John Carroll
Professor
BA NE, MEd PhD Newcastle(UK)
John Carroll
Bio
Dr John Carroll is Professor in Communication Research in the School of Communication at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research field is technology, mediated performance, drama and role, focusing on the relationship between production and performance. He is an active member of Drama Australia and is a past Director of Publications.
He has worked in a wide range of educational settings in Australia, Europe, England and India examining the connection between applied drama, language and identity. Other research interests include the areas of dramatic role and mediated online/television performance as well as interactive videogames and social media.
His extensive research and publication record focuses on the relationship between live and digital performance, especially interactive online forms, based on dramatic conventions that can be used with drama in developing a screen-mediated aesthetic. This research connects emergent digital performance forms, online videogames and drama. He has developed role-based performance techniques, which offer an exploration and critique of these now pervasive technologies. This research also provides strategies based on role protection and role distance that enhance electronic literacy through dramatic action. He has recently published a range of articles and a book titled “Real Players: Drama Technology and Education” in this field.
As part of his teaching scholarship he led a postgraduate course committee team that redesigned the curriculum of the Australian Film Television and Radio School (1996 & 97, 2002) and he also redesigned the curriculum of the National Film and Television Institute of India (1998). As part of his educational consultancy he also conducted a review of the communication courses in the Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates, (2004).
He is a member of a range of international journal advisory boards including the Applied Theatre Research Journal and The Journal of Artistic and Creative Education. He has been a keynote speaker at international, national and state conferences. He was appointed the by chairs of Academic Board/Senates at the Universities of NSW and ACT to the Board of Studies Drama Examination Committee from 1993- 97. He has been a Visiting Fellow in Drama Research at Edith Cowan University. Internationally he has been a keynote speaker at the linguistics conference “Talking Together” in Toronto and a keynote speaker at the International Drama Conference at Lancaster University, UK. He is currently a research fellow with the Centre for research in Complex Systems at CSU.
Teaching
He coordinates the Doctor of Communication course within the School of Communication and postgraduate courses in computer based qualitative research methodology, as well as teaching courses in communication technology and culture.
Research
- videogaming, video surveillance and mediated performance; curriculum design for, drama and role, focusing on-line the relationship between production and performance; sociolinguistics and role; communications, technology and culture; video and acting; and on-line gaming
- Other research interests include the areas of dramatic role and online/television performance, as well as drama across the curriculum
- Research Grants and Consultancy: 2007 ARC Linkage Reseaarch Project: Crises management simulation: Developing a methodology for transforming communication response, $305,000. Member, Advisory and Review Board, IDEA Journal, Applied Theatre Research.
- 1999 Department of Education and Training $150,000. Consultancy Devising Celebration.
- 1997 Australia India Council Consultancy. $15,000. Redesign of curriculum of Film and Television Institute of India.
Recent publications and Conference papers
Books
Anderson, M. Carroll, J. and Cameron, D. (eds.) (2009) Drama education with Digital Technology. Continuum, UK. London.
Carroll, J. Anderson, M. & Cameron, D. (2006) Real Players? Drama, technology and education. Trentham, Stoke on Trent.
Book chapters
Cameron, D. & Carroll, J (2009 ) “Encoding Liveness: performance and real Time Rendering”, in Lowood, H. & Nitsche, M., CFP: The Machinima Reader, Stanford University Press, Stanford.
Cameron,D. Carroll,J. (2009 ) Lessons from Applied Drama: Conventions to Help Serious Games Developers; in Petrovic, O. and A, Brand, (Eds.) (2009 ) Serious Games on the Move,
Springer, Wien, New York. Ch 2, pp. 27-41
Carroll, J. (2009) Point of view: Linking applied drama and digital games, Ch 4 in Anderson, M. Carroll, J. and Cameron, D. (eds.) (2009) Drama education with Digital Technology. Continuum, UK. London.
Wotzko, R. Carroll, J. (2009) Digital theatre and online narrative, Ch 11 in Anderson, M. Carroll, J. and Cameron, D. (eds.) (2009) Drama education with Digital Technology. Continuum, UK. London.
Carroll, J. (2008) “Mediated Performance: Video production in the English Classroom” in Anderson, M. Hughes, J. & Manuel J., (eds.) Drama in the English Classroom, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Carroll, J. (2004) “Digital Pre-text: Process drama and everyday technology” in Anderson, M. & Hatton, C., State of the Art III: Drama in Education. Currency Press, Sydney.
Carroll, J. (2002) “The Theatre of Surveillance: Invisible theatre for invisible audiences” in Rasmussen, B. (ed.) Playing Betwixt and Between: The IDEA Dialogues 2001. IDEA Publications, Bergen, Norway.
Carroll, J. (1997) “Non-linear editing: An overview of the process”. In M. Mollison (ed.) Producing Videos: A Complete Guide. AFTRS: Sydney.
Carroll, J. (1996) “Escaping the information abattoir: Critical and transformative research in drama classrooms”. In P. Taylor (Ed.) Researching drama and arts education: Paradigms and possibilities. Falmer Press, London.
Carroll, J. (1993) “The impact of technology on drama in the school, In W. Michaels (ed.) State of the Art II. National Association for Drama in Education: Australia.
Journal Articles
Carroll,J. Cameron, D. (2009) Drama, digital pre-text and Social media, in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
14:2,295-312
Arciuli, J. & Carroll, J. (2008) “The use of applied drama in crisis management: An empirical psychological study”. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol 23, No. 2.
Cameron, D. & Carroll, J. (2008 ) “Lessons from applied drama: Conventions to help serious games developers”. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol 12 No 6, Springer, London.
Carroll. J. (2005) “YTLKIN2ME? Drama in the age of digital reproduction”, NJ (Drama Australia Journal), Vol 29, No 1 and IDEA Journal, Vol 3, pp.15-23.
Carroll, J. & Cameron, D. (2005) “Machinima: digital performance and emergent authorship”. Proceedings of 2005 DiGRA conference, Changing Views: Worlds in Play, http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/viewabstract.php?id=384
Viewed 31-10-0
Carroll, J. Cameron, D. (2005) “Role distance and Digital performance” Applied Theatre Researcher, No 6,
Carroll, J. (2005) “Digital natives and virtual literacy: Process drama and on-line learning,” International Journal of Learning, Vol 11, Proceedings of The Eleventh International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference, Havana, Cuba, 2004, pp.1211-1217.
Carroll, J. (2004) “Digital interactive drama and process drama”. Drama Research, Vol 3, pp. 89-99. National Drama Publications, Gateshead, UK.
Cameron, D. & Carroll, J. (2004) “The story so far... The researcher as a player in games analysis,” Media International Australia: Games and Gaming, Vol 11, Feb, 2004.
Carroll, J. (2003) Review of “Image based Research: A sourcebook for qualitative researchers.” Research in Drama Education, Vol 8, No1, 2003.
Carroll, J. & Cameron, D. (2003) “To the Spice Islands: Interactive process drama”. Proceedings of 5th International Digital Arts & Culture Conference, RMIT, Melbourne.
Carroll, J. (2003) “Digital interactive drama and process drama”. Proceedings of International Drama in Education Research Institute, University College, Northampton.
Carroll, J. (2002) “Digital Drama: A snapshot of evolving forms” in Melbourne Studies in Education, Vol 43, No 2, pp130-141, Melbourne University, Australia.
Carroll, J. (2001) Devising Celebration: Engineers of the Imagination (videotape documentary). HUSH Videos, Fremantle, WA.
Carroll, J. (1999) “On Camera: Journalism, Presentation and Performance.” Australian Journalism Review, 21(2), pp 87-102.
Carroll, J. (1998) “Changing Spaces: Role based cultural interaction” in Site Specific Dramatic Performance: Reading 6. Charles Sturt University: Bathurst.
Carroll, J. (1997) Situational Crime Prevention Through Cultural Intervention. Centre for Cultural Risk Research. Charles Sturt University.
Carroll, J. (1997) “Q.S.R. NUD.IST: Computer aided analysis for drama research”. Research in Drama Education, 2 (2). Coventry, U.K.
Carroll, J. (1997) “Drama as Radical Pedagogy: Agency and Power in the Classroom”. In Teaching Education, P. McLaren (ed.), 9 (1). Columbia, South Carolina.
Carroll, J. (1996) “Drama and Technology: Realism and Emotional Literacy”. National Association for Drama in Education Journal, 20 (2).
Carroll, J. (1996) Review of “Creating a Theatre in your Classroom”. In Research in Drama Education, 1 (2). Captus Press, Ontario.
Carroll, J. (1994) Review of “Framing Technology: Society Choice and Change”. Australian Journal of Communication. 21(3), pp.120 -122.
Carroll, J. (1992) “Lights Action Role!” National Association for Drama in Education Journal, 16 (2).
Carroll, J. (1992) “Terra Incognita: Mapping Drama Talk.” Reprint in Kunstpedagoqisk Nettverk Rapport, Bergen Laenehogskole, Trykkeriet Landassvingen, Norway, June 1992.
Carroll, J. (1989) “Getting the Message Across”. National Association for Drama in Education Journal, 13 (2).
Carroll, J. (1988) “Drama and Language”. L. Davis (ed.) Drama Pathways. New South Wales Educational Drama Association: Sydney.
Carroll, J. (1988) “Terra Incognita: Mapping Drama Talk”. National Association for Drama in Education, 12 (2).
Carroll, J. (1986) “Framing Drama: Some classroom strategies”. National Association for Drama in Education, 10 (2).
Carroll, J. (1985) “Literature as a Dramatic Event”. English in Australia. Vol 72, pp. 56 68.
Carroll, J. (1985) “Framing Drama”. Educational Drama Association of New South Wales, Vol 34.
Carroll, J. (1985) “Settling Down to Drama”. (Videotape). Educational Drama Association and N.S.W. Schools Inservice Council.
