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0000-0003-3913-3030
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RMIT University
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Communication and media studies | Communication technology and digital media studies | Communication studies | Journalism studies | Social Change | Sociology | Interactive Media | Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Health Related to Ageing |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-07-2021
DOI: 10.1177/10776958211032856
Abstract: What skills, attributes, and experiences are needed for a visual journalism job in a contemporary print and digital newsroom? Previous attempts at answering this question examine it through insights from hiring managers or news editors, often collected retrospectively or at arbitrary times of the year through surveys analyses of position descriptions, which are often framed in normative terms or through analyzing journalism curricula, which perpetually struggle to adapt nimbly to evolving industry demands. This signaling theory study adopts a novel approach by examining, through qualitative thematic analysis, all applicants’ resumes and cover letters submitted by candidates for a visual journalism job posted in 2019. The hiring organization sought a candidate who could not only tell newsworthy stories through images but also one who could “write their own stories,” “have strong organizational skills,” and be “knowledgeable about current digital technology and applications for smartphone photography.” The results provide insight into the types of applicants who apply to such a position the skills, attributes, and experiences employers regard as worthy of shortlisting and the strategies candidates adopted in addressing the position description and selection criteria.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-04-2021
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X211008181
Abstract: This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unprecedented 2019–2020 bushfire season was depicted for Australian and non-Australian audiences in order to extend transnational understanding of iconicity’s tenets and how news values vary across contexts. It does so first by examining the Sydney Morning Herald’s coverage over 3 months and then by contrasting this with international coverage that began in early 2020 once the issue spilled onto the world stage. Australia’s coverage focused intensely on human actors involved in the disaster while the vast numbers of affected animals were virtually absent. In contrast, international media visually depicted the disaster as an environmental and ecological issue with global consequences. The results suggest a need for a definition of iconicity that is inclusive to non-human actors and to inanimate forces that are personified. It also extends our cross-cultural understanding of the visual expression of news values.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-10-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14703572211038987
Abstract: This comparative review seeks to explore how international, innovative, multimodal and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals, Visual Communication ( VC) and Visual Communication Quarterly ( VCQ), is over a 25-year period (from VCQ’s founding in 1994 and from VC’s founding in 2002 through 2019). Through examining all 544 research articles published in these journals over this timeframe, an understanding can be achieved regarding which countries and geographic regions have received attention, the methods and means used to advance the authors’ arguments, the visuals under consideration and the authors’ focus and aims, which sometimes overlap with the visuals under consideration and are sometimes distinct from them. The results inform areas of potential future exploration, focus and attention for these two journals but are grounded in an understanding that systemic conditions also influence the types and designs of research that can be published and recognized.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-03-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.1386/AJR_00087_1
Abstract: News media coverage of Indigenous Australian peoples and perspectives is often absent or, when present, unfair or shallow in context or understanding. This raises the question of how much – and what kind of – exposure to Indigenous knowledges and perspectives journalists-in-training receive in their university studies. To find out, this study analyses 30 unit outlines and assessment details of journalism subjects at three Australian universities. It follows this analysis with interviews of seventeen undergraduate journalism students at these universities to explore their perceptions of if and how their journalism programmes paid attention to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander topics and perspectives in the classroom setting. The results reveal that the journalism students in this s le, even those from the same university, had an uneven experience related to Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in their university journalism subjects. This testifies to the generic nature of unit outlines and learning objectives and to the broad discretionary power that in idual tutors and lecturers have to shape the flow of information that is engaged with during the learning opportunities they oversee. Student recommendations for how Indigenous knowledges and perspectives could be more usefully integrated into journalism education were also gathered and reported.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221094374
Abstract: The skyrocketing number and severity of issues in Australian aged care led to the establishment of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in 2018. Yet, compared to other Royal Commissions, media coverage has been relatively muted, and public awareness and engagement with aged care issues has been uneven. Journalists bear a significant responsibility for shaping the national conversation about aged care, and ensuring this demographic is reflected in the news Australians consume. Due to their unique properties, images are especially important in giving visibility to this historically marginalised topic, and to emotionally engaging an often apathetic public. As such, this study focuses on the aged care visuals accompanying Australian news coverage during the period of the Royal Commission's announcement through to four weeks after the government's response. Drawing on the lens of symbolic annihilation, it does this through a visual analysis that examines who or what is represented and the role of news values in shaping the selection of images included with news reports over this period.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-07-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-09-2018
Abstract: The study of emotion in journalism has largely been ignored and, when studied, is relegated almost exclusively to media texts. As such, this research aims to rectify this imbalance by focusing on the human side of journalism practice and the emotional labor and work experienced by documentary visual journalists. It does so through an in-depth, interview-based approach with 23 journalists in eight countries and identifies the sources of emotional labor and work experienced by those in the profession and how visual journalists manage the effects of the emotional labor and work they experience. The findings suggest that emotional labor and work pervade the production, editing, and post-production phases of journalistic work but not equally for all types of visual journalists. Female journalists, in particular, reported unique emotional investment and display practices, while a subset of male journalists reported unique emotional management ones. In addition, almost across the board, the visual journalists in this s le reported relying on more informal rather than formal strategies to manage the effects of their work-related emotions.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-03-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-01-2019
Abstract: Visual journalism is a curious form of interaction usually involving strangers who have their private lives transformed—wittingly or not—into public objects of attention. Sometimes the interaction between journalist and subject is extended and in-depth, sometimes it is brief and shallow, and sometimes it is nonexistent. People are often reactive to cameras, and tension can exist between the idealized ways people want to be depicted and the ways journalists visually render them. Considering that visual media are “complex reflections of a relationship between maker and subject in which both play roles in shaping their character and content,” scholars have called for more research on journalists’ subjects and how they behave in front of the visual news media. This work answers that call and provides one of the first empirical glimpses into how people regard the experience of being photographed and video-recorded by journalists. As a primary arc of the work is concerned with the nature of experience, it adopts a phenomenological approach and seeks to identify (a) the expectations that news media subjects have of visual journalists, (b) how journalists’ subjects perceive the experience of being photographed and video-recorded in a news media context, and (c) how the subject’s identities and representational aspirations affect their perception of the imaging event. These questions are explored through a four-pronged approach: (a) nonparticipant observations, (b) word association exercises, (c) in-depth interviews, and (d) photo-elicitations. The findings suggest that subjects are more outcome- rather than process-focused that technological changes and resulting behavior shifts are altering the nature of reality and experience, which has implications for privacy and consent and that perception is quite fluid and can be affected by identity, habituation, and emotionally valenced experiences.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-03-2019
Abstract: Human migration due to political upheaval is rapidly accelerating, yet scholarly attention to refugees' visual news representations has lagged. Using a visual analysis informed by the transnational writings of Yuval-Davis related to the politics of belonging and the peace/conflict frame literature, 811 images primarily depicting migration from Turkey into Europe in 2015 and submitted to the Pictures of the Year International competition were examined. Analysis determined that, despite billions of dollars in aid and millions of migrants who have benefited from food assistance and other development opportunities, the photographers overwhelmingly highlighted the migrants' transitory nature, vulnerability and differences while minimizing any attempt to depict the shared connections or integrations that were occurring. As media are orienting devices, this has profound implications for how migrants are regarded on both the in idual as well as the collective levels.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-11-2020
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2023
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2021
End Date: 2022
Funder: Australian Academy of the Humanities
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2023
End Date: 2026
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 07-2023
End Date: 06-2026
Amount: $454,386.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2021
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $310,672.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 06-2023
End Date: 06-2026
Amount: $507,970.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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