Professor Mark Davis
Professor and Head of the Media and Communications Program
Institution
University of Melbourne
Research Area Keywords
Online extremism; Hate speech; Culture wars.
Contact: davismr@unimelb.edu.au
About Mark
Mark Davis is Professor of Publishing and Communications and Head of the Media and Communications program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the impact of networked digital media on public culture, with emphases on online extremism and the ‘culture wars’.
Publications
The online anti-public sphere (2021)
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Transnationalising the anti-public sphere: Australian anti-publics and extremist online media (2019)
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Networked hatred: New technology and the rise of the right (2019)
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A new, online culture war? The communication world of Breitbart.com (2019)
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“Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear”: Online anti-vaccination websites and “anti-public” discourse (2018)
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“Culture is inseparable from race”: culture wars from Pat Buchanan to Milo Yiannopoulos (2018)
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At war with ourselves: Our national habit of bullying and hurt (2016)
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Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy (2014)
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Grants and Projects
ARC DP210101302 ‘Alt-right discourse and ideology in Australia and its threat to democracy’ (2021–23) CI Prof Mark Davis
ARC SR200200604 ‘Extremism and the Australian National Imaginary’ (2021–23) Head CI Dr Philip Pond with co-CIs Dr Mark Davis and Professor Robert Hassan