Toby Miller | |
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| Born | 9 August 1958 |
| Citizenship | British, Australian |
| Alma mater | Australian National University (B.A., 1980) Murdoch University (PhD, 1991) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social sciences; incl. Cultural studies, Media studies |
| Institutions | University of California, Riverside, New York University |
| Website | http://www.tobymiller.org/ |
Toby Miller (9 August 1958) is a British/Australian-American cultural studies and media studies scholar. He is the author of several books and articles. He was chair of the Department of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and is most recently a professor at Loughborough University. Prior to his academic career, Miller worked in broadcasting, banking, and civil service.[1][2]
He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal Open Cultural Studies, published by De Gruyter.[3]
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Professor Toby Miller About Studying Popular Culture
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There are three aspects to popular culture that make it important - make it worthy of study - in an university. The first is that as citizens, it's really important that we understand the political economic and cultural aspects of how we live our lives and our responsibilities and rights as citizens, the things that we both understand and, in some ways, experience and live through, in terms of all sorts of aspects of popular culture, whether it's questions of children's exposure to television or issues of the representation of terrorism and responses to terrorism in the news media. The second reason is that particularly here in California, so many of us working the entertainment sector, ordinarily is related to communications and culture, it's just as well those of us who going on to work in that domain know something about it, in terms of our rights and our responsibilities as employees to understand the structure of the industry, to understand how the role of government has an impact on it and also so that we can make sure that our employers adhere to the roles that they should be living by in the industry. And thirdly, as consumers we need to know how popular culture functions what our best interests are and we can make the right informed choices about our pleasures and our sources of fun if we're educated about the nature of the industry. So, when something is of major political importance, major economic importance, major environmental importance, I look for the aspects of it that are to do with popular culture and then I hone in, I zero in. So, examples would be books I've written, articles I've published about everything, from sport in sexuality and representation of the environment on television, through to issues about food and nutrition - as represented in the popular media - the globalization of sport, reasons for the success of Hollywood overseas, how terrorism is covered in the U.S. media. It's a very broad spectrum. The thing that strikes me about UCR students, unlike other places where I've taught, where the notion is we're paying money, we want our degree - give it to us now - but there is, by and large, a hunger and a thirst for knowledge and an openness that's quite remarkable when it comes from having, if you'd like, a citizens attitude to knowledge and not just to consumers attitude to knowledge.
Biography
Miller was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Australia. He earned a B.A. in history and political science at Australian National University in 1980 and a PhD in philosophy and communication studies at Murdoch University in 1991.
In July 2004, Miller became a full-time professor at UCR following a stint as a visiting professor. Formerly, he was a professor in the Departments of English, Sociology, and Women's Studies, as well as director of the program in film and visual culture. As of December 2008, he chairs the new Department of Media & Cultural Studies. Preceding his professorship at UCR, Miller was a professor at New York University, and held previous appointments at Murdoch University, Griffith University, and the University of New South Wales. Professor Miller is now a Professor in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London.
Selected publications
Miller's work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, and Spanish.
Articles
- Orozco, Guillermo; Miller, Toby (2016). "Television in Latin America Is "Everywhere": Not Dead, Not Dying, but Converging and Thriving". Media and Communication. 4 (3): 99–108. doi:10.17645/mac.v4i3.592.
Books and monographs
- Miller, Toby (1993). The well-tempered self: citizenship, culture, and the postmodern subject. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801846045.
- Miller, Toby; Cunningham, Stuart (1994). Contemporary Australian television. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 9780868403977.
- Miller, Toby (1997). The avengers. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 9780851705583.
- Miller, Toby (1998). Technologies of truth: cultural citizenship and the popular media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816629855.
- Miller, Toby; McHoul, Alec (1998). Popular culture and everyday life. London Thousand Oaks, California New Delhi: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9780761952138.
- Miller, Toby; Martin, Randy (1999). SportCult. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816631841.
- Miller, Toby; Stam, Robert (2000). Film and theory: an anthology. Malden, Mass: Blackwell. ISBN 9780631206262.
- Miller, Toby; Lawrence, Geoffrey; McKay, Jim; Rowe, David (2001). Globalization and sport: playing the world. London Thousand Oaks, California New Delhi: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9780761959694.
- Miller, Toby; Govil, Nitin; McMurria, John; Maxwell, Richard (2001). Global Hollywood 1. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 9780851708454.
- Miller, Toby (2001). Sportsex. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 9781566399944.
- Miller, Toby (2002). Television studies. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 9780851708959.
- Miller, Toby; Yudice, George (2002). Cultural policy. London Thousand Oaks, California New Delhi: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9780761952411.
- Miller, Toby; Lewis, Justin (2003). Critical cultural policy studies: a reader. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Pub. ISBN 9780631223009.
- Miller, Toby (2003). Spyscreen: espionage on film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198159520.
- Miller, Toby (2003). Television: critical concepts in media and cultural studies. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415255028.
- Miller, Toby; Stam, Robert (2004). A companion to film theory. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 9780631206453.
- Miller, Toby; Govil, Nitin; McMurria, John; Maxwell, Richard; Wang, Ting (2005). Global Hollywood 2. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 9781844570393.
- Miller, Toby (2006) [2001]. A companion to cultural studies (2nd ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405141758.
- Miller, Toby (2007). Cultural citizenship cosmopolitanism, consumerism, and television in a neoliberal age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592135622.
- Miller, Toby (2008). Makeover nation: the United States of reinvention. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 9780814251690.
- Miller, Toby; Creeber, Glen; Tulloch, John (2008) [2001]. The television genre book (2nd ed.). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute. ISBN 9781844572182.
- Miller, Toby (2009). The contemporary Hollywood reader. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415452267.
- Miller, Toby (2010). Television studies: the basics. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415774246.
- Miller, Toby; Maxwell, Richard (2012). Greening the media. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199914678.
- Miller, Toby (2012). Blow up the humanities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 9781439909836.
Chapters in books
- Miller, Toby (2011), "The Media-Military Industrial Complex", in Steven Best; Richard Kahn; Anthony J. Nocella II; Peter McLaren (eds.), The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 97–115, ISBN 978-0739136980
- Miller, Toby (2015), "Delivering the male – and more: fandom and media sport", in Carter, Cynthia; Steiner, Linda; McLaughlin, Lisa (eds.), The Routledge companion to media & gender, London New York: Routledge, pp. 461–472, ISBN 9781138849129.
References
- ^ UCR Media and Cultural Studies Department faculty page
- ^ "Professor Toby Miller". Loughborough University London.
- ^ "Open Cultural Studies".
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