Staff profile

Dr John Anthony Tebbutt

Senior Lecturer, Program Coordinator (Media and Cinema Studies)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 315, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Sydney) BA Hons (1st) (UTS)

Membership of professional Associations

Australian New Zealand Communication Association. Australian Radio Audio Researchers Association. IAMCR. NTEU.

Area of study

Australian Studies
Creative Arts
Global Communications
Media Studies

Brief Profile

John has taught radio production and history at La Trobe University since 2000. In 2010 he was the Media and Cinema Studies Program Co-ordinator. He currently (July 2010) has a ‘pre-commission’ from ABC Radio National’s The Night Air to produce a program developed from his research on ‘listening’. John is co-editing a Continuum theme edition on Media and Security Cultures (pub: 2011). From 1983 to 1995 he worked as a freelance radio journalist broadcasting on programs such as Background Briefing (ABC Radio Talks Unit) and with Triple J. He has taught in tertiary education since 1986. He established the Journalism Program at Monash University in 1996 before joining La Trobe’s Media Studies Program.

Research interests

Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies

- Radio/Audio production

Communications and Media Policy

- Media policy

Media Studies

- Media and security culture

- Media history

Teaching Units

  • MST1AAC - Audiences and Communication.
  • MST2/3RSP - Radio Sound and Podcasts.
  • MST2/3WFR - Writing for Radio.
  • MST3MPR - Advanced Radio Production.
  • 2SFM/3SFM - Soundtracks; film and popular music.

Recent Publications

  • Editor, Security and Media Cultures, Continuum, journal of cultural and media studies Vol. 2, 2011.
  • ‘The travel writer as foreign correspondent: Frank Clune and the ABC’, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol 31 No1., March 2010 pp95-107.
  • ‘The object of listening’, Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, Vol. 23 No4. , August 2009, pp549-559.
  • The state of information; in Australian Studies, Vol 20, papers of the British Australian Studies Association Conference, Cardiff, Wales 2004, pub. 2007.
  • ‘Hanging her laundry in public: talkback radio, governmentality. and the housewife, 1967-1973’, Media International Australia, No. 122, February 2007, pp108-121.
  • ‘Formats: performance and affect in talkback radio’, Southern Review, Vol 38:3, 2006.
  • ‘Imaginative demographics: the emergence of radio talkback audiences in Australia’, Media, Culture and Society, Vol 28:6, November 2006 pp857-882. 

Research projects

The ABC in Asia and its role in cultural exchange (1956-2006); an ARC Discovery Grant A Great Crying Need; the history of Kew Cottages (Associate researcher), Linkage Grant, Kew residential Services, Dept of Human services, History Department (LTU) Media and Security Cultures (LTU Faculty Grant)