Phillip Roe
BA (Hons), PhD Murdoch
new media theory, arts, pedagogy
poststructuralist cultural theory
culture, media & technology
contact


Dr Phillip Roe
Senior lecturer in New Media
School of Contemporary Communication
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education
Central Queensland University
University Drive
Locked Bag 3333
Bundaberg 4670
Queensland




email p.roe@cqu.edu.au
phone 61 0 7 4150 7088
fax 61 0 7 4150 7063

publications


articles
Roe, Phillip. "Ghosts in the Landscape" Transformations 13 (September 2006). Making Badlands. 22 Dec. 2005 transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/issue_13/article_02.shtml

Roe, Phillip. "Ghostwriting: The Alkimos and its Ghosts" Transformations 12 (December 2005). 22 Dec. 2005 transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/issue_12/article_05.shtml

Roe, Phillip. "Dimensions of Print." M/C Journal 8.2 (2005). 14 Jun. 2005 journal.media-culture.org.au/0506/07-roe.php

Phil Roe. "Textual Dreaming: Dis-Ease in the Interface". Fibreculture Journal Issue 3, 2004. journal.fibreculture.org/issue3/.

Phil Roe. "That-which-new media studies-will-become". Fibreculture Journal Issue 2, 2003.
journal.fibreculture.org/issue2/.

Phil Roe, Maria Angel, Rachel Fensham, Kathryn Trees, Abi Bray and Julie Kaeshagen. "Vagina Wolf and the Crustacean Complex". Teaching the Postmodern (Editor David Birch) Southern Review 27/3 (1994). pp. 333-342

Phil Roe. "Textual Tourism: Negotiating the Spaces of Reading". SPAN, Issue 33, May 1992. pp. 91-108.

Phil Roe. "Sybyllascape: Language and Landscape - Intervening in the Historical Space of Literary Narrative". SPAN, Issue 32, April 1991, Post Colonial Texts. pp. 24-31.

Phil Roe. "Xmas Dinner 1987". Westerly, March 1988, No. 1. pp. 34-35.


book

Alison Lee, Anne Chapman and Phillip Roe. Pedagogical Relations Between Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Research Report 2 1996, ISBN 1 86365 265 5


book chapters

Phil Roe and Alec McHoul. "Hypertext and Reading Cognition". In Gorayska, B and Mey, J.L (Editors). Cognitive Technology: In Search of a Humane Interface. Elsevier Science, 1996. pp. 347-359.

Alison Lee, Anne Chapman and Phillip Roe. Chapter 27: Pedagogical Relationships Between Adult Literacy and Numeracy. In Kelly, S (Ed.) The Adult Numeracy Handbook: Reframing Adult Numeracy in Australia. Sydney: NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium, 2003. pp 264-274.


Guest Editor

Transformations 12 (December 2005). 22 Dec. 2005 transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/issue_12/


presentations

2004 "Making Badlands" Conference [http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/conferences/2005.shtml] Title: "Badlands and Ghosts: Figures in/of the Landscape".

2004 "Concepts for Change" Conference [http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/conferences/2004.shtml] Title: "Virtual Badlands: Preliminary Sketches".

2000 Research Seminar, Faculty of Informatics and Communication. Title: A Gentle Introduction to the Virtual

1999 Presentation / demonstration to Showcase of Online and Multimedia Developments at Murdoch University.Title: Strategies for Delivering Full Programs Online

1999 Presentation / demonstration to Showcase of Online and Multimedia Developments at Murdoch University.Title: Designing Online Despite WebCT

1999 Presentation / demonstration to Showcase of Online and Multimedia Developments at Murdoch University.Title: Strategies for Delivering Fully Online Programs

1994 Presentation to interdisciplinary seminar (Re) Moving the Boundaries (Fremantle WA). Collaborative Paper/Performance, Title: Vagina Wolf and the Crustacean Complex

1991 Presentation to interdisciplinary seminar (Re) Moving the Boundaries (Fremantle WA). Title: Aerobic Writing

1989 Presentation to interdisciplinary seminar Moving the Boundaries (Fremantle WA). Title: Writing Over Australia.


web publications (development and design projects/consultancies)

Transformations website — http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/

Bundaberg Media Research Group (BMRG) website — http://bmrg.cqu.edu.au/

MMST12005 New Media Histories and Practices course website.

Web site/information space for the School of Media and Information, Division of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology, WA. 1999.

Multiple online courses developed for School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University, WA. Included both pedagogical design and web design (1995-1999).

Dr Steve Mickler's Indigenous and Media Issues web site. Web design / information architecture.

current research

I have a diverse range of research interests and projects in progress some collaborative and some individual, some theoretical and some production projects. As well as my published writing (see 'publications'), I am involved in research and production activities through the following groups/journals:

Editorial Board member — Fibreculture Journal

CoordinatorBundaberg Media Research Group

Associate EditorTransformations Online Journal and Artspace

teaching

I teach in the Multimedia Studies program.

My teaching, coordination and/or development activites within the multimedia studies program includes the following courses :

mmst11001 Introduction to Multimedia

mmst11002 Constructing Cyberspace

mmst11003 Design Perspectives

mmst12004 Multimedia Design

mmst12005 New Media Histories and Practices

mmst13014 Multimedia Project


Teaching elsewhere: I have previously taught or lectured in the following courses at murdoch university, WA.

H102 Issues in Cultural Studies
A105 Structure Thought and Reality
H116 Introduction to Screen Studies
H122 Reading and Writing I
S151 Reading Feminist Texts
H216 Image Literacy
H224 Language and Social Structure
H235 Culture and Everyday Life
H240 Social Semiotics
S243 Self and Society
H263 Science Fiction and Cyberculture
H2xx Language, Culture and the Unconscious
H290 Popular Literature
English and English Literature (Secondary) Teachers Seminar
Uni-Quest, Murdoch University
Tutor/Consultant - Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ATAS)



postgraduate supervision

Current supervisions:
"Chora-logic: Electracy as Regional Epistemology" — PhD, Central Queensland University.

"Performing their 'Selves': An Investigation of the Talk of Regional Queensland Men-as-Songwriters in a Radio Interview Setting" — PhD CQU

"The Standardisation of Nomenclature in Music Pedagogy" — Doctorate of Education, Central Queensland University.

"Below the Infrastructure: A Critical Analysis of Networks in Order to Inform the Development of Interactive Video Practice." — PhD, RMIT

"Information: The Politics of the Interface" — Masters, Central Queensland University.

Completed supervisions:
"Bio/techno/Logo: Writing and the Face in the Human/Machine Relation" — PhD Concordia University, Montreal.

"Video Chaos: Multilinear narrative structuration in New Media video practice" — Masters University of Technology Sydney.

"A User-Centred Approach to the Labelling of Navigation Aids as a Means of Reducing 'Lostness and Disorientation' Frequently Experienced by Website Users" — Honours, Central Queensland University.

"The Autobiography of a GhostWriter"

That person, the one in the photograph, may have been me - although it's hard to say now. I want to say that it is not, that it could never have been. I'm uncomfortable with my image up there, looking back at me, wondering who I am - staring at a future image of itself that it will never see.

There's something about images. At one time I didn't even have a mirror in my bathroom. My youngest son complained bitterly about this, he's not like me. Perhaps, also, that's why my daughter moved out to live with friends. I told myself it was because I didn't have time to put a mirror up, or I couldn't afford it that week, or last month.

I'm more comfortable with the drawing, even though it is fifteeen years now since I sketched it. But I recall, vividly, staring steadfastly into a mirror armed with pencils and erasers. I recall that part of the image was clear to me and part not clear at all - parts of myself that I could not see. I've seen that in the drawing ever since.
Self-portrait of the artist as a younger man (when he still believed he possessed an image).

The photograph feels autobiographic in a crass way, and so writing an autobiography, even a little one like this, scares me. Somehow it always feels fraudulent - it is fraudulent. And I can't help but know this every time. I never feel an afinity with the image. And I don't know whether it's some neurosis on my part or not, but I never feel that the writing (in light) that is photography can ever represent what I feel myself to be. Not that I could say what that is, at least, not in any coherent totality.

The drawing is autobiographic in a different way, in an almost undefinable, elusive way. I've thought of writing autobiography before, and always under my preferred title, "The Autobiography of a GhostWriter". But I think it's like the mirror. I can't decide whether the subject of the autobiography precedes me or comes after, what has been or what might be - and these would be different stories. Much like the images above, in their different ways. It's not that it's fixed in time, an instant, but that the image is out of time. It may have been someone I once knew.

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