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Dr

Mark Davis

Professor In Publishing & Communications
Culture and Communication
social sciences
arts & humanities
neoliberalism
cultural studies
communication
literature
literary reviews
culture wars
attitudes
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Dr

Mark Davis

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Media and cultural theory
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Projects

Displaying the 7 most recent projects by Mark Davis.

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Alt-right discourse and ideology in Australia and its threat to democracy

2021 - 2023
Active
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Extremism and the Australian National Imaginary

2020 - 2023
Active
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Extremism and the Australian National Imaginary

2020 - 2023
Active
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New tastemakers and Australia's post-digital literary culture

This project aims to investigate the effect of digital technologies on taste-making in Australian literary culture. The project will examine..

2017 - 2020
Completed
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The Bloom Book Industry Report: an annual survey of the Australian book publishing industry

This project represents a university-industry partnership to document the state of play in Australian book publishing, an industry of centra..

2008 - 2011
Completed
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE BOOK INDUSTRY STUDY

This project represents a university-industry partnership to document the state of play in Australian book publishing, an industry of centra..

2008 - 2011
Completed
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AUSTRALIAN LITERARY PUBLISHING AND ITS ECONOMIES, 1965-1995

Australian literature is an essential aspect of Australian culture but its viability is currently under threat, both in the marketplace, and..

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Projects

Project Types

5

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

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Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Mark Davis.

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The online anti-public sphere

Mark Davis

Journal article  |  2021  |  European Journal of Cultural Studies

In this article, I outline the online ‘anti-public sphere’ as an object for analysis, defined as that space of online socio-politi..

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Culture wars and corporatism: The cultural mission in Australian non-fiction book publishing, 1958–2018

Mark Davis

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Literary Studies

In this article I investigate four phases in Australian non-fiction publishing between the late 1950s and early 2000s, focused on ..

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Feminism in the troll space: Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl, social media, and the networked book

M Weber, M Davis

Journal article  |  2020  |  Feminist Media Studies

Clementine Ford’s memoir/manifesto hybrid, Fight Like a Girl, was hailed as a significant contribution to feminist debate in Austr..

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Five Processes in the Platformisation of Cultural Production: Amazon and its Publishing Ecosystem

Mark Davis

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Humanities Review

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Transnationalising the anti-public sphere: Australian anti-publics and extremist online media

Mark Davis

Book Chapter  |  2019

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A new, online culture war? The communication world of Breitbart.com

Mark Davis

Journal article  |  2019  |  Communication Research and Practice

Public debate about the US culture wars reached a rancorous peak in the 1990s. At the same time, a no less contested scholarly deb..

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‘Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear’: Online anti-vaccination websites and ‘anti-public’ discourse

M Davis

Journal article  |  2019  |  Public Understanding of Science

Online media has provided unprecedented opportunities for anti-vaccination groups to spread their message. An extensive scholarly ..

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Networked hatred: new technology and the rise of the right

Mark Davis

Book Chapter  |  2019

EVERY ERA IS defined by its sustaining myths. Among ours is surely ‘disruption’. The book that seeded the mythology, Clayton Chris..

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Unsettled Objects: Books, Cultural Politics, and the Case of Reading the Country

M Davis

Book Chapter  |  2018

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‘Culture is inseparable from race’: culture wars from Pat Buchanan to Milo Yiannopoulos

M Davis

Journal article  |  2018  |  M/C Journal

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Cultural Studies
Communication
Communication and Media Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Government and Politics
Literary Studies
Journalism, Communication and Media
Political Science
Understanding Past Societies
Community Service (excl. Work)

News

Displaying the 4 most recent news articles by Mark Davis.

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How the toxic went mainstream

Mark Davis

August 21, 2019
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Friday essay: networked hatred - new technology and the rise of the right

Mark Davis

May 2, 2019
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Two decades after Gangland, the precariat is ageing and cultural scapegoating thrives

Mark Davis

March 15, 2017
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Authors, get thee to social media: explaining the rise and rise of YA books

Mark Davis

April 12, 2016

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Credentials

Positions

Professor In Publishing & Communications

Culture and Communication

Member

Association of Internet Researchers

Member

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

Member

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (honours)

University of Melbourne

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