Terry Flew

Professor Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

He is the author of Australia’s leading new media textbook, New Media: An Introduction (Oxford, 2008, 3rd Edition) and Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2007). He has also contributed book chapters to leading international publications such as Dewesternising Media Studies (eds. J. Curran and M.-J. Park, Routledge, 2000), Handbook of New Media (eds. L. Lievrouw and S. Livingstone, Sage, 2002), and Creative Industries (ed. J. Hartley, Blackwell, 2005), and has also been published in leading international academic journals such as International Journal of Cultural Policy, Television and New Media, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and International Journal of Cultural Studies.

He is First Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkages-Projects Grant titled Investigating Innovative Applications of Digital Media for Participatory Journalism and Citizen Engagement in Australian Public Communication, and an ARC Discovery Grant on Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Opportunities and Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia’s Emergent Suburban Communities. He also leads the Audience and Market Foresight program for the Smart Services Co-operative Research Centre. He is also President-elect of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association, and will host the 2009 ANZCA conference at QUT in July 2009, with the theme of “Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship”.