Biography

Glen Fuller’s research focuses on the relation between media and enthusiasm, histories of specialist magazines, contemporary developments in media technologies and media philosophies. He has written widely on enthusiasm, media philosophies, moral panics, complexity and social relations, and car culture. He is also interested in genealogical accounts of the relation between popular specialist or niche media and the enthusiast markets and scenes that they service.

From 2008 to 2011 he worked in the magazine publishing industry where he developed website solutions for primarily print-based media products and also helped develop social media strategies for small business. From 2003 to 2008 he taught across a number of universities in Sydney in a range of fields from Gender Studies to Literary Studies covering topics as diverse as consumer culture, communications, journalism and youth culture.

He is currently carrying out research with a number of leading Australian online news sites to develop a general account of how the production cycle for online news-based media content is different to previous print and broadcast-based media production cycles. He is also currently extending his previous research into the history of Australian modified-car culture and the function of specialist media and enthusiasm to examine other enthusiast scenes with different gender and class bases.

He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Western Sydney.

2007 “The Hoon: Taking Over the Streets?” Outrageous!: Moral Panics in Australia. George Morgan and Scott Poynting (eds): 125-136.

2012 “The Event Mechanics of Loyalty” (in edited collection on Derrida and Marx)

2009 “Enthuse” M/C: Journal of Media and Culture 12 (2)

2009 “The Challenges of Enthusiasm” M/C: Journal of Media and Culture 12 (2)

2007 “Punch-Drunk Love: A Post-Romance Romance” M/C: Journal of Media and Culture 10 (3)

2005 “The xXx Test” Philament: An Online Journal of Arts and Culture 7

2005 “The Getaway” M/C: Journal of Media and Culture  8(6).

2005 (w/ Melissa Gregg) “Where is the Law in ‘Unlawful Combatant’?” Cultural Studies Review 11 (2): 147-159

2010 “Now THAT Is A Smart Car” New Matilda: http://newmatilda.com/2010/03/09/that-is-a-smart-car

2009 “Is It Time To Quit Your Job?” [book review] New Matilda: http://newmatilda.com/2009/12/29/it-time-quit-your-job

2008 “Relax (don’t do it), or Phallic Appetition” The New Large. Tuikkanen, Karl:

http://www.karltuikkanen.com/index.htm [art exhibition catalogue]

2006 “Road Test” Supercharged: The Car in Contemporary Culture. Ed. McRae, Vanessa. Fortitude Valley, Qld. :Institute of Modern Art [art exhibition catalogue]

Book Reviews

2008 “Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization” [book review] http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=522&BookID=382

2006 “Culture + Technology: A Primer” [book review] http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?BookID=343&ReviewID=432

2010 “Commodifying Know-How and the Challenges of Enthusiasm” Complex Basics: Everyday Expertise panel, A Scholarly Affair, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Byron Bay, December

2006 “Contemporary Modified-Car Culture” UnAustralia, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Canberra, December

2005 “The Poverty of the Student” WAR + UNIVERSITY, Autouni, Sydney, August

2005 “Fixing Up Car(-Enthusiast)s” Culture Fix, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Sydney, December

2005 “From the Beaches to the ‘Burbs: On the Emergence of Contemporary Modified-Car Culture in Australia” Cruising Country, Canberra, May

2005 “The Evental Potential of Blogs” Blogtalk Downunder Conference, Sydney, May

2004 “Modified-Car Culture” Australian Car Culture Panel, Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Fremantle, December

2003 “We will not let them take over our streets.” Culture Incorporated, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Christchurch, New Zealand, December