Dr Benjamin Matthews

Lecturer

School of Creative Industries (Design and Natural History Illustration)

Email:ben.matthews@newcastle.edu.au

Career Summary

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Design in the School of Creative Industries, with an interest in strategic communication design, design management, the post-industrial circumstances of the creative industries, emergent network cultures and media art.

My scholarly approach is transdisciplinary, and includes engagement with: design; organised networks; creative teams; innovation; media work; celebrity; collaborative cultures; urban/street cultures; visual culture; emergence; translatability; mimetic theory; and media anthropology.

I also collaborate with artists to write catalog essays and to curate cross platform media.

I completed an cross-disciplinary PhD at in 2010 (English and Communication), before moving into media industry roles in Newcastle and Sydney for several years, and was eventually invited to contribute to new undergraduate and masters programs during 2016 with UTS, and 2017 at Western Sydney University.

I have a passion for connecting teaching and learning with contemporary industry practice and growing strong networks of interaction with prospective employers and creative institutions.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies), University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle

Keywords

Collectivism
Design
Digital Communication
Emergence
Globalisation
Media Work
Network Cultures
Organised Networks
Post-Industrial Journalism
Precarity
Social Enterprise
Social Entrepreneurship
Strategic Design
Transdisciplinary Design
Transdisciplinary Innovation

Languages

English (Mother)

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
120303	Design Management and Studio and Professional Practice	50
190299	Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified	50

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title	Organisation / Department
Lecturer	University of Newcastle School of Creative Industries Australia

Edit

Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2018	Burns LS, Matthews BJ, Understanding Journalism, SAGE, 288 (2018)

Journal article (6 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2018	Burns LS, Matthews BJ, 'First Things First: Teaching Data Journalism as a Core Skill', Asia Pacific Media Educator, 28 91-105 (2018)
2017	Matthews B, 'Anti-hierarchical culture in media-based creative collectives: sketching originary analyses', Anthropoetics, 22 (2017)
2017	Matthews B, 'Precarity, globalism and resistance in emergent collectivism: the case of Enspiral', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 11 (2017)
2017	Burns LS, Matthews BJ, '¿Post-Industrial¿ Journalism as a Creative Industry', World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, 11 1543-1551 (2017)
2015	Matthews B, 'Virality and the new ostensive: Ai Weiwei¿s leg-gun meme', Anthropoetics, 21 (2015)
2015	Matthews B, 'Victimary Thinking, Celebrity and the CCTV Building.', Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, 20 (2015)
	Show 3 more journal articles

Conference (2 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2007	Matthews BJ, 'Problem of the real: Interpretation and literary anthropology', Research Higher Degree Student Congress 2005. Proceedings, Newcastle, NSW (2007) [E2]
2007	Matthews BJ, 'Staging the significance of literacy interpretation', Research Higher Degree Student Congress 2006. Proceedings, Newcastle, NSW (2007) [E2]

Edit

Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	1
Total funding	$5,000

Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.

20191 grants / $5,000

Faculty of Education and Arts New Start Grant$5,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body	Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Scheme	New Start Grants
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2019
Funding Finish	2019
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

Edit