20 Facts About Gerard Goggin

Professor Gerard Goggin is an Australian media and communications researcher at the University of Sydney.

Gerard Goggin has produced award-winning research in disability and media policy alongside other contemporary works on digital technology and cultures.

Gerard Goggin is researching internet histories in Australia and the Asia-Pacific and the implications of audio-visual media for government policy.

Gerard Goggin graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986, with studies in English literature and Indonesian.

Gerard Goggin received his PhD in literature from the University of Sydney for his thesis titled Turbulent Preceptors: Mentoring, Maternity and Masculinity in Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Gerard Goggin was a founding board member of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, which was established in 2009.

Gerard Goggin is a member of the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council.

Gerard Goggin has held several academic appointments, including at Southern Cross University in Lismore, University of Queensland and University of Sydney.

Gerard Goggin was a visiting professor at the Centre d'Estudis Australians at the University of Barcelona in 2007.

Gerard Goggin was then professor of digital communication and deputy-director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.

In 2019 Gerard Goggin was appointed Wee Kim Wee Professor of Communication Studies, WKWSCI, NTU.

Gerard Goggin was a professor of digital communication, and deputy director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia until early 2011.

Gerard Goggin has published prolifically, authoring several books and book chapters, and edited some books as well.

Gerard Goggin was editor of Media International Australia, a media studies journal.

Gerard Goggin worked with the late Christopher Newell to author many papers and books in this area.

Gerard Goggin is doing a comparative study of Australia, Japan, South Korea, and China and their Internet history.

Gerard Goggin's background goes beyond education and academics as he is involved in the community as well.

Gerard Goggin was a founding board member of the new Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Deputy Chair and public member of the Telephone Information Service Standards Council.

Gerard Goggin has lectured at workshops, including the Communication and Media Studies Program at Murdoch University in 2010, Internet Research 8.0 Learning and Research in the Second Life Workshop, Internet Histories 2: Australia and the Asia-Pacific in 2008, The Role of New Technologies in Global Societies in 2008.

Gerard Goggin wrote and published a seminal book, Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid, with the late bioethicist Christopher Newell in 2005.