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Associate Professor Terry Austrin

School of Social and Political Sciences; Sociology

Fields of Research

  • Labour process
  • Organisational change
  • Sociology of culture
  • Sociology of gambling
  • New media
  • Ethnography

Researcher Summary

Research interests include the areas of new media and gambling technologies. My current research interests range from tracking developments in the field of gambling through to investigating the borderlines between popular literary genres and sociology and exploring the reconfiguring of disciplinary formations in the contemporary university.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Research Groups

Future Research

  • Tracking online developments in gambling,
  • Tracking technologies of patient health records
  • Exploring the interface between sociology and popular genres such as documentaries and novels

Key Methodologies

  • participant observation, ethnographic interventions

Publications

(Selected outputs for 2001-present)

Journal Article
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2007) Assembling Sociologies: Following Disciplinary Formations In and Across the Social Sciences. New Zealand Sociology: The Journal of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand 22(1): 45-68.
  • Farnsworth, J. and Austrin, T. (2005) Assembling Portable Talk and Mobile Worlds: Sound Technologies and Mobile Social Networks. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 11(2): 14-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135485650501100202.
  • Austrin, T. and Curtis, B. (2004) The Desegregation of Gambling Media and the Emergence of a Single Form of Gambling. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 21(March): 41-48.
  • Austrin, T. (2003) Review of Rothman, H. K.; Davis, M. (eds) The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas, Berkley CA: University of California Press, 2002. Work Employment and Society 17(1): 211-213.
  • Austrin, T. (2002) Extended Review (by invitation) of Brewis, J., and Linstead, S., (2000) Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticising Organisation.. Gender Work and Organisation 9(2): 234-238.
  • West, J. and Austrin, T. (2002) From Work as Sex to Sex as Work: Networks, 'Others' and Occupations in the Analysis of Work. Gender, Work and Organisation 9(5): 482-503.
  • Austrin, T. (2002) Review of Purcell, K. Changing Boundaries of Employment. Journal of Management Studies 39(8): 1166-1169.
  • Austrin, T. (2002) Review of Smith, W. et al, Science Fiction and Organisation. Journal of Management Studies 39(8): 1182-1185.
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2002) Reworking Sociology: Bruno Latour's Feeling for Genre. New Zealand Sociology 17(1): 1-19.
Chapter in Book
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2013) The ethnography of New Media Worlds? Following the case of global poker. In C. Hine (Ed.), Virtual Research Methods, Volume One: 309-325. London: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2010) Assembling Portable Talk and Mobile Worlds: Sound Technologies and Mobile Social Networks. In P.K. Nayar (Ed.), The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology: 526-533. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • West, J. and Austrin, T. (2010) States, Markets and New Media: the Contemporary Politics of Gambling. In P. Bramham and S. Wagg (Ed.), The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure: 119-135. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Obel, C. and Austrin, T. (2010) Touring, travelling and accelerated mobilities: team and player mobilities in New Zealand rugby union. In J. Maguire and M. Falcous (Ed.), Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings: 259-273. New York: Routledge.
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, C. (2009) A Word in Your Ear: Sound Technologies, Mobility and the Production of Social Networks. In F. Hackney, J. Glynne and V. Minton (Ed.), Networks of Design: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Design History Conference: 233-239. Boca Raton: Universal Publishers.
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2007) Media, Network(s) and. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology: 2902-2906. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Austrin, T. (2006) Flexibility, Surveillance and Hype in New Zealand Financial Retailing. In H. Beynon & T. Nichols (Ed.), Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era: Fordism and Post-Fordism: 296-316. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • West, J. and Austrin, T. (2006) Markets and politics: Public and private relations in the case of prostitution. In L. Pettinger, J. Parry, R. Taylor, M. Glucksmann (Ed.), A New Sociology of Work?: 136-149. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Obel, C. and Austrin, T. (2005) The End of 'Our' National Game? Romance, Mobilities and the Politics of Organisation. In G. Ryan (Ed.), Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854-2004: 173-195. Dunedin: Otago University Press.
  • Austrin, T. and West, J. (2004) New Deals in Gambling: Global Markets and Local Regimes of Regulation. In L. Beukema and J. Carrillo (Ed.), Globalism / Localism at Work (Research in the Sociology of Work Vol 13 ed.): 143-159. San Diego: Elsevier Inc.
  • Austrin, T. (2002) Entangled Improvisers: Punters, States, Locales and Betting. In Curtis, B. (Ed.), Gambling in New Zealand Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
Conference Contribution - Full conference paper
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2011) Crown or State? Translating Governmentality, Sovereignty and Identity through the Treaty of Waitangi. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Citizenship in an Era of Global Crisis, 28-30 Nov 2011.
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2011) Cursed Memories: Sound, Ethnographic Documentary and the Reconstitution of Cultural Identity. London, UK: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (NECS 2011), 23-26 Jun 2011.
  • Austrin, T. and Farnsworth, J. (2010) Experiment as Experience: Reconfiguring Ethnographic Investigation and Documentary Film as Sociotechnical Assemblage from Rouch to Rain of the Children. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Mobilities Symposium: Towards a Movement-driven Social Science in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 15-16 Nov 2010.
Other
  • Austrin, T. (2012) J.J. Sallaz, The labor of luck: Casino capitalism in the United States and South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 53(3): 230-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020715212460932. Book Review.