Media
Associate Professor Sherman Young
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Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Artsemail: sherman.young@mq.edu.au phone: (02) 9850 6778 fax: (02) 9850 6900 location: W6A 235 |
BACKGROUND
Sherman is currently the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts.
He has a PhD from The University of Queensland, on the topic of Internet content regulation, working closely with the Key Centre for Media and Cultural Policy and the Australian Broadcasting Authority. He also has an MA (Media, Communications and Law) from Macquarie University and a BSc in Design Studies from UNSW.
Prior to becoming an academic, Sherman worked as a new media designer and producer, producing CD-ROMs and websites for corporate and publishing clients. Two of the projects he produced won AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association) awards.
Reflecting his background in both theory and production, Sherman teaches both introductory Media Theory and Advanced Multimedia production units.
Sherman blogs at:
The book is dead
Music 2.0.
Learning 2.0.
and http://reconfigure.org. (occasionally!)
RESEARCH AREAS
Sherman's interests include technology and society, new media technology and media policy issues. His focus is the social, cultural and political impact of the new media technologies and the effect of those technologies on existing media industries and infrastructures.
Sherman is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book, published by UNSW Press. He is a founding member of the editorial board of Scan, an online journal of media arts and culture and an editorial reviewer for Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. He blogs at http://reconfigure.org.
Sherman's current research project is Copyright Cultures involving qualitative and quantitative research into the attitudes of Australian musicians to the new technologies and their copyright implications. More details can be found here.
PUBLICATIONS
Sherman Young and Graham Meikle (forthcoming, 2010) Media Convergence, Palgrave, UKSherman Young and Steve Collins (forthcoming, 2010) "Towards 2.0" in Popular Music and Society, Routledge
Sherman Young (2009) "The Elusive eBook – Driving Cultural Change" in The International Journal of the Book, Common Ground Publishing
Sherman Young (2009) Read/Write 2.0 in EQ magazine, Spring 2009, Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne
Sherman Young (2009) "Is the Book Dead" on Unleashed, 26 May 2009, ABC, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2580527.htm (accessed 9/12/09)
Sherman Young (2008) "E-Books: Where are they" in Blue Pencil, Society of Editors (NSW), August 2008
Sherman Young (2008) "Beyond the Flickering Screen: Re-situating E-Books) in m/c - a journal of media and culture, Volume 11, Issue 4 - 'Publish',
Sherman Young and Graham Meikle (2008) Editors Media International Australia no. 126 for February 2008, on the theme 'Beyond Broadcasting: TV For The Twenty-First Century'
Sherman Young (2007) The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book, UNSW Press, Sydney
Sherman Young (2007) "But a Book is not a Blog" in New Matilda, November 9, 2007
Sherman Young (2007) "Everybody Writes" in New Matilda, October 29th, 2007
Sherman Young (2007) l Leave the Antibooks on the Shelf Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September, p. 15.
Graham Meikle and Sherman Young (2007) 'Changing Channels: The End of TV As We Know It', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February, p. 15.
Sherman Young (2005) 'Copyright Cultures' in equity - publication of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Summer 2005
Sherman Young (2005), 'From Flaneur to Driveur' in Scan - Journal of Media Arts Culture, Volume 2, Number 1
Sherman Young and Stephen Collins (2005), 'Fair Enough: Copyright and the Australia-USA Fair Trade Agreement' in Mobile Boundaries, Rigid Worlds, Conference Proceedings, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
Sherman Young and Ellie Rennie (2004), "Park Life - The Commons and Communications Policy Commons" in Gerard Goggin (ed), Virtual Nation, The Internet in Australian, UNSW Press, Sydney
Sherman Young (2004) "Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality" in scan - journal of media arts culture, Vol 1, #1, Jan 2004, http://scan.net.au
Sherman Young (2003), "Sharing Control - contesting distributed computing" in Media International Australia, #107, May 2003
Sherman Young (2003) "Technology is a contest" in online opinion, May
2003, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=335
Sherman Young (2002), "Brave New World or Same Old Same Old" in Southern Review, February 2002
Sherman Young (2001), "What's the Big Idea: Production, Consumption and Internet Regulatory Disclosure" in Media International Australia, #101, November 2001
Sherman Young (2000) Reviewing the Law - Assessing Australia?s Online Content Regulations, Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AOIR), University of Kansas, September 2000
Sherman Young (2000) Blinding the Net - The Ethics of Online Content Regulation, ANZCA Conference Proceedings, ANZCA Conference, July 2000
Young, Sherman (2000) "The Internet Utopia - is it over?" in ABCZine - Issue 1, No.3, Winter 2000
Young, Sherman and Brogan, Mark (2000), Above the Law ? The Internet and self-regulation, ECUBit Conference Proceedings, Edith Cowan University - April 2000
Young, Sherman (1998), "Of Cyber Spaces -- The Internet & Heterotopias" in m/c - a journal of media and culture, Volume 1, Issue 4 - 'Space', http://www.media-culture.org.au
Young, Sherman (1998), "Racing Sim(ulacra)" in m/c - a journal of media and culture, Volume 1, Issue 5 - 'Play', http://www.media-culture.org.au