Associate Professor Marsha Berry
Associate Professor
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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marsha.berry@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4002-1143
About
Marsha Berry is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication RMIT University where she teaches creative practice research methods. She is author of Creating with Smartphones (2017) Palgrave MacMillan and is co-editor of two volumes on mobile media. Marsha supervises postgraduate research students across a range of topics concerned with new media arts, narrative, creative writing, filmmaking and mobility.
She has over 20 higher degree by research completions. With dozens of articles and book chapters, she has published her research extensively in highly prestigious international journals such as New Media and Society and New Writing as well as in edited books. She is an ethnographer, writer and artist whose practice includes filmmaking, participatory art projects, and poetry.
Her video art and photography has been exhibited in Australia and internationally in exhibition spaces such as the Directors Lounge in Berlin and the Queensland Centre of Photography. She has have been invited to develop and facilitate workshops focussing on creative practice both in academic (Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association, Mobile Innovation Network Australasia) and community settings (Geelong Writers, Pilbara Writers), speak, write book chapters for edited collections and examine theses on the basis of her reputation as an artist scholar who works with mobile media.
Her current research projects investigate mobile social media, ethics, AI and creative practice.
She has over 20 higher degree by research completions. With dozens of articles and book chapters, she has published her research extensively in highly prestigious international journals such as New Media and Society and New Writing as well as in edited books. She is an ethnographer, writer and artist whose practice includes filmmaking, participatory art projects, and poetry.
Her video art and photography has been exhibited in Australia and internationally in exhibition spaces such as the Directors Lounge in Berlin and the Queensland Centre of Photography. She has have been invited to develop and facilitate workshops focussing on creative practice both in academic (Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association, Mobile Innovation Network Australasia) and community settings (Geelong Writers, Pilbara Writers), speak, write book chapters for edited collections and examine theses on the basis of her reputation as an artist scholar who works with mobile media.
Her current research projects investigate mobile social media, ethics, AI and creative practice.
Research fields
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 3602 Creative and professional writing
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 4702 Cultural studies
- 4705 Literary studies
- 4406 Human geography
- 3604 Performing arts
- 3304 Urban and regional planning
- 3903 Education systems
Supervisor projects
- From Screen Celebrity to Social Media Influencer.
- 18 Oct 2022
- I'm okay if I'm allowed to be recognised
- 31 Mar 2021
- Who Writes a Generative Text? An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Projecting a Distinct Authorial Voice when using Generative Text Processes
- 20 Nov 2020
- Between Fact and Fiction: Using Found Family Photographs and Fiction to Tell Personal Stories with Agency and Remaster Memories
- 9 Jul 2019
- Exploring Documentary from the Filmmaker's Perspective: A Relational Approach to Locating a Meeting Place of Practice and Theory
- 13 Feb 2019
- Narrative Improvisation: Creating a Game Master Agent
- 20 Apr 2018
- "the moment of shooting": Embracing Improvisation Towards Efficiency in the Creation of Micro-Budget Interactive Short Films
- 1 Feb 2018
- The White Maori: An exploration of identity and belonging
- 1 Mar 2017
- The Act in Activism: An Exploration of Feminist Digital Activism Through Performance
- 11 Jul 2016
- Ceremony of Restoration: A Practice-Based Experiment in Civil Celebrancy
- 16 Feb 2016
- The Opposite of Sudden
- 1 Jul 2014
- Making Tracks: Writing Otherness in Refugee Narrative Fiction
- 3 Mar 2014
- The Impact of Life Changes on Social Media Practices: An Ethnographic Study of Young Chinese Adults Living in Australia
- 4 Mar 2013
- The Parallaxis: a game of walking between worlds
- 4 Mar 2013
- Making a Choice: The Melete Effect and Establishing a Poetics for Choice-Based Narratives
- 4 Mar 2013
- BEHIND THE VEIL: An Ethnographic Study of Mobile Media and Illicit Relationships in Saudi Arabia
- 16 Jul 2012
Teaching interests
Research supervision
Marsha is registered as a research supervisor in the areas of Digital Media, Screen Production 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, screenwriting, documentary and interactive electronic media art.
Supervisor interests
Screen production research, creative writing, interactive media and interactive narrative, creative practice research, ethics and creative practice
Marsha is registered as a research supervisor in the areas of Digital Media, Screen Production 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, screenwriting, documentary and interactive electronic media art.
Supervisor interests
Screen production research, creative writing, interactive media and interactive narrative, creative practice research, ethics and creative practice
Research interests
Her research interests include mobile media, interactive narrative, ethnography and fiction, autoethnography, nonrepresentational theory and new materialism, creative pracicve research, screen production research, creative writing, nonfiction and documentary, AI and ethics.
