Contact Details
| Organization: | Historical Studies |
| Position: | PROFESSORIAL FELLOW.. |
| Email: | |
| Homepage: | http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/people/sinclair.html |
| Work: | 83443462 |
| Room: | 223 |
| Level: | 02 |
| Building: | 147-151 Barry St. |
| Campus: | Parkville |
Biography
Professor John Sinclair is Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in the Australian Centre for 2005-9. He completed his undergraduate studies at Monash University, and his postgraduate degrees, including a PhD in Sociology, at La Trobe University. Before coming to the Centre, he was Professor in the School of Communication, Culture, and Languages at Victoria University of Technology, where he taught Sociology, Cultural Studies, and International Communication. Former students whom he supervised there to successful PhD completion are now pursuing academic careers in Europe and the United States, as well as in Australia. He has held visiting professorships at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, where he was UNESCO Professor of Communication.
His program of research at the Australian Centre concerns the globalisation of the media in Australia, with particular reference to the advertising industry, taken in its broadest political, economic and cultural aspects. His record of internationally published research covers various aspects of the globalisation of the media and communication industries, with a special emphasis on the role of cultural factors in the development of these industries, and has a regional focus on Latin America and Asia, notably India. As well as such work on cultural industries, he has experience in content analysis and audience research methodologies.
He is author of Images Incorporated: Advertising as Industry and Ideology (Croom Helm, 1987), and Latin American Television: A Global View (Oxford University Press, 1999), as well as a book in Spanish, Televisión: Comunicación Global y Regionalización (Gedisa, 2000). He is co-editor/contributor, with Stuart Cunningham and Elizabeth Jacka, of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (Oxford University Press, 1996), and, with Stuart Cunningham, Floating Lives: The Media of Asian Diasporas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
More recently, he has edited, and contributed to, Contemporary World Television (British Film Institute, 2004), with associate editor Graeme Turner. He also has current chapters appearing in The Television Studies Reader, The Sage Handbook of Media Studies, The Blackwell Companion for Television, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, The International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Media and Communications in Australia.
His research has been published in journals such as Media, Culture and Society, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Asian Studies Review, the Chinese Journal of Communication, Media International Australia, the Australian Journal of Communication, and Television and New Media. He is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, both Australian and overseas based, and has for many years been an active member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. He has held a number of previous grants from the Australian Research Council, most notably in support of his work on India.
In 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 2003, he was awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of cultural and media studies. He is a foundation member of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network.
His program of research at the Australian Centre concerns the globalisation of the media in Australia, with particular reference to the advertising industry, taken in its broadest political, economic and cultural aspects. His record of internationally published research covers various aspects of the globalisation of the media and communication industries, with a special emphasis on the role of cultural factors in the development of these industries, and has a regional focus on Latin America and Asia, notably India. As well as such work on cultural industries, he has experience in content analysis and audience research methodologies.
He is author of Images Incorporated: Advertising as Industry and Ideology (Croom Helm, 1987), and Latin American Television: A Global View (Oxford University Press, 1999), as well as a book in Spanish, Televisión: Comunicación Global y Regionalización (Gedisa, 2000). He is co-editor/contributor, with Stuart Cunningham and Elizabeth Jacka, of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (Oxford University Press, 1996), and, with Stuart Cunningham, Floating Lives: The Media of Asian Diasporas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
More recently, he has edited, and contributed to, Contemporary World Television (British Film Institute, 2004), with associate editor Graeme Turner. He also has current chapters appearing in The Television Studies Reader, The Sage Handbook of Media Studies, The Blackwell Companion for Television, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, The International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Media and Communications in Australia.
His research has been published in journals such as Media, Culture and Society, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Asian Studies Review, the Chinese Journal of Communication, Media International Australia, the Australian Journal of Communication, and Television and New Media. He is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, both Australian and overseas based, and has for many years been an active member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. He has held a number of previous grants from the Australian Research Council, most notably in support of his work on India.
In 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 2003, he was awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of cultural and media studies. He is a foundation member of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest | Key Words | Country of Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Globalisation of media and communication industries. | Advertising, Television | Australia, Mexico, India |
International Linkages
| Country | Establishment | Collaboration |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | Exchange, Research, Teaching |
| United States | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | Exchange |
Languages
Languages
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Read and Write |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards
Qualifications
| Title | Institution | Date Awarded | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy | La Trobe University | 30-Jun-1984 |
Memberships
| Membership Type | Membership Body | Description | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | International Association for Media Communication Research | International Council | 01-Jan-1992 | |
| Member | Australian and New Zealand Communication Association | Ordinary member | 01-Jan-1982 | |
| Member | Asian Mass communication and Information Centre | Ordinary member | 01-Jan-1992 |
Fellowships
| Fellowship | Date Awarded |
|---|---|
| Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) | 01-Dec-2001 |
Other Awards
| Award Type | Awarding Body | Comments | Date Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medal | Commonwealth of Australia | 01-Jan-2003 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title | Role | Funding Source | Scheme | Award Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Globalisation and the media in Australia: an integrated analysis of trends and impacts, with special reference to the advertising industry | Chief Investigator | AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL | Discovery Projects | 01/01/2005 |
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.