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Dr Jackie Cook
Position: Senior Lecturer Dr Jackie Cook
Division/Portfolio: Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
School/Unit: School of Communication
Campus: Magill Campus
Office: B2-24
Telephone: +61 8 830 24519
Fax: +61 8 830 24723
Email: Jackie_dot_Cook_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Jackie.Cook

This page introduces you to my past and present academic and professional work at the university of South Australia.

Detailed listings can be found here of courses taught, including on-line and off-shore courses; areas in which I offer Honours Degree or Research Degree Supervision; areas of specialist research, and full listings of publications.

Further listings provide details of areas in which I can offer media commentary, while my CV reports on my background in radio and TV broadcasting.

School of Communication

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I teach the following courses

COMM 5008New Communication and Media Technologies
COMM 5044Virtual Leisure Industries
COMM 5016New Communication and Media Technologies G
(This course is not currently being taught)
COMM 2040Consuming Media: Communication Industries and their Audiences

Professional associations

ANZCA - The Australia and New Zealand Communications Association

CSAA - The Cultural Studies Association of Australia

"Console-ing Passions: International Association for the Feminist Study of television and Screen Media; member of the International Board of Management

Qualifications

BA (Cantuar.) 1971, Literary Studies

MA (Hons.) (Cantuar.) 1973, Literary Theory. Thesis Topic: Techniques of characterisation in Restoration Comedy.

PhD (University of Western Sydney, 2002) Thesis Title: Dangerously radio/active: self and social space in Australian talk radio.

Research publications

Book chapters

Cook, J., "Dangerously radioactive: the plural vocalities of radio talk", in Culture and text: discourse and methodology in social research and cultural studies, eds. Alison Lee and Cate Poynton, 2000, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp 59-80

Cook, J., Ch. 6 and 16, in Finding out: information literacy for the 21st century, eds. J Cheek et al., 1994, Melbourne, MacMillan, pp. 35-41; 93-98

Cook, J., "Becoming a subject: work shadow as a technique for materials development in the humanities", in RIDE 93: Research in distance education, ed. T. Evans, Deakin University Press, Geelong, 1994; chapter 3, pp. 21-38

Cook, J., and Homer, D., "Seeing and writing in the Australian landscape", in Landscape and identity: perspectives from Australia, ed. W. Parsons, Auslib, Adelaide, 1994, pp. 145-161

Cook, J., "The liberation of distance: teaching women's studies from China", in Critical Reflections on Distance Education, eds. Terry Evans and Daryl Nation, 1989, Falmer Press, UK/USA, Chapter 3, pp. 23-38

Expertise for Media Contact

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

Discipline: Communication Studies, Journalism, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture

  • Broadcasting
  • Techno culture
  • Popular culture

Research Degree Supervisor

I undertake supervision at the following levels:

BA Honours
Graduate Diploma - Applied Research projects
MA - Thesis/Dissertation
Professional Doctorate: Applied Industry Research project, and Thesis
PhD - Thesis



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