995. "Publishing in cyberspace: two case studies", 1994 national conference of Association for Teachers of Media, Adelaide, October 1994. "The Internet in Australia", presentation at the Institute for Global Communications, Tokyo, October 1993. "Computer-mediated communication", ANZCA national conference, VUT, Melbourne, July 1993. "Communications technology, narrative and the Gulf War", ANZCA national conference, Sydney, July 1

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Member of the Advisory Board, Global Media Journal, 2007.