Professor Mark Gibson
Details
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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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mark.gibson2@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1441-4514
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Mark Gibson is Professor of Media in the School of Media and Communication.
Mark has interests in cultural industries; fringe, independent and alternative cultural production; performance comedy; and histories of media and cultural studies.
Mark is co-author of Fringe to Famous – Australian Cultural Production After the Creative Industries (Bloomsbury, 2024) and author of Culture and Power – A History of Cultural Studies (Berg, 2007). He is currently a chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Linkage project, 'Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change'.
Before joining RMIT, Mark worked at Monash University, Murdoch University and Central Queensland University. He was also editor, for thirteen years, of Continuum – Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
Research fields
- 470204 Cultural and creative industries
- 470107 Media studies
Academic positions
- Associate Professor, Media
- Monash University
- Media, Film and Journalism
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2007 – 2019
- Senior Lecturer
- Murdoch University
- Communication and Cultural Studies
- Perth, Australia
- 1999 – 2006
- Lecturer
- Central Queensland University
- Communication and Media Studies
- Rockhampton, Australia
- 1992 – 1997
Supervisor projects
- Mexican jazz and the Internet: an ecological and comparative approach to a niche in the digital era
- 21 Mar 2024
- The digital bridge: Wechat ecology and Chinese students in Melbourne
- 1 Mar 2024
- Platformisation, Mediatization and the Infrastructure of Cultural Spaces: The practices of artists on digital platforms in Melbournes alternative music scene
- 26 Feb 2024
- Towards a Genealogy of Post-Rave
- 2 Jan 2024
- Inside Aphantasic Practice: exploring the impact of aphantasia on creative practice in image-making & animation
- 29 Jun 2023
- The Rise of Indonesia’s Religious Influencers: Between Strategic Content, Visual Authority, and Active Audience.
- 5 Dec 2022
- '21C DIY: The Maker movement and the Things of the Internet'
- 8 Mar 2021
- Stand-up finds its feet: The rise and role of comedy shows in India
- 28 Sep 2020
- Digital Homemaking – The Vlogging Practices of Indonesian Marriage Migrants
- 26 Aug 2020
Teaching interests
COMM2474 Research Lab 1 (Honours course in Media and Communication)
HUSO2439 Research for Impact in Design and Social Context (Core course for HDR students in the College of DSC)
Research interests
Comedy; Cultural and Creative Industries; Cultural Policy; Fringe Cultural Production; Neoliberalism
