Mr Callum Gilmour

- Lecturer in Communications

PhD [Media Studies] [completing 2009] Queensland University of Technology Bachelor of Arts [Honours] [Media Studies] Queensland University of Technology Bachelor of Arts [Media Studies major] [Journalism minor] Queensland University of Technology Associate Diploma Business [Marketing] Southbank Institute

 

My recent research has centered on both the sociology of sport and the media sport cultural complex and I have published extensively within these areas. I am particularly interested in the manner in which spaces of sports consumption and rituals of fandom in Asia are marked by global cultural flows while at the same time being reconstituted within Asian socio-cultural contexts. Sport has emerged as a prominent sector of the nascent Asian media and leisure economies which are emblematic of the extensive economic and cultural modernization experienced across much of the continent. My research explores the manner in which sports consumption in Asia engenders a form of global aspirational cosmopolitanism that is reflective of wider emergent consumptive lifestyle modes amongst Asia’s rapidly growing middle classes. To this end, I am currently investigating cultures of consumption and modes of cultural adaptation surrounding the English Premier League in Southeast Asia.  In addition I am exploring an interest in urban sociology via an investigation of the social role of consumptive spaces in Petaling Jaya. My PhD dissertation which I am currently completing, examines the role that genre and industrial factors play in both facilitating and hindering the transnational flow of television and film, and addresses the emergence within Asia of geo-regional, geo-linguistic, and geo-cultural modes of television consumption.   I have previously been employed in both research and teaching positions at the Queensland University of Technology, University of Newcastle, and the University of Western Sydney, and my research and teaching interests span the disciplines of media studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

Academic Publications (Journal Articles)

(2008) ‘Contemporary media sport: De or Re-Westernization?’ International Journal of Sport Communication 1(2): 177-194. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(2009) ‘Getting a ticket to the world party: televising soccer in Australia’, special Issue of Soccer and Society, ‘Fenced off: The Containment of the World Game in Australia’ 10(1): 9-26. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(2009) ‘Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard’, special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, ‘Cultural Adaptation’ 23(2): 171-182. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(Forthcoming) ‘Sport, media and consumption in Asia: A merchandized milieu’ American Behavioral Scientist. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(Forthcoming) ‘When Becks came to Sydney:  Multiple readings of sport celebrity’ Soccer and Society. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(In Preparation) ‘News Corporation: An agent of change in the global media sport cultural complex’. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(In Preparation) ‘The social role of consumptive spaces in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia’ [with Tony See]

(In Preparation) ‘The production and consumption of sport in the emergent Indian media and leisure economies: The case of the Indian Premier league’ [with Sony Jalarajan Raj]

Publications: Book Chapters

(2006) ‘Television and pay TV’, in Cunningham, S. & Turner, G. (eds.) The media and communications in Australia, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, pp.175-192. [co-authored with Terry Flew]

(2006) ‘The future role of professional sport and the media in the Asia Pacific societies’, in Asia Pacific yearbook (Anuario Asia-Pacifico), Barcelona and Madrid: Elcano Royal Institute, Casa Asia and the CIDOB Foundation, pp.473-481. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(2009) ‘Lubrication and domination: Beer, sport, masculinity and the Australian gender order’, in Wenner, L. & Jackson, S. (eds.) Sport, beer, and gender in promotional culture: Explorations of a holy trinity, New York: Peter Lang, pp.203-221. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(2009) ‘Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard’, in Moran, A. & Keane, M. (eds.) Cultural adaptation,  New York: Routledge. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(Forthcoming) ‘Getting a ticket to the world party: Televising soccer in Australia’, in Hughson, J. (ed.) Fenced off: The containment of the world game in Australia. [co-authored with David Rowe]

(In Preparation) ‘Watching the English Premier League in Southeast Asia: Global aspirational cosmopolitanism and glocalised media sport cultures’, in Hughson, J. (ed.) Sport and identity, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

Conference Papers

(2000) ‘English soccer in the 1990s: Globalised, gentrified and commodified’. Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference: Southern Cross University.

(2002) ‘The Australian pay TV dilemma’. Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference: Bond University

(2003) ‘Understanding global media: An institutional perspective’. Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference: Queensland University of Technology. [with Terry Flew]

(2006) ‘How global is global? Media conglomerates and international television flows’. Media and Identity in Asia Conference. Media-Asia Research Group. Curtain University of Technology. Miri campus, Sarawak, Malaysia. [Early Career Researcher Travel Scholarship winner].