Contact:

School of Humanities, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University

Room: G23_3.25 MultiMedia Building Phone:+61 7 555 28871

Email: s.stockwell@griffith.edu.au

Teaching areas:

• 1501HUM New Communication Technology
• 3518HUM Campaign Strategies
  
• 3531/2HUM Public Relations Internship 1/2
• 3160/3HUM Journalism Internship 1/2
• 7500HUM Communication Project
  

Research interests:

Political Campaigns, Rhetoric, Broadcast and Investigative Journalism, Democratic Theory, Communication Theory, New Media and Trash Culture

Employment

• 2010-        Professor in Journalism and Communications, Griffith University
  
• 2008-9      Head, School of Arts/Humanities (Nathan, Logan, Gold Coast), Griffith University
• 2007         Deputy Head, School of Arts (Nathan, Logan, Gold Coast), Griffith University
• 2005-6      Head, School of Arts (Gold Coast), Griffith University    
• 2004-9      Associate Professor in Journalism and Communications, Griffith University
  
• 1999-04    Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communications, Griffith Universy
• 1996-8      Foundation Lecturer, Film and TV Journalism, Griffith University
  
• 1994-5      Househusband, Media Consultant & Part-time Lecturer and Tutor, University of Technology, Sydney
  
• 1992-3      Journalist, Research Unit, Four Corners, ABC TV (23 program credits)
• 1989-91    Media  & Research Officer, Queensland ALP 
• 1988-9      Freelance TV and Video Producer, Publicist, Media Consultant
• 1988         Technical Adviser, Kulumindini Video Project, Eliott, NT
• 1988         Producer, On Target, Darwin TV for Migrant Resource Centre
• 1987         Publicity Officer, Dept of FACS (NSW)  
• 1986         Newsreader and Current Affairs Journalist, JJJ-FM
• 1985         Research Officer/Press Secretary for Senator John Black 
• 1984         Research Officer/Press Secretary for Mrs Elaine Darling MHR 
• 1981-3     Part-time Lecturer in Government, QIT
• 1981-2     Research Officer/Press Secretary to Mr RJ Gibbs MLA
• 1980-1     Journalist, Announcer and Producer 4ZZZ-FM
• 1979        Assistant Wheat Classifier, Queensland Wheat Board.
• 1978        Clerk Class 5, Department of the Capital Territory.
• 1977        Assistant Research Officer, Public Service Board, Canberra.
  

Publications: 

Books:

• Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (edited with Ben Isakhan) Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2012 (forthcoming)
  
• Secret History of Democracy (edited with Ben Isakhan) Palgrave Macmillan London 2011 (Publisher's site, Facebook)
  
• Rhetoric and Democracy: Deliberative Opportunities in Current Electoral Processes VDM Saarsbruken 2010 (Amazon, Download)
• Political Campaign Strategy Australian Scholarly Melbourne 2005 (cover)
  
• All Media Guide to Fair and Cross Cultural Reporting (with Paul Scott )AKCCMP Nathan 2000 (book and website)

• "Introduction" with Ben Isakhan in Isakhan & Stockwell  The Secret History of Democracy Palgrave MacMillan London 2011
• “Before Athens: Early Popular Government in Phoenicia and Greek City States” in Isakhan & Stockwell  The Secret History of Democracy Palgrave MacMillan London 2011
• “Democratic Culture in the Early Venetian Republic” in Isakhan & Stockwell  The Secret History of Democracy Palgrave MacMillan London 2011 
• "Conclusion" with Ben Isakhan in Isakhan & Stockwell  The Secret History of Democracy Palgrave MacMillan London 2011
  
• "Spin doctors, citizens and democracy" in Young, Sally Government Communication in Australia Cambridge University Press: Melbourne 2007 (catalogue)
  
• "Panic at the Port" in Critcher, Chas Moral Panics and the Media Open University Press: Maidenhead 2006
  
• "Introductory Essay" in Clark, David Big Things: Australia's amazing roadside attractions Penguin: Camberwell 2004
• "Public relations in government" in Johnston, J  & Zawawi, C Public Relations: Theory and Practice Allen & Unwin: Sydney 2000; revised for 2nd edition 2004 and 3rd edition 2009.

Refereed Articles

• “Messages from the apocalypse: Security issues in American TV series” Continuum 25(2)April 2011, p189-99
• “Before Athens: Early Popular Government in Phoenician and Greek City States” Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 2(2) 2010: 123-35
  
•   "Alternative Media in Brisbane: 1965-1985" Queensland Review, 14(1), 2007: 75-87.
  
• "Theory Jamming: Uses of Eclectic Method in an Ontological Spiral" M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 9(6), December 2006.
• "The Manufacture of World Order: The Security Services and the Movie Industry." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 7(6), February 2005.
• "Dealing with world domination: Lessons from The Powerpuff Girls and friends" Media International Australia No. 113, November 2004, p23-29.
• "The Military-Entertainment Complex: A New Facet of Information Warfare", with Adam Muir, Fibreculture Journal 1(1), 2003.
  
• "Big Things: Larrikinism, Low Art and the Land", with Bethany Carlisle, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 6(3), November 2003.
• "The Hanson Factor: Content analysis of newspaper photographs of party leaders during the 1998 Australian federal election campaign", Australian Studies in Journalism No. 12, 2003, p198-212.
  
• "Home Grown: The strange and savage times of the Australasian Weed", Media International Australia No. 108, August 2003, p22-35.
• "The impact of optional preferential voting on the 2001 Queensland state election" Queensland Review, 10(1) May 2003.
  
• "Hacking Democracy: The work of the global citizen" Southern Review 34(3), 2001 p 87-103.
• "Fair go for Fair Reporting" with Paul Scott, eJournalism, 1(2), 2001.
• "From Bard to Spin Doctor: Continuities in Strategy and Style" TEXT, (4)2,  2000.
• "Wonderful Progress: Alternative currents in colonial Brisbane" Queensland Review, 7(1), 2000, p13-22.
• "Pauline's Prominence: Analysis of newspaper photographs of party leaders during the 1998 Australian federal election campaign"    AustralianJournalism Review, 22(1), 2000, p137-149.
• "Beyond the Fourth Estate: Journalism, Deliberation and Democracy" Australian Journalism Review, 21(1), 1999, p37-49.
• "Panic at the Port" Media International Australia, No. 85, 1997, p56-61.
• "Freefall in Fragile States" Political Expressions, 1(2), 1996, p93-104.
• "The Brisbane Model: considering a unique experiment" Urban Policy and Research, 13(2), 1995, p89-96.
  

• Before Athens: Early Popular Government in Phoenician and Greek City States, APSA, Macquarie University, 23-30 September 2009
  
• We’re all hackers now: Doing global democracy, CreateWorld, AUC-Griffith University, 7-10 December 2008
  
• Eclectic Method and Communication Theory: The Jam Session as the New Symposium, International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22, 2008 (poster).
  
• Beyond the Code: Media Ethics Texts and Moral Reason, AMIC Conference, Singapore, 25-28 June, 2007
  
• Grazing the Field: Voter uses of the media in election campaigns, Journalism Education Association Conference Griffith University, 29 November - 2 December 2005, with Lee Cox.
  
• Beyond Conspiracy Theory: US presidential archives on the Australian press, national security and the Whitlam government, Journalism Education Association Conference Griffith University, 29 November - 2 December 2005
• Diogenes and the Citizen-Hacker of Global Democracy, Sites of Cosmopolitanism Conference, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, 6-8 July 2005.
• The democratisation of PR: leveling the playing field, International Communication Association Conference, New York, 26-30 May, 2005, with Jane Johnston.
  
• Reconsidering the Fourth Estate: The functions of infotainment Australian Political Studies Conference Conference, University of Adelaide, September 2004
• Political Campaigns and Democracy ANZCA Conference, Queensland University of Technology, July 9-11 2003.
• Taxonomy of the Political Campaign  ANZCA Conference, Bond University, July 2002.
• The impact of optional preferential voting on the 2001 Queensland state election, Australian Political Studies Conference, Griffith University, September 2001.
• Citizens of the Media: Civic responsibilities in a global society, Civilising the State Conference, Deakin University, December 2000

• Utopia and Apocalypse: Political Philosophy and American TV Series, APSA, Macquarie University, 23-30 September 2009
• Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Cosmic Citizenship and Alien Media Products, ANZCA Conference, Queensland University of Technology, July 8-10 2009
  
• Political Campaigning 2007, Public Affairs in the Power Capital, MEAA, Canberra, 24 July 2007
• “There lie your houses like seabirds’ nests”: Democratic tendencies in early Venice, ACIS Fourth Biennial Conference, Griffith University, Soutbank, 10-13 July 2007
  
• Alternative Media in Brisbane 1965-1985, Journalism Education Association Conference, Auckland University of Technology, 4-7 December 2006
• The Portrait of Pauline Hanson: images from recent Australian elections, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies King's College London May 1, 2002.
• Citizen-Hacker: Rhetoric and Global Democracy, Rhetoric Society of America Conference Las Vegas May 23-26. 2002.
• "The Amusement Industry: is it a cultural industry?" Media & Culture Review, #1, May 2001
• Ready for War: The metaphysics of world domination, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of Tasmania. December 2001
• The revenge of infotainment, Television: Past, Present and Future Conference, University of Queensland, December 2000.
• Moving images from the Gold Coast, Australian Cultural Studies Conference, University of Queensland, December 2000.
• "The Heritage of the Bard: Myth and Politics" The Journal of Myth, Fantasy and Romanticism 5:1&2 1997
• Retooling rhetoric: Has free speech gone the way of the free lunch? Citizenship and Culture Conference, October 1996
• "Rupert and the dismissal" Communications Update No117 1995

• "Voodoo Politics" Griffith Review, Issue 21, August 2008, pp. 69-75.
  
• "Ticket to Slide" Walkley Magazine, Issue 45, June/July 2007, p. 16.
• "Cats among the media pigeons" Australian Financial Review, 18 October 2006, p. 63.
• "Internet renders Coonan's plan old news" Australian Financial Review, 25 July 2006, p. 63.
  
• "Spinning the fabric of reality" Griffith Review, Issue 5, Spring 2004, pp. 129-137.
• "Police Communications" Perspective ABC Radio National, 7 September 2004
• "Two to Tango: Inside the Media-Politics Relationship" Australian Mosaic Issue 5, 2004, pp. 11-13.

• Manne, Robert (ed), Do Not Disturb: Is the Media failing Australia? in Media International Australia No 121 2006
• Brian Costar & Jennifer Curtin Rebels with a Cause in Cultural Studies Review 11(2) 2005
  
• Wilson, Clinton et al Racism, Sexism and the Media in Media International Australia No 111 2004
• Skinner, James et al Some Like It Hot: The Beach as a Cultural Dimension in Media International Australia No 110 2004
• Griffen-Foley, Bridget Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal in Media International Australia No 109 2003
• Stephens, Julie Anti-Disciplinary Protestin Australian Journal of Communication 26(2) 1999
• Web Journal Review : Documenter in TEXT 2(2) 1998
• MacGregor, Brent Live, Direct and Biased: Making Television News in the Satellite Age in Media International Australia No 89 November 1998
• Colette, John & Quinn, Meredith The Business of Electronic Publishing in TEXT 2(1) 1998
• Wilson, John Understanding Journalism in Media International Australia No 85 1997

• 1999 “All Media Guide to Fair Reporting” Living in Harmony Grant, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs - $56,500 with Paul Scott, University of Newcastle
• 1999 “The Hanson Factor: A content analysis of newspaper photographs of political leaders during the 1998 Australian federal election campaign” GURG - $5,000 1999
• 1997 “Global Communication Research Project” Griffith University Research Infrastructure Grant - $27,000 with 3 colleagues.

• 2006-7 Open Learning Australia ($56,000) from Open Learning Australia to develop 8 Masters courses
• 2003 Flexible Learning Grant, ($3,000). to develop Video Subjects On-Line
• 2001 Teaching and Learning Grant ($7,652) to develop eTheatre
• 2000 Open Learning Australia ($39,000) to develop 4 On-line Communications courses

• 2004 Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching , Teaching Team Award, (Journalism Teaching Team).
• 2001 Commendation, Griffith Awards for Excellence in Teaching - Individual Teacher Award

• Bachelor of Communication (Gold Coast) 1998-2005
• Bachelor of Journalism 2002-2005, 2011
  
• Masters of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication (Gold Coast) 2000-7, 2011
  
• Masters of Arts, Master of Arts and Media 2006-7

• Academic Committee 2008-9
• Internationalisation Committee 2007-9
• Faculty of Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences Board 2005-9
• Griffith University Council 2003-5
• Enterprise Bargaining Committee 2003-5
• Acting Head, School of Arts, December 2003 - January 2004, December 2000 - January 2001
• Education Committee 2000, 2001, 2003
• Community Service Committee 1999-2001
• Joint Consultative Committee 2000-2001
• HM Katano Scholarship Committee 2001, 2003
• School of Arts/Humanities Committee 1997-
• Multimedia Building User Group, Gold Campus 1998-2000
• B Multi Media Review Committee 1999, 2004
• School of Arts Equipment Users Group 1999-2004
• Videoconference Evaluation Group 1999-2000
• Open Day and TXPO attendance, School visits 1996-2008

• Editorial Advisory Board, Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 2010-
  
• Advisory Panel, ResponseAbility, National Mental Health Resources for Tertiary Education, 2004-9
• Member, Editorial Board of eJournalist 2000-

• Member, International Communication Association 2005-
• Executive Member (Conference), Journalism Education Association 2004-5
• President NTEU Griffith Branch 1999-2001
• President NTEU Griffith Gold Coast Branch 1998-9, 2002-5
• Vice-President NTEU Griffith Gold Coast Branch 1996-8
• Member, Journalism Education Association 1996-
• Member, Australia and New Zealand Communication Association 1996-
• Federal Councillor, MEAA 1995-7
• Branch Councillor, AJA Section, NSW MEAA1993-6
• Member, Australian Journalists Association/MEAA 1980-
• Foundation Member, Powerhouse Museum 1988-
• Secretary, Metro TV, Sydney 1986-7
• Secretary, Brisbane Independent Filmmakers 1984-5
• Secretary, Inner City CYSS, Brisbane 1984-5

 Film & video making, independent publishing (Cane Toad Times), music (keyboards for Black Assassins), bush walking, the environment, surfing. 

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