My Publications

Books -

My latest book is Our Very Own Adventure: Towards a Poetics of the Short Story, published by Melbourne University Publishing, 2011.

Reviewed in Text (A-ranked journal), October 2011.

My 2004 book on writing, Power Prose, is no longer in print, but can sometimes be found on Abebooks.

Alternatively, copies can be bought directly from me for AU$14.99 plus $9.00 postage, via my secure Paypal account (email me for details).

The updated version of Power Prose, with 50% new content, is Word Bytes: Writing in the Information Society (2009), available from the publisher, Melbourne University Publishing.

Other publications -

Journal articles:

2009

‘A Rare Brand of Intimacy: Reconsidering the Structure and Unique Effect of the Short Story, in Text, Volume 13, No. 2, October 2009

Pixels, Paper and Public Affairs: a Comparative Content Census of Print and Online Editions of Melbourne Newspaper The Age,’ in Australian Journalism Review, 31 (1): 91-104.

Wordlings in a Web 2.0 World, in First Monday, Volume 14, No. 2, 2 February 2009

2008

Real Life–Packaged for Consumers: the fait divers as a Heuristic for Scrutinizing the Construction of Moral Panics in the Australian Press, in Garcin-Marrou, I & Jamet, C (eds). Medias & Culture, Paris, France, L’Harmatton, pp.91-101 (co-written with D. Hecq).

2007

Relatively Benign Corruption? Critical Discourse Analysis for Media Students, in Australian Journal of Communication, 34 (2): 91-102.

Mornings with Radio 774: Can John Howard’s Medium of Choice Enhance Public Sphere Activity? in Media International Australia, issue 122, February 2007, Theme Editor: Graeme Turner.

The “Two-Sided” Medium. Can Talk Radio be Good for Democracy? in Metro, 155: 112 – 117.

Review of Switched On: Conversations with Influential Woman in the Australian Media, edited by Catherine Hangar, John Wiley, Brisbane, 2006, in Media International Australia, 124 (August 2007): 182-183.

2005

From Dog Leads to Dying: “Moderate” Talkback as a Rhetorical Space for Democratic Processes, in Radio in the World: Papers from the 2005 Melbourne Radio Conference, 2005.

Podcast:

July 2010

Up Close, Episode 98, 17 MIN 36 SEC

Wordlings, Weasels and Word Bytes: Our Language on a Precipice?

Webcast

2010

Educational short film on academic articles (two versions: undergrad and postgrad)

Mass media articles

August 2011

Op-ed article in The University of Melbourne Voice, Vol. 7 Number 8 August 15-September 11 2011, distributed as an insert in the Melbourne Age newspaper, August 15 2011. Read online version of article.

March 2011