Dr Susan Luckman

Dr Susan Luckman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia who teaches and researches in the fields of communication, media and cultural studies. She is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and Hawke Research Institute, co-edited the anthology on creative music cultures and the global economy (Sonic Synergies, Ashgate 2008), and is the author of numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and government reports on creative cultures and industries.

Susan is an interdisciplinary cultural ethnographer of creative industries and new media, with a particular focus in current work on: small-scale creative industries and grass roots ‘making do’; time, space and creative lifestyles; shifting patterns of media consumption; and eResearch in the humanities and social sciences.

ARC Linkage Project Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative industries

Founding Member and Node Convenor (2005-2008), ARC Cultural Research Network

Online Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 'Sustaining Culture' CSAA Annual Conference 2007, UniSA December 6-8

Photographs from the CRN ECR and PG Professional Development Day and 'Sustaining Culture', CSAA Annual Conference 2007, UniSA December 6-8

Member, Hawke Research Institute

Excerpt from book chapter on Reclaim The Streets (published on the ABC's 4 Corners website)

Member of the ARC Cultural Research Network 2004 - present; Node Co-Convenor (ECRs and Post-Graduate development) 2005 - 2007

Member of the Hawke Research Institute

2006+ Member of the Editorial Collective, Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

2002-2005 Secretary, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)

2001+ Editorial Board, Hecate

Ph.D.(University of Queensland)

MA Research (University of Queensland)

Bachelor of Arts - Degree with Honours (University of Melbourne)

• ARC Linkage Project: Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries
  

  This research will improve our knowledge and understanding of the creative industries in Darwin. It will provide a strong evidence base for the development of policy options for growing the creative industries in Darwin. And it will interrogate national and international creative industry policy frameworks for their applicability to Darwin.
  
  

• GIS Mapping Technologies in Cultural Research: A Pilot Study Charting Spatialised Understandings of Inequality Across Different Parts of Adelaide

  
  With Ass. Prof. Chris Gibson and Chris Brennan-Horley, Uni of Wollongong.

  
  This project builds upon the innovative use of mental maps then coded into GIS (Geographic Information Systems), in the semi-structured interview process employed by this CI in the project‘Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries’ (LP0667445). It will test the use of two kinds of mobile devices—mobile palm-held and interactive digital tablets—for both their usability and productive impact upon the conduct of location-based research interviews and surveys.
  
  

• Cultural Ethnography
  
  
• Collaborative Australian Storytelling in the Digital Age: The Impact of User-generated Content on Professional Screen Production

  
  This research has a three-fold aim: to identify how people are using digital media in their everyday lives to access screen content; determine whether the current success of user-generated and amateur screen content on the Internet signals a new desire by the audience to become involved in the production process, and establish what forms this might take; and identify how Web 2.0 user sites can enable Australian creative producers to by-pass international broadcasters and distributors thus facilitating increased global access to Australian stories.
  
  

Books:

Lea, Tess, Susan Luckman, Chris Gibson, Donal Fitzpatrick, Chris Brennan-Horley, Julie Willoughby-Smith and Karen Hughes 2009, Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative industries, Charles Darwin University, Darwin.

Bloustien, Gerry, Margaret Peters and Susan Luckman eds 2008, Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community and Identity, Ashgate, Hampshire.

Book Chapters:

Luckman, Susan and Robin Potanin 2009, 'Machinima Movies’, in DIY Media: Digital Literacies and Learning through Popular Cultural Production, Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear eds, New York, Peter Lang. (in print)

Luckman, Susan 2008, 'Doof, Dance and Rave Culture', in Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell eds. ACYS, Hobart, pp. 131-149.

Luckman, Susan 2008, 'Music and the Internet: Filesharing, the iPod Revolution and the Industry of the Future', in Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell eds. ACYS, Hobart, pp. 181-197.

Luckman, Susan 2008, ‘Unalienated Labour’ and Creative Industries: Situating Micro-Entrepreneurial Dance Music Subcultures in the New Economy', in Sonic Synergies: Music, Identity, Technology and Community, Gerry Bloustien, Margaret Peters and Susan Luckman eds, Ashgate, Hampshire and Burlington, VT.

Luckman, Susan 2004, 'More that the sum of its parts: The Humanities and communicating the ‘Hidden Work’ of society', Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy, eds. Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen and Simon Robb, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 82-90.

Luckman, Susan 2001, 'Practice Random Acts: Reclaiming The Streets of Australia' in Free NRG: Notes From The Edge Of The Dance Floor, ed. Graham St John, Common Ground, Melbourne, pp. 205-221.

Reports:

Luckman, Susan, Julie Willoughby-Smith and Chris Brennan-Horley 2008, Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative industries – Ethnographic Interviews Progress Report, Darwin, May.

Ian Rogers, Abraham Ninan, Greg Hearn, Stuart Cunningham and Susan Luckman 2004, Queensland Music Industry: Independence Day, CIRAC, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, July.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Gibson, Chris, Susan Luckman and Julie Willoughby-Smith 2010 (accepted as lead article in special themed edition), ‘Creativity Without Borders?: Re-thinking Remoteness and Proximity’, Australian Geographer, Vol. 41, No. 1.

Brennan-Horley, Chris, Susan Luckman, Chris Gibson, and Julie Willoughby-Smith 2010 (forthcoming), ‘Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mappings: GIS, Ethnography and Cultural Research – A Case Study’, The Information Society, Special Issue - Creative Industries and Urban Development , Vol. 26, No. 2.

Luckman, Susan, Chris Gibson and Tess Lea 2009, ‘Mosquitoes in the Mix: Just how transferable is creative city thinking?’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 47-63.

Luckman, Susan 2009, ‘Creativity, the Environment and the Future of Creative Lifestyles: Lessons from a Creative Tropical City’, The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 1-10.

de Roeper, Julia and Susan Luckman 2009, ‘Future Audiences for Australian Stories: Industry Responses in a post-Web 2.0 World’, Media International Australia’, No. 130, pp. 5-16.

Luckman, Susan 2009, ‘New Information Literacies: Helping University Students Critically Evaluate Information Online’, The International Journal of Learning, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 499-512.

Luckman, Susan and Jessica Pacella 2009, ‘GIS Mapping Technologies in Cultural Research Interview Modalities: Feedback from Creative Industries and Social Inequality Project Trials’, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 101-114.

Luckman, Susan 2008, 'Turning Play Into Pay: Digital literacies and the new lessons required for the post-Web 2.0 Generation', Media International Australia, No. 128, pp. 112-120.

Luckman, Susan, Chris Gibson, Julie-Willoughby-Smith and Chris Brennan-Horley 2008, ‘Life in a Northern (Australian) Town: Darwin’s Mercurial Music Scene’, Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 621–634.

Luckman, Susan and Julia de Roeper 2008, ‘Wagging the Long Tail: Digital Distribution and Peripheral Screen Production Industries’, Cultural Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/18/61

Hearn, Greg, Abraham Ninan, Ian Rogers, Stuart Cunningham, and Susan Luckman 2004, 'From the margins to the mainstream: creating value in Queensland’s music industry', Media International Australia, No. 112, pp. 101-114.

Luckman, Susan 2003, 'Going Bush and Finding One's 'Tribe': Raving, Doof and the Australian Landscape', Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 17, No.3, pp. 318-332.

Luckman, Susan 2003, '"Gather ‘round and I’ll tell you a tale": a ‘kiss ‘n’ tell’ history of cultural studies.” Review Article, John Hartley’s A Short History of Cultural Studies. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 465-467.

Luckman, Susan 2001, '"What are they raving on about?": Temporary Autonomous Zones and Reclaiming the Streets', Perfect Beat, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 49-68.

Luckman, Susan and Guy Redden 2001, 'The Sense of Translocal Community: Mediating S11', to the QUICK, No. 4, pp. 21-34.

Luckman, Susan 2000, '"Sorted"?: Mapping the Regulation of Dance Parties in Australia', Journal of Australian Studies (JAS), No. 64, pp. 217-223.

Panel discussion with Liz Ferrier, John Banks, Susan Luckman and Graeme Turner 2000, 'Some Futures for Cultural Studies' M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 9, .

Luckman, Susan 1999, '(En)Gendering the Digital Body: Feminism and the Internet', Hecate, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 36-47.

Luckman, Susan, P. David Marshall and Sean Smith 1998, 'Promotional Desires: Popular Media's Presence on the Internet', MIA: Media International Australia, No. 86, pp. 63-76.

Luckman, Susan 1998, 'Rave Cultures and the Academy', Social Alternatives, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 45-49.

Edited Volumes

2008 Luckman, Susan 2008, Special edition editor, ‘Sustaining Culture’ edition of Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 22 No. 6, 2008.

2008 Jackie Cook, Susan Luckman and Dino Murtic eds. 2008, Online Proceedings of ‘Sustaining Culture’ 2008, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA), UniSA, Adelaide December 6-8, 2007,vhttp://unisa.edu.au/com/csaa/onlineproceedings.htm

2000 Co-Editor (with Prof. Alec McHoul) of 'Culture' edition of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture. 3.2

2000 Co-Editor (with Sean Smith and Sophie Taysom) of Social Alternatives, Vol. 19, No. 1, Special Edition: "'Excess Baggage': What we take with us into the new millennium."

Selected Conference & Seminar Presentations:

Media in Transition 5 Conference 2007 MIT, Boston, April 27-29, 2007 'Digital Natives' and Future Audiences for Professional Film Production: An Australian Perspective', co-written with Dr Julia de Roeper.

'Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms Conference', Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Ethnological Society 2007 University of Toronto, May 8-12, 2007. 'Creative City Thinking Meets Indigenous Cultures: The Experience of Darwin, Australia’, co-authored by Tess Less and Chris Gibson.

Creative Citizenship: Community, Creative Industries and the Future 2006 Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, September 27-28 Invited Plenary Speaker, presenting on behalf of myself, Associate Professor Tess Lea and Dr Chris Gibson, “Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries” http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdss0609/presentations.html

Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2006 University of Adelaide, July 5-7, 2006 With Dr Julia de Roeper, “Future Audiences for Local Stories: Audience and Industry Perceptions of National Narrative Storytelling in the Digital Age”

4th US Cultural Studies Association Conference, George Mason University, Washington DC/Arlington April 19-22, 2006, "De-Programming the Diva: Touch, Sexuality, Bodily Communication and the Renaissance of Partnered Social Dance"

'Cruising Country' A symposium and film event exploring the powers of wheels, roads and screens in non-urban Australia, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, 26-28 May 2005, ""Road movies, Realism and ‘Australian Gothic’: The shifting transformative space of the road in Australian film"

‘Culture Incorporated’ - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Annual Conference 2003, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Aotearoa/NZ Dec. 6-8, 2003, “Subcultural Enterprise and DIY Employment: Situating the commercial doof in the new economy"

‘Ute Culture’ - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Annual Conference 2002 University of Melbourne, December 5-7, 2002 “Everyday Email”

Second International Conference on Cultural Policy Research 2002, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa, January 23-26, 2002, Plenary panel paper - "Pre-emptive strikes and taking it to the streets: 'moral panic' fuelled (self)regulative outcomes in post-rave Australia."

Faculty of Communication, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), 'Mediating Democracy: Cultural Perspectives on Political Participation', September 23, 2000, "'What are they raving on about?': Temporary Autonomous Zones and Reclaiming the Streets."

International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Annual Conference, 'Changing Sounds: New Directions and Configurations in Popular Music', University of Technology, Sydney, July 1999, "'Sorted'?: The Regulation of Dance Parties in Australia."

Manchester Institute for Popular Culture (MIPC), Seminar Series, Manchester Metropolitan University, December 2, 1998, "Dance, Drugs and 'Moral Panic': The Regulation of Dance Parties/Raves in Australia"

Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Graduate Seminar Day, Queensland University of Technology, October 1997, " 'Rave' Cultures and D.I.Y. Identities: Commercialisation, Appropriation and Resistance"

'In Search of the Public' - Cultural Studies Association of Australia Annual (CSAA) Conference 1996, Murdoch University, Fremantle Arts Centre, December 1996, " 'Netchicks' and Cyborgs: Digitising Gender and Power"

Other Publications:

"Practice Random Acts: Reclaiming the Streets of Australia." Excerpt of book chapter published on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) 4 Corners website: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/dance/politics/04luckman.htm

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

Discipline: Cultural Studies

• Digital Media and Society
• GIS and Ethnography
• Culture and Space
• Creative Industries
• Dance music cultures
• Youth (Sub)Cultures