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0000-0002-3408-7488
Current Organisation
Deakin University
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Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2016
Abstract: A number of studies have examined why students choose to study journalism at university, but overall, this area is still relatively underexplored. Yet, understanding why students choose journalism, and what career expectations they hold, is important not only for educators but also for wider society and public debates about the future of journalism and the value of tertiary journalism education. This article examines the motivations of 1884 Australian journalism students enrolled across 10 universities. It finds that hopes for a varied lifestyle and opportunities to express their creativity are the most dominant motivations among students. Public service ideals are somewhat less important, while financial concerns and fame are least important. These motivations also find expression in students’ preferred areas of specialisation (referred to in Australia as rounds): lifestyle rounds are far more popular than politics and business rounds or science and development rounds.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2020
DOI: 10.1386/AJR_00025_5
Abstract: Review of: Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight , Ruth Palmer (2018) New York: Columbia University Press, 280 pp., ISBN 978-0-23118-315-4, p/bk, USD 35.00, ISBN 978-0-23118-314-7, h/bk, USD 105.00, ISBN 978-0-23154-476-4, ebk, USD 34.99
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-07-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-04-2020
Abstract: The Australian news media regularly presents crystal meth hetamine use as a non-metropolitan ‘epidemic’ sweeping through country towns with devastating consequences for affected communities. Considerations of place and the notion of rurality are therefore crucial to understanding how these media representations are constructed and their power to influence national understandings of rural people, places and policy debates. In order to explore these complexities, we apply Simon Cottle’s ‘communicative architecture of television’ methodology to an analysis of three long-form reportage television programmes on the theme of ice use in small Australian towns. Theories of ‘social imaginaries’ inform the argument that a distinctive Australian ‘agrarian imaginary’ can be discerned through the reporting’s strong associations with the connections and contradictions attached to ideas and emotions about ‘the bush’. The television programmes draw on what Cottle terms ‘mythic’ and ‘collective’ frames that reach into the cultural reservoirs of communities to reinforce national perceptions, values and narratives about how rural communities ought to be, and by extension, how they ought to deal with complex social problems, such as illicit drug distribution and use.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-03-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00048658211000094
Abstract: An Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Four Corners investigation, screened on free-to-air television on 24 July 2017, revealed a series of improper conducts pertaining to the Murray–Darling Basin river system. The journalistic exposé included allegations of water theft, questionable compliance decisions and collusion between water regulators and irrigation lobbyists. This interdisciplinary study explores the revelations and their framing in a s le of state and national media reports about the ‘water theft’ controversy and its fallout. It compares these with the normative frames adopted by critical green criminology, which views the allegations at the heart of the Murray–Darling Basin controversy in terms of state-corporate interests, industry capture of regulators and the notion that water ‘theft’ constitutes a ‘crime’ because of the environmental harm that results from excessive water extraction. This article presents the findings of the study, which elaborate on the impacts of media framing of crimes of the powerful (such as large agricultural companies and state government agencies), including the shaping of public understandings of environmental matters.
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