Biography
My current research uses methodologies for creative design drawn from multi-discipline integration including playful learning applications and experiences that address real world problems including digital literacies, privacy and surveillance, to science communication. My previous work in Marketing Communications has led me to pursue three intersecting lines of theory and empirical research across:
• Media, Communication and Technology Studies: digital media, data cultures, social media, emerging screen technologies, ecosophy. Part of this research is presented in my book Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (Oxford University Press, 2015) and my current research projects, Augmenting Greener Futures, Dreaming in Extreme Reality: Step into the Western Volcanic Plains and an article in Nature entitled 'Protecting Communities during the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis: Health Data Research and the International Use of Contact Tracing Technologies' reported in media here and here.
• Ethnic and Migration Studies: Italian migration, post World War Two migration to Australia, storying migration, documentary, web series. Read an overview of this scholarly work here and a piece ‘Un nuovo progetto tra il Co.As.It. e la Deakin University’ in Il Globo (Monday April 8, 2019, p 41).
• Celebrity and Fandom Studies: stardom, fandom, fans, popular media, hauntology, netnography. You can read part of my research from the co-authored The Fandom of David Bowie: Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (Palgrave, 2019) and Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory, co-authored (Bloomsbury, 2015) a review of L'Enchanteur: Portrait d'une icône sous ses masques (GM Editions Paris, 2021) here, find a piece in this CNN article and in The Conversation here, RollingStone, or listen to an ABC radio podcast interview from my research here. Academic reviews are here and here.
I am interested in supervising postgraduate projects related to these areas. My publications are available on my academia site I tweet at @ToijaCinque
Biography summary
Toija Cinque (PhD Monash University – Media and Communications) is Associate Professor in Communication (Digital Media) in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University.
I examine the increasingly important aspects of media studies, communications and digital literacy education, research methodologies, and digital cultures. My expertise lies in exploring the intersections between mobile screens or scalable media with the reconfigurations of networked publicness tied to mediating technologies such mixed (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and social media. My work spans other studies in radical and participatory transparency/surveillance practices, digital technologies, digital ethnography, communications policy, history, audience and reception studies.
My recent works are Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision (2022, co-edited) and Emerging Digital Media Ecologies (forthcoming Routledge, 2024). The research context for each book moves across such interdisciplinary areas as: media studies, film, music, popular culture, media arts, cultural studies, robotics, performance and mixed Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtial Reality (VR)/and Artificial Intelligence (AI) together with notions of a forming Quantified Self. In Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking, OUP (2015); Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life, 2nd edition, OUP (2015), and; Communication, New Media in Everyday Life, OUP, (2012) I offer a full account of the information society, virtual cultures, sociology of the internet, and critical issues in digital media.
Career highlights
- I was listed as one of The Conversation’s top 10 researchers and acknowledged at the Vice-Chancellor Celebration of Deakin University awards, 2016;
- I was invited to attend and contribute to a session on Innovation and eDiplomacy: The importance of internet freedom and the use of technology to enhance international affairs at the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne on 1 April 2011.
Research interests
- Mobile Screens/Scalable Media
- Mediating Technologies such as mixed (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
- Social Media
- Radical and Participatory Transparency/Surveillance Practices
- Digital Ethnography
- Communications Policy
- Media, Film and Television Studies
- Stardom and Celebrity Studies
- The Quantified Self and Social Network Analytics
- Digital Cultures
- Audiences and Reception Studies
Affiliations
- Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
- Network Insight Institute
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
- Association of Internet Researchers (AoiR)
- International Network for Audience Research in the Performing Arts (iNARPA)
- Research Institute on Social Cohesion (RIOSC)
Teaching interests
- Digital Media Studies
- Emerging Technologies
- Internet Use and Regulation
- Television and Radio
- Research Methods
- Screen Futures
- Communications Institutions and Industries
- Communications and Media Policy
Units taught
ACC303 Communications Research Methods
ALM202 Quantified Media
AFC703 Fractured TV: : Audiences, Formats, Technology and Regulation
ALC305 Media Ecologies
Knowledge areas
Media Studies, Screen Studies, Communications, Digital Literacy Education, Research Methodologies (including method and questionnaire design, implementation, and data analysis), Digital Cultures, Audiences and Reception Studies, Celebrity and Stardom, Cultural Studies, Social Network Analysis (SNA).
Expertise
- Communication
Media appearances
Appearances on News Breakfast Early: ABC TV and SBS News (TV and Radio in Melbourne); Various radio interviews.
Research groups
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
TechnEcology
Deakin Motion Lab
Projects
- The project ‘Memories That Make Us: Storying Post WW2 Italian Migration to Victoria’ collects and digitally archives the post-World War Two migrant stories of settlement in Australia from Italy with outputs including an interactive website as an inclusive space, and feature length documentary (part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival MDFF 2022 and screening 31 July, 2022 at Cinema Nova.
- The TechnEcology research group under the Deakin University Research Network (DURN) with partnering organisations including NGOs Earthwatch Institute and Australian Wildlife Conservancy, AECOM from industry, the Ross Trust and Australian Museum among others aims towards ‘Evaluating the contribution of new technology and citizen science to achieving Victoria's biodiversity strategy goals’.
- With REDI (Research for Educational Impact) and AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) Research Network at Deakin University and ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), This project was for the Department of Premier and Cabinet for the development and delivery of the Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship Pilot Program in selected Victorian schools. My role is as Digital Media Educator contributing to building understanding of the key issues and demonstrating the impact of the research by being able to quantify and qualify the project’s value through content development as well as project monitoring, analysis, translation and communication.
Publications
Quantified me: curatorial lives and the pixelated spectre of self
Toija Cinque
(2022), pp. 1-24, Materializing digital futures: touch, movement, sound and vision, London, Eng., B1
Performative emotional symbolism and stylistic gesture in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige
Toija Cinque
(2022), pp. 1-24, I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor, New York, N.Y., B1
T Cinque
(2022), Vol. 9, pp. 1-11, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, London, England, C1
Materializing digital futures: touch, movement, sound and vision
Toija Cinque, Jordan Vincent
(2022), London, Eng., A7
Tu Me Manqueras Toujours, Je Ne T' Oublierai Jamais et Je T' Aimerai a Jamais
Toija Cinque
(2021), pp. 280-287, L' Enchanteur: Portrait d'une icône sous ses masques, Paris, B1
A Study in Anxiety of the Dark
Toija Cinque
(2021), Vol. 24, pp. 1-11, M/C Journal, Brisbane, Qld., C1
The darker turn of intimate machines: dark webs and (post)social media
T Cinque
(2021), Vol. 35, pp. 679-691, Continuum, C1
Memories That Make Us: Stories of post World War 2 Italian migration to Australia
Martin Potter, Sean Redmond, Toija Cinque
(2021), Asti International Film Festival, JR1
The fandom of David Bowie: everyone says "hi"
Toija Cinque, Sean Redmond
(2019), Cham, Switzerland, A1
Postdigital cultures of downloading and streaming in Australia: fandom and a game of thrones
Toija Cinque
(2019), pp. 151-166, Aussie fans: uniquely placed in global popular culture, Iowa City, Ia., B1
Celebrity conferences as confessional spaces: the aca-fan memory traces of David Bowie's stardom
T Cinque
(2019), Vol. 10, pp. 44-59, Celebrity Studies, C1
The emerging televisual: technology futures and screens for all things
T Cinque, J Beth Vincent
(2018), Vol. 12, pp. 42-55, Studies in Australasian Cinema, C1
"Canvas of Flesh": David Bowie, Andy Warhol in Basquiat
T Cinque
(2018), Vol. 57, pp. 158-166, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, C1
Digital me, digital us: curious, critical & creative pilot project evaluation report
C Beavis, L Pangrazio, Michelle Grossman, A Keddie, T Cinque, M Vergani, C Eveley, V Trundle, C Speldewinde
(2018), [Melbourne, Vic.], A6
Talking Miley: the value of celebrity gossip
S Redmond, Cinque
(2017), pp. 71-90, Entertainment values: how do we assess entertainment and why does it matter?, Berlin, Germany, B1
The subversion of an exquisite corpus: against the grain with David Bowie
T Cinque
(2017), Vol. 31, pp. 596-606, Continuum: journal of media & cultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Lazarus rises: storying the self in the migrant fandom of David Bowie
T Cinque, S Redmond
(2016), Vol. 6, pp. 7-24, iaspm@journal, C1
Digital shimmer: popular music and the intimate nexus between fan and star
T Cinque
(2015), pp. 440-455, Companion to Celebrity (Studies), Chichester, Eng., B1
T Cinque
(2015), pp. 197-214, Enchanting David Bowie: space/time/body/memory, New York, N. Y., B1
Educating generation next: screen media use, digital competencies and tertiary education
T Cinque, A Brown
(2015), Vol. 7, pp. 1-18, Digital culture and education, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Enchanting David Bowie space/time/body/memory
T Cinque, C Moore, S Redmond
(2015), New York, N.Y., A7
David Bowie: dancing with madness and proselytising the socio-political in art and life
T Cinque
(2013), Vol. 4, pp. 401-404, Celebrity studies journal, London, Eng., C1
Who is he now? The unearthly David Bowie
T Cinque, S Redmond
(2013), Vol. 4, pp. 377-379, Celebrity studies journal, London, Eng., C1-1
Visual networking : Australia's media landscape
T Cinque
(2012), Vol. 6, pp. 1-8, Global media journal : Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Visual networking : keeping television on the box
T Cinque, D Marshall
(2011), pp. 128-140, Record of the Communications Policy and Research Forum 2011, Sydney, N.S.W., E1
T Cinque
(2010), Media, Democracy & Change : Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference, Canberra 2010, Canberra, A. C. T., E1-1
A new screen face for public service broadcasting
T Cinque
(2009), pp. 534-545, ANZCA 2009 : Proceedings of the 2009 Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference : Communication, creativity and global citizenship, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, E1
The role of Australia's public broadcasters in development and democracy
T Cinque
(2008), WIA 2008 : Transition and Interchange : Proceedings of the International Women in Asia 2008 conference, Brisbane, Qld., E1-1
The future of television is outside the box
T Cinque
(2008), Media, Communications and Public Speech : Conference of the CMCL - Centre for Media and Communications Law 2008, Melbourne, Vic., E1-1
Custodians for the future : media, art and cultural policy in Australia
T Cinque
(2007), pp. 133-151, Australia : who cares?, Perth, W.A., B1-1
ABC online : a vortal for new opportunities?
T Cinque
(2007), Vol. 34, pp. 85-100, Australian journal of communication, Brisbane, Qld., C1-1
The ABC and SBS online : from portal to vortal
T Cinque
(2007), pp. 1-17, ANZCA 2007 : Proceedings of the 2007 Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference : Framing the discourses of harm and loss, Melbourne, Vic., E1-1
The impact of globalisation on cultural policies : a call for universal social responsibility
T Cinque
(2006), Vol. 2, International journal of the humanities, Altona, Vic., C1-1
The impact of globalisation on cultural policies : a call for universal social responsibility
T Cinque
(2004), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Prato, Italy, E1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Development and delivery of the Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship Pilot Program
Prof Catherine Beavis, Prof Michele Grossman AM, Prof Amanda Keddie, A/Prof Toija Cinque, Dr Luci Pangrazio, Dr Matteo Vergani
Department of Premier and Cabinet Vic
- 2018: $166,889
Industry and Other Funding
Memories that Make Us: Storying Italian Migration in Victoria.
Prof Sean Redmond, A/Prof Toija Cinque, Dr Martin Potter
Co.As.It - Italian Assistance Association
- 2022: $24,000
- 2021: $12,000
- 2020: $39,016
- 2019: $58,524
Supervisions
Jessie Wilkie
Thesis entitled: Ethical Journalism and Practical Standards for Australian Sporting Controlled News
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Charitha Dissanayake
Thesis entitled: Tuning-in to the migrant voice: Developing a new radio program format for ethnic listeners in Australia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Anton Karl Kozlovic
Thesis entitled: 'You Will Forgive Me if I Speak Bluntly': Reading The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) as a Profoundly Christian Subtextual Film
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ivo Burum
Thesis entitled: How To Mojo: democratizing journalism skills across spheres of communication
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts