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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Communication and Media Studies | Media Studies | Cultural Policy Studies | Journalism Studies | Communication And Media Studies | Communication technology and digital media studies | Communication Studies | Consumption And Everyday Life | Communication and media studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Media studies | Decision Making | Screen and Media Culture | Computer-Human Interaction | Media and communication law | Applied Economics | Policy and Administration | Communications and media policy | Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations) | Film and Television | Applied Economics not elsewhere classified | Cultural Studies | Arts and Cultural Policy | Law and Society | Communications and Media Policy | Experimental Economics | Journalism | Journalism and Professional Writing | Film, Television and Digital Media | Multimedia | Journalism, Communication And Media Not Elsewhere Classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
The Media | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | News Collection Services | Civics and citizenship | Telecommunications | The creative arts | Service Industries Standards and Calibrations | Media Services not elsewhere classified | Publishing and Print Services (incl. Internet Publishing) | Civics and Citizenship | Studies in human society | Other social development and community services | International organisations | Information Services not elsewhere classified | Communication Networks and Services not elsewhere classified | Employment | Arts and leisure not elsewhere classified | Internet Broadcasting | Behaviour and Health | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences |
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Seeing the Outer Suburbs: Addressing the Urban Bias in Creative Place Thinking | Visiter la grande banlieue: Aborder le biais urbain de la pensée créatrice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2013
Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Special issue editorial: Populism, globalisation and social media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-01-2020
Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-04-2022
The Social Contract and Beyond in Broadcast Media Policy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-07-2006
Abstract: This article undertakes an institutionalist analysis of broadcast media policy, analyzing sources of both stability and change over time. It draws attention to the distinctive features of broadcast licenses as a form of soft property and the significance of policy settlements as ways in which regulators in different countries have managed the relationship between private ownership and public interest. It traces the development of broadcast media policy in Australia from the 1950s to the present in this light, arguing that continuities in policy over time that have favored incumbent commercial interests have been the prevailing pattern of policy outcomes. The article concludes by raising issues about whether a social democratic approach to media policy should support the introduction of greater market competition in a multiplatform environment rather than seek to maintain the existing broadcasting order and draws on so-called new public interest literature to make this argument.
Platform policy
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2021
DOI: 10.1386/JDMP_00061_1
Abstract: This article identifies a ‘policy turn’ in questions of internet governance, as politicians and policy-makers across multiple jurisdictions grapple with the power of digital platforms, and associated questions of accountability, transparency, market dominance and content regulation. The EU Hate Speech monitoring code, the Christchurch Call, the UK Online Harms Bill and Australia’s ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry are manifestations of this trend, in what Philip Schlesinger has described as an emergent ‘regulatory field’. While corporate self-regulation has tended to be the dominant framework for digital sectors, there is growing pressure on the part of nation states for greater external regulation. In this article, we will consider different conceptual premises for understanding platform power, arising from neo-pluralist, class and elite theories, as well as the relative significance of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), nation state governments, corporate self-regulation (e.g. Facebook Oversight Board) and supranational governance mechanisms, such as Tim Berners-Lee’s proposed ‘Contract for the Web’.
Creative industries after the first decade of debate
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2010
Social Media Governance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2015
Abstract: This short article proposes an institutional framework for understanding questions of social media governance, based around the four axes of formal and informal institutions, national and supranational governance, public and private, and large-scale and smaller scale governance.
Trust in Communication Research: A Systematic Literature Review of Trust Studies in Leading Communication Journals
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3523750
Journalism as social networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 federal election
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2010
Abstract: The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism have coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism — as the figure of the ‘journalist as hero’ is fading, new media forms have facilitated the production of news content ‘from below’ by citizens and ‘pro-am’ journalists. Participation in an action-research project run during the 2007 Australian federal election, youdecide 2007, allowed the authors to gain first-hand insights into the progress of citizen-led news media in Australia, but also allowed us to develop an account of what the work of facilitating citizen journalism involves. These insights are important to understanding the future of professional journalism and journalism education, as more mainstream media organizations move to accommodate and harness user-created content. The article considers the relevance of citizen journalism projects as forms of R& D for understanding news production and distribution in participatory media cultures, and the importance of grounded case studies for moving beyond normative debates about new media and the future of journalism.
The third way of global Internet governance: A dialogue with Terry Flew
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1177/20570473221123150
Abstract: In this dialogue, Terry Flew first outlines “a synoptic history” of the dominant discourses on Internet regulation. By exploring the global experiences over the past decades, Flew then articulates “the third way” of global Internet governance. Differing from both the “Silicon Valley” model of the United States and the state-led Chinese model, “the third way” is proposed to be built on trust and regulation. The typology of Internet governance addresses the tension between the nation-state and global market and emphasizes the balance between communication technology and law. Flew further elaborates on the importance of the multi-stakeholder approach in the future of global Internet governance and the challenges such an approach is facing. In addition, Flew offers advice on further research in Internet governance and platform regulation.
Communication and the Challenge of Trust
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3471104
The Turn to Regulation in Digital Communication: The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and Australian Media Policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3659671
Trust and the Future Sustainability of News: The Collapse of Traditional Newsrooms and the Rise of Subscriber-Funded News Media
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3625428
SOVEREIGNTY AND SOFTWARE
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2005
Beyond the Paradox of Trust and Digital Platforms: Populism and the Reshaping of Internet Regulations
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95220-4_14
Abstract: One of the paradoxes of the misinformation and ‘fake news’ debates are that they require a greater degree of trust in media, digital platforms and governments in order to combat conspiracy theories, when in fact distrust of media, digital platforms and governments is part of a wider crisis of trust in institutions and expertise. This suggests that we need a more sophisticated analysis of the politics of expertise and how they intersect with both policies towards digital platforms and shifts in the political sphere. Drawing upon the work of Thomas Piketty on shifts in electoral politics, and Pippa Norris on the rise of populism, it is argued that debates about tech policy are largely played out between educated elites from ‘liberal’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ perspectives, which leaves them open to populist critique. One of the reasons why there are greater calls to regulate digital platforms is the rise of political populism, which can leave digital activists in a political bind: they favour measures to rein in the power of ‘Big Tech’ in principle, but are very wary of any measures perceived to increase the power of nation states with regards to the Internet.
From policy to curriculum: drivers of the growth in creative industries courses in the UK and Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-03-2019
Communication Futures for Internet Governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3806967
Global Media Industries and Media Policy
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Date: 14-01-2019
Populism, globalisation and social media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-10-2019
Abstract: Since the 2010s, we witness the rise of populism and nationalism as part of a reaction against the global policies of the last 30 years in Western liberal democracies and beyond. This article seeks to unpack the rise of populism and nationalism and its relationship to social media. We review the relevant literature relating to the globalization paradigm and assess how it has influenced communication studies. The rise of the globalization theory coincides with key advancements in the post-Cold War world, such as the growth of international trade, the global movement of people, the increase in the number of international laws and forums, economic liberalism, as well as the rise of the internet and global digital communication networks. But while the global era denotes a cosmopolitan vision, economic insecurity, growing inequality in wealth distribution, as well as cultural change and shifts in traditional values and norms have brought about a broader concern that globalization is associated with a shift of power to transnational elites, whose impact upon common people’s life and experiences is not fully acknowledged. Contemporary populism has been associated with nationalism, but also with the active use of social media platforms as alternative communication sites to mainstream media which is seen as having been captured by elite consensus politics. This complicates the relationship between truth and free expression in an age of social media, meaning that we need to account for the role of such platforms in the rise of populism and ‘post-truth’ politics, as well as its scope to advance the goals and strategies of progressive social movements.
Journalism as social networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 federal election
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2010
Abstract: The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism have coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism — as the figure of the ‘journalist as hero’ is fading, new media forms have facilitated the production of news content ‘from below’ by citizens and ‘pro-am’ journalists. Participation in an action-research project run during the 2007 Australian federal election, youdecide 2007, allowed the authors to gain first-hand insights into the progress of citizen-led news media in Australia, but also allowed us to develop an account of what the work of facilitating citizen journalism involves. These insights are important to understanding the future of professional journalism and journalism education, as more mainstream media organizations move to accommodate and harness user-created content. The article considers the relevance of citizen journalism projects as forms of R& D for understanding news production and distribution in participatory media cultures, and the importance of grounded case studies for moving beyond normative debates about new media and the future of journalism.
Toward a Cultural Economic Geography of Creative Industries and Urban Development: Introduction to the Special Issue on Creative Industries and Urban Development
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2010
The rise of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) and their role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-12-2021
Abstract: The Chinese digital technology giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT), dominate over their competitors in China across platforms that include e-commerce, digital entertainment, e-finance and artificial intelligence (AI). To understand BAT’s corporate power and their strategic role working with the government – in this case, their involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – this paper unveils the capabilities of these three oligopolies and discusses their international expansion in relation to the BRI. The BRI is being constructed on two layers, the physical and digital infrastructure, and the BAT are contributing to the latter. This paper examines the interrelations between BAT and the state through case studies, observing the tensions and potential contradictions arising from the reliance of the Chinese state on the BAT to build digital infrastructure, while the BAT seek to minimize direct state regulation for their data-driven business models.
Trust and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2021
Abstract: What has been referred to as the crisis of trust in social institutions has deep connections with communications, whether it be declining trust in news media and journalism, debates about the power of digital platforms and trust in online environments, questions surrounding media effects, the rise of political populism, or how trust or mistrust shapes interpersonal and intergroup communication. At the same time, trust in communications research has something of a “hidden history” when compared to disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, political science, and economics. Through a systematic literature review of uses of the concept of trust in six journals published by the International Communication Association—Journal of Communication Communication Theory Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Human Communication Research Communication, Culture & Critique and Annals of the International Communication Association (formerly Communication Yearbook)—this article undertakes a chronological and thematic analysis of how research into trust has evolved among communication researchers from the 1950s to 2020. It concludes with a discussion of the distinctive contributions of communications as a scholarly field to trust studies more broadly.
The ambivalent presence of economics in the work of Stuart Cunningham
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-10-2021
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X211043900
Abstract: In this short paper, I want to consider the ways in which Stuart Cunningham's focus on work that was policy-relevant and could speak to industry led him to an ambivalent relationship with the discipline of economics. Rejecting the binary opposition between alleged ‘neoliberal’ economics and the cultural sphere as a site of unbridled moral good, Cunningham sought to both engage with and critique the dominant paradigms of economics, and their influence in Australian public policy. In doing so, his work is strongly influenced by Ian Hunter's argument that scholarly work motivated by civically minded engagements with matters of public concern needed to go beyond moral grandstanding and engage critically with the institutional complexities of social and cultural governance.
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-02-2022
DOI: 10.1002/POI3.284
Abstract: Governments across the world are struggling to address the market dominance of technology companies through increased regulation. The Australian Federal government found itself leading the world in platform regulation when, in 2021, it enacted the Australian News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. The furore surrounding the introduction of the legislation, and Facebook's subsequent Australian ‘news ban’ exposed the limits of a regulatory model that has previously left the tech industry to moderate itself. In this paper, we argue the introduction of the Code is a leading ex le of a global trajectory towards regulatory change, which sees governments move from a reactive regulation model to specific interventions around the governance of digital media spaces. We discuss how best to measure the successes and failures around this more interventionist model through a case study of the implementation of the Code in Australia. More broadly we consider how global platforms have responded, and whether the reform is an effective regulatory model for other national governments to emulate.
Xi Dada loves Peng Mama
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2018
Abstract: With Xi Jinping’s consolidation of political power in China, a personality cult has increasingly emerged. In this article, we analyze online documents and state news media to argue that this phenomenon is driven in part by local government officials and traditional media but most significantly by in idual Chinese ‘netizens’. The current personality cult phenomenon is thus primarily society-driven and bottom-up rather than state-driven and top-down. We argue that the rise of this personality cult around Xi has its roots in national anxiety in an important transitional period in China. While some worry about a possible return to the politics of the Cultural Revolution by encouraging this personality cult, others are responding to economic anxieties and to the social anxieties created by social injustice greatly due to official corruption. We conclude that the possibility of society-driven personality cults will increase over time, as a paradoxical corollary of the potential of new media to allow for the democratization and opening up of politics and culture to new voices.
Regulating journalists? The Finkelstein Review, the Convergence Review and news media regulation in Australia
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 05-2013
Abstract: This article identifies two major forces driving change in media policy worldwide: media convergence and renewed concerns about media ethics, with the latter seen in the UK Leveson Inquiry. It focuses on two major public inquiries in Australia during 2011–2012 – the Independent Media Inquiry (Finkelstein Review) and the Convergence Review – and the issues raised about future regulation of journalism and news standards. Drawing upon perspectives from media theory, it observes the strong influence of social responsibility theories of the media in the Finkelstein Review and the adverse reaction these received from those arguing from Fourth Estate/free press perspectives, which were also consistent with the long-standing opposition of Australian newspaper proprietors to government regulation. It also discusses the approaches taken in the Convergence Review to regulating for news standards, in the light of the complexities arising from media convergence. The article concludes with consideration of the fast-changing environment in which such proposals to transform media regulation are being considered, including the crisis of news media organization business models, as seen in Australia with major layoffs of journalists from the leading print media publications.
European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-01-2016
Internet regulation as media policy: Rethinking the question of digital communication platform governance
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2019
Abstract: This article identifies the current global ‘techlash’ towards the major digital and social media platforms as providing the context for a renewed debate about whether these digital platform companies are effectively media companies (publishers and broadcasters of media content), and implications this has for twenty-first-century media policy. It identifies content moderation as a critical site around which such debates are being played out, and considers the challenges arising as national and regionally based regulatory options are considered for digital platforms that are ‘born global’. It considers the shifting balance between the ‘social contract’ of public interest obligations and democratic rights of free speech and freedom of expression.
Creative suburbia: Cultural research and suburban geographies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-04-2012
Book Review: Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary by Sean Maher
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-03-2022
New Media Design and Development: Diffusion of Innovations v Social Shaping of Technology
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2010
Creative industries in China: the digital turn
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-09-2019
Creativity, the ‘new humanism’ and cultural studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2004
The impact of COVID-19 on cultural tourism: art, culture and communication in four regional sites of Queensland, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-08-2020
Abstract: The arts, cultural and creative industries are among the most adversely affected sectors of the economy in the wake of COVID-19 social distancing measures, travel restrictions and prohibition of large gatherings of people. Focusing on Cairns, the Gold Coast, Central West and the Sunshine Coast – four regional areas of Queensland, Australia – this article provides an overview of impacts on cultural tourism and considers the prospects for regional cultural tourism as part of a ‘creative economy’ revival.
The new middle class meets the creative class
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2006
Abstract: ‘MBA fever’ in China needs to be understood in the wider context of forces driving structural change in China's relation to the global knowledge economy. The rise of a ‘new middle class’ in China is connected to the new claims for cultural leadership of an emergent ‘creative class’, which generates new issues about the relevance of the MBA in China, in terms of its relevance to Chinese economic circumstances, its flexibility and its capacity to respond to accumulation strategies that emphasize innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-02-2017
Content Regulation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-02-2015
DOI: 10.1002/9781118767771.WBIEDCS133
Abstract: This entry discusses the origins and history of media content regulation, the reasons for content regulations, and their application to different media platforms. It discusses online content regulations and the concerns that have motivated such policies with particular reference to debates about internet filtering. It is noted that, as there is growing convergence of media content, platforms, devices, and services, the debates can be expected to shift from free speech and censorship on the internet and the social protection of internet users, to wider issues of media policy reform that include cultural policy and industry development in the digital economy.
East Asian audio-visual collaboration and the global expansion of Chinese media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-04-2016
Abstract: This article investigates the significant re-orientation of audio-visual production in East Asia over the last few years brought about by the rise of China, beginning with the proposition that unprecedented change is occurring in East Asian media production. While the ‘Sinophone world’ has been the locus of critical analysis in the past, all eyes are now focused on China. Flows of knowledge, expertise and content are becoming significant in this mediascape, yet this dimension has been overlooked by most scholarship in the field. Conceptual and theoretical frameworks based on cross-border consumption of East Asian content require urgent revision. This article shows how media collaborations are changing global media practice and East Asian media flows through a variety of contemporary international collaborations, as well as relevant policy frameworks that impact, positively or negatively, productions by international partners working in film, television and online and mobile video content.
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Communication as a Disciplinary Signifier in Australia: After the “Cultural Turn” and the “Digital Turn”
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00472816231163772
Abstract: Communication as a discipline has a curious double life, being both disavowed in favor of something else, yet remains as a conceptual anchor point for a erse range of intellectual projects. This argument focuses upon four challenges, or “turns,” that communication as a field has experienced: the “cultural turn” associated with cultural studies the global turn the “creative turn” and the “digital turn” associated with the Internet and social media. It is observed that these have been collectively incorporated into a broadened communication field, and that concepts associated with communication remain relevant to other disciplines and fields.
Engaging, Persuading, and Entertaining Citizens
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-09-2014
Abstract: This paper draws upon public sphere theories and the “mediatization of politics” debate to develop a mapping of the Australian political public sphere, with particular reference to television. It discusses the concept of a “political public sphere,” and the contribution of both non-traditional news media genres, such as satirical television and infotainment formats, to an expanded conception of the political public sphere. It considers these questions in the context of two case studies: the Q& A program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and its uses of social media and interactive formats to engage citizens, and the comedy program Gruen Nation, also on the ABC, which analyzed the use of political advertising to persuade citizens during the 2013 Australian Federal election.
Global mistrust in news: The impact of social media on trust
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2020
The citizen’s voice: Albert Hirschman’sExit, Voice and Loyaltyand its contribution to media citizenship debates
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2009
Evaluating China’s aspirations for cultural soft power in a post-globalisation era
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-04-2016
Abstract: ‘Soft power’ has been a concept that has generated great political and scholarly interest in China, as it raises the question of how to achieve cultural standing commensurate with the nation’s growing economic significance. But from the perspectives of communication and cultural studies, we can identify limits with both ‘soft power’ as a concept and how it understands culture and communication, and the assumptions made about the capacities of state cultural promotion through media to appeal to global audiences. Drawing upon case studies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea, this article identified challenges and opportunities for China in growing its international cultural soft power in a ‘post-globalisation’ era.
26 Australia and New Zealand
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 18-05-2020
Creative Industries: From the Chicken Cheer to the Culture of Services
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
Testing the Economic Consequences of Mistrust in News: An Incentivized Experiment on Housing Market Expectations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3559201
Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics, Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller (2020)
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2021
DOI: 10.1386/JDMP_00064_5
Abstract: Review of: Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics , Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller (2020) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 176 pp., ISBN 978-1-78990-062-0, p/bk, £15.95
Trusting and valuing news in a pandemic: Attitudes to online news media content during COVID-19 and policy implications
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1386/JDMP_00045_1
Abstract: While the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to significant growth in news consumption, this did not translate into either greater trust or an improved financial situation for news providers. At a time when disinformation has become a key concern with regards to public health messaging, this mistrust of mainstream news media has potentially disastrous consequences for public communication in a time of urgent public health concerns. The article explores five issues for the study of news and trust, including the impact of digital platforms, the accountability revolution, the crisis of news media business models, the power-shift within media to platforms in the time of COVID-19, and the turn to subscription-based media. The latter raises critical issues around the value of news, and the future relationship between subscriptions, advertising revenue and public funding in the future of news publication and distribution.
Assessing the Knowledge Ecologies of Media Policy: the Case of Content Classification
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3335940
Introduction to A Research Agenda for Creative Industries
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-09-2019
Assessing Policy I: Stakeholder Analysis
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Culture, communication and hybridity: The case of The Rap of China
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2019
Six theories of neoliberalism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2014
Abstract: This article takes as its starting point the observation that neoliberalism is a concept that is ‘oft-invoked but ill-defined’. It provides a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: (1) an all-purpose denunciatory category (2) ‘the way things are’ (3) an institutional framework characterizing particular forms of national capitalism, most notably the Anglo-American ones (4) a dominant ideology of global capitalism (5) a form of governmentality and hegemony and (6) a variant within the broad framework of liberalism as both theory and policy discourse. It is argued that this sprawling set of definitions are not mutually compatible, and that uses of the term need to be dramatically narrowed from its current association with anything and everything that a particular author may find objectionable. In particular, it is argued that the uses of the term by Michel Foucault in his 1978–9 lectures, found in The Birth of Biopolitics, are not particularly compatible with its more recent status as a variant of dominant ideology or hegemony theories. It instead proposes understanding neoliberalism in terms of historical institutionalism, with Foucault’s account of historical change complementing Max Weber’s work identifying the distinctive economic sociology of national capitalisms.
The new middle class meets the creative class
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2006
Abstract: ‘MBA fever’ in China needs to be understood in the wider context of forces driving structural change in China's relation to the global knowledge economy. The rise of a ‘new middle class’ in China is connected to the new claims for cultural leadership of an emergent ‘creative class’, which generates new issues about the relevance of the MBA in China, in terms of its relevance to Chinese economic circumstances, its flexibility and its capacity to respond to accumulation strategies that emphasize innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
Economic Prosperity, Suburbanization and the Creative Workforce: Findings from Australian Suburban Communities
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2011
Cultural materialism and cultural policy: Reassessing Raymond Williams
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1997
Creativity, cultural studies, and services industries
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2004
Creative suburbia: Rethinking urban cultural policy – the Australian case
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-02-2012
Abstract: This article considers the question of whether creative workers demonstrate a preference for inner cities or suburbs, drawing upon research findings from the ‘Creative Suburbia’ project undertaken by a team of Australian researchers over 2008–2010 in selected suburban areas of Brisbane and Melbourne. Locating this question in wider debates about the relationship of the suburbs to the city, as well as the development of new suburban forms such as master-planned communities, the article finds that the number of creative industries workers located in the suburbs is significant, and those creative workforce members living and working in suburban areas are generally happy with this experience, locating in the suburbs out of personal choice rather than economic necessity. This runs counter to the received wisdom on creative cities, which emphasize cultural amenity in inner city areas as a primary driver of location decisions for the ‘creative class’. The article draws out some implications of the findings for urban cultural policy, arguing that the focus on developing inner urban cultural amenity has been overplayed, and that more attention should be given to how to better enable distributed knowledge systems through high-speed broadband infrastructure.
From Chauvel to creatives: Celebrating the career of Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X211044171
Abstract: This essay introduces the special issue of Media International Australia dedicated to the work of Stuart Cunningham. We note the scholarly contributions made by Stuart Cunningham to communications, media and cultural studies, including screen studies, creative industries and cultural policy studies. We also note his extensive contributions to institution building and academic leadership in engaging with industry and policy agencies from an applied humanities perspective.
Globalization, neo-globalization and post-globalization: The challenge of populism and the return of the national
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-02-2020
Abstract: In the context of a perceived crisis of globalization, this article outlines key features of the globalization paradigm that bore influence in media and communication studies, observing two recurring and related weaknesses: underestimation of the continuing significance of nation-states, and overestimation of the extent to which cultures and identities had become ‘post-national’ and cosmopolitan. The rise of populism could lead to a post-global era, but it is more likely that it marks a reassertion of national policy and political priorities into the operations of global corporations and multilateral institutions. This raises the question of whether global communication studies need to be more concerned with national policy questions rather than with ‘the global’ as an entity in its own right.
Afterword: The fake and the authentic
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-01-2022
Mongrels and hybrids: Theorising Australian television
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Digital News Report: Australia 2019
Publisher: News and Media Research Centre (UC)
Date: 2019
A Research Agenda for Creative Industries
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-09-2019
Cultural and creative industries
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2017
Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-11-2020
Foucault, Weber, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Governmentality
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-11-2015
Abstract: This paper argues that Michel Foucault’s lectures that form The Birth of Biopolitics owe a considerable debt to the thought of Max Weber, particularly in their analysis of how different socio-legal regimes shape distinctive national forms of capitalist economies, and the role that is played by social and economic institutions in the shaping of in idual identities. This is in contrast to a common interpretation of Foucault’s account of neoliberalism, which synthesizes his work into neo-Marxist notions of hegemony and capitalist domination. It also identifies Foucault’s approach to neoliberalism as an exploratory one, which considers insights into how a particular relationship between ideas and institutional practices may help in imagining socialist forms of government practice.
Creative industries: between cultural economics and cultural studies
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-09-2019
Toward a Cultural Economic Geography of Creative Industries and Urban Development: Introduction to the Special Issue on Creative Industries and Urban Development
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2010
Entertainment media, cultural power, and post-globalization: The case of China’s international media expansion and the discourse of soft power
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2016
Abstract: The concept of soft power has been highly influential in recent years, both as a concept to inform understanding of the cultural dimensions of international relations and as providing a practical guide to state investment in the international expansion of both news and entertainment media. One of the places where it has been most influential has been China, where is has been used to support the international expansion of China Central Television and the growth of Chinese entertainment media conglomerates. It is argued in this article, however, that the concept rests upon a weak understanding of the cultural dimensions of power and upon the transmission model of communication. As a result, there has tended to be a distributional bias in investing in cultural diplomacy and relatively little attention has been given to how audiences actually engage with international media content. Applied to the Chinese case, it is argued that support for entertainment media is more likely to support the aspirations of the Chinese government than news media, although news is likely to be prioritized for political reasons. At a more conceptual level, discussion of national soft power strategies and their relation to global media points to the need for new approaches in global media and communication studies, that could be termed post-globalization, that can address strengths and weaknesses in both critical political economy and media globalization approaches, and recognize the continuing centrality of nation states to the structuring of global media flows across territorial boundaries.
Post-Globalisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-01-2018
Changing influences on the concept of ‘media influence’
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2014
DOI: 10.1386/JDTV.5.1.7_1
Digital communication, the crisis of trust, and the post-global
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Return of the regulatory state: A stakeholder analysis of Australia’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and online news policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2021
Improving Trust in News: Audience Solutions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2020
THE PROMISE OF COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALISM
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-11-2016
The turn to regulation in digital communication: the ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry and Australian media policy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-06-2020
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry, as a case study in the new thinking about digital platform regulation taking place in many nations. With its focus upon the impact of digital platforms on news and journalism, the ACCC Inquiry parallels other reviews, such as the Cairncross Review on the Future of Journalism in the United Kingdom. While the Inquiry had a somewhat ‘accidental’ history, the core issues that it raised have acquired considerable political resonance in Australia. The concept of harms provides a useful lens through which to understand the ACCC’s focus, as it identified harms caused by the market dominance of Google and Facebook for traditional news media businesses, and for consumers and citizens. Responding to the ACCC Final Report will present challenges in identifying the public good dimension of journalism and who should pay for it, the scope and reach of digital platform regulation and its relationship to media policy and regulation, and the scope for small nations to effectively manage the power of global digital platform giants.
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-01-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-021-27668-9
Abstract: Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who reported identifying more strongly with their nation consistently reported greater engagement in public health behaviours and support for public health policies. Results were similar for representative and non-representative national s les. Study 2 ( N = 42 countries) conceptually replicated the central finding using aggregate indices of national identity (obtained using the World Values Survey) and a measure of actual behaviour change during the pandemic (obtained from Google mobility reports). Higher levels of national identification prior to the pandemic predicted lower mobility during the early stage of the pandemic ( r = −0.40). We discuss the potential implications of links between national identity, leadership, and public health for managing COVID-19 and future pandemics.
The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of media globalization
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-02-2015
Abstract: This article argues that the concept of national media systems, and the comparative study of media systems, institutions, and practices, retains relevance in an era of media globalization and technological convergence. It considers various critiques of ‘media systems’ theories, such as those which view the concept of ‘system’ as a legacy of an outdated positivism and those which argue that the media globalization is weakening the relevance of nation-states in structuring the field of media cultures and practices. It argues for the continuing centrality of nation-states to media processes, and the ongoing significance of the national space in an age of media globalization, with reference to case studies of Internet policies in China, Brazil, and Australia. These studies indicate that nation-states remain critical actors in media governance and that domestic actors largely shape the central dynamics of media policies, even where media technologies and platforms enable global flows of media content.
Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2012
Abstract: Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich von Hayek, neo-liberalism has become an all-purpose concept, explanatory device and basis for social critique. This presentation evaluates Michel Foucault’s 1978–79 lectures, published as The Birth of Biopolitics, to consider how he used the term neo-liberalism, and how this equates with its current uses in critical social and cultural theory. It will be argued that Foucault did not understand neo-liberalism as a dominant ideology in these lectures, but rather as marking a point of inflection in the historical evolution of liberal political philosophies of government. It will also be argued that his interpretation of neo-liberalism was more nuanced and more comparative than more recent contributions. The article points towards an attempt to theorize comparative historical models of liberal capitalism.
Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-05-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-023-02080-8
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been through persuasive messaging and collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand the social and moral psychology behind public health behaviour, we present a dataset comprising of 51,404 in iduals from 69 countries. This dataset was collected for the International Collaboration on Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19 project (ICSMP COVID-19). This social science survey invited participants around the world to complete a series of moral and psychological measures and public health attitudes about COVID-19 during an early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (between April and June 2020). The survey included seven broad categories of questions: COVID-19 beliefs and compliance behaviours identity and social attitudes ideology health and well-being moral beliefs and motivation personality traits and demographic variables. We report both raw and cleaned data, along with all survey materials, data visualisations, and psychometric evaluations of key variables.
5 Political economy
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 18-05-2020
Market news and credibility cues improve house price predictions: An experiment on bounded rationality in real estate
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2020
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