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Dr Marsha Berry

Key Activities

Marsha Berry is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. She lectures in Asian media culture and writing for undergraduate degrees. She supervises postgraduate research students across a range of topics concerned with new media, narrative and storytelling, cultural studies and mobility.

Research and Scholarship

Marsha is an active member of RMIT’s research community. Marsha’s research trajectory started in humanities with a focus on ethnography, ethnomethodology, language and performance studies. She has applied and extended her background in ethnography and post-structural critical discourse analysis to the emerging field of digital media. She has numerous academic journal and conference publications in digital media and creative practice. She has also been integral to or led teams that have won national and international competitive research grants.

Her creative practice includes photography, video art and poetry. Since 2007, she has explored the connections between technology, memory, place and displacement in her practice. She has exhibited her video art and images nationally and internationally. Her poetry has been published in Indian and American literary journals.

Her current research projects investigate mobile social media, shifts in Vietnam and cultural memory studies.

Research supervision

Marsha is registered as a research supervisor in the areas of Digital Media and Creative Writing. She has successfully supervised PhD and Masters by research students to completion exploring animation, locative media, mobile media, creative writing, visual communication, social media, interactive database narrative, and interactive electronic media art.

Grants obtained

2010 DRI grant – Geoplaced Knowledge Program

2009 DRI Seeding grants (3) – Geoplaced Knowledge Program and Urban Fields Program

2008 DRI Seeding grants (3) – Geoplaced Knowledge Program and Urban Fields Program

2007 HP Digital Publishing $75,000

2005 HP Mobile Computing $150,000

2004 Telematics Trust for VCE Multimedia resources with Binary Blue $30,000

2003 ANTA Applied Research Grant - Web Accessibility $45,000

2002 TAFE Frontiers. for Weblogs Grant $25,000

2001 Telematicss Trust for Usability Wizard $25,000

2000 TAFE Frontiers. for Digital Data Casting Grant $15,000