Doctor Anna Reading
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR,
Institute for Culture & Society
Personal
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Institute for Culture & Society
Professional Memberships
- Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (2012-02-20)
Contact
| Email: | A.Reading@uws.edu.au |
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| Location: | BB.1.21 Penrith (Werrington South) |
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Biography
Professor Anna Reading's interdisciplinary academic work has significantly developed the emerging field of digital media memory studies, especially in relation to knowledge practices and the mobile witnessing of conflict and atrocity; as well as the domestic memory uses of digital technologies. She has worked at The University of Lodz, Poland (1988-9); was a freelance journalist and playwright (1990-2) and a Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies (University of Westminster, UK) (1992-5). At London South Bank University, UK (1995-2011) she led in the development of a new Department of Arts, Media and English, developed its innovative project centred MA Creative Media Arts and developed an international research culture in media, culture and communication, becoming Director of the Centre for Media and Culture Research (2009-11). She is joint Editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society and has been Chair of the Board from 2010. She is on boards of the journal of Memory Studies, Media Education Research, Philosophy of Photography, Media Studies, and Qualitative Communication Research. She moved to Australia in the Autumn of 2011 to take up a Professorship at UWS.
Qualifications
PhD (1996) 'Socially Inherited Memory, Gender and the Public Sphere in Poland' University of Westminster, UK
PG Dip Periodical Journalism. (1991) London College of Printing, UK
MA (1988) Women’s Studies (Distinction), University of York, UK
BA Hons (1987) English Literature and Politics (First Class), University of York, UK
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Interests
- Sociology of knowledge and cultural memory, mobile technologies, terrorism, genocide and the media, gender and communication, news and journalism, globalisation, writing for performance.
Awards
- Honorary Visiting Research Professor, Centre for Media and Culture Research, London South Bank University, 2011-14 2011-10-01
- Research Associate, University of Glasgow 2011-09-01
- Award for Research Excellence, LSBU 2008-05-26
Committees
- Humanities and Social Science Review Committee
- Research Committee, School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Publications
Books
- Reading, A. (2002), 'The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory', : Palgrave 0333761472.
Chapters in Books
- Reading, A. (2012), 'Globital time : time in the digital globalised age', Time, Media and Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230276703.
- Reading, A. (2012), 'The European Roma : an unsettled right to memory', Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230354067.
- Reading, A. (2011), 'Globalisation and Digital Memory: Globital Memory's Six Dynamics', On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age, Palgrave 0230275680.
- Reading, A. (2011), 'Globital Witnessing: Mobile Memories of Atrocity and Terror from London and Iran', Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Literature and Culture., Peter Lang 9783039119233.
- Reading, A. (2009), 'The Playful Panopticon? Ethics and the Coded Self in Social Networking Sites', Communications in the 21st Century, Volume 8. Engagement and Exposure: Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking, Passagen Verlag .
- Garde-Hansen, J., Hoskins, A. and Reading, A. (2009), 'Introduction', Save As... Digital Memories, Palgrave 9780230542525.
- Reading, A. (2009), 'Memobilia: The Mobile Phone and the Emergence of Wearable Memories', Save As... Digital Memories, Palgrave 9780230542525.
- Reading, A. (2008), 'Remembrance of Things Fast: Conceptualising Nostalgic-Play in the Battlestar Galactica Video Game', Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, Venderbilt University Press 9780826516015.
- Reading, A. (2007), 'Gender, Memory and Culture: The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust', Theories of Memory: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press 9780748625031.
- Reading, A. (2006), 'Young People's Reception of Holocaust Films in Different Cultural Contexts', The Holocaust and the Moving Image. Films on Genocide and the Holocaust, Wallflower Press 1904764517.
- Reading, A. (2003), 'Sale of the Century: Engendering Media Policy in Eastern Europe', Business as Usual? Media in Eastern Europe, Hampton 1572732652.
- Reading, A. (2001), 'Clicking on Hitler: The Virtual Holocaust @home', Visual Culture and the Holocaust, Rutgers University Press 0485300974.
Journal Articles
- Reading, A. (2012), 'The dynamics of zero : on digital memories of Mars and the human foetus in the globital memory field', ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, 24.
- Reading, A. (2011), 'Identity, memory and cosmopolitanism: The otherness of the past and a right to memory?', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16.
- Reading, A. (2011), 'The London Bombings: Mobile Witnessing, Mortal Bodies and Globital Time', Journal of Memory Studies, -66.
- Reading, A. (2010), 'Gender and the Right to Memory', Media Deveploment, 4.
- Reading, A. (2009), 'Mobile Witnessing: Ethics and the Camera Phone in the War on Terror', Globalizations, 16.
- Reading, A. (2008), 'The Mobile Family Gallery? Gender, Memory and the Cameraphone', Trames: A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7.
- Reading, A. (2006), 'Professing Porn or Obscene Browsing? On Proper Distance in the University Classroom', Media, Culture and Society, 8.
- Reading, A. (2003), 'Media Culture and Society', Digital Interactivity in Public Memory Institutions: The Uses of New Technologies in Holocaust Museums, 19.
Conference Papers
- Reading, A. (2009), 'The Global Unconscious and Globalised Memories in the Digital Age', 1st Global Conference: Digital Memories, Austria.
- Reading, A. (2009), 'The Playful Panopticon? Ethics and the Coded Self in Social Networking Sites', Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking, Budapest.
Exhibitions
- 2009, 'Cacti Hearts'
- 2005, 'RP35'
Research
Professor Reading is currently writingGender, Memory and Digital Media: Globital Memory Wars(Palgrave) and is co-editing a new international collection of essays on the mobilisation of memories of nonviolent struggle. She is also a playwright, with work that tackles questions of social and political justice.
Grants / Current Projects
Developing Innovations in Digital Globalised Distribution Networks. Lead Academic with Key Media 20 and Tracc Films UK Arts and Humanities Research Council/Technology Strategy Board. AUS$ 281895 (£176, 320) 2010-12.
Diasporic Communities, Digital Cultures and Social Work Policy and Practice. Joint award with Professor Keith Popple, Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University for appointment of Dr Jonathan Davies, Senior Research Fellow to conduct pilot study. Vice Chancellors Research Fund. AUS$ 15987 (£10,000) 2010.
Globital Memory Wars. Centre for Media and Culture Research/Institute for Social Science Research. QR Major Research Award for Research Leave. For pilot research on the ways in which mobile and social technologies are changing gendered memory practices. AUS$7993 (£5000) 2010.
Time and Memory in British Theatre. Russian Federation, Ministry of Education. Principal Investigator. Research project with Tanya Nikitina, University of Moscow involving new digital media archives of performances at National Theatre UK. AUS$29737 (£18, 600) 2009.
Books
Garde-Hansen, J. Hoskins, and Reading, A. (eds) 2009.Save As... Digital Memories. London: Palgrave.
Reading, A. (2002)The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory. London: Palgrave
Stokes, J and Reading, A. (1999)Media in Britain: Current Debates and Developments. Basingstoke: Macmillan
Sparks, C. and Reading, A. (1998)Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media. London: Sage
Reading, A. (1992) Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism. Basingstoke: Macmillan
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