Dr David Nolan
Lecturer, Media and Communications
Qualifications
BA Double Hons., English and Drama, University of Manchester, UK; Ph.D, RMIT University, Melbourne; Graduate Certificate of University Teaching, University of Melbourne.
Biography
David Nolan began working at the University of Melbourne in 2003, following the completion of his PhD at RMIT University, Melbourne. His doctoral thesis focused on the role played by journalism in contributing to the rise, in the late 1990s, of the extreme-right politician Pauline Hanson. In addition to providing an analysis of Hanson's media coverage, this research presented a theoretical perspective, strongly influenced by Michel Foucault's work on 'governmentality', on the role played by everyday practices of media representation in the constitution of both institutional and social politics. In 2007 David spent six months as an invited research fellow at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Cardiff in Wales, and he is a serving editorial board member and reviews editor for the international refereed journal Communication, Politics and Culture.
Current research
David is currently working on a book project focused on the contribution of an emergent tradition of work on 'governmentality' makes for understanding the political role performed by media institutions and practices. He is also currently involved in comparative research (with Tim Marjoribanks in the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology) that focuses on how definitions of expertise and authority in journalism are historically defined, and the consequences of how these are currently being redefined in light of the impact of sociocultural, institutional, political and technological developments. In addition, David has recently been involved in research focused on the complex relations that exist between humanitarian aid agencies, media institutions, and forms of public knowledge and response to humanitarian issues and events.
Research interests
- Developments in the field of journalism theory and practice
- The role played by media in institutional and everyday politics
- International journalism and the reporting of humanitarian crises and emergencies
- The role of media practices and representations in contributing to social identities and forms of conduct
- Media policy and regulation
David is particularly interested in how the social role of media institutions and practitioners is socially defined and contested, the relation of such processes to various areas of media practice, and their impacts on institutional and social politics and consequences for particular subjects and populations. His work and interests particularly revolve around developments within, and impacting on, the field of journalism, both locally and internationally. He is also interested in the contribution forms social and political theory can make to understanding practices of media production, and the role these play within shifting formations of public life.
Teaching
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100-204 Media and Communications Research
- 100-574 Global Crisis Reporting
- 100-420 Journalism: Practice and Theory
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Publications
Book chapters
- Nolan, D. (2008) 'Media, Citizenship and Governmentality: Objectivity, Impartiality and the Constitution of Publics' in K. Wahl-Jorgensen (Ed) Mediated Citizenship. London: Routledge. pp. 21-38.
- Nolan, D. (2000) "Producing Pauline: (Post)journalism and the 'Hanson debate'." M. Bettle and D. Jenkin (Eds.). Creative Communication: Production and Process, Theory and Analysis. Canberra: University of Canberra. pp149-161.
Refereed Journal articles
- Nolan, D. (2008) 'Journalism, Education and the Formation of 'Public Subjects'' Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 9 (6): 733-749.
- Nolan, D. (2008) 'Tabloidisation Revisited: The Regeneration of Journalism in Conditions of 'Advanced Liberalism'' Communication, Politics and Culture 41 (2): 100-118.
- Nolan, D. (2008) 'Journalism and Professional Education: A Contradiction in Terms?' Media International Australia 126: 14-26.
- Cottle, S. and D. Nolan (2007) 'Global Humanitarianism and the Changing Aid-Media Field', Journalism Studies 8 (6): 862-878.
- Nolan, D. (2006) Media, Citizenship and Governmentality: defining 'the public' of Public Service Broadcasting', Social Semiotics 16(2): 225-242.
- Nolan, D. and Radywyl, N. (2004) 'Pluralising Identity, Mainstreaming Identities: SBS as a Technology of Citizenship, Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture 37 (2): 40-65.
- Nolan, D. (2004) 'Media Governmentality, Howardism and the Hanson Effect', International Journal of the Humanities Vol.1.: 1367-1377.
- Nolan, D. (2003) The Constitution of Unemployment: Journalism as a Technology of Citizenship', Southern Review; Communication, Politics and Culture 36 (3) (2003): 64-81.
- Nolan, D. (2001) 'Interpellating Audiences: 'The Public', The Media and Pauline Hanson', Southern Review; Communication, Politics and Culture 34 (1) (2001): 60-77.
- Nolan, D. (1999) 'Doing Justice to Pauline: Strategies of Representation in Television Current Affairs." Asia-Pacific Media Educator, 6: 24-39.
Refereed Conference papers
- Nolan, D. (2008) 'Regimes of professionalism and shifting practices of journalism' Proceedings of the Comparative Journalism Studies Conference, 25-27 June 2008. Hobart: University of Tasmania.
http://www.utas.edu.au/ejel/journalismstudies/abstractsandpapers.htm - Nolan, D. (2008) 'A Genealogy of Infotainment: Journalism as a Shifting Political Technology' in S. Younane and S. Young (eds) Proceedings of the Politics Media Conference, 12-13 February 2008. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne. http://soapbox.unimelb.edu.au/pages/proceedings.html
- Nolan, D. and T. Marjoribanks (2007) 'Regulating Standards: Ombudsmen in Newspaper Journalism', TASA/SAANZ Refereed Conference Proceedings, Auckland, University of Auckland, 4-7 December 2007.
- Nolan, D. and T. Marjoribanks (2006) 'Objectivity, Impartiality and the Governance of Journalism' Proceeding of the The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Conference 2006. Perth: University of Western Australia.
- Nolan, D. (2006) 'Contesting the middle ground: The regulation of objectivity in ABC Journalism.' Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Communications Association (ANZCA) Conference 2006. Adelaide: University of Adelaide.
- Nolan, D. (2005) '(Re)defining 'the public' in public service broadcasting'. Proceedings of The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Conference 2005. Hobart: University of Tasmania.