Professor Rod Tiffen
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BA Monash PhD Monash |
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Professor Tiffen is one of Australia’s leading scholars of the media. His teaching and research interests are in the mass media, Australian politics, comparative democratic politics, democratisation and Australian relations with Asia. His most recent book, co-authored with Ross Gittins, is How Australia Compares (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is also author of Diplomatic Deceits. Government, Media and East Timor; Scandals. Media, Politics and Corruption in Contemporary Australia; News and Power; The News from Southeast Asia; and numerous articles on mass media and Australian politics. He is editor of Mayer on the Media: Selected Essays on Australian Media, and co-editor of Australia’s Gulf War. He acted as an observer of South Africa’s media during that country’s first democratic election, and has worked with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reviewing Radio Australia. He currently holds an ARC Discovery Grant to analyse changes in the Australian press’s political reporting over the last 50 years. |
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Publications
2008Book Section/sTiffen, R. (2008) ‘Australian Use of Intelligence and the Case for War in Iraq’ in Pfiffner, J. and Phythian, M. (eds) Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives, Manchester: Manchester Uni Press, pp.106-25. Tiffen, R. (2008) ‘Australia: Gladiatorial Parties and Volatile Media in a Stable Polity’ in Stromback, J. and Kaid, L. (eds) The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World, London: Routledge, pp.109-23. Journal Article/sTiffen, R. (2008) ‘Campaign Tactics, Media Bias and the Politics of Explanations: Accounting for the Coalition’s Loss in 2007’, Communication, Politics and Culture, 41(2), pp. 8-29. 2007Book Section/sSavage S and Tiffen R 2007 'Politicians, journalists and spin: tangled relationships and shifting alliances' in Government communication in Australia, ed. S Young, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne pp. 79-92. 2006Book Section/sTiffen RE 2006 'Wran amd the Media' in The Wran Era, ed. T. Bramston, Federation Press, Sydney pp. 107-116. Journal Article/sTiffen R 2006 'Contested Narratives, Ambiguous Impacts and Democratic Dilemmas: The Western News Media and the “War on Terror’', Policy and Society , vol.25:4, pp. 99-119. 2005Book Section/sTiffen RE and Kwak KS 2005 'Cable Television and Democratization in Taiwan and South Korea' in Journalism and Democracy in Asia, ed. Angela Romano and Michael Bromley, Routledge, London pp. 135-147. Tiffen RE 2005 'Australia's Media 2004 - A Democratic Audit ' in Indonesia-Australia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Bilateral Political Relationship , ed. Chusnul Mar'iyah, University of Indonesia and Granit Jakarta, Indonesia pp. 87-111. Tiffen RE 2005 'The Aftermath. Must Labor Lose?' in A win and a Prayer. Scenes from the 2004 Australian Election, ed. Peter Browne and Julian Thomas, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney pp. 123-129. Tiffen RE 2005 'The Generational Warrior' in A win and a Prayer. Scenes from the 2004 Australian Election, ed. Peter Browne and Julian Thomas, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney pp. 84-87. 2004Book/sTiffen RE and Gittins R 2004 How Australia Compares, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/Melbourne. Journal Article/sTiffen RE 2004 'Tip of the Iceberg or Moral Panic – Police Corruption Issues in Contemporary New South Wales', American Behavioural Scientist, vol.47:9, pp. 1171-1193. Conference Proceeding/sTiffen RE 2004 'The Development of Pay Television in Australia', Sixth World Media Economics Conference, HEC Montreal, Canada,12-15 May 2004. 2003Conference Paper/sTiffen RE 2003 'New(s) Times: Political Sources and Source Politics - Iatrogenic Spin Doctoring',Inaugural conference of the media and communications program, uni melbourne. 2002Book Section/sTiffen RE 2002 'Media Escalation and Political Anti-Climax in Australia´s Cash for Comment Scandal' in Journalism and Politics, ed. Erik Neveu and Raymond Kuhn, Routledge, London pp. 131-148. Tiffen RE 2002 'Political economy and news' in The media and communications in Australia, ed. Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest NSW pp. 35-47. Conference Paper/sTiffen RE 2002 'Trends and New Developments in Agenda-Setting Research',International Communications Association Conference, Seoul. 2001Book/sTiffen RE 2001 Diplomatic Deceits - Government, Media and East Timor, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. Book Section/sTiffen RE 2001 'Australian Media Occupations' in Media Occupations and Professions: A Reader, ed. Jeremy Tunstall, Oxford University Press, Oxford pp. 253-262. 2000Book Section/sTiffen RE 2000 'Conflicts in the news: Publicity interests, public images and political impacts' in Media Power, Professionals and Policies, ed. Howard Tumber, Routledge, London pp. 190-205. Tiffen RE 2000 'New Order Regime Style and the Australian media' in Foreign Devils and Other Journalists, ed. Damien Kingsbury, Eric Loo and Patricia Payne, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne pp. 38-49. Tiffen RE 2000 'The news media and Australian politics: Contemporary challenges for Australian democracy in the information age' in The Politics of Australian Society, ed. Paul Boreham, Geoffrey Stokes and Richard Hall, Longman, Sydney pp. 175-191. 1999Book/sTiffen RE 1999 Scandals, Media, Politics and Corruption in Contemporary Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. 1998Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1998 'Packer, ANI and the ethics of corporate secrecy', Current Affairs Bulletin, pp. 5-10. 1997Book Section/sTiffen RE 1997 'The Press' in The Media in Australia. Industries, Texts, Audiences, ed. GraemeTurner and Stuart Cunningham, Allen and Unwin, Sydney pp. 191-200. 1996Book Section/sTiffen RE 1996 'International News and Political Agendas in the Asia Pacific Region' in Peace Building in the Asia-Pacific Region, ed. Peter King and Yoichi Kibata, Allen and Unwin, Sydney pp. 98-113. Tiffen RE 1996 'Media and Politics' in The Social Science Encyclopaedia, ed. Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper, Routledge, London. 1995Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1995 'The Labor-Packer Alliance, 1978-1995. RIP', Media International Australia, vol.77, pp. 20-34. 1994Book Section/sTiffen RE 1994 'Introduction' in Henry Mayer - Mayer on the Media. Issues and Arguments, ed. Rodney Tiffen and Murray Goot, Allen and Unwin and Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney. Tiffen RE 1994 'Media Policy' in Developments in Australian Politics, ed. Judith Brett, James Gillespie and Murray Goot, MacMillan, Melbourne. Edited Book/sTiffen RE 1994 Henry Mayer - Mayer on the Media. Issues and Arguments, Allen and Unwin and Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney. 1993Book Section/sTiffen RE 1993 'Regional Relations: The Politics of Continuing Change' in Where to now? Australia's Identity in the Nineties, ed. J. Beaumont, Federation Press, Sydney. Tiffen RE 1993 'The Media and Democracy - Reclaiming an Intellectual Agenda' in Business as Usual - The Media versus the People, ed. Julianne Schultz, Ideas for Australia, Melbourne. Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1993 'The Fall of the House of Fairfax (Review Essay based upon four books)', Media Information Australia, vol.67. 1992Book Section/sTiffen RE 1992 'Introduction' in Australia's Gulf War, ed. Rodney Tiffen and Murray Goot, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. Tiffen RE 1992 'News Coverage' in Australia's Gulf War, ed. Rodney Tiffen and Murray Goot, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. Edited Book/sTiffen RE and Goot M 1992 Australia's Gulf War, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1992 'Marching to Whose Drum? - Media Battles in the Gulf War', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.46:1. 1991Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1991 'Shipp Overboard? A rejoinder', Current Affairs Bulletin, vol.68:2. Tiffen RE 1991 'The Second Casualty - The ABC and the Gulf War', Current Affairs Bulletin, vol.67:11. 1990Book Section/sTiffen RE 1990 'The Australian Media and Australian-ASEAN relations' in ASEAN into the Nineties, ed. Alison Broinowski, MacMillan, Basingstoke. Tiffen RE 1990 'The War the Media Lost - the Australian Media and the Vietnam War' in Vietnam Remembered, ed. Gregory Pemberton, Weldon Fairfax Syme, Sydney pp. 110-137. Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1990 'Election '90 - What the Media Made of it', Current Affairs Bulletin, vol.67:1. 1989Book/sTiffen RE 1989 News and Power, Allen and Unwin, Sydney. Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1989 'The Sun also sets; Mirror Monopoly Shock', Media Information Australia, vol.52, pp. 16-20. 1988Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1988 'A Politician´s Experiences with the Press. Insights from the Howson Diaries', Media Information Australia, vol.49, pp. 25-29. Tiffen RE 1988 'Confidential Sources in the News - Conventions and Contortions´', Australian Journalism Review, vol.10:1 and 2, pp. .22-27. 1987Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1987 'In search of Wilfed Burchett', Media Information Australia, vol.43, pp. 45-47. Tiffen RE 1987 'Quality and Bias in the Australian Press. News Ltd, Fairfax, and the Herald and Weekly Times', Australian Quarterly, vol.59:Nos 3-4, pp. 329-344. Tiffen RE 1987 'The Media by the Media. How news organisations cover themselves and each other', Media Information Australia, vol.44, pp. 6-11. 1985Book Section/sTiffen RE 1985 'The Dynamics of Dominance. Wran and the media, 1981' in The Wran Model, ed. Ernest Chaples, Helen Nelson and Ken Turner, Oxford University Press, Melbourne pp. 149-168. Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1985 'Henry Mayer and Australian Media Studies', Politics, vol.20:2, pp. 43-49. Tiffen RE 1985 'The White Australia Policy and Asian Immigration', The Otemon Bulletin of Australian Studies, vol.11, pp. 1-10. 1984Book Section/sFeith H and Tiffen RE 1984 'Preface' in Stubborn Survivors, ed. Rex Mortimer. Tiffen RE 1984 'Media-centric Electioneering' in Communications and Government, ed. Ted J. Smith III and et al., Canberra College of Education, Canberra, A.C.T. pp. 33-76. Edited Book/sTiffen RE and Feith H 1984 Rex Mortimer Stubborn Survivors. Dissenting Essays on Peasants and Third World Development, Monash University Centre for Southeast Asia, Melbourne. 1983Book Section/sTiffen RE and Goot M 1983 'Public Opinion and the Politics of the Polls' in Australia´s Vietnam, ed. Peter King, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney pp. 129-164. Tiffen RE 1983 'News Coverage of Vietnam' in Australia´s Vietnam, ed. Peter King, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney pp. 165-187. 1981Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1981 'Neither Angels nor Ogres´ Review Essay on Gavin Souter's Company of Heralds', Media Information Australia, vol.22, pp. 8-12. 1980Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1980 ''Press Probe Misses Mark´ Review essay on Patricia Edgar's The Politics of the Press', Media Information Australia, vol.16, pp. 9-13. 1978Book/sTiffen RE 1978 The News from Southeast Asia - The Sociology of Newsmaking, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. 1976Journal Article/sTiffen RE 1976 'A New Information Order? International Agencies and the Flow of News', Southeast Asian Journal of Social Sciences, vol.14:2. Tiffen RE 1976 'Australian Press Coverage of the Third World', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, vol.12:1. 1974Book/sTiffen RE 1974 Communications and Politics - The Press, the Public and the Third World, Australian Council for Overseas Aid, Canberra, A.C.T. |
Current Supervising Postgraduates
| Michelle Savage | Professional public communication, media and the policy process. |
