ORCID Profile
0000-0003-2547-6286
Current Organisation
University of Adelaide
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Screen and Media Culture | Media Studies | Consumption and Everyday Life | Communication and Media Studies | Cultural Studies |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Consumption | The Media | Production | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
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Publications
‘Helping Australia Grow’: supermarkets, television cooking shows, and the strategic manufacture of consumer trust
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-08-2016
Hamburgers of Devastation: The pleasures and politics of heavy metal cooking
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2014
Abstract: Heavy metal, a genre once considered a dangerous and transgressive force in popular culture, is now increasingly constructed as a light-hearted source of fun, comedy and entertainment in a growing number of popular cultural forms. Nowhere is this clearer than in the recent phenomenon of the heavy metal cookbook, whereby domestic cookery is (sometimes seriously, sometimes comically) reimagined as part of a metal identity. Such cookbooks reveal not only how transgressive cultural forms can become incorporated and domesticated by the ‘mainstream’, but also how transgression can be repurposed to suit the changing lives of music fans as they age.
Book Review: Food Instagram: Identity, Influence & Negotiation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-06-2023
Alternative Food Politics
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-12-2018
Are media messages to consume more under‐utilized seafood species reliable?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-05-2020
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12467
Celebrity chefs, consumption politics and food labelling: Exploring the contradictions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-05-2018
Abstract: The mainstreaming of ethical consumption over the past two decades has attuned citizen-consumers to their power to shape food production practices through their consumption choices. To navigate the complexity inherent in contemporary food supply chains, ethical consumers often turn to certification and labelling schemes to identify which products to purchase. However, the existence of competing supply chain interests, coupled with the myriad different ways production factors and processes can be combined, has constructed certification and labelling as a highly contested space. Within this context, celebrity chefs have taken on a significant role in influencing food cultures, consumption practices and public policy. As a group of powerful cultural and political intermediaries, celebrity chefs have used their public profile to address causes related to food ethics and sustainability, and to shape consumer ‘choice’ by advocating for the consumption of labelled and certified food products. This article analyses the media c aigns of British celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to promote ‘free range’ chicken and eggs. It reveals how the celebrity chefs’ interventions into consumption politics often occurs without sufficient sensitivity to the specificities of the particular labelling and certification systems they are promoting, with very different systems often presented as achieving identical ends. In presenting ‘free range’ as a single, idealised and uncontested standard, they (perhaps unwittingly) expose themselves to the range of contradictions involved in the need to present complex information on animal friendly and sustainably produced food in simple, unambiguous and entertaining formats.
Using media to promote artisan food and beverages: insights from the television industry
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-03-2016
Abstract: – The increasing frequency with which food and beverage producers feature in mainstream media, including television cooking shows, provide opportunities and pitfalls for using media to promote artisan food and beverage businesses. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate these, as experienced by a group of food and beverage producers who appeared on the popular Australian television show, Gourmet Farmer . – Findings are based on semi-structured interviews with 14 of the producers featured on the show, plus textual analysis of relevant segments of the show. – While all of the producers felt that food television offered a good promotional tool, those who were most familiar with the practices of media production and whose businesses offered experiences through which viewers could access (or imagine) a “taste” of the Gourmet Farmer life tended to be more satisfied than those who were less familiar with the practices of media production and who expected a greater focus on their products and production practices. – The development of media skills is essential for artisan producers to get the best outcomes when using media to promote their businesses. – The experiences of food and beverage producers using food television to promote their businesses have not previously been the subject of thoroughgoing research. This paper offers new insights into how artisan producers can best capitalize on the opportunities offered by food media.
In Defense of Textual Analysis: Resisting Methodological Hegemony in Media and Cultural Studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2013
Mastering obesity: MasterChef Australia and the resistance to public health nutrition
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2013
Abstract: At the same time as overweight and obesity have come to dominate population health priorities in most western countries, food programming takes up more time on western television screens than ever before. This has resulted both in increased televisual representations of so-called ‘unhealthy’ foods (such as butter, cream and fatty red meats), and in greater public health scrutiny of the preparation and consumption of such foods. This article explores this paradox via a case study of MasterChef Australia, the most successful iteration of the popular MasterChef franchise. At a time when the ‘obesity epidemic’ has been a particular focus of Australian public health promotion, MasterChef Australia revels in the apparently ‘excessive’ use of saturated fats, especially butter, a food routinely declared by Australian health advocacy bodies as one to be avoided. This article argues that MasterChef Australia offers an alternative to puritanical nutrition discourses – not, on the whole, by explicitly contesting them, but by presenting food in ways that such discourses are largely irrelevant. The public health concerns generated by this use of butter on MasterChef Australia offer important insight into current debates about food and health, and, in particular, into the limitations of current public health communication strategies.
Media and food industries: The new politics of food
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Becoming food, eating media
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Introduction to the special issue: Eating like a ‘man’: Food and the performance and regulation of masculinities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2014
Communicating health risks via the media: What can we learn from MasterChef Australia?
Publisher: OMICS Publishing Group
Date: 30-11-2012
The celebrification of farmers: celebrity and the new politics of farming
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2017
Haunted by the Spirit of '77: Punk Studies and the Persistence of Politics
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
The new politics of food: Television and the media/food industries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2016
Abstract: The provenance of food and the ethics of food production and consumption are increasingly a focus of media, particularly of television cooking shows. This is the result of complex dynamics of interaction between the media and food industries that are influencing consumer behaviours and business practices. This article offers a preliminary exploration of some of these relationships, focusing on Australian food television. Using two case studies that are arguably at opposite ends of the media/food spectrum – the first focusing on a niche lifestyle programme that advocates for small food producers and the second focusing on the televisual marketing strategies of a major supermarket – the article considers how relationships between media and food industries are not only investing food with new meaning and significance but are also opening up new markets and marketing strategies for food products and experiences.
Self harm in Goth youth subculture: Study merely reinforces popular stereotypes
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 18-05-2006
Work placements in the media and creative industries: Discourses of transformation and critique in an era of precarity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-06-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14740222211021337
Abstract: As graduate labour market conditions have become increasingly challenging, higher education institutions have intensified their focus on ‘employability’ via strategies such as work placements. Focusing on work placements in the media and creative industries, this article identifies and analyses three key discourses that animate the pedagogical literature in these sectors: work placements as facilitating a ‘smooth transition’ to the labour market work placements as a place in which inequalities in the labour market are (re)produced and work placements as a space for fostering resilience and adaptation to labour market precarity. The article argues that critiques of inequalities based on race, class or gender are marked by a transformative impulse that is largely absent in critiques of those based on worker precarity. This highlights a need to adopt pedagogies that similarly unnaturalise the economic conditions of neoliberal capitalism to discursively (re)construct work in new, more socially just, ways.
Food/media: eating, cooking, and provisioning in a digital world
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-06-2018
Extreme music for extreme people? Norwegian black metal and transcendent violence
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 14-05-2012
Escaping to the country: Media, nostalgia, and the new food industries
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Resisting Health: Extreme Food and the Culinary Abject
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Related Organisations
Related Funding Activities
Project DE140101412
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityMedia Messages About Sustainable Seafood: How Do Media Influencers Affect Consumer Attitudes?
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 2019
Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
View Funded ActivityArtisanal Making And The Future Of Small-scale Local Production
Start Date: 2022
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101412
Start Date: 03-2014
End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $383,532.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220100110
Start Date: 03-2022
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $390,979.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity