David Rowe

David Rowe is a sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Books Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure (1995) Globalization and Sport: Playing the World (co-authored, 2001) Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (second edition, 2004) Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport (co-authored, 2012) Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost? (co-edited, 2014) Making Culture: Commercialisation, Transnationalism, and the State of ‘Nationing’ in Contemporary Australia (co-edited, 2018)