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Professor David Rowe
Professor David Rowe joined the Institute for Culture and Society in March 2006. He has published extensively in the areas of media and popular culture, especially sport, music and journalism, and brings substantial international research experience to the Institute, serving as a peer reviewer/editorial advisor for more than 20 scholarly journals and for several national research councils. Professor Rowe has published many essays and commentaries on cultural and social matters in print, broadcast and online media, and has been a research consultant for several government departments, local councils, professional organisations and community groups.
Professor Rowe’s books include Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (second edition, Open University Press, 2004; Arabic translation, Cairo: The Nile Group, 2006; Chinese translation, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2013, in press); Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Futures (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011); and Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport (authored with Brett Hutchins, Routledge, 2012). His latest books are Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost? (edited with Jay Scherer, Routledge, 2013, in press) and Digital Media Sport: Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society (edited with Brett Hutchins, Routledge, 2013, in press). Professor Rowe’s work has been translated into several languages, including Chinese, French, Turkish, Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
Qualifications
PhD, 1986, Sociology, University of Essex, UK
MA, 1978, Sociology, University of York, UK
BA (Hons), 1976, Sociology, University of Nottingham, UK
Honours and Awards
Visiting Research Fellowships
2003: Visiting Research Fellowship. School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK
1997-8: Visiting Research Fellowship. Centre for Communication and Information Studies, University of Westminster, London; Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, UK
1993-4: Visiting Research Fellowship. Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths' College; School of Social Sciences, University of Bath; Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London, UK
1989-90: Visiting Research Fellowship. Department of Sociology, University of Essex; Department of Communications, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK
Selected Publications
Books
Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. 2012, Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport (opens in a new window), London: Routledge.
Rowe, D. 2011, Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Futures (opens in a new window), London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Rowe, D. 2004, Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (2nd ed.) (opens in a new window), Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press. [Arabic and Chinse translations forthcoming].
Miller, T., Lawrence, G., McKay, J. and Rowe, D. 2001, Globalization and Sport: Playing the World (opens in a new window), London: Sage.
Rowe, D. 1995, Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure (opens in a new window), London: Sage. [Published in Turkish as Populer Kulturler: Rock Ve Sporda Haz Politikasi. Istanbul: Ayrinti Yayinlari (1996)].
Cunningham, S. and Miller, T. (with Rowe, D.) 1994, Contemporary Australian Television (opens in a new window), Sydney: New South Wales University Press.
Books (Edited)
Rowe, D. (ed.) 2004, Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media (opens in a new window), Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.
Rowe, D. and Lawrence, G. (eds) 1998, Tourism, Leisure, Sport: Critical Perspectives (opens in a new window), Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Rowe, D. and Lawrence, G. (eds) 1990, Sport and Leisure: Trends in Australian Popular Culture, Sydney: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Lawrence, G. and Rowe, D. (eds) 1986, Power Play: Essays in the Sociology of Australian Sport, Sydney: Hale and Iremonger.
Book Chapters
Miller, T., Rowe, D. and Lawrence, G. 2010, 'The New International Division of Cultural Labour and Sport', in, Maguire, J. and Falcous, M. (eds), Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings (opens in a new window), London: Routledge, pp 217-229.
Rowe, D. 2010, 'Tabloidization: Form, Style and Sociocultural Change', in, Rupar, V. (ed.), Journalism and Meaning-Making: Reading the Newspaper (opens in a new window), Cresskill, NJ, USA: Hampton Press, pp 121-138.
Rowe, D. 2010, 'Tabloidization of News', in, Allan, S. (ed.), The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (opens in a new window), Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp 350-361.
Boyle, R., Rowe, D. and Whannel, G. 2010, ''Delight in Trivial Controversy'? Questions for Sports Journalism', in, Allan, S. (ed.), The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (opens in a new window), Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp 245-255.
Rowe, D. 2010, 'Attention La Femme! Intimate Relationships and Male Sports Performance', in, Fuller, L. K. (ed.), Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts (opens in a new window), New York: Peter Lang, pp 69-81.
Rowe, D. 2009, ‘The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning’, in, Lemmings, D. and Walker, C. (eds), Moral Panics, The Media and the Law in Early Modern England (opens in a new window), Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Pan MacMillan, pp 22-40.
Rowe, D. 2009, 'Sport and the Repudiation of the Global', in, James, P. (ed.), Globalization and Culture: Global-Local Consumption (opens in a new window), London: Sage, pp 111-123. [Reprint of article in 2003, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 38(3): 281-294].
Rowe, D. 2008, ‘The East-West Balance in 21st Century Media Sport’, in, Luo, Q., Wen, C., Liu, F., Zhou, X., Zhao, J., Hu, R., Liu, X. and Liu, P. (eds), Sports Globalization Communication, Asia Media Research Centre, Communication University of China: China, pp 14-27.
Rowe, D. 2008, ‘History of Sports and the Media’, in, Donsbach, W. (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (Volume X) (opens in a new window), Malden, MA., Oxford, UK, Carlton, Vic: Blackwell, pp 4798-4802.
Rowe, D. 2008, ‘Sexualization’, in, Malcolm, D. (ed.), The Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies (opens in a new window), Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage, pp 225-227.
Rowe, D. 2007, ‘Sports and Culture’, in, Ritzer, G. (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (opens in a new window), Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. 2006, ‘The Future Role of Professional Sport and the Media in the Asia Pacific Societies’, in, Asia Pacific Yearbook (Anuario Asia-Pacífico) (opens in a new window), Barcelona and Madrid: Elcano Royal Institute, Casa Asia and the CIDOB Foundation. [In Spanish only].
Rowe, D. 2006, ‘Leisure, Media and Mass Communications’, in, Rojek, C., Shaw, S. and Veal, A. J. (eds), Handbook of Leisure Studies (opens in a new window), London: Palgrave.
Rowe D. 2006, ‘Sports et Médias’, in, Ohl, F. (ed.), Sociologie du Sport: Perspectives Internationales et Mondialisation (opens in a new window), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, pp 65-84.
Rowe, D. 2006, 'The Stuff of Dreams, or the Dream Stuffed? Rugby League, Media Empires, Sex Scandals, and Global Plays' (opens in a new window), 8th Annual Tom Brock Lecture, 21 September 2006, Sydney: Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH).
Rowe, D. and Stevenson, D. 2005, ‘Sydney 2000: Sociality and Spatiality in Global Media Events’, in, Tomlinson, A. and Young, C. (eds), National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture, Politics, and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup (opens in a new window), New York: State University of New York Press, pp 197-214.
Rowe, D. 2005, ‘Fourth Estate or Fan Club? Sports Journalism Engages the Popular’, in, Allan, S. (ed.), Journalism: Critical Issues (opens in a new window), Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press, pp 125-136.
Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Sports and Television’, in, Newcomb, H. (ed.), Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television (opens in a new window)[Vol. 4, 2nd ed.], London and New York: Routledge, pp 2172-2177.
Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Antonio Gramsci: Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular’, in, Giulianotti, R. (ed.), Sport and Modern Social Theorists (opens in a new window), Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, pp 97-110.
Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Introduction: Mapping the Media Sports Cultural Complex’, in, Rowe, D. (ed.), Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media (opens in a new window), Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press, pp 1-22.
Rowe, D. 2003, ‘The Global Love-Match: Sport and Television’, in, Miller, T. (ed.), Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies Vol. 3 (opens in a new window), London and New York: Routledge, pp 92-109. [Reprint].
Rowe, D. and McKay, J. 2003, ‘A Man's Game: Sport and Masculinities’, in, Tomsen, S. and Donaldson, M. (eds), Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities (opens in a new window), Melbourne: Pluto, pp 200-216.
Rowe, D. 2003, ‘A Fan’s Life: Lost and Found’, in, Denison, J. and Markula, P. (eds), ‘Moving Writing’: Crafting Movement in Sport Research (opens in a new window), New York: Peter Lang, pp 115-131.
Rowe, D. 2001, ‘Mass Media and Sports’, in, Smelser, N. J. and Baltes, P. B. (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (opens in a new window), Oxford: Elsevier Science, pp 9346-9350.
Rowe, D., McKay, J., and Miller, T. 2001, ‘Panic Sports and the Racialized Male Body’, in, Miller, T. (ed.), Sportsex (opens in a new window), Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp 79-102.
Rowe, D. 2001, ‘Globalisation, Regionalisation and Australianisation in Music: Lessons from the Parallel Importing Debate’, in, Bennett, T. and Carter, D. (eds), Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (opens in a new window), Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp 46-65.
McKay, J., Lawrence, G., Miller T. and Rowe, D. 2001, ‘Gender Equity, Hegemonic Masculinity and the Governmentalisation of Australian Amateur Sport’, in, Bennett, T. and Carter, D. (eds), Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (opens in a new window), Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp 232-50.
Rowe, D. 2000, ‘No Gain, No Game? Media and Sport’, in, Curran, J. and Gurevitch, M. (eds), Mass Media and Society (opens in a new window)(3rd ed.), London: Hodder Arnold, pp 346-361.
Refereed Journal Articles
Gilmour, C. and Rowe, D. 2010, 'When Becks Came to Sydney: Multiple Readings of a Sport Celebrity' (opens in a new window), Soccer and Society, 11(3): 229-241.
Rowe, D. 2010, 'Stages of the Global: Media, Sport, Racialization and the Last Temptation of Zinedine Zidane' (opens in a new window), International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 45(3): 355-371.
Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. 2010, 'Sport, Media and Consumption in Asia: A Merchandised Milieu' (opens in a new window), American Behavioral Scientist, 53(10): 1530-1548.
Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. 2010, 'Reconfiguring Media Sport for the Online World: An Inquiry Into "Sports News and Digital Media"' (opens in a new window), International Journal of Communication, 4: 696-718.
Rowe, D., Ruddock, A. and Hutchins, B. 2010, 'Cultures of Complaint: Online Fan Message Boards and Networked Digital Media Sport Communities' (opens in a new window), Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 16(3): 298-315.
Ruddock, A., Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. 2010, 'Contradictions in Media Sport Culture: The Reinscription of Football Supporter Traditions through Online Media' (opens in a new window), European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(3): 323-339.
Adair, D. and Rowe, D. 2010, 'Beyond Boundaries? 'Race', Ethnicity and Identity in Sport' (opens in a new window), International Review for the Sociology of Sport [Special Issue: 'Interrogating Boundaries of "Race", Ethnicity and Identity'], 45: 251-257.
Rowe, D., Gilmour, C. and Petzold, T. 2010, 'Australia: Mediated Representation of Global Politics', The International Journal of the History of Sport (opens in a new window), 27(9/10): 1510-1533.
Rowe, D., Petzold, T. and Gilmour, C. 2010, 'A Very Olympian Year! The Observation from Australia', The International Journal of the History of Sport, 27(9/10): 1739-1758.
Stevenson, D., McKay, K. and Rowe, D. 2010, 'Tracing British Cultural Policy Domains: Contexts, Collaborations and Constituencies' (opens in a new window), International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(2): 159-172.
Stevenson, D., Rowe, D. and McKay, K. 2010, 'Convergence in British Cultural Policy: The Social, the Cultural, and the Economic' (opens in a new window), Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 40(4): 248-265.
Rowe, D. 2009, ‘Media and Sport: The Cultural Dynamics of Global Games’ (opens in a new window), Sociology Compass, 3-4: 543-558.
Rowe, D. 2009, ‘Media Studies Regained’ (opens in a new window), Television & News Media, 10(1): 141-143.
Rowe, D. 2009, ‘Power Trip: Sport and Media’ (opens in a new window), International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 6(2): 150-166.
Rowe, D. and Brass, K. 2009, ‘Knowledge Limited: Public Communication, Risk and University Media Policy’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 23(1): 53-76.
Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. 2009, ‘Global Sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 23(2): 171-182.
Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. 2009, ‘Getting a Ticket to the World Party: Televising Soccer in Australia’, Soccer and Society, 10(1): 9-26.
Rowe, D. and Hutchins, B. 2009, ‘From Broadcast Scarcity to Digital Plenitude: The Changing Dynamics of the Media Sport Content Economy’ (opens in a new window), Television and New Media, 10(4): 354-370.
Hutchins, B., Rowe, D. and Ruddock, A. 2009, ‘‘It’s Fantasy Football Made Real’: Networked Media Sport, the Internet, and the Hybrid Reality of MyFootballClub’ (opens in a new window), Sociology of Sport Journal, 26(1): 89-106.
Rowe, D. 2008, ‘Culture, Sport and the Night-Time Economy’, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 14(4): 399-415.
Rowe, D. 2008, ‘Time and Timelessness in Sport Film’, Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics [Formerly Culture, Sport, Society], 11(2-3): 146-158.
Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. 2008, ‘Contemporary Media Sport: De- or Re-Westernization’ (opens in a new window), International Journal of Sport Communication, 1(2): 177-194.
Rowe, D. and Brass, K. 2008, ‘The Uses of Academic Knowledge: The University in the Media’ (opens in a new window), Media, Culture & Society, 30(5): 677-698.
Rowe, D. 2007, ‘Sports Journalism: Still the 'Toy Department' of the News Media?’ (opens in a new window), Journalism, 8(4): 385-405.
Rowe, D. 2007, ‘Media, Sport and Racialization: The Finale of Zinedine Zidane’ [Media, sport e razzializzazione. La finale di Zinedine Zidane], Studi Culturali, IV(2): 343-362.
Rowe, D. 2006, ‘Coming to Terms with Leisure and Globalization’ (opens in a new window), Leisure Studies, 25(4): 423-436.
Rowe, D., Markwell, K. and Stevenson, D. 2006, ‘Exploring Participants’ Experiences of Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Intersections of Sport, Gender and Sexuality’ (opens in a new window), International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2(2).
Rowe, D. 2005, ‘Working Knowledge Encounters: Academics, Journalists and the Conditions of Cultural Labour’ (opens in a new window), Social Semiotics, 15(3): 269-288.
Stevenson, D., Rowe, D. and Markwell, K. 2005, ‘Explorations in ‘Event Ecology’ (opens in a new window): The Case of the International Gay Games’, Social Identities, 11(5): 84-106.
Rowe, D. 2005, ‘Some Critical Reflections on Research and Consultancy in Cultural Tourism Planning’, Tourism, Culture & Communication (opens in a new window), 5(3): 127-37.
Markwell, K., Stevenson, D. and Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Footsteps and Memories: Interpreting an Australian Urban Landscape through Thematic Walking Tours’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 10(5): 457-73.
Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Contemporary Media Education: Ideas for Overcoming the Perils of Popularity and the Theory-Practice Split’ (opens in a new window), Journal of Media Practice, 5(1): 43-58.
Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Watching Brief: Cultural Citizenship and Viewing Rights’ (opens in a new window), Sport in Society, 7(3): 385-402.
Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Fulfilling the Cultural Mission: Popular Genre and Public Remit’ (opens in a new window), European Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(3): 381-399.
Miller, T., Rowe, D., Lawrence, G. and McKay, J. 2003, ‘The Over Production of US Sport and the New International Division of Cultural Labour’ (opens in a new window), International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 38(4): 427-440.
Rowe, D. 2003, ‘Sport and the Repudiation of the Global’ (opens in a new window), International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 38(3): 281-294. [Reprinted in: James, P. (ed.), Globalization and Culture: Global-Local Consumption (opens in a new window), London: Sage, pp 111-123].
Markwell, K. and Rowe, D. 2003, ‘The International Gay Games: Subverting Homophobia or Selling Out?’ (opens in a new window), International Sports Studies, 25(1): 5-20.
Rowe, D. 2002, ‘Producing the Crisis: The State of Leisure Studies’ (opens in a new window), Annals of Leisure Research, 5(1): 1-13.
Rowe, D. 2002, ‘Taking the Sports Brief: A Review Essay’ (opens in a new window), Theory & Event, 6(1).
McGuirk, P. and Rowe, D. 2001, ‘“Defining Moments” and Refining Myths in the Making of Place Identity’ (opens in a new window), Geographical Research [formerly: Australian Geographical Studies], 39(1): 52-66.
Rowe, D. 2000, ‘Global Media Events and the Positioning of Presence’ (opens in a new window), Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (opens in a new window), 97: 11-21.
Rowe, D. 2000, ‘Amour Impropre, or 'Fever Pitch' sans Reflexivity’ (opens in a new window), Sociology of Sport Journal, 17(1): 95-97.
Rowe, D. 2000, ‘On Going Tabloid: A Preliminary Analysis’ (opens in a new window), Metro, 121/122: 78-85.
Refereed Conference Papers
Rowe, D. and Hutchins, B. 2009, ‘A Battle Between Enraged Bulls’: The 2009 Australian Senate Inquiry into Sport News and Digital Media (opens in a new window), Communications Policy & Research Forum 2009 (opens in a new window), pp 165-175.
Rowe, D. and Lally, E. 2009, ‘Impossible Choices: Complexity and Dissatisfaction in the Telecommunications Consumer-Service Provider Relationship’, Communications Policy & Research Forum 2009 (opens in a new window), pp 330-345.
Other Articles
Rowe, D. 2006, 'Media Sport Culture An Education in the Politics of Acquisition' (opens in a new window), Play The Game, 29 December.
