Professor Dan Fleming
| Role: |
Director of Mediarena |
| Qualifications: |
BA Hons Ulster (Northern Ireland), PhD Stirling (Scotland) |
| Email: |
dfleming@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
I.4.17 |
| Contact: |
(07) 838 4466 ext 6362 |
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Research Interests:
Dan is interested in the relationships that interconnect popular culture, critical pedagogy, social realities and communication technologies and in how the creative industries relate to these. The author of the books Powerplay: Toys as Popular Culture (1996) and Media Teaching (1993) and editor of Formations: a 21st Century Media Studies Textbook (2000), Dan has lectured in Scotland and Northern Ireland, worked in community video, was a visiting research fellow in British Telecom's video-on-demand trials, has held a visiting lectureship in new media at a Brazilian university, was one of the founding faculty in the Centre for Media Research in Northern Ireland and helped launch Northern Ireland's pioneering industry-approved Masters degree in Film and Television Management and Policy. The recipient of a Distinguished Teaching award from the University of Ulster, he was subject leader there for Media Studies, Media Arts and Journalism before coming to Waikato in 2005. An Ulster Scot, Dan is keenly interested in questions of cultural identity and centre-periphery relations. Among several research grants, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship in 2001 to investigate visual constructions of identity in the 'Last Best West', the Canadian prairie in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is exploring ways of using multimedia to present work of this kind.
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