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McKinnon, Scott. "How to Be a Man: Masculinity in Australian Teen Culture and American Teen Movies." Media International Australia 131, no. 1 (May 2009): 127–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913100114.

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This paper examines the reception of American teen films by Australian audiences in the 1950s, focusing specifically on issues of masculinity and sexuality. Using material gathered from sources such as oral history interviews, autobiographical writing and Australian media reports, an attempt is made to locate the films as one element in a developing local culture based more on age than nationality. The paper argues that, screened within the context of a society which defined masculine behaviour in the light of the ideals of war, a range of popular American films and their stars acted to complicate the idea of what it meant to be male. Audiences were offered new, or at least more ambiguous, notions of gender and sexuality. These changes caused concern among some Australian adults, as they watched the teenage boys of the nation learn how to be men.
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Drysdale, Kerryn. "Intimate attunements: Everyday affect in Sydney’s drag king scene." Sexualities 21, no. 4 (January 19, 2018): 640–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717741792.

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For over a decade, attending events featuring drag king performances—a subcultural phenomenon where women consciously perform masculinity—proved a popular pastime in Sydney, Australia. Established within a broader tradition of live performance culture but also part of a wider urban night-time economy catering to lesbian patrons, Sydney’s drag king scene sustained a range of activities and interactions that took place in the vicinity of the performances on stage. In this article, I draw on data collated from a series of group discussions with scene participants, alongside my own immersive form of participation over a sustained five-year period, to review the role of affect within the drag king scene. Combining Lauren Berlant’s account of queer intimacies with Kathleen Stewart’s rendering of atmospheric attunement, I consider how the act of being together engenders an intimate attunement of the everyday potentialities of the scene.
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Karpova, K. S. "WORD OF 2018: LINGUISTIC ASPECT." Linguistic and Conceptual Views of the World, no. 66 (2) (2019): 62–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-6397.2019.2.08.

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The article is devoted to popular sociolinguistic event ‘A Word of the Year’, which takes place annually on web-sites of famous dictionaries (Oxford English Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s English Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary of the English Language) and well- known linguistic institutions (American Dialect Society, Global Language Monitor, Australian Na- tional Dictionary Centre, Society of the German Language). In English-speaking environment Oxford English Dictionary as one of the first dictionaries to launch ‘A Word of the Year’ list chooses a word or expression which have attracted a particular interest of its readers over the last twelve months. Every year hundreds of candidates are discussed online and a particular word is chosen to reflect the mood and preoccupations of a specific year as well as signify its potential as a word of cultural significance. The adjective toxic, chosen by Oxford English Dictionary as key word of 2018, is under linguistic analysis in present research. Firstly, we study lexical and semantic peculiarities of word of the year. Secondly, we investigate the most frequently-used patterns of its lexical combinability with nouns. According to online version of Oxford English Dictionary, among nouns, which regularly collocate with the target adjective toxic, the following should be paid attention to: chemical, substance, waste, algae, air, masculinity, environment, relationship, culture. Finally, we exemplify the contextual usage of adjective toxic in modern English. Moreover, we dwell on the mechanisms of influence of key spheres of life in English-speaking world (politics, economy, ecology, social and interpersonal relations) on users’ choice in 2018.
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Magennis, Caroline. "Masculinity and Irish popular culture: tiger's tales." Irish Studies Review 23, no. 1 (September 22, 2014): 121–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2014.961304.

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Lemon, Jennifer. "Popular culture and the 'crisis of masculinity'." Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa 11, no. 2 (November 7, 2022): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v11i2.1976.

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The eighties and nineties have wit nessed a renewed and unpre cedented Interest in men and mas culinity due to the emergence of the alleged contemporary 'crisis of masculinity'. This has been most preva lent in popular culture representations, which appear on the sur face to offer the modern man a whole range of 'new' roles and rela tionships, freeing him from patria chal entrapment and the dicates and demands of the traditional male sex role. The New Man Is Imaged as soft, sensitive, expressive and un afraid to show his emotions. New erotosized Images have made their appearance, and men are Imaged as sex objects in a way that only women were represented In the past. However, the question arises as to what these Images mean, and whether or not they represent any change In the patriarchal status quo In Western societies. In this article an attempt is made to deconstruct some of the new notions of masculinity in the light of the contempo rary 'crisis of masculinity', and the new popular culture representations of men In the mass media.
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Woronzoff, Elisabeth. "The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture." Popular Music and Society 34, no. 5 (December 2011): 693–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2011.607335.

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Schneider, Debra, and Mary Christianakis. "Book Review: Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture." Men and Masculinities 9, no. 1 (July 2006): 120–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x05284152.

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Schell, Heather. "The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture." Literature and Medicine 26, no. 1 (2007): 109–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2008.0003.

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Hermawan, Ferry Fauzi. "Masculinity in Indonesian Popular Culture in the Early Era of the New Order Regime." Lingua Cultura 11, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v11i1.1318.

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This study aimed to identify the forms of masculinity in the Indonesian popular culture in the beginning of New Order regime. This study was based on the two novels: Cross Mama and Kekasih-Kekasih Gelap, written by Motinggo Busye. The analysis used new historicism theory proposed by Stephen Greenblatt. The analysis also considered various cultural contexts emerged in 1970s. The results show three shared trends in the novels. The first trend shows that the masculinity tends to be represented by both men worshiping patriarchal values such as the myth of woman’s virginity and men perceiving woman as a sexual object. The second trend shows that masculinity is stereotyped based on masculinity, power, and male dominance. The third trend shows that masculinity relates to various products of mass culture at the time. This last trend shows that in that era,the ideal male figure is represented as the one who: (1) is sexually active with many women, (2) has a muscular body, (3) has a handsome look, and (4) has a financial capability. Besides the shared three trends, the result also shows that the texts in the novels do not only reflect the cultural situations in the 60’s and 70’s but also contribute in shaping the social values of the cultural situations.
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Evans, Raymond. "‘So tough'? Masculinity and rock'n'roll culture in post‐war Australia." Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 56 (January 1998): 125–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387367.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Masculinity in popular culture – Australia"

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Hancock, Tracey. "The influence of male gender role conflict on life satisfaction." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1072.

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This study examined the relationship between male gender role conflict and life satisfaction, once the effects of both psychological symptoms and recent traumatic life events were accounted for. The study comprised 100 male participants, 50 from a clinical sample and 50 from a non-clinical sample. Participants were aged between 19 and 70. Participants were asked to complete 4 questionnaires: the Gender Role Conflict Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), and the Life Events Questionnaire. Results were obtained using standard and multiple regression analyses. Gender role conflict was found to impact on life satisfaction for both the clinical and normal sample groups. Age was predictive of gender role conflict in the normal sample but not the clinical sample. Older men were found to experience more issues with success, power and conflict than younger men in both sample groups. These findings may assist clinicians in the treatment of male clients. Through therapy men could gain greater insight into how they function in society. Such knowledge would provide them with the option of altering their behaviour patterns, and ultimately living more satisfying lives.
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Johnson, D. H. "Masculinities in rural Australia : gender, culture, and environment /." Richmond, N.S.W. : University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030409.155513/index.html.

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Harris, John Rogers. "The performance of black masculinity in contemporary black drama." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054742668.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 233 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Stratos E. Constantinidis, Dept. of Theatre. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-233).
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Taylor, Tomaro I. "Longshoremen's Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Culture." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6592.

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This thesis considers mid-20th century portrayals of working-class longshoremen’s masculinity within the context of emerging middle-class gender constructions. I argue that although popular culture presents a roughly standardized depiction of longshoremen as “manly men,” these portrayals are significantly nuanced to demonstrate the difficulties working-class men faced as they attempted to navigate socio-cultural and socio-economic shifts related to class and the performance of their male gender. Specifically, I consider depictions of longshoremen’s disruptive masculinity, male identity formation, and masculine-male growth as reactions to paradigmatic shifts in American masculinity. Using three aspects of longshoremen’s non-work lives presented in A View from the Bridge, “Edge of the City,” and “On the Waterfront”—the house, the home, and leisure/recreational activity—I ground discussions of the longshoremen’s negotiation of masculinity within a conceptual framework based in masculinity studies, social construction, and psychoanalytic criticism. To both complement and supplement the core literary and cultural analyses presented in this text, oral history interviews have been included to provide a contextual basis for understanding longshoremen culture in the 1950s.
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Ruckley, Emma. "Stud or Dud? Representations of masculinity in the popular culture of 1950s America." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491026.

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Today, the popular image of the 1950s American Man is of a controlling patriarch, who was firmly in command of house, wife and life, and who conformed to traditional ideas about masculinity - he was aggressive, competitive, self-confident, and powerful. Popular magazines in the 1950s, however, portrayed a very different image, and seemingly had little confidence in the American man. The notion that the American Male was suffering from a 'crisis of masculinity' became a familiar theme in popular cultur sible in cartoons, advertisements, magazine editorials and articles, music, films and television programs.
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Faulkner, Julie Diane 1952. "The literacies of popular culture : a study of teenage reading practices." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8460.

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Stockman, Oliver James. "Work, play and performance : masculinity and popular culture in central Scotland, c.1930-c.1950." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3295/.

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This thesis seeks to begin to fill the gaps in the historiography surrounding the constructions of masculinity performed by young Scottish men in the mid-twentieth century. Much of the current research on British masculinity focuses on the English experience. Where historians have studied Scottish masculinity it has often been in the context of ‘deviant’ forms such as gang membership and domestic violence. In contrast to this, this thesis investigates the masculinities lived by the mass of young working-class men in Scotland. Throughout the thesis masculinity is conceptualized as performative and situational social construct that can be considered both as an identity and as a behaviour. The investigation of masculinity is conducted through examination of oral histories, newspapers and the documents of both employers and voluntary organizations. The use of this range of sources facilitates an assessment of the dominant discourses concerning masculinity, as well as the experiences of the men who constructed their gender, and social identities in the environment these discourses shaped. It is argued that economic context was a fundamental factor in determining the types of masculinity that were acceptable at work and within the greater community. Working-class youths were also able to renegotiate and reshape the discourses of masculinity presented by both commercial and ‘reforming’ sources in order to perform masculine identities that were congruent to their own community norms. This allowed them to practice an agency in their social identities constrained by socioeconomic environment that, while not radical, constituted an active construction of masculinity.
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Luckman, Susan Heather. "Party people : mapping contemporary dance music cultures in Australia /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16686.pdf.

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Burton, Jennifer Paula. "'Fair dinkum personal grooming' : male beauty culture and men's magazines in twentieth century Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17018/1/Jennifer_Burton_Thesis.pdf.

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In this thesis, I analyse the representation of grooming in Australian men’s lifestyle magazines to explore the emergence of new masculine subjectivities constructed around narcissism and the adoption of previously feminine-coded products and practices which may indicate important shifts in the cultural meanings of Australian masculinity. However, in order to talk about ‘new’ subjectivities and ‘shifts’ in masculine behaviours and cultural ideals, then it is imperative to demonstrate ‘old’ practices and ideologies, and so while the thesis is concerned with discourses of grooming and models of masculinity presented in the new genre of men’s lifestyle titles which appeared on the Australian market in the late 1990s, it frames this discussion with detailed analyses of previously unexplored Australian men’s general interest magazines from the 1930s. According to Frank Mort consumption, traditionally associated with the feminine has now become a central part of imagining men (1996: 17-18) while the representation and sale of masculinity is an increasingly important part of the ‘cultural economy’ (Mikosza, 2003). In this thesis I am concerned with the role of men’s lifestyle magazines and magazine representations of masculinity in the ‘cultural economy’ of mediated male grooming cultures.
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Burton, Jennifer Paula. "'Fair dinkum personal grooming' : male beauty culture and men's magazines in twentieth century Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/17018/.

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In this thesis, I analyse the representation of grooming in Australian men’s lifestyle magazines to explore the emergence of new masculine subjectivities constructed around narcissism and the adoption of previously feminine-coded products and practices which may indicate important shifts in the cultural meanings of Australian masculinity. However, in order to talk about ‘new’ subjectivities and ‘shifts’ in masculine behaviours and cultural ideals, then it is imperative to demonstrate ‘old’ practices and ideologies, and so while the thesis is concerned with discourses of grooming and models of masculinity presented in the new genre of men’s lifestyle titles which appeared on the Australian market in the late 1990s, it frames this discussion with detailed analyses of previously unexplored Australian men’s general interest magazines from the 1930s. According to Frank Mort consumption, traditionally associated with the feminine has now become a central part of imagining men (1996: 17-18) while the representation and sale of masculinity is an increasingly important part of the ‘cultural economy’ (Mikosza, 2003). In this thesis I am concerned with the role of men’s lifestyle magazines and magazine representations of masculinity in the ‘cultural economy’ of mediated male grooming cultures.
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Books on the topic "Masculinity in popular culture – Australia"

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Holohan, Conn, and Tony Tracy, eds. Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249.

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Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.

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Roger, Horrocks. Male myths and icons: Masculinity in popular culture. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.

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Horrocks, Roger. Male myths and icons: Masculinity in popular culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

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Horrocks, Roger. Male myths and icons: Masculinity in popular culture. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.

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Male myths and icons: Masculinity in popular culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

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Lo, Kwai-Cheung. Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.

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Bob, Hodge, and Turner Graeme, eds. Myths of Oz: Reading Australian popular culture. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987.

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High culture, popular culture: The long debate. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1995.

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Male myths and icons: Masculinity inpopular culture. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.

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Waling, Andrea. "Masculinity in Australian popular television." In White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia, 83–109. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge research in gender and society ; 80: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315207766-4.

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Tracy, Tony, and Conn Holohan. "Introduction." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 1–9. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_1.

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O’Brien, Cormac. "Sons of the Tiger: Performing Neoliberalism, Post-Feminism, and Masculinity in ‘Crisis’ in Contemporary Irish Theatre." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 126–41. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_10.

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Haughton, Miriam. "Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Unwanted Reflections in The Boys of Foley Street (2012)." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 142–56. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_11.

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Pine, Emilie. "Body of Evidence: Performing Hunger." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 159–70. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_12.

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Asava, Zélie. "Othering Masculinity in the Multicultural Irish Thriller." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 171–82. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_13.

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Barton, Ruth. "From Symbol to Symptom — Changing Representations of Fatherhood in Recent Irish Cinema." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 183–94. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_14.

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Edge, Sarah. "‘He’s a Good Soldier, He Cares About the Future’: Post-Feminist Masculinities, the IRA Man and ‘Peace’ in Northern Ireland." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 195–206. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_15.

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Monahan, Barry. "Pure Male: Masculine Spaces and Stasis in Eugene O’Brien’s Pure Mule (2005)." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 207–20. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_16.

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Negra, Diane. "Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland." In Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, 223–37. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249_17.

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Conference papers on the topic "Masculinity in popular culture – Australia"

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Kreicbergs, Toms, and Deniss Ščeulovs. "What are Gen Z’s and Millennials’ opinions on Masculinity in Advertising: a Qualitative Research Study." In CARMA 2022 - 4th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics. valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/carma2022.2022.15059.

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The aim of the research is to explore young audiences such as Generation Z’s and millennials’ opinions on traditional and modern masculinity in advertising. The researchers used the YouTube platform for opinion mining on several advertisements selected to find out what themes emerge from these discourses. By using Nvivo 11 qualitative data analysis software researchers conducted qualitative content analysis, sentiment analysis, and discourse analysis. The results showed that masculinity in advertising gets a lot of Gen Zers’ and millennials’ attention while the product discourse does not get any noteworthy importance in the discussions about the advertisements. In addition, the research found that when commenting on the advertisements consumers take into consideration the entire context of masculinity and the contemporary notions of it in society, media, popular culture, and competitor’s advertisements. The study also concluded that that consumers are more emotionally expressive and opinionated when viewing modern masculinity advertisements than traditional.
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Marfella, Giorgio. "Seeds of Concrete Progress: Grain Elevators and Technology Transfer between America and Australia." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4000pi5hk.

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Modern concrete silos and grain elevators are a persistent source of interest and fascination for architects, industrial archaeologists, painters, photographers, and artists. The legacy of the Australian examples of the early 1900s is appreciated primarily by a popular culture that allocates value to these structures on aesthetic grounds. Several aspects of construction history associated with this early modern form of civil engineering have been less explored. In the 1920s and 1930s, concrete grain elevator stations blossomed along the railway networks of the Australian Wheat Belts, marking with their vertical presence the landscapes of many rural towns in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. The Australian reception of this industrial building type of American origin reflects the modern nation-building aspirations of State Governments of the early 1900s. The development of fast-tracked, self-climbing methods for constructing concrete silos, a technology also imported from America, illustrates the critical role of concrete in that effort of nation-building. The rural and urban proliferation of concrete silos in Australia also helped establish a confident local concrete industry that began thriving with automatic systems of movable formwork, mastering and ultimately transferring these construction methods to multi-storey buildings after WWII. Although there is an evident link between grain elevators and the historiographical propaganda of heroic modernism, that nexus should not induce to interpret old concrete silos as a vestige of modern aesthetics. As catalysts of technical and economic development in Australia, Australian wheat silos also bear important significance due to the international technology transfer and local repercussions of their fast-tracked concrete construction methods.
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"Remaining Connected with our Graduates: A Pilot Study." In InSITE 2019: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Jerusalem. Informing Science Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4162.

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[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 15.] Aim/Purpose This study aims to determine where nursing students from a metropolitan university subsequently work following graduation, identify the factors that influence decisions to pursue careers in particular locations, ascertain educational plans in the immediate future; and explore the factors that might attract students to pursue postgraduate study. Background The global nursing shortage and high attrition of nursing students remain a challenge for the nursing profession. A recurrent pattern of maldistribution of nurses in clinical specialities and work locations has also occurred. It is imperative that institutions of learning examine their directions and priorities with the goal of meeting the mounting health needs of the wider community. Methodology Qualitative and quantitative data were obtained through an online 21-item questionnaire. The questionnaire gathered data such as year of graduation, employment status, the location of main and secondary jobs, the principal area of nursing activity, and plans for postgraduate study. It sought graduates’ reasons for seeking employment in particular workplaces and the factors encouraging them to pursue postgraduate study. Contribution This study is meaningful and relevant as it provided a window to see the gaps in higher education and nursing practice, and opportunities in research and collaboration. It conveys many insights that were informative, valuable and illuminating in the context of nurse shortage and nurse education. The partnership with hospitals and health services in providing education and support at the workplace is emphasized. Findings Twenty-three students completed the online questionnaire. All respondents were employed, 22 were working in Australia on a permanent basis (96%), 19 in urban areas (83%) with three in regional/rural areas (13%), and one was working internationally (4%). This pilot study revealed that there were varied reasons for workplace decisions, but the most common answer was the opportunity provided to students to undertake their graduate year and subsequent employment offered. Moreover, the prevailing culture of the organization and high-quality clinical experiences afforded to students were significant contributory factors. Data analysis revealed their plans for postgraduate studies in the next five years (61%), with critical care nursing as the most popular specialty option. The majority of the respondents (78%) signified their interest in taking further courses, being familiar with the educational system and expressing high satisfaction with the university’s program delivery. Recommendations for Practitioners The results of the pilot should be tested in a full study with validated instruments in the future. With a larger dataset, the conclusions about graduate destinations and postgraduate educational pursuits of graduates would be generalizable, valid and reliable. Recommendation for Researchers Further research to explore how graduates might be encouraged to work in rural and regional areas, determine courses that meet the demand of the market, and how to better engage with clinical partners are recommended. Impact on Society It is expected that the study will be extended in the future to benefit other academics, service managers, recruiters, and stakeholders to alert them of strategies that may be used to entice graduates to seek employment in various areas and plan for addressing the educational needs of postgraduate nursing students. The end goal is to help enhance the nursing workforce by focusing on leadership and retention. Future Research Future directions for research will include canvassing a bigger sample of alumni students and continuously monitoring graduate destinations and educational aspirations. How graduates might be encouraged to work in rural and regional areas will be further explored. Further research will also be undertaken involving graduates from other universities and other countries in order to compare the work practice of graduates over the same time frame.
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