Dr Jason Sternberg
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Jason is a Lecturer in Media and Communication in QUT's Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. He was Subject Area Coordinator for Media and Communication between 2006-2007.Research interests
Jason researches in the areas of:
- media audiences
- youth media
- popular culture
Publications
Jason has written and published extensively, including:
- co-editor of Mobilising the Audience (UQP 2002)
- co-author of Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia (2006)
- written for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia's multicultural broadcaster
- contributor to The Media and Communications in Australia, this country's leading university media studies textbook.
- the media audience research industry
- researching illegal music downloading
- The Biggest Loser.
Jason is regularly called upon to provide comment on media issues. He has appeared on:
- the Today Show
- Today Tonight
- A Current Affair
- Good News Week
- Sunrise.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Keywords
Media audiences, Television news & current affairs, Youth culture, Youth media, politics, popular culture
Research field
Communication and media studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
- Master of Education (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
- Lawe Davies, C. & Sternberg, J. (2007). The spaces and places of audience research in Australian television. Media International Australia, 2007(122), 28–42. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10470
- Sternberg, J., (2006). Youth Media. In G. Turner & S. Cunningham (Eds.), The Media and Communications in Australia 2nd Ed (pp. 329–343). Allen & Unwin. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9816
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Jason, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/j.sternberg
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Longform multimedia reporting and design journalism a practice-led approach: Brisbane and The Black Dragon
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Mr Craig Bolland, Dr Rich Evans
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Markers of Polarisation: A Discourse Analysis of the Spectrum of Polarised Language (2026)
- How learning designers work with teachers (2022)
- Superfood Me: Negotiating Australia's Post-Gourmet Food Culture (2021)
- The Apathetic Country: Are Australians Interested in Politics and Does it Matter? (2018)
- The Augmented Rural Reality: how rural high school students' decisions to pursue university study in digital media are 'augmented' by the role of life history and cultural capital (2018)
- The Family 'Playlist': Popular music, age and identity (2017)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.