Jason Wilson is a Lecturer in Digital Communications.
His research interests include digital game cultures, citizen journalism and the online public sphere, mobile media and new media history.
He has previously held academic appointments at the University of Bedfordshire (UK) and in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology.
Along with his record as a researcher, Jason has experience as a new media practitioner. He was the project manager and chief editor of YouDecide2007, a citizen journalism service run during the 2007 Federal Election. He was also E-Democracy Director at online campaigning organisation GetUp!, where he project-managed the Project Democracy service.
Andrew Whelan lectures in Sociology at UOW. He taught previously at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his PhD.
His research to date is largely concerned with the relations between music, gender, and technology, and he has written about sample-based electronic music, file-sharing, chatroom interaction, and migrant media use. At the moment he’s researching heavy metal subgenres, and forms of problematic discourse online.
Becky Walker
Becky Walker
Becky Walker (2008) Deliberative Democracy in Online Lesbian Communities, International Journal of Feminist Media Studies, vol 8 issue 2, pp. 202-206.
Becky Walker (2009) Imagining the Future of Lesbian Community: The Case of Online Lesbian Communities and the Issue of Trans, Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 23 issue 6, pp.921-935
Denise Chalmers, Katie Lee and Becky Walker (2008) International and National Quality Teaching and Learning Performance Models Currently in Use, http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/146828/T&L_performance_models.pdf