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Gerard Goggin is the inaugural Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, a position he has held since 2011. Previous appointments include Professor of Digital Communications at University of New South Wales , the University of Queensland, Southern Cross University, and, as visiting professor, the University of Barcelona.

Gerard's research focusses on social, cultural, and political aspects of digital technologies, especially the Internet and mobile media and communication, and disability and accessibility. He has published 20 books and over 170 journal articles and book chapters.

As well as his academic roles, Goggin has had a twenty-year involvement in communications and telecommunications policy, including appointments as a board member of the Disability Studies and Research Institute , foundation board member of the peak organization Australian Consumer Communication Action Network , deputy chair of the self-regulatory body Telephone Information Services Standards Council , and member of the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council .

Gerard is a pioneering figure in mobile communication and media studies. His key books are Global Mobile Media and Cell Phone Culture , as well as the edited collections Mobile Technology and Place , Mobile Technology: From Telecommunications to Media , and Mobile Phone Cultures . In 2014, he will publish the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media and Locative Media . Gerard edits the Oxford University Press Studies in Mobile Communication series , and is on the board of the Sage journal Mobile Media and Communication. Currently, Gerard is working with Sydney colleagues Dr Tim Dwyer and Dr Fiona Martin on an international project researching mobile Internet and its implications for media policy .

Gerard has a longstanding interest in Internet cultures and histories, as seen in key publications Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia , Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms , and a special issue of Media International Australia on Australian Internet histories .

Gerard is working on a comparative, cultural history of the Internet in Australia and Asia-Pacific, with colleagues Mark McLelland , Haiqing Yu , and Kwangsuk Lee ? a project supported by an ARC Discovery grant. He is also a chief investigator on the ARC Linkage project Spreading Fictions: distributing stories in the online age, led by Jock Given , in collaboration with ABC and Screen Australia.

A key area of Gerard's research is disability, an interest he has had since working with disability activists and organizations in the telecommunications in the early 1990s. Gerard has an international reputation for his work with the late Christopher Newell, especially the prize-winning book Disability in Australia and Digital Disability , as well as many papers on aspects of disability, society, media and culture. Gerard's book Disability and the Media will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.

With Sydney colleague Dinesh Wadiwel, and Disability Australia Incorporated , he is developing a disability rights research capacity, which aims to identify emerging rights relevant research needs within a changing political and social policy landscape, and share expertise between researchers and civil society practitioners .

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Gerard Goggin

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Books from Gerard Goggin

Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life

Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid

Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

Global Mobile Media

New Technologies and the Media

Locative Media

Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture

Disability and the Media (Key Concerns in Media Studies, 2)

Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads (Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series)

The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

Disability and the Media (Key Concerns in Media Studies)

The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society

Internet Histories

Mobile Technology and Place (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

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