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Ann Willis
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Ann Willis
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Ann Willis
Dr. Ann Willis is a new media lecturer at the University of Canberra .
Prior to moving to Canberra in 2003, Ann taught in Perth , Western Australia at both Edith Cowan University and the Perth Institute of Business and Technology.The areas she taught in included: film and video, advertising, media representation and textual analysis, new media and technological convergences, communication technology history, globalisation, cultural theory, cyber theory and medium theory.While in Perth she completed her PhD which focused on the evolutionary relationship and trajectory between print and online media.Her thesis was rated by her US examiner, Professor Charles Ess, as being in the top ten percent of dissertations that he had marked.Ann is also an international member of and contributor to Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology (CATAC).
Her work has been published in journals such as Media International Australia, the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication (http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v12n34.htm), books such as The Politics of a Digital Present: Fibreculture Reader and conference proceedings such as the second and third International Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication . Her work has also been cited in books such as Technoculture: from alphabet to cybersex and New Media.She is currently working on a paper called Brides and Grooms of Wildenstein: (post)human accessories and symptomatic illogics of hypercapitalism .
Apart from Postgraduate supervision, Ann also coordinates and teaches both off and online communication units at an undergraduate and Masters level.Since moving to Canberra she has been very keen to foster a creative postgraduate research culture.Thus she became a committee member for the University of Canberra 's Communication Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS) research node where she acts as the Postgraduate coordinator and also runs the School of Creative Communication 's Postgraduate Research Seminar series.
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