Associate Professor Virginia Nightingale

Virginia Nightingale researches in the areas of media audiences and their engagements with media - as technologies more than texts. She is currently the Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery project, 'Power of the Image: Affect, Audience and Disturbing Imagery'.

She is also the co-editor of the New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Qualifications

PhD, 1990, (Media Studies, Audience Studies), Macquarie University

MA, 1980, (Mass Communication), University of Leicester, UK

Dip of Social Science, 1978, (Social Psychology), University of New England

B Social Studies, 1970, (Social Work and Anthropology), University of Sydney

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Selected Publications

Nightingale, V and Dwyer, T (eds) forthcoming, New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence, Oxford University Press, London.

Nightingale, V and Dwyer, T 2006, 'The Audience Politics of 'Enhanced' TV Formats', International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2(1), pp 25-42.

Nightingale, V and Dwyer, T 2005, 'Community Attitudes and Changing Audiences: Intergrating Australia's Multicultural Diversity in Media Policy', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Communication, 32(3), pp 109-129.

Nightingale, V 2004, 'Changing the Public: Ratings, Broadcasting and the Internet', Southern Review, 37(2), pp 22-39.

Nightingale, V 2004, 'Television Audiences: Publics, Markets, Communities and Fans', in, Downing, J (ed.), Sage Handbook of Media Studies, Sage, Thousand Oaks, London and Delhi, pp 227-249.

Nightingale, V 2003, 'The 'Cultural Revolution' in Audience Research', in Valdivia, A. (ed.), A Companion to Media Studies, Blackwell Publishing, London, pp 360-381.

Ross, K and Nightingale, V 2003, Media and Audiences: New Perspectives, Open University Press, McGraw-Hill.

Nightingale, V and Ross, K 2003, Critical Readings: Media and Audiences, Open University Press, McGraw-Hill.

Nightingale, V 1996, Studying Audiences: The Shock of the Real, Routledge, London and New York. Translated in Spanish (1999) and Korean (2001, 2004).

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