Associate Professor Mary Griffiths

Qualifications

BA(Hons)Wales, PGCE (Bristol), M.Litt (UNE), PhD (Monash)

Teaching Interests

Mary has led the re-development of the B.Media's program in digital and participatory media. She serves on the Faculty's Education Committee.

Her recent teaching experience includes: participatory media and communications theory; qualititative media research methods, especially their ethical dimensions; globalising media and the local; the social, political and creative impact of digital and mobile technologies; digital story; realist cinema, film noir and the gothic; writing techniques, and postcolonial cultural production.

She is course convenor for:

Advanced Theory: Mobile Mediations

Introduction to Media : Digital Revolutions

Directed Studies in Media

Media Industry Placement

Mediated Democracy : Investigations, Analyses, Reports (2009)

Guest lecturer in Story/Technology, Media Research Methods and other courses.

Research Interests

Research interests : emerging technologies, and the ways that they enable and/or constrain participatory, democratising practices in Australia and elsewhere. Currently this includes: e-democracy and e-citizens; social media forms and prosumer literacy, content and platforms; governance and government/citizen relations (from communication policy and regulatory issues, to analyses of innovation in making community and institutional relationships); open e-learning. She chairs the mini-track on e-democracy at the annual European Conference on E-Government (Lausanne, 2008), and will do so at ICEG in Melbourne, 2008. Her latest research on online relations in secured government intranets, and the potential transferability of protocols to the civic space has been published in ejeg.

While at the University of Waikato, Mary initiated the interdisciplinary Faculty Research Network, and co-convened Digital Futures, a cross faculty research group drawn from sciences, arts, education and creative media. In Adelaide, she is Media's research leader,responsible for capacity-building in an identified area of emerging Faculty strength. She will also continue research on distributed e-learning modes, and on developing a research/teaching nexus by exploring 'collective intelligence' and participatory learning with first-year classes. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, regularly guest-edits special issues on new and transformative media, and referees for international journals and for conferences in the field.

Publications

Griffiths,M.(2007) "Godzone?: NZ's Classification of Explicit Material in an Era of Global Fundamentalism", in Feminist Interventions in International Communications: Minding the Gap. eds. Sarikakis, K and Leslie Shade, Rowman and Littlefield.

Griffiths,M.and M.Griffiths (2007)The Pastoral in Virtual Spaces: A Tale of Two Systems and How E-learning Practitioners Remake Them, in Case Studies in Global E-learning Practices: Successes and Pitfalls, eds Sharma R.C. and S. Mishra. Idea Group.

Griffiths,M.(2007) Oxygen:Social Intranets, Collective Intelligence and Government Practices. EJEG : the Electronic Journal of E-government. 5: 2, 177-190 http://www.ejeg.com/issue-current.htm

Griffiths,M. (2007) Review Article."Future Assemblies: Theorising Mobilities and Users" New Media Society. 9: 1029-1036.

Griffiths,M.(2007)"Media-Savvy Professionals and Reinventing Government." Conference Proceedings. 7th European Conference of E-Government, Den Haag, June 21-22.

Doyle,W. and M.Griffiths,(2006)Editorial. Caricature and an Ethics of Discomfort. Special Issue. "Media and Belief in an Inter-related World." Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture. 39.1, 1-7.

Griffiths,M.(2005)Editorial. "E-Citizens and the Challenge of E-democracy." E-Citizens. Special Issue. EJEG : the Electronic Journal of E-Government. http://www.ejeg.com/volume-3/vol3-iss2/vol3-iss2-papers.htm

Griffiths, M.and G.Lealand(2005)Editorial. "A Clever Little Country?" in A Clever Little Country? Cultural Change and Identity in New Zealand. (eds) M. Griffiths and G.Lealand. MIA, 117. 5-10.

Griffiths, M.and A.Hardy(2005) "NZ Christian Churches Online: Models of Authority and Participation." Colloquium : The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review. 143-156. http://www.colloquiumjournal.org/back-issues/37-2/index.htm

Geiselhart, K, M.Griffiths,and B. Fitzgerald. (2004) What Lies Beyond Service Delivery - An Australian Perspective. The World of E-Government. (eds) Curtin, G, M.Sommer and V. Sommer. Haworth: NY. 213-233.

Community Engagement

Mary has worked as a member of several local and state government planning committees. She was involved in training Melbourne city councillors about potential civic uses of the internet, worked on a strategic communications planning group for a regional city in Victoria and participated in planning a media business incubator in the City of Hamilton, NZ which involved a city/tertiary institutions partnerships.

In Adelaide she has served on the HESS Media Taskforce and involved Media at the University in support for, and sponsorship of, the Mobile Entertainment Growth Alliance South Australia (MeGaSA). This cross-teriary and industry organisation is developing the first digital content incubator course nationally. B.Media students are eligible to apply and can count the course as part of their degree.

Mary worked on the University's first Short Film Festival in 2007, "Adelaide Street Stories."

As coordinator of Media Industry Placement, she enjoys her regular conversations with representatives of local businesses, media institutions and state agencies and is keen to find new ways in which Media can collaborate with them.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009