Dr Rowan Wilken
Lecturer, Cinema & Cultural Studies
Biography
Rowan Wilken gained his PhD from the University of Melbourne. His thesis won the John Grice Research Prize in Architecture. He has published widely, particularly on the cultural and spatial implications of information and communication technologies, and on architectural theory and history. He is co-author (with Philip Goad and Julie Willis) of Australian Modern: The Architecture of Stephenson & Turner (Miegunyah Press, 2004), and is presently working on a book (provisionally titled Technologies of Distance) which examines the relationships between teletechnologies (technologies of distance), place and community, and the ways that this trio of concerns are constructed, conceived of and debated in academic as well as wider discourse and social understanding. He is a member of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network.
Research Interests
- media technologies
- social and spatial theory
- everyday life
Teaching
- 106-101 Culture, Media & Everyday Life
- 106-226 Lifestyle & Consumer Culture
- 106-022 City Cultures
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Publications
Books
- Goad, P., Wilken, R., and Willis, J. (2004), Australian Modern: The Architecture of Stephenson & Turner, Carlton: Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing
Book Chapters
- Wilken, R. (forthcoming) “Bonds and Bridges: Mobile Phones and Social Capital Debates”. In Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? Ling, R., and Campbell, S. (eds). Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
- Sinclair, J. and Wilken, R. (in press) “Strategic Regionalization in Marketing Campaigns: Beyond the Standardization/Glocalization Debate”. In Cultural Adaptation. Moran, A. and Keane, M. (eds), London: Routledge.
- Wilken, R. (2007) “Diagrammatology”. In Illogic of Sense: the Gregory L. Ulmer Remix. Tofts, D. and Gye, L. (eds). Boulder, Colorado: Alt X Publishing.
- Wilken, R. (2005) “Evolutions of Lascaux”. In Aesthetics and Rock Art. Heyd, T. and Clegg, J. (eds). Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate. pp. 177-189.
Journal Articles
- Wilken, R. and Sinclair, J. (in press) “‘Waiting for the Kiss of Life’: Mobile Media and Advertising”, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, May.
- Wilken, R. and Sinclair, J. (in press) “Contests of Power and Place in Mobile Media Advertising”, Australian Journal of Communication, April.
- Sinclair, J. and Wilken, R. (in press) “Sleeping with the Enemy: Disintermediation in Internet Advertising”, Media International Australia.
- Sinclair, J. and Wilken, R. (in press) “Strategic Regionalization in Marketing Campaigns: Beyond the Standardization/Glocalization Debate”, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.
- Wilken, R. (2008) “Mobilising Place: Mobile Media, Peripatetics, and the Renegotiation of Urban Places”, Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 39-55.
- Wilken, R. (2007) “The Practice and ‘Pathologies’ of Photocopying”, antiTHESIS, Vol. 17, pp. 126-143.
- Wilken, R. (2007) “Calculated Uncertainty: Computers, Chance Encounters, and ‘Community’ in the Work of Cedric Price”, Transformations, No. 14.
- Wilken, R. (2007) “The Haunting Affect of Place in the Discourse of the Virtual”, Ethics, Place, & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy and Geography, Vol. 10, No. 1, March, pp. 49-63.
- Sinclair, J. and Wilken, R. (2007) “Super Size Me: Accounting for Television Advertising in the Public Discourse on Obesity”, Media International Australia, No. 124, August, pp. 45-56.
- Wilken, R. (2005) “From Stabilitas Loci to Mobilitas Loci: Networked Mobility and the Persistence of Place”, Fibreculture Journal, No. 6.
- Wilken, R. (2001) “A Swatch in the Fabric of Time: Internet Time and the Spatio-Temporal Organisation of Everyday Computer Use”, MESH, No. 14.
- Wilken, R. (2001) “Some Reflections on Archives, Bureaucracy, Digital Technology and Plumbing”, MESH, 14.
Refereed Conference Papers
- Wilken, R. and Sinclair, J. (2008) “Contests of Power and Place: Advertising and the ‘Complicated Mobile Phone Ecosystem’”, refereed paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, Wellington, NZ, 9-11 July.
- Wilken, R. and Sinclair, J. (2007) “Global Vision, Regional Focus, ‘Glocal’ Reality: Global Marketers and Strategic Regionalism”, refereed paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, Melbourne, 5-6 July.
- Sinclair, J. and Wilken, R. (2006) “Super Size Me: Accounting for Television Advertising in the Public Discourse on Obesity”, refereed paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, Adelaide, 5-7 July.