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Mr Andrew Mason

Name :	Mr Andrew Mason
Position :	Associate Lecturer (Communication & Media Studies)
Section :	Faculty of Arts School of Humanities and Communication
Office :	Q219
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1060
Extension :	1060
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA USQ

Professional Memberships

MENSA Australia
http://www.mensa.org.au/
Queensland Arts Council
Wireless Institute of Australia

Research Interests

Meaning generation, commodity culture and market ideology. Advertising; marketing, narrative structure, media history. Also eco-criticism, Australian Cinema, Arts Marketing and public relations particularly in relation to politics.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Mason, Andrew and Gehrmann, Richard (2012) Filtered nostalgia of the 1920s: representations of the British university ideal. In: The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture, 2-5 July 2012, Toowoomba, Australia.

Mason, A and Gehrmann, R 2011 'No Brideshead Revisited, no summer of love in the empty quadrangle: challenges to scholarship in the on-line age', In: Offord B & Garbutt, R (eds) 2011, A scholarly affair: proceedings of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2010 National Conference, pp 97-106, Copy and paste this link into your browser: http://eprints.usq.edu.au/19688/

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

CMS1010: Introduction to Communication Studies.
CMS2017: Australian Television.
CMS2018: Audience and Industry

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 15 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Member of Learning and Teaching Committee (Arts)