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The University of Canberra
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Communication and Media Studies | Journalism Studies | Media Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies | Communication technology and digital media studies | Communication And Media Studies | Media industry studies | Specialist Studies in Education | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy | Aboriginal Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Communication and media studies | Social Policy
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | The Media | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Expanding Knowledge in Education | Government and Politics not elsewhere classified | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare |
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Publications
Investigative Journalism in Changing Times
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-10-2022
Decolonising practices: Can journalism learn from health care to improve indigenous health outcomes?
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 06-2014
DOI: 10.5694/MJA14.00528
‘To drink or not to drink’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-12-2018
Representations of public risk: Illegal drugs in the Australian media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2003
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X0310800110
Abstract: The paper draws upon recent research investigating news frames, and risk theory to analyse Australian national news coverage of illegal drugs. Recent research has elaborated how risks are socially defined and acted upon, especially given changing media representations of risks. Public understandings of the risks associated with illegal drug use, policing and policies develop through the continuing and often changing representations of these risks in the media, as well as through other social practices. This paper questions the role of some prominent newspapers in setting alarmist and sensational frames to define risk in this context, and demonstrates how journalism can heighten community fear.
Revelation, Reckoning and Recovery: Bearing Witness Proximally in Local Journalism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-04-2023
Beyond deficit discourse
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-10-2018
The dimensions of mediatized policy-making in Australian Indigenous affairs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2017
Abstract: This article analyzes media-related policy-making practices in the bureaucratic realm of Indigenous affairs in Australia. It considers the implications of an increasingly media-oriented bureaucracy for particular social policies in the light of recent mediatization theory. A qualitative study explored how bureaucrats working in Indigenous affairs articulated their understanding of the news media’s role in policy development. The article identifies and describes five dimensions of mediatized bureaucratic practice – expertise, monitoring, anticipating, reacting and strategizing – and concludes that mediatized practices have permeated the very fabric of the policy-making process. It finds evidence of an increasingly intimate relationship between the logics and agendas of mainstream news media and bureaucrats working on complex and politically controversial policies. In Australia, mediatized policy-making practices contributed to both the intractability of Indigenous affairs policy and the introduction of radical policy solutions to address apparent policy failure. These findings add to the body of empirical research exploring the mediatization of policy-making and its implications for politically sensitive fields.
Reckoning with investigative journalism and Indigenous news in Australia 1
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-10-2022
Expanding Boundaries in Indigenous News: Guardian Australia, 2018–2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-01-2022
Community business: the internet in remote Australian Indigenous communities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-10-2009
Abstract: This article reports on the findings of a research project that mapped the patterns of internet access and use in remote Indigenous communities in Australia. Remote Indigenous communities comprise some of Australia’s most disadvantaged users of internet services. Taking a case-study approach, the article raises challenging theoretical questions for those seeking to understand the extent and nature of the digital ide in relation to indigeneity and remoteness. It suggests approaches for more sustainable introduction of internet facilities to remote Indigenous communities in Australia and improved practices for better delivery of training to users. It reinforces the need for research and collaboration at the community level so that the introduction of facilities is conducted in a culturally and technically appropriate manner.
The Intervention of Media Power in Indigenous Policy-Making
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1314900115
Abstract: This article explores how media power impacts on policy-making in Indigenous affairs in Australia through an examination of the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER). The article draws on interviews with a range of actors in the policy constellation to discuss three intersecting factors contributing to this media-driven announcement: the Howard government's political and policy aims for Indigenous affairs policy bureaucrats' increasingly mediatised practices and the rise of conservative Indigenous spokespeople as key players in debates about Indigenous affairs policy. The article concludes that these factors have made a significant contribution to the manifestation of media power in the Indigenous policy-making process.
Indigenous voices and mediatized policy-making in the digital age
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2015
Bypassing the press gallery
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-04-2018
Abstract: Traditionally politicians have been dependent on political news media to get their message across to the public. The rise of social media means that politicians can bypass the Press Gallery and publish directly to their target audiences via Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. This article argues that Prime Minister John Howard’s (1996–2007) use of talk back radio and early forays on YouTube were pivotal in the trend towards ‘disintermediation’ in Australian politics. It draws on two studies. One involving interviews with 87 key media actors from the Howard era including journalists, broadcasters, politicians and media advisers and a second, which includes fresh interviews with contemporary press secretaries. This article examines the shift from a ‘mass media logic’ to a ‘hybrid logic’, considered from a mediatization theoretical position. We also ask important questions about the press gallery’s ongoing relevance in the digital era, when politicians preside over their own social media empires.
The Listening Key: Unlocking the Democratic Potential of Indigenous Participatory Media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1515400109
Abstract: This article explores how a listening approach might address the complex challenges of researching the relationship between Indigenous participation in media and mainstream policy-making processes. An overview of contemporary Indigenous media demonstrates how digital and social media have built on the vibrant and innovative Indigenous media tradition, and enabled a proliferation of new Indigenous voices. But do the powerful listen to Indigenous-produced media, and does this constitute meaningful participation in the political process? The article distinguishes between participation as involvement in the production and dissemination of media, and participation as political influence. It argues that both meanings are crucial for fully realising the potential of Indigenous participatory media, and contends that a listening approach might offer ways to research and unlock the democratic potential of Indigenous media participation.
Digital News Report: Australia 2020
Publisher: News and Media Research Centre (UC)
Date: 2020
Settler Colonial Representations of Indigenous Disadvantage
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-05-2021
How television moved a nation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2018
Abstract: This article examines the role of television in Australia’s 1967 referendum, which is widely believed to have given rights to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents an analysis of archival television footage to identify five stories that moved the nation: Australia’s shame, civil rights and global connections, admirable activists, ‘a fair go’ and consensus. It argues that television shaped the wider culture and opened a channel of communication that allowed Indigenous activists and everyday people to speak directly to non-Indigenous people and other First Nations people throughout the land for the first time. The referendum narrative that television did so much to craft and promote marks the shift from an older form of settler nationalism that simply excluded Indigenous people, to an ongoing project that seeks to recognise, respect and ‘reaccredit’ the nation-state through incorporation of Indigenous narratives. We conclude that whereas television is understood to have ‘united’ the nation in 1967, 50 years later seismic shifts in media and society have made the quest for further constitutional reform on Indigenous rights and recognition more sophisticated, diffuse, complex and challenging.
Analysing the Indigenous News Network in Action: IndigenousX, The Guardian and the Wakul App
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 31-08-2020
Keystone media:The Australianand Indigenous affairs
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-10-2016
Abstract: This article conceptualises The Australian as the nation’s ‘keystone media’ on Indigenous affairs. Nielsen’s term ‘keystone media’ captures the critical importance of particular news outlets that play what he terms an outsize role in defining the state and structure of wider media and political environments. The article analyses the factors at play in The Australian’s sponsorship of a particular political agenda for this complex field of social policy. The argument is illustrated through an examination of Indigenous health coverage from 1988 to 2008, textual analysis of 137 columns written by Noel Pearson, and research interviews with key actors in the Indigenous policy realm, including journalists, public servants and Indigenous commentators. Through this examination of its reporting and collaboration with Pearson, we contend The Australian has advanced a range of neoliberal and interventionist policies to government and the public.
On-Screen Portrayals of Mental Illness: Extent, Nature, and Impacts
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2006
DOI: 10.1080/10810730600755889
Abstract: This article reviews the published literature on the extent, nature, and impacts of portrayal of mental illness in fictional films and television programs. The literature suggests that on-screen portrayals are frequent and generally negative, and have a cumulative effect on the public's perception of people with mental illness and on the likelihood of people with mental illness seeking appropriate help. The article concludes that there is a need for the mental health sector and the film and television industries to collaborate to counter negative portrayals of mental illness, and to explore the potential for positive portrayals to educate and inform, as well as to entertain.
The Safe Online Together Project
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Reuters, Propaganda-inspired News, and the Australian Press During the First World War
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2013
First Nations media in the Closing the Gap era: Navigating the new self-determination
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-10-2023
News futures: research and policy roundtable
Publisher: News and Media Research Centre (UC)
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25916/AXHA-AW24
Indigenous Media Studies in Australia: Traditions, Theories and Contemporary Practices
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Reflecting on a painful past
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-06-2022
Warwick Blood (1947–2022)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-08-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221122165
Abstract: Warwick Blood (1947–2022) was a leading Australian researcher in the field of Communication and Media Studies whose research focused on the role of the news media in framing public understanding of major social issues such as fear of crime, suicide and mental illness and community perceptions of risk. This article traverses Warwick's research career from his 1981 PhD on agenda setting to his later qualitative research using news frame analysis and ethnomethodology. Warwick's research is positioned within the history of Communication and Media Studies in Australia. We argue his work had a major impact on the practice of journalism and more generally on the study of health communication. His legacy was to forge a path in impactful, collaborative social research that has enabled the flowering of applied media studies and health communication research at a time of critical urgency in both public health and the media industries.
Mediatisation, Marginalisation and Disruption in Australian Indigenous Affairs
Publisher: Cogitatio
Date: 11-08-2016
Abstract: This article considers how changing media practices of minority groups and political and media elites impact on democratic participation in national debates. Taking as its case study the state-sponsored c aign to formally recognise Indigenous people in the Australian constitution, the article examines the interrelationships between political media and Indigenous participatory media—both of which we argue are undergoing seismic transformation. Discussion of constitutional reform has tended to focus on debates occurring in forums of influence such as party politics and news media that privilege the voices of only a few high-profile Indigenous media ‘stars’. Debate has progressed on the assumption that constitutional change needs to be settled by political elites and then explained and ‘sold’ to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our research on the mediatisation of policymaking has found that in an increasingly media-saturated environment, political leaders and their policy bureaucrats attend to a narrow range of highly publicised voices. But the rapidly changing media environment has disrupted the media-driven em Recognise /em c aign. Vigorous public discussion is increasingly taking place outside the mainstream institutions of media and politics, while social media c aigns emerge in rapid response to government decisions. Drawing on a long tradition in citizens’ media scholarship we argue that the vibrant, erse and growing Indigenous media sphere in Australia has increased the accessibility of Indigenous voices challenging the scope and substance of the recognition debate. The article concludes on a cautionary note by considering some tensions in the promise of the changing media for Indigenous participation in the national policy conversation.
Indigenous Media Practice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1314900108
Abstract: This article introduces the Indigenous Media Practice special issue through a discussion of the aims and scope of the edition. It identifies three major currents in contemporary international research on media and indigeneity, which are reflected in the suite of scholarship presented here. The first is the importance of continuing to critically analyse media systems, institutions and policies that enable and constrain the production and dissemination of information for, by and about Indigenous populations. The second emphasises media-related practices in specific media production and social policy contexts, and the third underlines the importance of interrogating underlying and pervasive societal discourses in understanding Indigenous media practice. The contributions to this themed issue highlight that there is a vibrant body of research among a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, typically working in teams in the pursuit of better understanding the relationships between media and indigeneity in both global and local contexts.
Distant and intimate conversations: media and indigenous health policy in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Media Hierarchies of Attention: News Values and Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-06-2019
Deficit metrics in Australian Indigenous education
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-10-2022
Truth, reconciliation and global ethics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Global Cultures of Contestation
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Drowning in our own home: a metaphor-led discourse analysis of Australian news media reporting on maritime asylum seekers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Institutional listening in deliberative democracy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-12-2023
DOI: 10.1177/02633957211060691
Abstract: This article explores the role of institutional listening in deliberative democracy, focusing particularly on its contribution to the transmission process between the public sphere and formal institutions. We critique existing accounts of transmission for prioritizing voice over listening and for remaining constrained by an ‘aggregative logic’ of the flow of ideas and voices in a democracy. We argue that formal institutions have a crucial role to play in ensuring transmission operates according to a more deliberative logic. To substantiate this argument, we focus on two recent ex les of institutional listening in two different democracies: Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the United States’ Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. These cases show that institutional listening can take different forms it can be purposefully designed or incidental, and it can contribute to the realization of deliberative democracy in various ways. Specifically, institutional listening can help enhance the credibility and visibility of minority groups and perspectives while also empowering these groups to better hold formal political institutions accountable. In these ways, institutional listening helps transmission operate according to a more deliberative logic.
Un-braiding deficit discourse in Indigenous education news 2008–2018: performance, attendance and mobility
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-09-2020
‘I’m not clear on what the risk is’: women’s reflexive negotiations of uncertainty about alcohol during pregnancy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-02-2016
#IHMayDay
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-10-2015
Abstract: This paper examines the themes of #IHMayDay, a day-long Twitter discussion about Indigenous health led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on 1 May 2014. The Symplur analytics tool was used to identify the Twitter activity associated with #IHMayDay. This paper reviews the content of 423 tweets that were tweeted and retweeted by 346 in iduals and 108 organisations. Issues related to social and emotional wellbeing were dominant, and the analysis highlights the empowering nature of the strengths-based discourse. Twitter-based events such as #IHMayDay and initiatives such as the rotated, curated account @IndigenousX are powerful platforms for learning, exchange, advocacy and dialogue about the social and emotional wellbeing and mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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