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» Mosaic narrative a poetics of cinematic new media narrative
05-02-2012
· This thesis proposes the Poetics of Mosaic Narrative as a tool for theorising the creation and telling of cinematic stories in a digital environment. As such the Poetics of Mosaic Narrative is...
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» The Aussie battler personified: why everyone loves Kenny
05-08-2009
· Kenny was one of the biggest Australian box office successes of 2006, which is unusual for a mockumentary. This essay explores the reasons for the film’s success, and in particular for Kenny’s...
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» The multicultural nation in New Zealand cinema: production-text-reception
17-07-2009
· This book is about representation and the importance of visibility and inclusivity in the stories we tell each other about ourselves. It is therefore also about power and local access to the means...
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» Empire histories: the commodity of nostalgia
» Star struck: fandom and the discourse of celebrity
05-01-2009
· This chapter examines the phenomenon of stardom and celebrity in contemporary popular culture, focusing on the screen media industries. The chapter begins by looking at the emergence of celebrity...
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» Genre: 'something new based on something familiar'
05-01-2009
· This chapter defines and overviews the concept of 'genre' in the context of contemporary screen studies. Using recent examples from film and television, including a case study of popular US...
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» The global diffusion of a community media practice: digital storytelling online
05-03-2009
· Since its emergence in the early to mid 1990s, digital storytelling has been taken up around the world. It is now widely used across North America, Europe, and Australasia, but is significantly...
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» Screen media: analysing film and television
05-01-2009
· Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both...
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» Representing indigenous stories in the cinema: between collaboration and appropriation
05-02-2012
· [Abstract]: Not only has there been a large increase during the last decade in the amount of Australian films that tell Indigenous stories, but there has also been a significant diversification of...
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» Sick puppies and other unbecoming things
05-06-2001
· This paper looks at John Carpenter's film The Thing in the context of why it so shocked audiences during its initial run in 1982. These reactions are considered alongside the AIDS phenomenon,...
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» Technological challenges: aesthetic solutions: the impact of technology upon the creative process in the context of the adaptation of non-verbal,...
05-02-1996
· [Abstract]: The research study is a self-reflexive analysis of the creative processes of the artist in a particular context - that of the adaptation of solo non-verbal performance created for the...
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» Negotiating multicultural difference in a bicultural nation: a focused case study
05-02-2012
· This paper explores the ways in which multicultural difference is negotiated in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. While New Zealand is officially a bicultural nation, a major shift in immigration policy in...
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» Representing multiculturalism in a bicultural nation: the question of diversity in New Zealand cinema
05-02-2012
· Historically, New Zealand has always represented itself as a bicultural nation of Maori (indigenous peoples) and Pakeha (white settlers), and this is reflected in its national cinema. But since the...
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» Modernity in Australian radio magazines
» Communication: a foundation course, 2nd ed.
» The representation of female athletes in online images of successive Olympic Games (republished)
05-02-2012
· [Abstract]: Photographs tell stories. They are “so much a part of our daily lives we rarely think about how they influence us and what that influence is”. Yet photographs, like other media...
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» Critical analysis of practice in online news media
» Reaching out: indigenous communicators and their strategies
» Underexposed: images of sportswomen on ABC News Online
» Picture this: a cross-national study of the portrayal of female athletes in images of the 2004 Olympic Games on two Web sites
» Working contacts: finding and keeping reliable sources
05-02-2012
· Tips for inexperienced journalists on the importance of finding and maintaining contacts.
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» (Re)citing the sovereign source: media representations of indigenous peoples
05-02-2012
· [Conclusion]: History has determined the situation of indigenous Australia over an ancient cultural and spiritual presence with the land. It was dispossession of that land which enabled mainstream...
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» Teaching narrative journalism and the APN News and Media Professional Development Program
05-12-2007
· [Abstract]: This paper extends the familiar concept of 'journalism-as-storytelling' into a description of some of its practical applications in a university and industry partnership resulting in a...
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» 'The innocence in her beautiful green eyes': speculations on seduction and the 'feminine' in the Australian news media
05-04-2006
· [Abstract]: It is a familiar refrain to describe journalism as, simply, story-telling (Manoff, 1986). The aim of this article, however, is to explore how that simple project turns complicated in a...
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» Comparative analysis of mainstream discourses, media narratives and representations of Islam in Britain and France prior to 9/11
05-12-2006
· [Abstract]: It has become almost impossible to believe that Islam even existed in Western consciousness before September 11th, 2001 (9/11). Those who have used that event to denigrate Islam, and...
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» Soft on crime, not doing the time: the media, law and order and the criminal justice system
05-07-2007
· I begin this paper with a very Australian media parable about a man called I will call X. This story illustrates my theme of how the media can manipulate, or at least attempt to manipulate public...
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» Taking the bypass: voters' use of local media during a local election
» Get up! For what? Issues driven democracy in a transforming public sphere
25-07-2008
· It is no coincidence that the contested state and status of democracy is paralleled by debates about the media and the public sphere, for these concepts are intimately interwoven and...
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» The style files: teach explicit skills with feedback
10-07-2008
· I write having just come back from the gym: my biceps are tired from hammer curls, my lats from pull downs, my hamstrings from Smith machine lunges. In building strong bodies we know to exercise...
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» The style files: write to read breadth first, not depth first
10-03-2008
· Technical writing is not like writing a detective novel: in your introduction, as well as describing the background, tell your reader upfront in plain language your conclusions.
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» Reporting the drought: a study of news cycles
05-07-2003
· [Abstract]: Droughts are newsworthy because of their impacts on regional and national economies and on farmers, a group with an almost iconic status in Australian society. On the other hand, a...
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» Australian Idol versus Cronulla: whither the postcolonising nation?
05-12-2007
· This paper explores two apparently contradictory phenomena which, when taken together, raise some important questions about where Australia is at as a postcolonising nation. Targeting primarily a...
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» The style files: appearance affects communication; but not necessarily as you like
05-05-2007
· Many people are trained to produce documents that look appealing. For example, many favour the supposedly clean appearance of a sans serif font such as the mainstream Arial. However, research by...
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» The style files: write what you mean
05-07-2007
· 'The only proper attitude is to look upon a successful interpretation, a correct understanding, as a triumph against the odds. We must cease to regard a misinterpretation as a mere unlucky...
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» The style files: omit redundant words
13-03-2007
· [Summary]: Describing science accurately is a difficult task: it is so easy to be misunderstood. We need to write from many different angles to cater for a wide variety of readers. Make each view...
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» David Williamson in the dock: paranoia, propaganda and 'the people'
05-02-2012
· This article examines the media response to an article in the Bulletin magazine by playwright David Williamson. In late 2005, Williamson published a broadside at contemporary Australian values and...
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» The style files: favour the present tense
05-11-2006
· [Summary]: This quote say it all. Facts are true: use the present tense to denote unchanging truths. When telling what the authors or other researchers did, use the past tense. For what is being...
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» The style files: explicitly avoid false conditionals
05-09-2006
· [Reminder]: After drafting an article, search through your source for “can be” and delete almost all of them. Similarly omit other weakening conditionals like the other examples above. Make...
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» The style files: clarify this
05-05-2006
· [Summary]: How many times have you read a Reviewer’s comments and wondered how the Reviewer could possibly have misunderstood you that way? I suspect a lot of times. I know I despair of Reviewers...
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» The style files: inform with titles, abstracts and introductions
05-07-2006
· [Summary]: People spend time on what they perceive will benefit them. Structure your document so that even those who read only a little can take away something of value—that way they are more...
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» The style files: prefer active writing to passive
05-03-2006
· [Summary]: Avoid passive phrases such as most “was” or “is” verbs. How? Attribute action to people or methods.
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» Local media and local elections: voters' preferred information sources
05-07-2006
· The high turnover rate of councillors across Queensland at the 2004 local government elections has been attributed in part to the volatility caused by greater media and public interest in council...
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» The representation of female athletes in online images of successive Olympic Games
05-04-2006
· Photographs tell stories. They are 'so much a part of our daily lives we rarely think about how they influence us and what that influence is'. Yet photographs, like other media images, can be used...
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» Half the story? Olympic women on ABC News Online
05-02-2004
· A content analysis of the ABC News Online website during the 2000 Olympic Games reveals a select few female role models were available to young audiences. One female athlete was 'news-privileged'....
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» Problem-based learning and critical analysis of practice in online news media
05-02-2012
· Continuing assertions that undergraduate education must improve, in order to meet the needs of today's news media, challenge journalism teachers on two fronts: deciding what students need to know...
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» Perspectives on assessment practices in Australian journalism education
05-12-2006
· Claims from both educational and industry sides about what journalism students should be learning are not new, and not confined to Australia. European debates on the nexus between practical...
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» Face-interface or the prospect of a virtual ethics
05-02-2012
· Much of the research on computer-mediated communication (CMC) identifies various forms of disinhibition associated with engagement with another through the medium of computerized communications...
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» Designing pedagogies for cadet journalists on the ground and doing it
05-02-2012
· This paper discusses the development of a professional development program designed to cater for journalists in their first months of their cadet employment. It looks at the pedagogical foundation...
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» Co-creative media: theorising digital storytelling as a platform for researching and developing participatory culture
05-02-2012
· This paper considers the question, 'what is co-creative media, and why is it a useful idea in social media research'? The term 'co-creative media' is now used by Creative Industries researchers at...
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» School discipline coverage in Australian newspapers: impact on public perceptions, educational decisions and policy
05-02-2012
· The role of the media in shaping public perceptions and opinions about significant political and social issues has long been the subject of both speculation and research. It is widely accepted that...
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