Goggin, Gerard

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication and deputy-director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Gerard is author of Cell Phone Culture (Routledge, 2006), and a number of edited collections on new media, including Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (with Larissa Hjorth; Routledge, 2008), Mobile Phone Cultures (Routledge, 2008), Internationalizing Internet Studies (with Mark McLelland; Routledge, 2008), and Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (UNSW Press, 2004). He has also published widely on disability, including two books with Christopher Newell, Disability in Australia (UNSW, 2005) and Digital Disability (Rowman & Littlefied, 2003). He is editor of the journal Media International Australia.

Contributions

  • Conurban
    Feature
    Conurbation [f. CON- + L. urb- and urbs city + -ation] An aggregation of urban areas. (OED) Beyond the urban, further and lower even than the suburban, lies the con-urban. The conurban: with the urban, partaking...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 5 No. 2 (2002): Urban
  • Broadband
    Feature
    Connecting I’ve moved house on the weekend, closer to the centre of an Australian capital city. I had recently signed up for broadband, with a major Australian Internet company (my first contact, cf. Turner). Now I am the proud owner of a larger modem than I have ever owned: a white...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 6 No. 4 (2003): Fibre
  • ‘mobile text’
    Articles
    Mobile In many countries, more people have mobile phones than they do fixed-line phones. Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies ever, outstripping even the internet in many respects. With the advent and widespread deployment of digital systems, mobile phones were used by an estimated 1, 158, 254, 300 people...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 7 No. 1 (2004): Text
  • Fame and Disability
    Feature
    When we think of disability today in the Western world, Christopher Reeve most likely comes to mind. A film star who captured people’s imagination as Superman, Reeve was already a celebrity before he took the fall that would lead to his new position in the fame game: the role of super-crip. As a person with acquired quadriplegia, Christopher Reeve has...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 7 No. 5 (2004): 'fame'
  • SMS Riot: Transmitting Race on a Sydney Beach, December 2005
    Feature
    My message is this in regard to SMS messages and swarming crowds; this is ludicrous behaviour; it is unAustralian. We all share this wonderful country. (NSW Police Assistant Commissioners Mark Goodwin, quoted in Kennedy) The cops hate and fear the swarming packs of Lebanese who...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 9 No. 1 (2006): 'transmit'
  • Innovation and Disability
    Articles
    Critique of Ability In July 2008, we could be on the eve of an enormously important shift in disability in Australia. One sign of change is the entry into force on 3 May 2008 of the United Nations convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which will now be adopted by the Rudd Labor government. Through this, and other...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 11 No. 3 (2008): able