Staff profiles

Institute for Cultural Analysis, Nottingham

• The public culture of contemporary capitalism
• The culture of speed
• "Immediacy" and cultural values
• The cultural implications of the globalization process
• The cultural implications of new media technologies
• Social and cultural theory of modernity
• Cosmopolitanism
• International cultural policy debates
• Cultural change in contemporary China

John Tomlinson's recent work has explored the place of speed within modern telemediated culture, resulting in his latest book, The Culture of Speed: The Coming of Immediacy published by Sage Publications in October 2007. He is currently developing research into the constitution of public culture and cultural values within contemporary capitalist societies.

John Tomlinson is an authority on the cultural aspects of the globalization process and has lectured at many distinguished universities across Europe, the United States and East Asia as well as at venues such as The Bauhaus Institute, Dessau; Tate Britain; The Council of Europe; the Festival Filosofia, Modena and Demos, Hungary. He has worked as a consultant on issues of globalization, culture and politics to several international public sector institutions including UNESCO, The Council of Europe, The Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Nato Defence College. Articles, profiles and interviews on his work have been published in national newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbu, Tokyo, the Guanming Daily, Beijing, the Hufvudsbladet, Helsinki and on Finnish Television, YLE TV1 and Italian National Television and Radio (RAI). He is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, including Theory, Culture and Society, Journal of International Communication, Global Media and Communication and the Asian Journal of International Studies.

PhDs Examined:

• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Tabloid Television in Contemporary China’, Loughborough University, 2007
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Media Globalization in Greater China’, City University, London, 2007
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Globalization and Cultural Policy in Singapore : a study of contemporary theatre’, University of Warwick , 2004
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Cultural Globalization in Taiwan: the case of the publishing industry’, University of Birmingham, 2004
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Korean Popular Music and Cultural Identity’, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2003
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Media, Audience Activity and everyday Life: The case of Japanese engagement with media and ICTs’, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2003
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘The Globalization of Thainess: media, national identity and the ‘Other’’, University of Westminster, 2001
• External Examiner for PhD on ‘Globalization, Media and Sport’, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2001
• Internal Examiner for PhD on ‘Creative Networks in Guanxi-Land: A Study of Social Networking related to Shanghai Expo 2010’ Nottingham Trent University, 2007
• Internal Examiner for PhD on ‘The Social Construction of Poverty in the Philippines’, Nottingham Trent University, 2003
• Internal Examiner for PhD on ‘The Development of the Department Store and Women’s Experience in Japan’, Nottingham Trent University, 2001
• Internal examiner for PhD on ‘Gender, Race and Cultural Identity’, Department of Social Studies, Nottingham Trent University, 1997

PhD studies supervised to successful completion:

• A study of Foucault’s writings in relation to  theories of international relations (1997)
• The psychological dimensions of Adorno’s critical theory (1998)
• A critical study of Habermas’s theory of the public sphere (1999)
• Critiques of social and cultural privatism (2001)
• The development of media practices in contemporary China (2001)
• Ulrich Beck and the global risk society (2001)
• Social theory of modernity in the work of Anthony Giddens in relation to concepts of self-identity (2001)
• A comparative study of cultural-historical processes of identity formation in China and Europe (2002)
• Cultural aspects of European and Japanese Housing Policy (2003)
• Advisor on preparation of submission of PhD by published works (International Relations) (2004)
• A study of constructions of identity in West German feature films 1962-1989 (2005)
• The temporal basis of autonomy: a study of the significance of time in critical social theory (2006)
• A study of the impact of information technology projects on a rural community in contemporary China (2007)