Dr Collette Snowden

Senior Lecturer, Public Relations

School of Communication, Media and Journalism

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.


Communication and Technology: the social impact of technology on all forms of human communication,Mobile Communications: the uses and consequences of mobile communications, and convergence with existing and emerging media.,Telephone Communications: all aspects of the use of telephony for communication,Non-textual Communication: oral, aural, gestural forms of communication,Public Communication: especially political communication, propaganda, and the relationship between public relations and the news media, international public relations

Year Citation
2024 Waye, V. C., Snowden, C., Knowler, J., Zito, P., Burton, J., & McIntyre, J. (2024). Is mandatory disclosure an effective panacea for buyer beware?. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 16(3), 218-236.
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2022 Snowden, C. (2022). Media unmade: Australian media's most disruptive decade, Tim Burrowes (2021). Australian Journalism Review, 44(1), 139-140.
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2021 Olijnyk, A., Waye, V., McIntyre, J., Knowler, J., Snowden, C., Martini, B., . . . Palmer, J. (2021). Maximising the Pivot to Online Courts: Digital Transformation, Not Mere Digitisation. Journal of Judicial Administration, 30(3), 126-152.
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2018 Dodd, A., Davies, K., Snowden, C., & Ricketson, M. (2018). Collaboration on a national scale: journalism educators, students and the 2016 Australian federal election. Australian journalism review, 40(1), 35-50.
2015 Nichols, S., & Snowden, C. M. (2015). "We don't tend to have that here": exploring child and adult relationships to trans-contextual objects in early childhood education institutions. Social semiotics, 25(4), 465-483.
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2015 Snowden, C., & Lewis, S. (2015). Mixed messages: public communication about higher education and non-traditional students in Australia. Higher education, online(3), 1-15.
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2014 Glenny, L., & Snowden, C. M. (2014). Introduction: Knowledge translation in public relations. Asia Pacific public relations journal, 15(1), 1-5.
2012 Snowden, C. (2012). 'I'm alright thanks': non-conformity and the media framing of social inclusion. Media international Australia incorporating culture and policy, (142), 64-73.
2012 Snowden, C. (2012). From epigrams to tweets. Asiatic, 6(2), 81-95.
2010 Snowden, C. M. (2010). The gendered newsroom : how journalists experience the changing world of media [book review]. Media international Australia, 137(1), 173-174.
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2009 Lushington, K., Cook, J. A., Steen, T. U., Wyld, F. M., & Snowden, C. M. (2009). 'The Book of Beyond': Designing PODcasts to Provide Spoken-Word Health Information for the Oral Culture of Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities. International journal of the book, 6(2), 85-94.
2007 Snowden, C. M., & Green, K. P. (2007). Media reporting, mobility and trauma. M/C journal : a journal of media and culture.
2003 Snowden, C. (2003). What's happening? Mobile communication technology and the surveillance function of news. Transformations, (7), 1-13.

Year Citation
2017 Snowden, C. (2017). Shut in and shut up: consequences of workplace confinement of journalists. In S. Nichols, & C. Snowden (Eds.), Source details - Title: Languages and literacies as mobile and placed resources (pp. 48-65). Oxon: Routledge.
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2014 Snowden, C., & Glenny, L. (2014). Academic armour: social etiquette, social media and higher education. In M. Kent, & T. Leaver (Eds.), Source details - Title: An education in facebook? Higher education and the world's largest social network (pp. 61-69). New York: Routledge.
2012 Snowden, C. (2012). As it happens: mobile communications technology, journalists and breaking news. In A. P. Kavoori, & N. Arceneaux (Eds.), Source details - Title: Mobile media reader (pp. 120-134). United States: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers.
2012 Cook, J. A., & Snowden, C. M. (2012). Bullying on the back-channels: everyday telephone talk as a space for professional manipulation. In D. Holmes, T. Rudge, & A. Perron (Eds.), Source details - Title: (Re)thinking violence in health care settings (1 ed., pp. 201-219). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
2008 Snowden, C. M. (2008). What next? poetry after the awards. In I. Petrescu, C. Fuller, & G. Ratcliff (Eds.), Source details - Title: Poems in perspex: Max Harris Poetry Award 2007 (pp. 105-111). Adelaide, Australia: Lynthrum Press.
2007 Snowden, C. M. (2007). Reporting by phone. In Source details - Title: Residual media (pp. 115-132). Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press.
2006 Snowden, C. M. (2006). Cstng A pwr4lspll : D evOLshn f SMS (Casting a powerful spell: the evolution of SMS). In Source details - Title: The cell phone reader : essays in social transformation (pp. 107-124). New York: Peter Lang Publishers Inc.
  • Review of Form 1 Vendor's Statement - Section 7 Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 (SA), SA Attorney General's Department, 01/04/2021 - 31/03/2022

Courses I teach

  • COMM 5004 Communication Contexts (2025)
  • COMM 5081 Professional Communication (2025)
  • COMM 5084 Content Creation (2025)
  • COMM 5004 Communication Contexts (2024)
  • COMM 5081 Professional Communication (2024)
  • COMM 5084 Content Creation (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Richard John Littleton

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