Intellect

Jock Given is Professor of Media and Communications at the Institute of Social Research at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Turning Off the Television: Broadcasting’s Uncertain Future and America’s Pie: Trade and Culture after 9/11. He was previously Director of the Communications Law Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Policy Adviser at the Australian Film Commission and Director, Broadcasting Legislation and Industry Economics, Department of Transport and Communications in Canberra. His book Turning off the Television: Broadcasting’s Uncertain Future was published by UNSW Press in 2003. His doctoral thesis about Ernest Fisk (managing director of AWA in Sydney from 1917–44 and of EMI in London from 1945–51) was accepted by the University of Melbourne in 2007.

He now writes, researches and teaches about communications law and policy, especially digital broadcasting, media ownership, international trade and the history of multinational media enterprises.