Faculty Member, Journalism and Communication
About
Garry Whannel is Professor of Media Cultures, and head of CIMARC, the Centre for International Media Analysis, Research and Consultancy at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He has been writing and researching on the theme of media and sport for thirty years and his published work includes Culture, Politics and Sport (2008), Media Sport Stars, Masculinities and Moralities, (2001), Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation (1992) and Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport (1983). He was a co-author of Understanding Sport (1999) and a co-editor of Understanding Television (1990), Off the Ball: The Football World Cup (1986) and Five Ring Circus: Money Power and Politics at the Olympic Games (1984). He is co-ordinator of the JOG (Journalism and the Olympic Games) research group and was convenor of the IAMCR Popular Culture Working Group between 2000-8. His current research interests include celebrity culture and the vortextuality process, journalism, politics and the Olympic Games, the growth of commercial sponsorship, and the roots of political humour. In September 2008 he spent a month as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.
