Adjunct Associate Professor
Emma Baulch

This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
I study Indonesian media and popular culture from the perspective of everyday life. I am especially interested in the role media technologies play in the way people communicate and form communities. My PhD was a study of the role electric guitars played in shaping communities of amateur musicians in Bali in the late-1990s. My postdoctoral work examined how television and digital technologies influence the formation of pop music genres. I have an adjunct position at QUT and an ongoing position at Monash University Malaysia. There, my teaching and research activities examine the socio-historical implications of the spread of mobile phones, by considering the multiple layers and variants of power and capital they mediate.Personal details
Keywords
Indonesia, media anthropology, popular music, digital media
Discipline
Journalism and Professional Writing, Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Phd (Monash University)
Professional memberships and associations
Experience
2009 - 2012: ARC Post-doctoral Fellow ‘Middle Classes, New Media and Indie Networks in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia’ (ARC Discovery Project), School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
2006 – 2008: Senior Research Associate ‘Finding a Voice: Making Technological Change Socially Effective and Culturally Empowering’ (ARC Linkage Project), Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
2003 –2005: Post-doctoral Fellow ‘Indonesian Mediations’, Department of Anthropology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
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