Professor David Rowe

Professor David Rowe

RESEARCH PROFESSOR,
Institute for Culture & Society

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Essex (UK)
  • MA University of York (UK)
  • BA Nottingham University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture & Society

Contact

Email:D.Rowe@uws.edu.au
Extension:9522
Mobile:
Location:EM.G.08
Parramatta
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Publications

Books

  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Sport Beyond Television : The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport', : Routledge 9780415887182.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Futures', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781849660709.
  • Rowe, D. (2004), 'Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (second edition)', : Open University Press 9780335210756.
  • Miller, T., Lawrence, G., Mckay, J. and Rowe, D. (2001), 'Globalization and Sport: Playing the World', : Sage 0761959688.

Chapters in Books

  • Rowe, D. (2013), 'The 'economic Olympics'? : Shanghai 2010 after Beijing 2008', Shanghai Expo: an International Forum on the Future of Cities, Routledge 9780415524629.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), '"Truly a fan experience"? the cultural politics of the live site', We Love to Hate Each Other: Mediated Football Fan Culture, Nordicom 9789186523350.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'A very Olympian year! The observation from Australia', Encoding the Olympics : The Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide, Routledge 9780415674997.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Torchlight temptations : hosting the Olympics and the global gaze', Watching the Olympics : Politics, power and representation, Routledge 9780415578325.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Australia : mediated representation of global politics', Encoding the Olympics : the Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide, Routledge 9780415674997.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'The Mediated Sport Event: Neither Pure nor Simple', Internationale Sportevents im Umbruch? Instrumentalisierung, Digitalisierung, Trivialisierung: Tagungsband zum: Internationalen Hambuger Symposium ?Sport und Okonomie" 2010, Meyer and Meyer 9783898996808.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'Rock Culture: The Dialectics of Life and Death', Popular Music: Volume III: Representation and Consumption, Sage 9781849207584.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'Sport and Its Audiences', The Handbook of Media Audiences, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405184182.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'Sports Media: Beyond Broadcasting, Beyond Sports, Beyond Societies?', Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption, Routledge 0203832795.
  • Miller, T., Rowe, D. and Lawrence, G. (2010), 'The New International Division of Cultural Labour and Sport', Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings, Routledge 9780415498340.
  • Rowe, D. (2010), 'Attention La Femme! Intimate Relationships and Male Sports Performance', Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts, Peter Lang 9781433105098.
  • Boyle, R., Rowe, D. and Whannel, G. (2010), 'Delight in Trivial Controversy? Questions for Sports Journalism', The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, Routledge 9780415465298.
  • Rowe, D. (2010), 'Tabloidization of News', The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, Routledge 9780415465298.
  • Rowe, D. (2010), 'Tabloidization: Form, Style and SocioCultural Change', Journalism and Meaning-making: Reading the Newspaper, Hampton Press 9781572739383.
  • Rowe, D. (2009), 'The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning', Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230527324.
  • Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. (2009), 'Lubrication and Domination: Beer, Sport, Masculinity, and the Australian Gender Order', Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life, Peter Lang 9781433100765.
  • Rowe, D. (2008), 'The East-West Balance in 21st Century Media Sport', Sports Globalization Communication, Asia Media Research Centre, Communication University of China 9787811273397.
  • Rowe, D. (2008), 'Sexualization', The Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies, Sage Publications 9781412907354.
  • Rowe, D. (2008), 'History of Sports and the Media', The International Encyclopedia of Communication (Volume X), Blackwell Publishers Inc 9781405131995.
  • Rowe, D. (2007), 'Sports and Culture', Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell 9781405124331.
  • Rowe, D. and Stevenson, D. (2006), 'Sydney 2000: sociality and spatiality in global media events', National identity and global sports events: culture, politics, and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup, State University of New York Press 9780791466155.
  • Rowe, D. (2006), 'Leisure, mass communications and media', A Handbook of Leisure Studies, Palgrave Macmillan 9781403902788.
  • Rowe, D. (2006), 'Sports et Media', Sociologie du Sport: Perspectives Internationales et Mondialisation, Presses Universitaires de France 2130553079.
  • Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. (2006), 'The Future Role of Professional Sport and the Media in the Asia Pacific Societies', Asia Pacific Yearbook (Anuario Asia-Pacifico 2005, Edicion 2006), Elcano Royal Institute, Casa Asia and the CIDOB Foundation 8487072526.
  • Rowe, D. (2005), 'Fourth Estate or Fan Club? Sports Journalism Engages the Popular', Journalism: Critical Issues, Open University Press 0335214754.

Journal Articles

  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'The bid, the lead-up, the event and the legacy : global cultural politics and hosting the Olympics', British Journal of Sociology, 21.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Image projection and gaze reception : mediating East Asia through the Summer Olympics', International Journal of the History of Sport, 13.
  • Rowe, D. and Baker, S. (2012), 'The "fall" of what? FIFA's public viewing areas and their contribution to the quality of public life', Space and Culture, 13.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Sport in Malaysia : national imperatives and western seductions', Sociology of Sport Journal, 21.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Image projection and gaze reception : mediating East Asia through the Summer Olympics', International Journal of the History of Sport, 13.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Live sites in an age of media reproduction : mega events and transcontinental experience in public space', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, .
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Work and play in the city : some reflections on the night-time leisure economy of Sydney', Annals of Leisure Research, 16.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Sport in Malaysia : national imperatives and Western seductions', Sociology of Sport Journal, 21.
  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Opening ceremonies and closing narratives : the embrace of media and the Olympics', JOMEC Journal, .
  • Rowe, D. and Brass, K. (2011), ''We Take Academic Freedom Quite Seriously': How University Media Offices Manage Academic Public Communication', International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 18.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'Serious Leisure Studies: The Roads ahead Less Travelled', World Leisure Journal, 4.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'The televised sport 'monkey trial': 'Race' and the politics of post-colonial cricket', Sport in Society, 13.
  • Rowe, D. (2011), 'Obituary for the newspaper? Tracking the tabloid', Journalism, 18.
  • Rowe, D. and Bavinton, N. (2011), 'Tender for the Night: After-Dark Cultural Complexities in the Night-Time Economy', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 15.
  • Stevenson, D., Mckay, K. and Rowe, D. (2010), 'Tracing British cultural policy domains: contexts, collaborations and constituencies', International Journal of Cultural Policy, 14.
  • Rowe, D., Petzold, T. and Gilmour, C. (2010), 'A Very Olympian Year! The Observation from Australia', The International Journal of the History of Sport, 20.
  • Rowe, D., Gilmour, C. and Petzold, T. (2010), 'Australia: Mediated Representation of Global Politics', The International Journal of the History of Sport, 24.
  • Rowe, D., Ruddock, A. and Hutchins, B. (2010), 'Cultures of Complaint: Online Fan Message Boards and Networked Digital Media Sport Communities', Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 18.
  • Rowe, D. (2010), 'Stages of the Global: Media, Sport, Racialization and the Last Temptation of Zinedine Zidane', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 17.
  • Ruddock, A., Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. (2010), 'Contradictions in media sport culture: The reinscription of football supporter traditions through online media', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17.
  • Adair, D. and Rowe, D. (2010), 'Beyond Boundaries? "Race", Ethnicity and Identity in Sport', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 7.
  • Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. (2010), 'Reconfiguring Media Sport for the Online World: An Inquiry Into "Sports News and Digital Media"', International Journal of Communication, 23.
  • Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. (2010), 'Sport, Media and Consumption in Asia: A Merchandized Milieu', American Behavioral Scientist, 19.
  • Gilmour, C. and Rowe, D. (2010), 'When Becks Came to Sydney: Multiple Readings of a Sport Celebrity', Soccer & Society, 13.
  • Stevenson, D., Rowe, D. and Mckay, K. (2010), 'Convergence in British Cultural Policy: The Social, the Cultural, and the Economic', The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 18.
  • Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. (2009), 'From broadcast scarcity to digital plenitude: The changing dynamics of the media sport content economy', Television and New Media, 17.
  • 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', Sociology of Sport Journal, 18.
  • Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. (2009), 'Getting a ticket to the world party: Televising soccer in Australia', Soccer and Society, 18.
  • Rowe, D. (2009), 'Power Trip: Sport and Media', International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 17.
  • Rowe, D. (2009), 'Media Studies Regained', Television & New Media, 3.
  • Rowe, D. and Brass, K. (2009), 'Knowledge Limited: Public Communication, Risk and University Media Policy', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 24.
  • Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. (2009), 'Global Sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 12.
  • Rowe, D. (2009), 'Media and Sport: The Cultural Dynamics of Global Games', Sociology Compass, 16.
  • Rowe, D. and Gilmour, C. (2008), 'Contemporary Media Sport: De- or Re-Westernization', International Journal of Sport Communication, 18.
  • Rowe, D. and Brass, K. (2008), 'The Uses of Academic Knowledge: The University in the Media', Media, Culture & Society, 22.
  • Rowe, D. (2008), 'Time and Timelessness in Sport Film', Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics (Formerly Culture, Sport, Society), 13.
  • Rowe, D. (2008), 'Culture, Sport and the Night-Time Economy', IThe International Journal of Cultural Policy, 17.
  • Rowe, D. (2007), 'Sports Journalism: Still the 'Toy Department' of the News Media', Journalism, 21.
  • Rowe, D. (2007), 'Media, Sport and Racialization: The Finale of Zinedine Zidane [Media, sport e razzializzazione. La finale di Zinedine Zidane]', Studi Culturali, 20.
  • Rowe, D. (2006), 'Coming to terms with leisure and globalization', Leisure Studies, 14.
  • Rowe, D., Markwell, K. and Stevenson, D. (2006), 'Exploring participants' experiences of the Gay Games: intersections of sport, gender and sexuality', International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 17.
  • Rowe, D. (2005), 'Working Knowledge Encounters: Academics, Journalists and the Conditions of Cultural Labour', Social Semiotics, 20.
  • Stevenson, D., Rowe, D. and Markwell, K. (2005), 'Explorations in 'Event Ecology': The Case of the International Gay Games', Social Identities, 22.
  • Rowe, D. (2004), 'Fulfilling the Cultural Mission: Popular Genre and Public Remit', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 19.
  • Markwell, K., Stevenson, D. and Rowe, D. (2004), 'Footsteps and Memories: Interpreting Landscapes through Thematic Walking Tours', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 17.
  • Rowe, D. (2003), 'Sport and the Repudiation of the Global', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 14.
  • Miller, T., Rowe, D., Lawrence, G. and McKay, j. (2003), 'The Over Production of US Sport and the New International Division of Cultural Labour', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 14.

Conference Papers

  • Rowe, D. (2012), 'Signal lost? Sport, public service media and cultural citizenship', RIPE, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Lally, E. and Rowe, D. (2009), 'Impossible Choices: Complexity and Dissatisfaction in the Telecommunications Consumer-Service Provider Relationship', Communications Policy & Research Forum 2009, UTS, Sydney.
  • Hutchins, B. and Rowe, D. (2009), ''A Battle Between Enraged Bulls': The 2009 Australian Senate Inquiry into Sport News and Digital Media', Communications Policy & Research Forum 2009, UTS, Sydney.
  • Rowe, D. (2006), 'Media Sport Culture: An Education in the Politics of Acquisition', Educating Sport and Exercise Professionals: Current Approaches and Future Tasks : International Congress Of Sport Science, Yong In, Korea.

Research

Current Projects

Title:A Nation of 'Good Sports'? Cultural Citizenship and Sport in Contemporary Australia
Years:2013-01-02 - 2016-01-01
ID:P00020831
UWS Researchers:David Rowe
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Journalism, Cultural Politics and the Olympic Games: Interrogating Press Representations of Public Finance, Private Profit and City Redevelopment in the Staging of Global Events
Years:2007-11-22 - 2008-12-11
ID:P0015871
UWS Researchers:David Rowe
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Culture Circuits: Exploring the International Networks and Institutions Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy [via University of Newcastle]
Years:2006-09-15 - 2008-09-14
ID:P0015364
UWS Researchers:David Rowe and Deborah Stevenson
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:The City After Dark: Cultural Planning and Governance of the 'Night-Time Economy' in Parramatta
Years:2007-02-20 - 2008-02-19
ID:P0015409
UWS Researchers:David Rowe, Deborah Stevenson and Stephen Tomsen
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Parramatta City Council
Title:Struggling for Possession: The Control and Use of Online Media Sport [via Monash University]
Years:2008-02-28 - 2011-12-31
ID:P0015575
UWS Researchers:David Rowe
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:The City after Dark: The Governance and Lived Experience of Urban Night-Time Culture
Years:2008-01-01 - 2012-01-15
ID:P0015556
UWS Researchers:Deborah Stevenson, Stephen Tomsen and David Rowe
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Handling the 'Battering Ram': Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation and the Global Contest for Dominance in Sports Television
Years:2006-03-06 - 2008-10-03
ID:P0015181
UWS Researchers:David Rowe
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:The Middle East from the Outer West: International News and Arab Diasporas
Years:2006-06-08 - 2007-06-07
ID:P0015167
UWS Researchers:Ien Ang, Gregory Noble and David Rowe
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Culture Circuits: Exploring the International Networks and Institutions Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy
Years:2007-01-01 - 2008-12-31
ID:P0015627
UWS Researchers:Deborah Stevenson and David Rowe
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Culturalisation and Globalisation: Advancing Cultural Research in Sweden and Australia [via Linkoping University]
Years:2008-07-01 - 2012-06-30
ID:P00016449
UWS Researchers:David Rowe
Funding:
  • The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
Title:The changing communications service delivery paradigm
Years:2008-05-13 - 2010-06-30
ID:P00016142
UWS Researchers:Elaine Lally, David Rowe and Ien Ang
Funding:
  • Communications Alliance Ltd

Supervision

Professor Rowe is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Commercialising National Identity: A Critical Examination of NZ's America's Cup Campaigns of 1987, 1992 and 1995
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:Trends in Community - Arts Collaborations in Greater Western Sydney
Field of Research:
Thesis:Trends in Community - Arts Collaborations in Greater Western Sydney
Title:Hong Kong Cinema under "One Country, Two Systems": Production, Reception and Policy
Field of Research:COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
Thesis:Hong Kong Cinema under "One Country, Two Systems": Production, Reception and Policy

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