Institute for Culture and Society

ICS researchers and postgraduate students regularly feature in the media, providing expert opinions and generating discussion through online opinion pieces, television and radio.

• Latest features
• Regular features
• Other media coverage
  

Latest features

• Professor Ien Ang was interviewed by The Sydney Morning Herald about her forthcoming performance at Sydney Writers' Festival: 'Secrets of telling a good tale revealed by a master' (opens in a new window), 17 May. 
• Professor James Arvanitakis spoke to SBS about how the latest university funding cuts will affect students: 'Uni funding cuts spark national outrage' (opens in a new window), 14 May. 
• Associate Professor Hart Cohen and Dr Juan Salazar were interviewed by ABC PM: 'Indigenous students in remote community experiment with digital storytelling' (opens in a new window), 10 May. 
• Professor David Rowe was published in The Conversation: 'A trainer, a bookie and a 'drunk': the Waterhouse saga simply screams Sydney' (opens in a new window), 9 May. 
• Professor Ien Ang was featured in the Australian Financial Review: Madame Butterfly's Revenge (opens in a new window), 9 May.
  
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed for the Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser story: 'Campbelltown's expected June roll-out date for NBN could be safe' (opens in a new window), 30 April.
• Professor James Arvanitakis was interviewed by The Conversation: 'Govt should encourage unis to specialise in teaching or research: Pyne' (opens in a new window), 30 April.
  
• Professor James Arvanitakis was published in New Matilda with Dr Nicky Falkof, lecturer in Media studies at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: ‘Race Still Rules In South Africa’ (opens in a new window), 19 April.
• Dr Shanthi Robertson was published in The Conversation: ‘They’re long-term, temporary and invisible: our other migrant workers’ (opens in a new window), 19 April.
• Professor Deborah Stevenson was mentioned in the Sydney Morning Herald’s article: 'Cultural politics in vogue' (opens in a new window), as a member of the reference group set up by Arts Minister George Souris to advise on the new cultural policy, 19 April.
  
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed on ABC Newcastle Drive radio program discussing the impact of the Boston bombings and similar events on major events around the world, 16 April.
  
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed on ABC 702 Sydney Mornings and ABC Newcastle radio, and on ABC TV News, reflecting on the death of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 9 April. A video of the news program is available on the ABC News website (opens in a new window).
  

Regular features

• Professor James Arvanitakis is a regular feature on the ABC 702 Sydney Mornings Ethics Panel.
• Listen to 94.5fm on Wednesday mornings to hear Professor James Arvanitakis talk politics, news and views on FBi Radio's Sociologic (opens in a new window)- a cultural analysis of everyday events. Sociologic recently received runner-up for the station's best segment. The latest segments can be downloaded from Up For It on FBi Radio, on SoundCloud (opens in a new window). 
• PhD student Ben Eltham (recently submitted) is New Matilda's National Affairs Correspondent. Read Ben's regular articles on the New Matilda (opens in a new window)website. Ben also has a weekly column on the Australian cultural industries in Crikey (opens in a new window), entitled My Cup of Tea.

Other media coverage

Radio and podcasts

• Professor David Rowe spoke to Eddie Goldman in New York for his podcast on ‘the Lamentable State of Sports Journalism’ (opens in a new window), 25 March.
• Professor James Arvanitakis was a guest on ABC Radio National Life Matters program - looking at the Federal ALP leadership spill and whether the office of the Prime Minister is being damaged by a lack of respect, 22 March. You can listen to the program on the ABC Radio National (opens in a new window)website.
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed on SBS Radio (opens in a new window); 2SM, Sydney; and Newstalk ZB, Auckland, discussing Lance Armstrong's confession, 18 January.
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed on the ABC 702 Sydney Breakfast slot discussing the anti-siphoning list for sporting events, 2 January.

Television and video

• Professor David Rowe featured in PressTV's story ’Drugs scandal brings Australian sport to its knees’ (opens in a new window), 13 February.
• Professor James Arvanitakis featured in Press TV's story Polls shows boost in public support for Australian Government (opens in a new window), 17 January. 
  

Print and online articles

• Professor Tony Bennett was interviewed by artsHub (opens in a new window)discussing the significance of cultural knowledge as a way of defining position in society, 4 April. This follows the results of The Great British Class Survey being published in Sociology journal.
• Dr Michael Volkerling was published in On Line Opinion: 'Creative Australia likely to deliver real change' (opens in a new window), 2 April.
• Professor Stephen Tomsen was interviewed about his research on violence in young men's lives. The article was published in The Blacktown Sun (opens in a new window)and Hills News, 26 March.
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed by Australian Associated Press on sports sponsorship for women prior to his involvement in the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Women in Sport Forum. The article was published by The Sydney Morning Herald (opens in a new window)(14 March), NineMSN (opens in a new window)(15 March), Daily Life (opens in a new window)(15 March) and The Age (opens in a new window)(14 March).
• Professor David Rowe discusses how the Federal Government’s planned media reforms stop far short of the recommendations of its own commissioned major review and inquiry, UWS News: Media changes pit a nervous government against a feral press (opens in a new window), 13 March.
• Professor Stephen Tomsen's research was discussed in the Sydney Morning Herald's article: 'Gay hate: the shameful crime wave' (opens in a new window), 4 March.
• Dr Amanda Third featured in the Sydney Morning Herald’s front page story about the popularity of online dating for young people: ‘In the online dating jungle, the digital natives are friendly’, 14 February. The article was also published online, including by the Brisbane Times (opens in a new window).
• Professor David Rowe's article Sports need to back off gambling money (opens in a new window)was published in the Newcastle Herald, 13 February.
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed by the Australian Associated Press for the article ‘Expert wants sports betting investigated’, 6 February. The article was republished by news.com.au (opens in a new window), NineMSN news and Fox Sports.
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed by The Conversation for their article ‘Crime commission reveals illicit substance abuse in sport’ (opens in a new window), 6 February.
• Professor David Rowe featured in the The Age in their article Is Lance past the point of no return? (opens in a new window), 20 January.
• Professor David Rowe featured in the Sun-Herald in their article Sorry is a road well-travelled (opens in a new window)(PDF, 151KB), 20 January.
  
• Professor David Rowe was interviewed by The Conversation for their article Lance Armstrong says he last doped in 2005 (opens in a new window), 18 January.
  
• Professor David Rowe featured in the Courier Mail in their article Celebrities' sorry apologies have no redeeming value (opens in a new window)(PDF, 99KB), 16 January.
  
• Dr Philippa Collin was interviewed by The Conversation for their article PM calls on social media companies to help take on cyber bullies (opens in a new window), 16 January. 

Opinion pieces

• Professor James Arvanitakis was published in The Conversation: 'Golden Dawn: Greek fascists come Down Under' (opens in a new window), 5 April.
• Professor James Arvanitakis featured in The Conversation: 'Julia Gillard may have won the vote, but the ALP remains desperately dysfunctional', 21 March.
• Professor James Arvanitakis featured in The Conversation: 'Julia Gillard’s western Sydney road show: the good, the bad and the ugly' (opens in a new window), 8 March.
  
• Professor James Arvanitakis featured in New Matilda: 'Western Sydney Isn't Anyone's Heartland' (opens in a new window), 7 March
  
• Professor David Rowe featured in On Line Opinion: 'The Tabloid Turn' (opens in a new window), 5 March.
• Professor James Arvanitakis featured in New Matilda: 'University Is Not Just For The Rich' (opens in a new window), 4 March.
  
• Professor David Rowe featured in The Conversation: 'The forgotten tests: why we can’t watch the Australia-India series' (opens in a new window), 1 March.
• Professor David Rowe featured in The Conversation: 'On scandal after scandal, sports journalists drop the ball' (opens in a new window), 21 February. This piece featured in The Conversation’s Best of the Week stories list.
  
• Dr Alana Lentin featured in the Guardian: 'Cameron's immigration hierarchy: Indians good, eastern Europeans bad' (opens in a new window), 18 February.
• Dr Alana Lentin featured in the Guardian (with Valérie Amiraux): ‘François Hollande's misguided move: taking "race" out of the constitution’ (opens in a new window), 12 February.
• Professor David Rowe featured in The Conversation: Does Channel 7 serve the Australian Open we’re owed? (opens in a new window), 25 January.
• Professor David Rowe featured in The Conversation discussing Lance Armstrong's confession on Oprah: Lance Armstrong begins his confession – but why Oprah? (opens in a new window), 18 January.
  
• Professor James Arvanitakis featured in The Punch discussing science versus skeptics in climate change debates: I wish, oh, I wish I was a climate skeptic (opens in a new window), 15 January. This article was also republished by The Canadian.