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Biography

Mark Gibson works in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He has research interests in cultural and creative industries, the intersection between culture and economy, comedy, cultural dimensions of social class and cultural theory. He has participated in large projects on creative industries in suburban and outer-suburban locations and on the crossover between small, ‘fringe’ cultural production and the ‘mainstream’. He has had a long interest in concepts of power in cultural and media studies and is developing an interest in theories of the ‘commons’.

Activities

Employment (4)

RMIT University: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2020-02-03 to present | Professor of Media (School of Media and Communication)
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Monash University - Caulfield Campus: Caulfield East, VIC, AU

2007-02-05 to 2020-01-31 | Associate Professor, Communications and Media Studies (School of Media, Film and Journalism)
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Murdoch University: Murdoch, WA, AU

1999 to 2006 | Senior Lecturer, Communications (Media, Communication and Culture)
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Central Queensland University: Rockhampton, QLD, AU

1992 to 1997 | Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies (Communication and Media Studies)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Edith Cowan University - Mount Lawley Campus: Mount Lawley, WA, AU

2001 | PhD
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University of Technology Sydney: Broadway, NSW, AU

1989 to 1991 | Master of Arts (Communications)
Education
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University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

1983 to 1987 | Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
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Funding (5)

Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change

2023-01-01 to 2026-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: LP220100196
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Mark Gibson via DimensionsWizard

Contemporary Australian culture as an innovation system

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Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia's Suburban and Peri Urban Communities

ARC Cultural Research Network

2004-01-01 to 2009-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: RN0459928
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Mark Gibson via DimensionsWizard

Cultural Research Network: Cultural literacies, technologies, identities and histories

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Works (20)

Independent Games and the Remaking of the 'Fringe'

Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies (CAMEo), University of Leicester
2018-06 | Working paper
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Mark Gibson

Editorial Offshore processes: International perspectives on Australian film and television

Continuum
2014 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84926346116

Contributors: Davis, T.; Gibson, M.; Moore, T.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Tchk, tchk, tchk: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and the question of Australian seriousness

Continuum
2014 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84926330094

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Bildung in the 'burbs: Education for the suburban nation

International Journal of Cultural Studies
2012 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84860477679

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Creative suburbia: Cultural research and suburban geographies

International Journal of Cultural Studies
2012 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84860434255

Contributors: Flew, T.; Gibson, M.; Collis, C.; Felton, E.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

How smart is ‘smart’? – Smart homes and sustainability

Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World: Policy, Practice and Performance
2012 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84936941402

Contributors: Berry, M.; Gibson, M.; Nelson, A.; Richardson, I.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Melbourne and Brisbane: The claims of suburbs

Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
2012 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84951177128

Contributors: Flew, T.; Gibson, M.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

The Schillers of the suburbs - creativity and mediated sociality

International Journal of Cultural Policy
2011 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84857099388

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Resilient creative economies? Creative industries on the urban fringe

Continuum
2010 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-77958535285

Contributors: Felton, E.; Gibson, M.N.; Flew, T.; Graham, P.; Daniel, A.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Noel Pearson and the 'cultural left': Between listening and deaf opposition

Continuum
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-77958183960

Contributors: Gibson, M.N.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Beyond literacy panics: Digital literacy and educational optimism

Media International Australia
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-76049102795

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Editorial

Continuum
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84905674006

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

How smart is 'smart'? - Smart homes and sustainability

Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: Policy, Practice and Performance
2008 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84900743621

Contributors: Berry, M.; Gibson, M.; Nelson, A.; Richardson, I.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Introduction: Digital literacy

Media International Australia
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-80053487896

Contributors: McWilliam, K.; Hartley, J.; Gibson, M.
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Culture and Power

Berg
2007 | Book
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Mark Gibson

The Antipodean uses of literacy

International Journal of Cultural Studies
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33847304964

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Mark Gibson via Scopus - Elsevier

Forty years of cultural studies: An interview with Richard Hoggart, October 1997

International Journal of Cultural Studies
1998 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-33847318594

Contributors: Gibson, M.; Hartley, J.
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Richard Hoggart's grandmother's ironing: Some questions about 'power' in international cultural studies

International Journal of Cultural Studies
1998 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33847288142

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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A centre of flux: Japan in the Australian Business Press

Continuum
1994 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84973043835

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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Eastern Contexts / Western Theory — Cultural Studies and Japan

Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science
1994 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84956457421

Contributors: Gibson, M.
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