Dr Cate Dowd
Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
B.A. Swinburne, MIMS (research) Monash, PhD CSU
Contact
| Email: | cdowd2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2457 (or +61 2 6773 2457 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Cate Dowd joined the academic staff at UNE in 2011 after completion of a PhD between Media and Computing at CSU. She previously worked as an Academic at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Swinburne. Cate has a PhD on crisis communication in the era of Social Media and real-time communication with contexts for the digital design of journalists and public relations professionals as conceptual robotic agents. She also has a Master of Information Management Systems by research from Monash University on the digitization of Australian television. Cate has worked in broadcast media and online media for many years. In earlier times she worked in feature film editing at the SAFC and Crawford Productions and she is a graduate from the Centre For Performing Arts, Adelaide, with a major in design.
Affiliations
Member of the AISB Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, UK.
Areas of Teaching
Media and Communications including Internet Studies (current). She has also taught Information Systems, Multimedia and Journalism.
Co-supervision of PhD candidates:
Tom Carter - research on the work of Katherine Brisbane (Australian theatre critic). Since September 2011 -
Research interests
Turing Arts Symposium 2012 (Chair) Birmingham, UK, 2nd-6th July 2012
PhD research (2007-2010) supervised by Professors John Carroll and Terry Bossomaier.
Research areas: Social Media, Semantic Web, Digtial Television, Broadcast Media, Journalism, online Crisis Communication, Game Design, Mobile and Ubiquitous technologies, and Alan Turing.
Select Publications
Dowd, C. (2009) Creative Agents and Triggers (CAT) Game Design Method: For Crisis Communication, in IEEE Computer Society, Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, (Eds.) Rebolledo-Mendez, G. Liarokapis, F. De Freitas, S. , Proceedings V-S Games ’09, Coventry, UK. 215-216
Dowd, C. (2008) The Antiquarian Librarian & the Pedantic Semantic Web Programmer: Trust, logic, knowledge and inference. Paper presented at the AISB 2008 Convention Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence 1-4th April. V.12 Symposium on Computing & Philosophy. University of Aberdeen, http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/
Dowd C. (2007) The Trajectory of Mark-up, Indexing and Labelling: the continuum via print publishing & libraries to Semantic Web & online games. AMT 2007 http://www.csu.edu.au/special/amt/program.htm
Dowd, C. (2004) Whispers from a Discourse: Digital Television in Australia, in Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools; Theory and Practice, (Eds.), H Linger, J Fisher, etal. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York,USA. ISBN: 0-306-48554-0