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Dr Alex Bevan

Senior Lecturer

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
a.bevan@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 68803

Overview

Originally from the States, I've been lecturing at UQ since 2017. I teach Multimedia and Digital Project in the Bachelor of Communications, both of which center on embedding critical perspectives on media into creative and collaborative design and production processes. My research focuses on the relationship among gender, technological change and space. My methodological approaches combine textual analysis (looking at media content) with more industry-facing, hands-on approaches.

The current book projects turn to representations of gender violence in popular media. My second book, Representing Gender Violence in Contemporary Screen Media: Cutting Through the Park, is under contract with Routledge and it studies themes of surveillance technology in representations of stranger rape in television and film. My third book project, Feeling Safe: Gender Harm and Safety DIscourses in Platform Media, studies themes in gender safety discourses across various platforms including safety apps and dating apps.

My first book The Aesthetics of TV Nostalgia (Bloomsbury, 2019) is an industry study of the people designing sets and costumes for nostalgic US television programmes. I address how questions around gender play out on television alongside larger concerns around historical progress and regress that are attached to technological change. You can find my other publications in the areas of television representations of gender, the female body in narratives around nationhood, digital archives, and creative production in Adaptation, Television & New Media, Feminist Media Studies, Cinema Journal, Continuum, Surveillance & Society and Convergence.

Research Interests

  • Gender Studies and Gender Violence
    Media representations of gender and gender violence in popular media
  • Space
    The portrayals of space in media. The entanglement between the design of space and media technology.
  • Media and Cultural Studies
    The history of media technology, platforms, and discourses of technological change

Research Impacts

My research on gender violence addresses one of the most pervasive and systemic of social crises. The binary of domestic violence and stranger violence, as it is constructed in media and platform design, hinders and derails public attention, intervention, and policy. The way violence against women is represented in media tells us repeated stories around what spaces and behaviors are safe, how women's movements should be trackable with technology, and whom is at fault or responsible.

I welcome any industry, NFP, or government collaborations that place gender safety at the center of their remits. I offer skillsets in the areas of gender advoacy, gender education, media and communications anaylsis, brand analysis, multiplatform branding and messaging, and user experience research.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Yale University
  • Master of Arts, Northwestern University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Publications

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Supervision

  • In what ways has creativity, play and social exchange manifested itself in the amateur radio community in Australia

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Reality Check: augmented reality on social media

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Le Corbusier's media of design: an inquiry of drawing, representation and design ideation through architectural case studies

    Master Philosophy

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • In what ways has creativity, play and social exchange manifested itself in the amateur radio community in Australia

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Reality Check: augmented reality on social media

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Le Corbusier's media of design: an inquiry of drawing, representation and design ideation through architectural case studies

    Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Algorithmic Realities: Platform Data Processing Perceptions of Productivity Content Creators, and Their Influence

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Diffusion of New Media and Public Service Broadcasting: Is New Media a Lifeline for Public Radio Broadcasting in Bangladesh?

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

gender, fashion, design history, television history, media criticism, creative industries, production design, art direction, sexuality

They are happy to lend their expertise to your articles or broadcasts and share their research discoveries and insights with the community via media channels.

For additional assistance with story ideas, general advice and information or help with seeking further experts, please email the UQ Media Team or telephone (07) 3365 1120.

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ORCID: 0000-0002-2013-5952

Scopus ID: 55884266800

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