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Dr. Andrew Whelan

PhD Sociology (2007, Trinity College, Dublin); BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2001, Somerville College, Oxford); Dip HE Sociology (1997, Ruskin College, Oxford)

Office: 19:2010
Phone: 61 2 4221 4819
Email: awhelan@uow.edu.au

Biography

Before coming to UOW, Andrew taught Gender and Popular Culture, the Sociology of Health and Illness, and other topics in sociology at Trinity College in Dublin.

He has research interests in the performance of identity in text-based interaction; contemporary musical subcultures; gender and masculinities; ethnomethodology; internet research ethics; and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georges Bataille.

Research Profile

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Selected Publications

• De Tona, Carla, and Andrew Whelan, 2009 (forthcoming), ‘“Re-mediating” the ruptures of migration: the use of internet and mobile phones among women’s migrant organisations in Ireland’, in Translocations: Migration and Social Change.
• Whelan, Andrew, 2009 (in press), ‘The “Amen” Breakbeat as Fratriarchal Totem’, in Beate Neumeier (ed.), Dichotonies: Essays on Gender and Music, Winter Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Whelan, Andrew, 2008, Breakcore: Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle.
• Whelan, Andrew, 2006, ‘do u produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur Musicianship in Peer-to-Peer Networks’, in Michael Ayers (ed.), Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture, Peter Lang, New York.

Research Priority Areas

• Innovations in Cultural Research
• CAPSTRANS Culture and Representation

Current Research Projects

• ‘Learning to Dog Whistle’: racist discourse online.
• Grotesque Realism and Gender Representation in Death Metal and Grindcore.

Higher Degree Research and Honours Supervision

Andrew teaches in the Sociology Program and is available to supervise projects in the sociology of popular music, subcultures, online interaction, social theory, and discourse analysis.