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Mark Lowes

Mark Lowes

Assistant professor

Department of Communication

* Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa

* Member of the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society, University of Ottawa.

DEGREES:

Ph.D. Communication, Simon Fraser University, 1999

M.A. Canadian Studies, Carleton University, 1995

B.A. Law, Carleton University, 1993

EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING:

2002-05 $67,230, Principal investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grants (3years)

2002 $5000, Canadian Federation for the Humanities, Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme, book publication subvention.

1999 $5000, Canadian Federation for the Humanities, Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme, book publication subvention.

INTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING:

2002 $4180, Research grant, Faculty of Arts Research and Publications Committee.

2000 $8,500, SSHRC Seed grant for new professors, through the Faculty of Arts,.

2000 $2515, Research grant, Faculty of Arts, Assoc. Dean (Research).

PUBLICATIONS:

1) Life-time summary (count) according to the following categories:

- Books authored 2

- Books edited 1

- Chapters in books .. 3

- Papers in refereed journal 2

- Papers in refereed conference proceedings. 1

- Major invited contributions and/or technical reports 0

-Abstracts and/or papers read 6

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Mark Lowes

-Others (workshops presented) 0

Books authored:

2. Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares: Speed Merchants, Spectacle, and the Struggle Over Urban Public Space (University of Toronto Press, 2002). 160pp.

1. Inside the Sports Pages: Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News (University of Toronto Press, 1999), 150pp.

·  Second printing, 2000

·  Third printing, 2004

Books edited:

1. Project Censored Canada: Blindspots in Canada’s News Agenda by Mark Douglas Lowes, Robert Hackett, James Winter, Donald Gutstein, Richard Gruneau (Simon Fraser University, 1996), 89 pp.

Chapters in Books:

3. “Sports Page,” in David Rowe (ed) A Reader in Sport, Culture and the Media. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2004. Reprinted from Mark Lowes “Sports page: A case study in the manufacture of sports news for the daily press,” Sociology of Sport Journal. 14(2):143-159, 1997.

2. “Major league sports, civic discourse, and the ‘world-class’ city”, in S. Ferguson and L. Shade (eds), Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada: A Cacophony of Voices. Ablex Publishing, 2002.

1. “Indy Dreams in the World-Class City,” in Peter Donnelly (ed) Taking Sport Seriously: Social Issues in Canadian Sport (Thompson Educational Publishing, 2000, pp. 147-149.

Papers in refereed Journals:

2. “Neoliberal power politics and the controversial siting of the Australian Grand Prix motorsport event in a public park,” Loisir et Soiété/Society and Leisure, 27(1), 2004.

1. “Sports page: A case study in the manufacture of sports news for the daily press,” Sociology of Sport Journal. 14(2):143-159, 1997.

Papers in refereed conference Proceedings

1. “Australia’s ‘high performance cities? Motorsport and sustainable urban environments,” (with Paul Tranter), State of Australian Cities National Conference. Parramatta, Australia, December 3-5, 2003. Paper available at http://www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/caess/uf/conference#3.

Conference Papers Read

“Australia’s ‘high performance cities? Motorsport and sustainable urban environments,” (with Paul Tranter), State of Australian Cities National Conference. Parramatta, Australia, December 3-5, 2003.

“Motorsport, Civic Discourse and the Challenges of Globalization: A case study of the Australian Grand Prix,” World Congress of Sociology of Sport. Cologne, Germany, June 18-21, 2003.

“Social Drama in Newspaper Coverage of Sports Franchise Relocation Controversies,” World Congress of Sociology. Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002.

“Social Drama and Sports Franchise Relocation Controversies,” North Central Sociological Association. Windsor, Canada, April 18-21, 2002.

“Resisting Spectacle: A Case Study of the Molson Indy Vancouver,” North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 18th Annual Congress. Toronto, Canada, November 5-8, 1997.

“Newswork Routines and the Social Construction of Sports News for the Daily Press,” North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 16th Annual Congress. Sacramento, United States, November 1-4, 1995.