Professor John Sinclair
Department of Communication, Language and Cultural Studies, Victoria University
Current ARC Projects
2002 'Television, globalisation and social change in India' (with Dr Sanjay Srivastava)
International Linkages
Research collaboration with the Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad, India, undertaking interviews with households and industry personnel, contributing to the study of sociocultural impact of liberalisation of TV in India. Negotiating similar collaboration with Madras Institute of Development Studies.
International Council Member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Member of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre.
Visiting Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego
I have agreed to visit the Technological University of Monterrey, Mexico, in September 2004, to discuss prospects for research collaboration.
Publications
Books
1999 Latin American Television: A Global View, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
2000 Televisión: Comunicación Global y Regionalización, Editorial Gedisa, Barcelona.
Edited Books
Chapters in Books
1998 "Culture as a 'Market Force': Corporate Strategies in Asian Skies", in Melkote, S. (ed), International Satellite Broadcasting in Asia, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 207-225.
2000 "Geolinguistic Region as Global Space: The Case of Latin America", in Wang, G., Servaes, J. and Goonasekera, A. (eds), The New Communications Landscape: Demystifying Media Globalization, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 19-32.
2001 "The Decentering of Cultural Imperialism", [revised version of 1993 publication] in Richards, G., Thomas, P. and Nain, Z. (eds), Communications and Development: The Freirean Connection, Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, pp. 35-63.
2002 "Media and Communications Theoretical Traditions in Australia" and "Advertising", in Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. (eds), The Media and Communications in Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. 23-34, and 200-216.
2002 "Mexico and Brazil: The Ageing Dynasties", in Fox, Elizabeth and Waisbord, Silvio (eds), Local Politics, Global Media, University of Texas Press, Austin, pp. 123-136.
2003 "Globalisation, Supranational Institutions and the Media", in Downing, John (ed) The Handbook of Media Studies, Sage, London, forthcoming.
2000 "Introduction: Diasporas and the Media", in Cunningham, S., and Sinclair, J. (eds), Floating Lives: The Media of Asian Diasporas, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, pp.1-34 (With S. Cunningham).
2000 "Chinese Cosmopolitanism and Media Use", in ibid., pp. 35-90 (With Yue, A., Hawkins, G., Kee Pookong and Fox, J.).
2000 "Diasporic Identities: Chinese Communities and their Media Use in Australia", in Hagen, I. and Wasko, J. (eds), Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research, Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, pp. 249-273 (With Kee Pookong, Fox, J. and Yue, A.).
2000 "Peripheral Vision" [republished extract from 1996 book], in Lechner, F. and Boli, J. (eds), The Globalization Reader, Blackwell, Malden, MA and Oxford, pp. 301-306 (With Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S.).
1998 Cunningham, S., Jacka, E. and Sinclair, J., "Global and Regional Dynamics of International Television Flows", in Thussu, D. (ed), Electronic Empires, Edward Arnold, London, pp. 177-192.
2001 Cunningham, S. and Sinclair, J., "Diasporic Media And Public 'Sphericules' ", in Ross, K. (ed), Black Marks: Minority Ethnic Audiences Researches and Media, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, pp.177-193.
Refereed Articles
2000 "More Than an Old Flame: National Symbolism and the Media in the Torch Ceremony of the Olympics", Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, No. 97, November, pp. 35-46.
2001 "Nationalism and Commercialism in the Olympic Torch Ceremony", Australian Journal of Communication, Vol 28, No 3, pp. 73-84.
2003 "The Hollywood of Latin America': Miami as Regional Center in Television Trade," Television and New Media, Vol 4, No 3, pp. 211-229.
2000 "Go with the Flow: Diasporas and the Media", Television and New Media, Vol 1, No 1, pp. 11-31 (With S. Cunningham).
2000 "Globalisation and Television in Asia: The Cases of India and China", UTS Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 78-90 (With M. Harrison).
2004 "Globalisation, Nation and Television in Asia: The Cases of India and China," (with M. Harrison) Television and New Media, forthcoming.
2000 Cunningham, S., Hawkins, G. Yue, A., Nguyen, T. and Sinclair, J., "Multicultural Broadcasting and Diasporic Video as Public Sphericules", American Behavioural Scientist, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 1533-1547.
Current Research Interests
the internationalisation of media and communication industries, especially advertising and television in developing countries, those of Latin America and India in particular
cultural differences as market forces in the age of media globalisation, e.g. in the provision of global servies for diasporic audiences