Emma Jane

Emma A. Jane (born 1969),^[1] previously known as Emma Tom,^[2] is an Australian professor, author, and journalist.

She once wrote a weekly column for The Australian^[3] newspaper and made regular appearances on Australian television and radio.^[4] She received an Edna Ryan Award in 2001 for humour. Jane has written ten books including Deadset, a first novel which won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book for South East Asia and the South Pacific.^[5]

Jane completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales' Journalism and Media Research Centre (JMRC),^[6] where she then became an associate professor. Her areas of research include communication, media studies, culture, and gender and sexuality.^[7]

She has sung and played bass in Australian rock bands The Titanics (with her then-husband David McCormack)^[8] and 16dd.^[9]

• Deadset, Vintage, 1997, ISBN 978-0-09-183441-8
• Babewatch, Hodder Headline, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7336-0954-1
• Evidence, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7322-7396-5
• Something about Mary: From Girl about Town to Crown Princess, Pluto Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-86403-273-4
• Bali: paradise lost?, Pluto Press Australia, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86403-353-3
• Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones: Your One-Stop Survival Guide to Staying Sane During Pregnancy, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7322-8672-9
• Modern Conspiracy – The Importance of Being Paranoid, coauthored with Chris Fleming, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9781623565893
• Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, coauthored with Chris Barker, SAGE, 2016. ISBN 978-1473919457
• Cybercrime and its Victims, coauthored with Elena Martellozzo, Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-0367226701
• Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History, SAGE, 2017. ISBN 978-1473916005

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