Faculty

Marcus Breen

Associate Professor

Office Location: 241 Holmes Hall
Office Phone: 617-373-7246
Email: m.breen@neu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday: 3:30-5:00
Friday: 3:30-5:00
By appointment

Education:
Ph.D., Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne
Litt.B., The Australian National University, Canberra
B.A., The University of Queensland, Brisbane
B.H.M.S., The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Courses Taught:
Introduction to Communication Studies
Theories of Media & Culture

Research Interests:
Marcus Breen has worked as a researcher, an academic, a consultant and a journalist. He currently teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, Boston. He moved from Melbourne, Australia where he was teaching at The University of Melbourne, to teach in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. His academic specialization is political economy and policy in the Information and Communication Technology industries.

Dr. Breen's work background includes consulting and advisory experience with Gartner, Multimedia Victoria -State Government of Victoria, Austrade - Federal Government of Australia, Center for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies and numerous clients. As a journalist he worked for Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Music Business International, News Corporation. His most recent book is Rock Dogs: Politics and the Australian Music Industry, Pluto Press.

Publications:

• Popular Music Policy Making and the Instrumental Policy Behavior Process. Popular Music, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 193-208, 2008.
• The Hyperreality That Never Happened: Expanding Digital Discourse. Handbook of Critical Media Literacy. Shirley R. Steinberg & Donaldo Macedo (Eds.). New York: Peter Lang, pp.166-177, 2007.
• Business, Society and Impacts on Indigenous People. in The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility (eds.) Steve May, George Cheney, Juliet Roper, Oxford University Press: 292-305, 2007.
• Internet Pornography: Another step towards proletarianization. The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 91-97, 2007.
• Is there a Cultural Studies Imperative. Association for Cultural Studies, Zine, Issue 3, 2006.
• Development Strategies in Massachussets: Recollections. Interview with former Governor Michael Dukakis: write up with, for The World Bank Development Communications Forum, Rome, October 2006.
• US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron. Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 11-26.
• Rock Music. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005.
• Offshore Pot 'O Gold: The political economy of the Australian film industry. in (eds.) Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher, Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting, Rowman and Littlefield, Boulder Co., 2005.
• Busting the Fans: The Internet's direct access relationship. Neurotic reactions: Utopian dreams. Popular Music, (Middle Eight Forum), Vol. 23, No. 1. pp 79-86, 2004.
• Negotiating Computer Taxes and the Public Interest. proceedings of ETHICOMP, 1999, Rome, Italy). ETHICOMP Journal, (http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/journal).