Dr Collette Snowden

• Public Communication
• Mobile Communications
• History of Communications and Technology
• Science and Technology Communication
• Non-textual communication
• Multi-disciplinary communication

Public Relations Association of Australia

Journalism Educators' Association of Australasia

ANZCA - Australian and New Zealand Communications Association

SHOT - Society for the History of Technology

BA (Hons) Adelaide

Graduate Diploma Media (Australian Film, Television and Radio School)

Doctor of Philosophy (University of South Australia)

• Public Relations: especially political communication, propaganda, and the relationship between public relations and the news media, international public relations
• Mobile Communications: the uses and consequences of mobile communications, and convergence with existing and emerging media.
• Telephone Communications: all aspects of the use of telephony for communication
• Non-textual Communication: oral, aural, gestural forms of communication

Reporting by Phone. (2007) In Acland, Charles R. (Ed.), Residual Media, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, London.

Mobility, Media and Trauma ( co-authored with Kerry Green), MC (Media and Culture) Journal 10.1 (2007). 02 Jan. 2008 .

Casting A pwr4l spL.L: D EvOLshn f SMS. (2006) In Kavoori, A. and Arceneaux, N. The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation, Peter Lang: New York.

Talk it Up! Integrating traditional telephone research methodologies with e-Social Science tools, methods and practices. Proceedings of Second International Conference on E-Social Science. The National Centre for e-Social Science, The University of Manchester. June 27-30, 2006. Manchester

Nil By Mouth: The Devaluation of Oral Communication in the Information Age - Implications for Practice and Education. Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal. 2002. Vol.3, No.2.

Mobility and the surveillance function of news. Journalism Educators’ Association of Australasia Conference. December, 2001. Perth.

What’s happening? And other moving questions. Implications for the production and delivery of news via mobile communication devices. Mobilise! Conference 2001. Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

Blinded by Text: Revaluing the Oral Imperative in Communication. Communications Research Forum. Department of Transport Economics and Communication.Canberra. October 2000.

Hello! The Future is Wireless. The Importance and Implications of Mobile Telephony and ‘Anywhere, Anytime’ Communications. Exploring Cybersociety Conference, University of Northumbria, School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences, UK. July 1999.

“The Revolution Will Not Be Feminised......Unless Women Get On Line” Conference presentation at the 6th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Adelaide, April 1996.

“Sleeping with the Enemy: Issues for Collaborative Research Between the Social Sciences and Technologists” in Proceedings of Communications Research Forum 1995, the Bureau of Transport and Communication Economics, Sydney, 1995.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Communication

• Public communication, public relations, the politics of 'spin'
• Mobile communications and social consequences
• Non-textual communication - orality, aural and non-verbal communication
• International Communication