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Vlasich, Eliza Jane. "Exploring social media use by local tourism providers in rural Western Australia." Thesis, Vlasich, Eliza Jane (2022) Exploring social media use by local tourism providers in rural Western Australia. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2022. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/65265/.
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Social media has had a significant impact on the tourism industry. Instagram has become a popular platform to share travel experiences due to the visual experience it offers users. This study utilised a case study approach to explore how small business, local tourism providers in the Shire of Collie, Western Australia (Collie), are using social media to promote their business and the destination. This study also examined how local tourism providers and social media users utilise hashtags on Instagram to represent a rural Western Australia tourist destination.
The study included conducting semi-structured interviews with 11 local tourism providers representing five major requirements of a tourist destination (Dickman, 1989). Common barriers in using social media were identified. Challenges included inadequate time, difficulty in measuring the impact of social media and lack of knowledge using affordances, such as using functionalities effectively. Participants shared benefits of using social media, which included reaching a wider audience and a ‘younger’ demographic. The interviews also explored influences on local tourism providers’ social media use, including the influence of destination management organisations (DMO) activities and resources.
A content analysis of hashtags on Instagram was undertaken to explore how hashtags are used in conjunction with Collie, including the most popular hashtags. Based on purposive sampling, ten hashtags related to tourism in Collie were selected. The hashtags included popular tourist attractions, such as #blackdiamondlake, and hashtags used on the Collie Visitor Centre Instagram page, including #collierivervalley and #colliewa. From this sample, five hashtags with the highest growth were used as the basis of exploration of other hashtags used in conjunction with the topic. The hashtags were categorised based on the level of DMO, to explore the influence of DMO marketing on hashtag use. Hashtags relating to Tourism Western Australia marketing campaigns such as #wanderoutyonder and #thisiswa, were amongst the most used hashtags.
Finally, this study explored Kavaratzis’ (2004) theoretical framework for developing city brands and proposes changes to the model, to include local tourism providers and social media. The framework discusses three levels of communication representing different aspects of marketing a destination: primary, secondary, and tertiary. The study proposes changes to Kavaratzis’ (2004) framework, to reflect how communication has evolved to include social media and demonstrate how it can be used to describe communication in rural tourist destinations.
This study provides a holistic approach to understanding how local tourism providers in a rural destination use social media, and may be utilised in other rural settings to develop destination image. The findings reflect that local tourism providers in Collie recognise the benefits of using social media for promotion, although there are barriers when using social media.
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Mohammad, Munir Hasan. "Social media and democratization in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2003." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/110966/.
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A considerable amount of literature examines the impact of the Internet and social media on the practice of democracy in liberal democratic contexts and on the democratization process in nondemocratic contexts. However, little is known about the rise and implications of using the Internet and social media platforms for democratization process in a hybrid political system, like that of Iraqi Kurdistan, which combines elements of both democracy and authoritarianism. This study asks: how does the rise of the Internet and social media platforms influence democracy and democratization in Iraqi Kurdistan? To this end, the study assesses both the relationship between the use of social media platforms by citizens, politicians, electoral candidates, and political parties, as well as political participation and political communication, which are selected as important elements of democratization. It specifically examines the use of social media through three case studies: the Slemani protest movement in 2011; political discussion between citizens and party leaders of two political parties, the Patriotic union of Kurdistan (PUK), and the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU); and the 2013 parliamentary elections. The study is based on original qualitative interviews with activists, politicians, and party leaders, and an analysis of relevant social media content in the Kurdish language, especially on the social media platform, Facebook. The thesis finds that social media platforms facilitate political participation and political communication in terms of reducing the constraints for organizing and coordinating collective action. They also facilitate political discussion between party leaders and citizens, and provide more access to relevant information for citizens. Furthermore, they expand the scope of freedom of speech by providing opportunities to discuss political issues and other issues of common interest, and facilitate the dissemination of information by electoral candidates and reduce campaign costs. However, the thesis argues that the increasing ease of political participation and political communication, as a result of social media usage, should not be equated with democratization. This is because those in power also use social media but in ways that are counter-productive to democratization. For example, security forces use social media to monitor and gather information about citizens and social movement activists; Political parties and their leaders also use online and social media platforms to distribute pro-party propaganda and to launch online attacks on political rivals, spreading a culture of hatred, violence and nondemocratic values, rather than promoting the discussion of policy issues and government decisions. Election candidates use online resources primarily to win a seat in parliament and empower their campaign rather than engaging with voters in a way that generates productive, healthy, rational, and deep political conversation.
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Etemadi, Ramtin. "Adoption of social media for professional knowledge sharing by construction professionals in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127290/2/Ramtin_Etemadi_Thesis.pdf.
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This study examines the adoption of social media for work-related knowledge sharing (KS) in the Australian construction industry. A new model has been developed.
Mixed research methods including a survey and interviews were conducted. Performance expectancy, knowledge sharing self-efficacy, and facilitating conditions were the factors affecting the adoption of social media for KS by construction professionals in Australia. Trust played a critical role in enhancing potential enablers and reducing barriers for social media Verification, and monitoring mechanisms are suggested for improving levels of trust. The findings contribute to improving KS in the construction industry.
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au, J. Hall@murdoch edu, and Jane Hall. "Television and Positive Ageing in Australia." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060505.151605.
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As a means to engage with others, television offers the viewer a great deal. In Australia commercial TV is particularly popular, and many turn daily to this cultural arena which graphically portrays our shared concerns and values. Viewers are kept informed and entertained, advertisements display the luxuries and necessities that direct lifestyle choices,and local and global stories are presented for mutual consideration. Audiences are connected not only with products,personalities and newsmakers, but also with fellow viewers who are sharing the experience. Retired people take particular advantage of this multi-faceted link with the outside world, when additional leisure time and reduced social and physical mobility create spaces that can be filled with the narratives and 'para-social' connections of a medium that transports the world to the viewer. Yet one definitive statement that can be made about popular television is that older people are rarely acknowledged and often ridiculed. An easily accessible and valuable communications medium marginalises those most dependent upon it - for information and entertainment, but also, I would argue, dependent upon it to help facilitate key recommendations of the 'successful ageing' formula.
Authoritative prescriptions for ageing well emphasise the benefits of social engagement, with television helping to facilitate this by involving the viewer with local concerns and wider accounts of human enterprise. Yet the popular media often presume that older people are no longer viable consumers or citizens, thus alienating them from mediated stories and populations. 'Success', according to commercial media sensibilities, is equated with youthfulness and economic means - twin attributes rarely associated with retired people. As a result, advertising is directed primarily at young, middle-class audiences, and the TV programmes to hook their attention are often typecast with similarly youthful protagonists. Older viewers are taken for granted and rarely acknowledged, and more disconcertingly, stereotyped and ridiculed to empower younger viewers. This dissertation seeks to explore these issues from a sociological perspective, primarily within the Australian context. Research strategies include a detailed analysis of the role of television in older people's lives and how they are portrayed, with results aligned with 'successful ageing' guidelines. Included in this approach is a study of how older people are portrayed on commercial TV in Australia, and a discussion of findings. The final section includes a chapter which consists of an examination of negative media portrayals from a political and human rights perspective, and the final chapter which asks how the oldest and frailest may by impacted by the cultural devaluation of old age.
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Wilding, Derek. "AIDS and pro-social television : industry, policy and Australian television drama." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36314/6/36314_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the intersection of popular cultural representations of HIV and
AIDS and the discourses of public health campaigns. Part Two provides a
comprehensive record of all HIV related storylines in Australian television drama
from the first AIDS episode of The Flying Doctors in 1986 to the ongoing narrative
of Pacific Drive, with its core HIV character, in 1996. Textual representations are
examined alongside the agency of "cultural technicians" working within the
television industry. The framework for this analysis is established in Part One of
the thesis, which examines the discursive contexts for speaking about HIV and AIDS
established through national health policy and the regulatory and industry
framework for broadcasting in Australia. The thesis examines the dominant liberal
democratic framework for representation of HIV I AIDS and adopts a Foucauldian
understanding of the processes of governmentality to argue that during the period of
the 1980s and 1990s a strand of social democratic discourse combined with
practices of self management and the management of the Australian population. The
actions of committed agents within both domains of popular culture and health
education ensured that more challenging expressions of HIV found their way into
public culture.
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Holloway, Donell Joy. "Multiply-mediated households : Space and power reflected in everyday media use." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1314.
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This study investigates how contemporary Australian families incorporate the consumption of multiple media technologies within their home environments. It uses an approach similar to David Morley's (1986) Family Television where he explored the consumption of television programs in the context of everyday family life. He viewed the household (or family) as the key to constructing understandings of the television audience; where there were gendered regimes of watching, and where program choice often reflected existing power relationships in the home. However since then (a time when most families had only one television set) the media environment of many homes has changed. The addition of multiple television sets, along with newer digital technologies such as computers and game consoles, has introduced a new dynamics of social space within the household. Therefore, the family living room, with its erstwhile shared television culture, has become a less critical site of domestic media consumption. With the migration of television sets and new digital technologies to other spaces in the home, claims over time and space have become even more intimately involved with the domestic use of media technologies. Consequently, this study critically analyses the relationship between media consumption and the geographical spaces and boundaries within the home. Drawing upon interviews with all family members, this thesis argues that the incorporation of multiple media technologies in many households has coincided with significant changes to the spatial geography of these homes, along with a rearticulation of gendered and generational power relationships. Extra media spaces in bedrooms, hallways, home offices and 'nooks’ have freed up the lounge room, possibly allowing for more harmony and accord within the family, but also reducing the amount of time the family spends together. At the same time the newer media spaces become additional sites for gendered and generational conflict and tension. This study uses an audience ethnography approach to explore and analyse media consumption at the micro level, that of the individual within the household/family. Twenty-three in-depth conversational interviews and observations of children and adults living in six technologically rich households in suburban and regional areas of Western Australia formed the basis of this thesis. Themes and issues that emerged from this qualitative research process include the gendered nature of screens in children's bedrooms, the extent to which a media-rich bedroom culture is evident in Australia, the existence of a masculine gadgeteer culture within some families in the study, the social construction of gaming as a gendered (boy) culture, gendered pathways on the Internet and the reintegration of adult acknowledge-based work into the family home. The thesis also addresses digital divide issues relating to inequities in access, technical and social support, motivation and the quality of new digital technologies available in the home.
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Gupta, Himanshu. "Social Media Alcohol Marketing and Its Impact on Young People’s Alcohol Use: A Comparison between India and Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75665.
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A cross-national comparison of 1) marketing strategies used by leading Indian and Australian alcohol brands on their official social media (SM) pages and 2) the association between exposure to SM alcohol marketing and alcohol use among young Indians and Australians, was conducted. Results suggest that alcohol companies tailor strategies to specific national contexts to engage users with these strategies. Significant associations were identified between alcohol-related content posted on SM and young people’s alcohol use.
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Mollerup-Degn, Talita. "The Power of Words : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Governmental Media Releases from Australia and Nauru." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18579.
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Latino, Steven. "Social Media Portrayals of Three Extractives Companies’ Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40682.
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The extractives industry (mining, oil, and gas) engages in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to reinforce its organizational legitimacy and enhance its public image. One such approach to CSR that is popular in the industry is through funding sport initiatives aimed at Indigenous peoples (often termed Sport for Development; SFD). On the surface, such funding may seem commendable and innocuous; however, questions have been raised about the ways in which such funding may obfuscate the harmful impacts that the extractives industry has had and continues to have on Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. Through the adoption of a postcolonial theoretical perspective and in conjunction with netnographic methods and discourse analysis, this project involved a consideration of how extractives companies portray their funding of sport programs in Indigenous communities on social media. Given the research focus on Indigenous communities in the countries known as Canada and Australia, between country differences were also examined. Three discourses related to the extractives industry’s funding of SFD in Indigenous communities in Canada and Australia were developed. These discourses included the following: 1) Extractives companies are proud “partners” of Indigenous communities; 2) Extractives companies are committed to helping Indigenous communities in Canada and Australia; and 3) Canadian extractives companies are future focused and past-blind, while Australian extractives companies are advocates for reconciliation. Overall, extractives companies in Canada and Australia were found to use social media to portray themselves as responsible and committed partners of Indigenous communities, while obscuring the ongoing histories of colonialism through discourses of empowerment and development through sport. Suggestions are made regarding ongoing interrogation of the ways in which the extractives industry perpetuates colonialism.
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Charry, Marroquin Angela Janneth. "Critical discourse analysis of news media representations of people from refugee backgrounds participating in music in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230264/1/Angela%20Janneth_Charry%20Marroquin_Thesis.pdf.
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This research used critical discourse analysis to explore the ways people from refugee backgrounds’ participation in music is constructed in the Australian news media. Using Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework, findings revealed that, while the media ostensibly tells stories of hopefulness derived from the joy of music, the workings of racialised power within the discourse remain deeply intertwined. Social tropes which often accompany music intersect with deficit and othering discourses surrounding people from refugee backgrounds. This research emphasises the need for a critically reflective social work practice to resist and challenge dominant discourses that disempower people seeking refuge.
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Rodriguez, Aleesha J. "A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229025/1/Aleesha_Rodriguez_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents a controversy analysis of Tesla’s (big) battery, which was an imagined technology introduced via a wager on Twitter, in 2017, to solve an ongoing power crisis controversy in Australia. This research explores the co-constitution of Tesla’s (big) battery through the key events, actors, and issues raised by publics on social media and problematises the simple “green” narratives. In doing so, this thesis illustrates how particular imaginaries about certain people, technologies, and issues shaped renewable energy policy and outcomes in Australia.
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Hopkins, Niamh Marie. "Social media and members of the Thirty-eighth (2008–2012) and Thirty-ninth (2013–2017) Parliaments in Western Australia: A mixed methods study." Thesis, Curtin University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89252.
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This mixed methods longitudinal study explored the everyday information behaviours of members of the Thirty-eighth (2008–2012) and Thirty-ninth (2013–2017) Parliaments in the Parliament of Western Australia (PoWA) by examining their use of social media to communicate with their constituents outside of a formal election campaign. The Theory of Information Worlds (TIW) was the conceptual foundation underpinning the research. The TIW focuses on describing information in social contexts, ranging from very small and local contexts to the larger contexts in which those are embedded (Jaeger & Burnett, 2010). It draws upon Chatman’s concept of small worlds (Burnett, Besant & Chatman, 2001) and Habermas’ (1992) concept of the lifeworld. It contextualises information behaviours within the social worlds that individuals inhabit by exploring five interconnected concepts: Social Norms, Social Types, Information Value, Information Behaviour and Boundaries (Jaeger & Burnett, 2010).
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Muir, Kathie. "'Tough enough?' : constructions of femininity in news reporting of Jennie George, ACTU president 1995-2000 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm9531.pdf.
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Stenberg, Johanna, and Milana Ruljova. "Social Media Marketing Strategies and Consumer Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic : An exploratory study of IKEA, including a multiple-case comparison between the UK, Australia and Sweden." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Redovisning, Marknadsföring, SCM, Informatik och Rättsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52692.
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ABSTRACT Background: The marketing efforts made by firms have been forced to change dramatically during the past year as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online communication and social media platforms have seen a boom in users and firms have been forced to switch both their sales and marketing efforts to the online world. By applying the definition and observable characteristics of Social Media Marketing Strategies (SMMS) in combination with Consumer Engagement Theory, the authors of this paper aim to explore which strategies have been applied by three IKEA Instagram accounts and how social media users are reacting to these applied SMMSs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Problem: It has previously been suggested to conduct further studies on the combination of social media and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in order to help firms develop stronger and more meaningful consumer relationships. Researchers further suggest that there is a current research gap regarding the factors which might influence user-generated content (such as comments), positive Word of Mouth (WoM) and brand engagement among social media users. Further it was recognized that social media reaches across national borders which leaves room for cross-cultural research to be made on the following consequences. Purpose: The exploratory purpose of this study aims in developing a deeper understanding of the applied SMMSs by firms and the resulting consumer engagement as well as social media user’s reactions to those strategies. Research Questions: “What social media marketing strategies (SMMSs) are IKEA applying during the COVID-19 pandemic?” and, “How do social media users respond to IKEA’s social media marketing strategies (SMMSs) during the COVID-19 Pandemic?” Method: With a relativist ontology and social constructionist epistemology, the study inductively explores the SMMSs applied by three Instagram accounts from the retailer IKEA in Australia, UK and Sweden. Through a case study-approach and the application of qualitative content analysis, the accounts have been analyzed and coded separately by two independent researchers. Intercoder reliability was measured between the researchers through Cohen’s Kappa. The findings from each case were then compared in a cross-case analysis. Practical Implications: This research will help marketing managers by providing insights into how consumers respond and perceive different SMMS during the COVID-19 pandemic and to enhance their consumer engagement by adapting an appropriate communication strategy to reach their business objectives. Result and Conclusions: Within the chosen timeframe of 6 months during COVID-19, the analyzed IKEA accounts applied disparate SMMS, namely, ‘Social Commerce Strategy’, ‘Social Content Analysis’ and ‘Social Monitoring Strategy’. The Instagram users' reactions differed across the three accounts, where the strategy which received the most positive consumer reactions, as well as the highest level of consumer engagement, was the ‘Social Content Strategy’ which was applied by IKEA Australia. Thus, the findings suggest that the three Instagram accounts apply unique SMMSs adapted to each country and thus achieve distinctive results in terms of consumer engagement.
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McCarthy, Sharon. "Beyond the polarising constructions of terrorism : Challenging the discourses that silence public debate in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1011.
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Since the events of the 11 September that saw the downing of the United States World Trade Centre towers and the partial destruction of the Pentagon in 2001, a significant focus politically, academically, and publically has been given to the issue of terrorism. During this past decade a number of labels, assumptions, and narratives have become dominant in an effort to explain what many continue to describe as a contested and complex phenomenon. The evidence indicates that the privileging of the ‘new terrorism’ narrative has functioned to contribute to many of the controversial counter-terrorism policies and practices both in Australia and globally, as well as the demonisation and marginalisation of Muslim communities in much of the Western world. While many studies in the past decade have focused on examining the discourses on terrorism, including but not limited to the War on Terror, Islamic terrorism, and the media constructions of Muslims, few researchers have explored how people work with these typical constructions of terrorism to effect their own social positioning and identity development.
Within a Critical Discursive Psychological framework (see Wetherell, 1998), terrorism is understood as an ontologically unstable and discursively constructed social category. As such the current study explored the various discursive constructions of terrorism at three specific levels. Firstly, an extensive examination of the academic literature was undertaken as a means of situating the often neglected knowledge about terrorism within its historical, cultural and political context. Secondly, a review was conducted of the primary West Australian newspaper reports from 2001 until 2005 to explore how the dominant labels, narratives and assumptions about terrorism have been represented, (re)produced and resisted at an institutional level. Finally, using interviews from 21 local West Australian residents, I examined the identity that individuals constructed for themselves and others in drawing on many of these narratives and assumptions within their responses.
Four interpretative repertoires of terrorism were identified and these repertoires set up a David and Goliath battle ground of binary opposites that functioned to position terrorism, and those seen to engage in terrorist activities, as either morally understandable if not defensible versus culturally dysfunctional and oppressive. These highly polarised repertoires were used by participants to navigate this emotive, troubled and exclusionary phenomenon. However, while the more positive and morally acceptable repertoires initially helped to support individual identity construction and positions of the self, they also functioned to challenge other aspects of the participant’s lives where participants became positioned as responsible for the exclusionary or oppressive practices towards others.
As a consequence, in trying to make sense of terrorism, the participants were confronted with a morally unmanageable situation where full adherence to any one understanding meant being negatively positioned with an unwanted identity. In their attempts to mitigate the shame associated with being stigmatised and socially excluded as a result, the participants utilised a number of moderating practices that functioned to self silence and subjugate their own voices. Ultimately, this meant that while the four repertoires were often deployed together, the need to continuously resist all four positions to varying degrees, ideologically functioned to silence and exclude the participants from the terrorism conversation. It was therefore argued that within the Western understanding, the discourses on terrorism have become discourses of shame. These findings suggest that the discourses on terrorism are much more complex for the average person than has been considered previously and have implications that go well beyond those of the Muslim communities.
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Perman, Fiona. "Crossing over the line : becoming a marijuana user alters perceptions of source and message credibility in anti-drug campaigns." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/737.
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Illicit-drug use is a major problem in our society. Policing, charging and incarcerating offenders incurs a significant strain on government resources, and results in criminal records for those found guilty. This study examines the attitudes and beliefs of young adults (18-24 years) toward social marketing messages about marijuana and other illicit-drug use. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect various levels of marijuana use have on young people’s acceptance of anti-drug messages. That is, do source and message credibility change as a result of young people’s experience of marijuana use?
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Uridge, Lynsey. "The identity of the heart patient in the context of the gift economy: HeartNET and media framing." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1578.
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This health communication research examines the identity levels of the heart patient on a therapeutic website HeartNET through an empirical investigation of site interactions as manifestations of a gift economy. The thesis also explores the media’s representation of heart health in both television and print.
This research utilised a longitudinal qualitative ethnographic and netnographic approach involving twenty-six participants who completed two in-depth interviews. The first one-on-one interview occurred during the early stages of the participants’ heart journey, explored their heart story and use of interactive technology for heart health support. The second interview occurred six to twelve months later, and investigated changes in the participants’ heart health status and their media awareness. Data obtained through onsite postings, in-depth interviews, and asynchronous and synchronous interactions on HeartNET, resulted in an analysis of the rich insights into the lived experiences of people affected by heart disease.
The heart patient has to cope with an unknown and disrupted future which may be complicated by a lack of understanding by their significant other and extended network. Interactions on HeartNET indicated a change in participants’ attitudes toward their heart disease. The gift of time, information and support were commodities that were shared freely. Over time however, a change in focus was evident. As members became more independent their posts would shift to a focus on independence and healing (or wellbeing) rather than focusing on the disease.
Another key finding among the non-HeartNET members was the importance of volunteering and how it became an integral aspect of many recovering heart patients’ lives. As peer supporters this volunteering role appears to support the extension of social networks and complements professional health services.
Findings from this research have shown that the media often portrays heart disease as a lifestyle issue and the participants of this research felt the media considered they were ‘to blame’, even though the majority of them had a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle prior to their heart event. An analysis of newspaper articles indicates that the use of the Heart Foundation brand name, or a passing mention of heart disease, was often used to raise the salience of the newspaper article, particularly in terms of its title.
This research provides valuable insights into the heart patient’s journey as each individual recreates and re-identifies as a heart patient. Most importantly, this research allows participants’ voices to be heard.
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Notley, Tanya M. "The role of online networks in supporting young people's digital inclusion and the implications for Australian government policies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/19097/2/Tanya_Notley_Citation.pdf.
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This study examines young people’s internet access and use in nine locations in Queensland, Australia. The primary aim of the research is to assess if internet use supports young people’s social inclusion: that is, if internet use supports young people to participate in society in ways they have most reason to value.
The research findings demonstrate that the digital divide in Queensland – the gap between citizens with and without access to ICTs – continues to inhibit young people’s ability to participate online. This divide is embedded within historic, economic, social and cultural inequalities. To address this, this study proposes that a digital inclusion framework, founded on the concept of social inclusion, offers the Australian federal and state governments an opportunity to extend digital divide policies so that they connect with and complement broader social policy goals.
The research outcomes also illustrate that creative uses of online networks provide a powerful means through which young people can participate in a networked society. While young people’s access to a range of ICTs impacts on their ability to use online networks, gradations of use, social networks and informal learning contexts frequently act as mediators to support effective internet use. This study contends that by understanding the social benefits of young people’s online network use and the role that mediators play in different environments, we can move towards a policy framework that supports equitable opportunities for young people’s digital inclusion.
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Notley, Tanya M. "The role of online networks in supporting young people's digital inclusion and the implications for Australian government policies." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19097/.
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This study examines young people’s internet access and use in nine locations in Queensland, Australia. The primary aim of the research is to assess if internet use supports young people’s social inclusion: that is, if internet use supports young people to participate in society in ways they have most reason to value.
The research findings demonstrate that the digital divide in Queensland – the gap between citizens with and without access to ICTs – continues to inhibit young people’s ability to participate online. This divide is embedded within historic, economic, social and cultural inequalities. To address this, this study proposes that a digital inclusion framework, founded on the concept of social inclusion, offers the Australian federal and state governments an opportunity to extend digital divide policies so that they connect with and complement broader social policy goals.
The research outcomes also illustrate that creative uses of online networks provide a powerful means through which young people can participate in a networked society. While young people’s access to a range of ICTs impacts on their ability to use online networks, gradations of use, social networks and informal learning contexts frequently act as mediators to support effective internet use. This study contends that by understanding the social benefits of young people’s online network use and the role that mediators play in different environments, we can move towards a policy framework that supports equitable opportunities for young people’s digital inclusion.
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Slagter, Marcelle. "Poverty in perception : a study of the twentieth-century prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32090/1/Marcelle_Slagter_Thesis.pdf.
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Australia and New Zealand, as English-speaking nations with dominant white populations, present an ethnic anomaly not only in South East Asia, but also in the Southern Hemisphere. Colonised by predominantly workingclass British immigrants from the late eighteenth century, an ethnic and cultural connection grew between these two countries even though their indigenous populations and ecological environments were otherwise very different. Building a new life in Australia and New Zealand, the colonists shared similar historic perceptions of poverty – perceptions from their homelands that they did not want to see replicated in their new adopted countries. Dreams of a better life shaped their aspirations, self-identity and nationalistic outlook. By the twentieth century, national independence and self-government had replaced British colonial rule. The inveterate occurrence of poverty in Australia and New Zealand had created new local perspectives and different perceptions of, and about, poverty. This study analyses what relationship existed between the political directions adopted by the twentieth-century prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand and their perceptions of poverty. Using the existential phenomenological theory and methodology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the study adds to the body of knowledge about poverty in Australia and New Zealand by revealing the structure and origin of the poverty perceptions of the twentieth-century prime ministers.
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Hammer, Sara Jeanne. "The rise of liberal independence and the decline of the welfare state." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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Given the increased interdependency caused by ongoing task differentiation and precarious formal employment, this thesis asks why the stigmatisation of unemployed citizens and the retraction of unemployment benefits have received such widespread support in Australia. I contend that the concepts of dependency and independence, as reflexive
but mutually exclusive dual values, are increasingly used as a framework for welfare discourse. I argue that this framework has ethical ramifications for collective well-being in Australia since it discourages citizens from
acknowledging their own social and economic vulnerability. Using a combination of critical theory and discursive analysis, this thesis analyses discourses relating to poverty, unemployment and social welfare. It tracks the contradictions of this value dualism through selected forms of policy and media discourse literature and will challenge the negative moral valence associated with dependency, offering possible alternatives in the areas of moral anthropology, welfare discourse and social provision in order to reverse the stigmatisation of unemployed citizens.
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Ben, Harush Orit Rivka. "Communicating friendships : a case study of women in an Australian 'seachange' town." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41494/1/Orit_Ben_Harush_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis proposes =friendworks‘ as an important sub-group of social networks, comprised of networks of friends. It investigates friendworks of a particular group of adult Australian women as a way of understanding neglected aspects of social networking practices. Friendworks are contextualised to highlight two main themes of interest: population mobility and communication practices. The impact of relocation on individuals, local communities and the wider society is explored through a case study of female friendworks in a seachange community. Research findings point to the importance of friendworks in building and cohering social and emotional support, well-being, belonging and senses of place and community. Different types of communication methods were used by research participants for mediating different kinds of social ties within the friendworks considered here. Communication patterns were influenced by geographical proximity to friends, and the type of social support required of them (emotional, instrumental or companionship). Most findings were consistent with broader social patterns of communication. For example, face-to-face interactions were the dominant and most favoured communication method between local friends, regardless of whether they were weak or strong ties. The fixed-telephone and the internet were commonly in use to maintain old and geographically distant social ties, while mobile phones were used the least among friends in comparison with other communication methods. The key finding of this thesis is that friendworks are an extremely important solid network in contemporary society, providing mooring relations in a mobile world. Paradoxically, however, for women in this study, the mobile phone, which is popularly perceived as a flexible, multi-purpose communication technology for people on the move, was the least versatile of all technologies for maintaining friendworks. The cost of services was the main inhibitor here. The internet was found to be the most versatile communication technology and was used to support various types of social ties: strong, weak, local and distant. This thesis also highlights the value of the concept of friendworks as well as networks for communication research and policy investigating individuals‘ motivations and practices.
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Newton, Judith A. "Social media implementation models in the Australian emergency management sector." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103633/1/Judith_Newton_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explored the Australian emergency management sector’s integration, management and use of social media. The research generated new models that describe how social media has been implemented in these organisations. This research has strengthened the knowledge base about organisational social media use and its findings can assist organisations to evaluate the way the social media function is positioned in their structures, in order to determine if the placement, staffing and management of the function is aligned to their business and communication goals.
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Murtagh, Madeleine Josephine. "Intersections of feminist and medical constructions of menopause in primary medical care and mass media: risk, choice and agency." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm9851.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-288). Examines language used by general practitioners and in mass media to ask 'what are the implications of constructions of menopause for health care practice and public health for women at menopause?'. Presents the findings of qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with nine general practitioners working in rural South Australia and qualitative and quantitative analyses of 345 south Australian newspaper articles from 1986 to 1998.
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Cervin, Ebba. "The Australian and international media coverage on' offshore processing detention centers." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402515.
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Abstract In 2001, the Australian government implemented the Pacific Solution, which is known today as Operation Sovereign Borders. This policy is designed to hold asylum-seekers arriving by boat to Australia on Pacific islands that are geographically and politically external to Australia, keeping them in what is commonly known as offshore processing and detention centers. This thesis examines the way in which these offshore processing detention centers are portrayed in the media and provides a comparative study between Australian and international publications through qualitative text analysis of the consistently occurring themes in news coverage of the issue. The importance of the thesis originates from the previous lack of international media coverage and criticism revolving around the offshore processing detention centers.
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Hopkins, Susan. "Pop heroines and female icons : youthful femininity and popular culture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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The thesis suggests much feminist theorising on girls' and young women's relationship to popular culture is limited by a 'moral-political' approach which searches for moral and
political problems and solutions in the consumption of popular images of femininity. The thesis offers a critique of such 'moral-political' interpretations of the relationship between youthful femininity and popular culture. Following thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and
Jean Baudrillard, the thesis opposes the political preoccupation with 'reality' and 'truth'. The study follows Nietzsche's and Baudrillard's notion of the 'Eternal-Feminine' which accepts the necessity of illusion, deception and appearances. Through a close textual
analysis of magazines, films, television and music video, this study offers an aesthetic appreciation of popular culture representations of femininity. The thesis comprises six essays, the first of which explains my Nietzschean inspired aesthetic approach in more detail. The second essay looks at images and discourses of supermodels and model femininity in women's magazines. The third looks at image-based forms of 'girl power' from Madonna to
the Spice Girls. The fourth essay examines the 'Cool Chics' of the pay TV channel TVJ,from Wonder Woman to Xena: Warrior Princess. The fifth essay, 'Gangster Girls: From
Goodfellas to Pulp Fiction' considers the 1990s model of the femme fatale, the bad girl who thrives on moral chaos. The final essay 'Celebrity Skin: From Courtney Love to Kylie
Minogue' suggests some of the most powerful feminine role models of our time have built their careers not on notions of authenticity and truth but rather on the successful management of illusion and fantasy. The essay argues that our social world has outgrown the traditional
moral-political approach which aims to lead girls and young women from 'deceptive''immoral' appearances to moral, 'authentic' 'reality'. The pleasures of popular culture, Isuggest, cannot always be linked to deep meanings but may be drawn from superficial appearances and beautiful surfaces.
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Cook, Jacqueline Ann. "Dangerous radio/activity : self and social space in contemporary Australian talk radio /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030422.110807/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2001.Thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements of the Doctorate of Philosophy (Applied Communications), University of Western Sydney, 2001. Bibliography : leaves 452-498.
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Rice, Jeremy F. "My worst ever night at the best school ball ever : creating taboo theatre for teenagers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/849.
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My Worst Ever Night at the Best School Ball Ever (School Ball) is a new play for teenage audiences. The action takes place on the night of a ball for final year students. A prank with a goat goes horribly wrong, a photo of a girl pissing in a pot plant is widely circulated, and everyone finds out about the boy in a sexual relationship with a teacher. At the heart of the play are teenagers, armed with mobile phones, trying to find their way in a contradictory and confusing world.
The creative development of School Ball centred on practice-based artistic research into the field of theatre for young audiences (TYA) through my practice as a director. The research question was: how to produce taboo theatre for teenagers?
School Ball was conceived as a production that would tour to schools. The school ball concept was popular with teachers, parents and theatre company board members but I encountered strong resistance to the story of a male student in a sexual relationship with a female teacher. Even though such relationships were being reported weekly in the media, the content was perceived to be taboo for young audiences. Developing School Ball investigated the complex relationships between TYA and the education system, as well as artistic and production strategies to navigate School Ball past school gatekeepers and reach its target audience.
Young people are at the centre of the research practice, participating in workshops, collaborating with artists, and responding to the work. Their involvement helped make School Ball accurately reflect adolescent experiences, such as the centrality of text messaging – another taboo in the school environment.
Australian TYA is considered to be at the forefront of international practice: innovative in creative process and theatrical form, imaginative and daring in content. But TYA practice is neither homogenous nor self-contained. In artistic practice, means of production and competition for audiences, TYA intersects with Theatre in Education (TIE), Young People’s Theatre (YPT), drama education, adult and commercial theatre. Part of the research aimed to understand the TYA landscape and the place of School Ball within it.
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Peach, Rosanne J. "Give and tell: How journalists can use features journalism to reframe philanthropy in Australian society." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116594/10/Rosanne%20Peach%20Exegesis.pdf.
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Give and Tell brings together research, practice and reflection to generate new understandings about the changing nature of giving in Australia and story-telling techniques available to journalists who are interested in facilitating public discussion about these social changes. Contemporary giving is shaped by personal, emotional, shared, creative, and innovative responses. This study finds that for journalists to effectively use features journalism to capture and subsequently reframe philanthropy, they will need an understanding of emotion and its impact on framing, emotional intelligence and an appreciation of the storytelling devices and strategies available to engage readers and create a shared experience of giving.
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Stewart, Kim. ""It's the people's radio": People with disability in Australian community radio." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130755/8/Kim%20Stewart%20Thesis.pdf.
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Community radio in Australia was established to empower ordinary citizens. However, people with disability are less heard than others in community radio, as with mainstream media. Listening to experiences of community radio staff and volunteers with disability can provide the foundation for plans to increase participation, agency and voice. Using semi-structured interviews, this practice-led research asked people with disability in the sector what empowers them, and how policy change, training and awareness-raising might increase their participation. It's The People's Radio, an accompanying 4 part radio documentary, tells the stories of community radio participants with disability in their own voices.
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Chen, Xu. "Dating, digital media, and diaspora: Contextualising the cultural uses of Tinder and Tantan among Australian Chinese diasporas." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202944/1/Xu_Chen_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines how Australian Chinese communities engage with dating apps Tinder and Tantan. With digital ethnographic approaches, it investigates the experiences of 23 interview participants - mainly young first-generation migrants from mainland China - on Tinder and Tantan in Australia. In doing so, it generates empirical evidences for research focusing on dating apps and dating practices among young Chinese people living in Australia. It deepens our understandings of how ethnic, sexual, and gender-related dynamics afforded by digital technologies intersect with Chinese identity negotiations.
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Thinakaran, Ajantha. "Determining current judicial trends in defining parameters of privacy at the workplace in relation to social media use by employees - An Australian context." Thesis, Thinakaran, Ajantha (2018) Determining current judicial trends in defining parameters of privacy at the workplace in relation to social media use by employees - An Australian context. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2018. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41360/.
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The legal issues that relate to the realm of privacy, social media communication and technology are ever growing. In Australia, over the past five years or so, there have been a series of dismissals resulting from the use of personal social media communications by employees. One area of dismissals is employers terminating employees for complaining about their colleagues in the employee’s personal social media space. Another example is employees discussing workplace processes and procedures in the employee’s personal social media space leading to alleged disclosures of confidential information.
Several questions concern these dismissals. These include determining how courts view individual employees’ personal social media sites, either as a private space or a public space. This appears to provide a basis for how courts view employer regulation of employees’ social media interaction, regardless of whether such interaction relates directly, or is incidental, to workplace activities. When employer control is permitted, judicial decisions are also relevant in understanding the extent to which courts may permit employers to exercise such control.
As this area is still new, much of the body of cases referred to lie in Fair Work Commission decisions. The above is researched under the overarching theme of identifying current judicial trends in determining parameters of privacy in the workplace in relation to social media use by employees. Judicial determination of these issues is important, as legislation still lags behind the massive and rapid technological advances in social media communication. In Australia, the courts are still the primary influencers and protectors of privacy as a human right. Judicial clarification of privacy, employer control over employees and employee dismissals within the existing workplace legislation is important for both employers and employees alike.
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Dini, Alina L. "Influence of new car buyers' purchase experience on plug-in electric vehicle demand." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116541/1/Alina_Dini_Thesis.pdf.
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Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are one new technology which offers promise for transport sustainability and improving energy efficiency. Global enthusiasm for PEVs has spurred broad-reaching interest, but for jurisdictions where PEV policies are absent, as in Australia, consumer adoption continues to be low. Research into the barriers of adoption for PEVs often identifies cost and lack of infrastructure as key barriers, but consumer's purchase experience plays a pivotal role in technology adoption. This research will help the PEV industry and governments to understand how critical the consumer purchase experience is to overall market success.
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Lisa, Smyth. "Melbourne’s ‘African gang crisis’: A content analysis comparing two Melbourne media outlets." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23591.
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In this paper I argue that in a mediatized Australia, where media are increasingly constructing society and culture as a whole, racializing frames used by Melbourne newspapers The Age and Herald Sun during a two-month period in 2018 contribute to the continued ‘othering’ of the ‘highly visible’ Sudanese-Australian and Sudanese refugee communities, and the erosion of the policy, and lived reality, of multiculturalism in Australia. Building upon the existing extensive body of research about the representation of refugee groups in Australian media, I use media framing theory to inform my analysis. In order to understand what media frames the Melbourne print media constructed around the ‘African gang crisis’ in 2018 I chose to conduct a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the types of sources used, and the quotes referenced, within the news articles. The analysis shows that ‘the media’ cannot be treated as one homogenous ‘sense-making’ group, as latent patterns of dominating source types as used by each newspaper point to specific ‘newsroom frames’ for each outlet. These ‘newsroom frames’ should be taken into account when exploring the media frames and, specifically, the role of racializing frames, in understanding the ‘othering’ of black Sudanese people in Australia in relation to the country’s ‘white majority’. Only with this understanding can we begin to dismantle the lingering impact of the country’s ‘White Australia Policy’ past and make multiculturalism the solid foundation of Australia’s future.
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Hews, Rachel Jane. "Twitter trials and Facebook juries: An analysis of the Australian sub judice rule and the regulation of prejudicial publicity on social media during high-profile criminal trials." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/134133/1/Rachel_Hews_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates how the sub judice rule operates in practice in the age of social media. While the law was well established in terms of how it regulated the behaviour of publishers before the internet, there are concerns it is less effective in the digital age. By analysing data from Twitter and Facebook during two high-profile murder trials, I investigate the prevalence of prejudicial publicity on social media, and examine how professional journalists and non-journalists talk about criminal trials. This analysis identifies the types of information empanelled jurors might see about trials and what this means for the law.
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Dehghan, Ehsan. "Networked discursive alliances: Antagonism, agonism, and the dynamics of discursive struggles in the Australian Twittersphere." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/174604/1/Ehsan_Dehghan_Thesis.pdf.
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This project examines the complex inter-relationship between social media and democracy, by investigating the dynamics of economic, social, and political disagreements and struggles among Twitter users in Australia. The thesis looks for ways to transform polarisation and disagreements into conflictual togetherness.
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Montana, Nino Silvia Ximena. "The metrification of legacy news: An analysis of the attitudes and practices at three Australian outlets." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202918/1/Silvia%20Ximena_Montana%20Nino_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the impact of web and social media analytics on news content production in three Australian legacy outlets (ABC News, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian). It proposes the idea of 'identity news' under an evolving quantification ethos in newsrooms shaped by the institutionalisation of news metrification practices. Identity news refers to the process of selection, design, crafting and news distribution according to the multiple demographics and inferred identities revealed by two basic measurement approaches in the field (the platform engagement regime on social media and the retention regime in websites).
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Rimmer, Matthew. "The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life of Copyright Law." Thesis, The Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86581/1/fulltext.pdf.
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This thesis provides a cultural history of Australian copyright law and related artistic controversies. It examines a number of disputes over authorship, collaboration, and appropriation across a variety of cultural fields. It considers legal controversies over the plagiarism of texts, the defacing of paintings, the sampling of musical works, the ownership of plays, the co-operation between film-makers, the sharing of MP3 files on the Internet, and the appropriation of Indigenous culture. Such narratives and stories relate to a broad range of works and subject matter that are protected by copyright law.
This study offers an archive of oral histories and narratives of artistic creators about copyright law. It is founded upon interviews with creative artists and activists who have been involved in copyright litigation and policy disputes. This dialogical research provides an insight into the material and social effects of copyright law.
This thesis concludes that copyright law is not just a ‘creature of statute’, but it is also a social and imaginative construct. In the lived experience of the law, questions of aesthetics and ethics are extremely important. Industry agreements are quite influential. Contracts play an important part in the operation of copyright law. The media profile of personalities involved in litigation and policy debates is pertinent. This thesis claims that copyright law can be explained by a mix of social factors such as ethical standards, legal regulations, market forces, and computer code. It can also be understood in terms of the personal stories and narratives that people tell about litigation and copyright law reform.
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Prologue 1
Introduction A Creature of Statute: Copyright Law and Legal Formalism 6
Chapter One The Demidenko Affair: Copyright Law and Literary Works 33
Chapter Two Daubism: Copyright Law and Artistic Works 67
Chapter Three The ABCs of Anarchism: Copyright Law and Musical Works 105
Chapter Four Heretic: Copyright Law and Dramatic Works 146
Chapter Five Shine: Copyright Law and Film 186
Chapter Six Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox or Pirate Bazaar? Copyright Law and Digital Works 232
Chapter Seven Bangarra Dance Theatre: Copyright Law and Indigenous Culture 275
Chapter Eight The Cathedral and the Bazaar: The Future of Copyright Law 319
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Loicq, Marlène. "Médias et interculturalité : l'éducation aux médias dans une perspective comparative internationale (Australie, Québec, France)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00721174.
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Cette thèse explore le potentiel interculturel des médias. Les médias sont des dispositifs de médiation investis dans des logiques locales et des échanges internationaux ;ils produisent alors des conditions nouvelles d'interaction interculturelle qui nous interpellent.Dans une démarche pratique et analytique, l'éducation aux médias est le terrain privilégié pour développer autant la maîtrise des outils que l'investigation heuristique de la configuration médiatique. Ainsi, avons-nous identifié les dimensions interculturelles du domaine de l'éducation aux médias dans le cadre d'une analyse socio-anthropologique des discours institutionnels de l'Australie, du Québec et de la France. Cette étude montre des logiques discursives et pragmatiques distinctes, et révèle divers imaginaires sociaux sur les médias,notamment dans leur rapport aux questions culturelles. De là, les études de cas nous présentent ces discours comme le lieu de convergence de l'éducation aux médias et des problématiques interculturelles, abordé dans la contrainte du modèle socio-politique national de gestion de la diversité culturelle (multiculturel, interculturel, républicain). Enfin, la perspective internationale comparative permet tout à la fois de singulariser les cas et d'identifier les dimensions transversales qui se présentent comme autant de piliers réflexifs pour envisager l'interculturalité des médias. À partir des questions de communication, de sens, d'identité et de citoyenneté,soulevées dans le cadre institué de l'éducation aux médias, nous proposons alors d'ouvrir la voie à une réflexion sur l'éducation interculturelle aux médias articulée autour d'une approche pluridisciplinaire du concept de représentation.
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McPhail-Bell, Karen. ""We don't tell people what to do": An ethnography of health promotion with Indigenous Australians in South East Queensland." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91587/1/Karen%20McPhail-Bell%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis contributes to the decolonisation of health promotion by examining Indigenous-led health promotion practice in an urban setting. Using critical ethnography, the study revealed dialogical, identity-based approaches that centred relationship, community control and choice. Based on the findings, the thesis proposes four interrelated principles for decolonising health promotion and argues that Indigenous-led health promotion presents a way to bridge the rhetoric and practice of empowerment in Australian mainstream health promotion practice.
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McMurtrie, A. J. "Australian corporate social disclosure : contemporary elements and disclosure media / by Anthony John McMurtrie." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19316.
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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Examines the corporate social disclosure practices of the 200 largest public companies in Australia by examining their annual reports and other company publications. The study identified that many companies make social disclosure in media other than their annual report and that much social disclosure was prepared with specific readers in mind.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Commerce, 1999?
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McMurtrie, A. J. "Australian corporate social disclosure : contemporary elements and disclosure media / by Anthony John McMurtrie." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19316.
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Examines the corporate social disclosure practices of the 200 largest public companies in Australia by examining their annual reports and other company publications. The study identified that many companies make social disclosure in media other than their annual report and that much social disclosure was prepared with specific readers in mind.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Commerce, 1999?
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Camit, Michael Cruz. "Health communication and social media in multicultural Australia: the experiences of CALD community leaders in using social media to improve health outcomes for their communities." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/149018.
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University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.There is growing evidence of the potential of social media for health promotion. However, very little is known about how culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities use and can benefit from social media related health communication. Using a participatory action research approach, this thesis documents the experience of 26 community leaders from diverse migrant and refugee backgrounds who attended monthly social media workshops for six months. The researcher facilitated the workshops and for three years maintained regular contact with participants through a closed Facebook page as well as through individual contact. After three years, participants were invited to reflect on their experience of using social media for health communication for themselves and their communities. The findings suggest that social media afforded CALD community leaders and their communities voice, knowledge management, listening and monitoring tools, social capital, solidarity, agency and self-determination. This thesis argues that social media enable CALD community leaders to exercise their agency to curate, adopt, tailor or reject health information for themselves and their communities. More importantly, social media enable CALD leaders to build online communities and advocate to improve the social, living and working conditions of their communities, the social determinants of health. The thesis makes four theoretical contributions. First, it extends Dutta’s culture-centred approach to the realm of social media for health communication. Second, this study offers an alternative view of health communication from the perspective of CALD audiences, recognising that audience members are not only the receivers of messages but also potential collaborators and disseminators of health communication. Third, the study challenges the implicational sequence of engaging with social media suggested by Van Dijk’s resource appropriation theory. The study presents evidence that CALD community leaders do not have to overcome all barriers about social media in order to achieve strategic objectives for their community. Instead, leaders can rely on support from within their communities to develop social media strategies for their community. Finally, the study also provided evidence to suggest social media’s relationship with and direct influence on the social determinants of health, consistent with Viswanath’s structural influence model of communication. The thesis also makes contributions to policy and practice. It advocates for a review of how health organisations engage with CALD communities as collaborators and not just passive recipients of health information. Insights from the barriers identified from this thesis can inform current and future digital inclusion initiatives.
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Breen, Fidelma. "Contemporary Irish migration to Australia: pathways to permanence." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/114244.
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This thesis investigates the experiences of contemporary Irish migrants in Australia by exploring
migration, settlement and return migration amongst the research project’s respondents. The recent
period is important because it encompassed both a technological revolution in the growth, availability
and affordability of travel and communications technology and because it saw an increase in the Irish
population in Australia, of 39 per cent, from 2006 to 2014. Since the mid-1990s there has been a
major shift in immigration policy whereby concentration on permanent migration, particularly the
family unit, has been replaced with a proliferation of visa classes that promote temporary entry in line
with global trends. Significant changes, such as the introduction of the 457 visa and the extension of
the Working Holiday Maker (WHM) visa, have meant that the temporary intake has become more
prominent. These changes also encouraged an investigation of the migration experiences of Irish
people to Australia as these visas, despite being elements of the temporary visa programme,
permitted a pathway to permanent residency in Australia.
This mixed methods study was conducted through two surveys (n=1,560) disseminated through social
media platforms and in-depth participant interviews (n=67). Findings were benchmarked against
secondary data from national data agencies and the Émigré study, University College Cork, Ireland.
The surveys allowed Irish people resident in Australia and those who had left to describe their visa use,
migration motivation and settlement experience.
Results found that the majority of immigrants entered Australia on a temporary, long-stay visa, and
most did not intend to settle permanently in Australia. This intention changed quite rapidly after
arrival and most WHMs transitioned to a 457 visa as the most typical ‘next step’ on the pathway to
permanent residency. New Irish arrivals tended to seek out Irish friendship groups or socialise with
other migrants and this was ascribed to three things: cultural comfort provided by other Irish people,
experiential similarities with other migrants and the perception that Australians had long-established
friendship groups which were difficult to penetrate. Contemporary Irish migrants were a ‘good fit’ for
Australia’s labour market and career progression was one of the most notable benefits of migration.
However, increased satisfaction with job, salary and career prospects post-migration did not prevent
some respondents choosing to leave Australia. The majority of those who departed returned to
Ireland, with departure usually family motivated: migrants either wanted to be nearer ageing parents
or wanted their children to experience a childhood similar to their own close to extended family
members. Analysis showed a high level of engagement during migration through mobile technology
with family, local community and with regional and national political, economic and social
developments in Ireland.
Methodologically, this study contributes to the emerging and growing field of research using and
investigating social media. Theoretically, this research demonstrates two migration theory threads at
play for the recent Irish immigrant cohort in Australia – one related to the process of migration which adheres closely, but not perfectly, to Neoclassical II economic theory and another, a cultural migration
process, related to transnationalism. This thesis expands our understanding of transnationalism
amongst the Irish in Australia where more recent migrants have enacted a strong trend towards
‘transnationalism from the ground up’ in their use of multi-level connections to Ireland locally,
regionally and nationally through electronic media and other online fora. Exploration of the empirical
data demonstrates a strong need to participate even virtually in life in Ireland and further, a keen
awareness of everyday happenings which was not available to migrants in pre-internet times. In this
context, transnationalism and transnational practice has the potential to become more prevalent for
first and deeper generations of the Irish diaspora.
Overall, since 2000, the contemporary Irish migrant experience in Australia has been a strongly
positive one. The significance of the findings lies predominantly in the visa used to enter Australia.
The rapid transition to a longer-term visa and ultimately to permanent residency suggests that visa
use was dictated by expediency rather than design. Even those who entered on a permanent visa did
not always intend to settle in Australia. Recent changes to Australia’s temporary visa programme,
namely the replacement of the 457 visa with the Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS) visa will likely lead to
different outcomes in the future.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2018
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Lange, Kirsten Maren. "Sport and New Media: A Profile of Internet Sport Journalists in Australia." Thesis, 2002. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/278/.
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The Internet is now a significant medium for sport coverage, allowing fans to access the latest news about their favourite team, sport or event. To date, Internet sport journalists, the content creators of sporting news websites, have received little attention in academic research. Accordingly, the aim of this research project was to construct a profile of Australian Internet sport journalists within the context of recent developments in the field of sport and new media. In terms of print journalism, some researchers have previously examined the educational background, working practices and self-assessment of print sport journalists. Similar themes were explored in this thesis, using semi-structured interviews with thirteen Internet sport journalists. Key research questions that guided the study were: How did the subjects become Internet sport journalists? What are their work routines? What are their experiences of online sport journalism and what is their perception of the future of sport journalism? It was discovered that, with certain limitations, traditional journalism skills still apply to the Internet sport environment. In comparison to print media, Internet sport journalists tend to write shorter articles, have to respond to a continuous deadline and do not work within a traditional beat system. In addition, it can be noted that the interactivity of the Internet forces Internet sport journalists to continually re-evaluate their skills and the manner in which they respond to their audience. Overall, this thesis provides important insights into the working practices of Australian Internet sport journalists and the online environment, an occupational field that is currently in a considerable state of flux.
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Batty, Philip. "Governing cultural difference: the incorporation of the Aboriginal subject into the mechanisms of Government with reference to the development of Aboriginal radio and television in Central Australia." 2003. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/28909.
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In 1970, the Federal Government made preliminary moves to establish a broadcasting service in the Northern Territory for Indigenous Australians. However, Aboriginal people would not be invited to run this service themselves, nor would it be used to 'maintain' Aboriginal cultural traditions. Rather, these new facilities would deliver programs that 'informed' Aboriginals about 'plans for their future advancement'. By 1985, the position had changed dramatically. The government was now funding 'Aboriginal-controlled' media organisations throughout the country 'to restore and rebuild' Aboriginal 'cultural identity'. It was also underwriting the launch of an Aboriginal-owned commercial satellite service covering a third of the Australian continent. In this thesis, I have attempted to understand the policies that led to this remarkable change in government thinking. In undertaking this work, I have not attempted to construct a 'resistant' Aboriginal 'voice', positioned against 'the media establishment' and the state to explain these transformations in Aboriginal policy. Although such a voice routinely appears in the literature on Aboriginal broadcasting, I argue that such an approach simply replicates the rhetoric surrounding the state's own policies of 'Aboriginal self-determination' and, more problematically, masks the complex operations of government itself. It also assumes the pre-discursive existence of a particular kind of Aboriginal agency, without considering the specific conditions that gave rise to it. In this study, I have sought to demonstrate how this agency was largely constituted through the policies of Aboriginal self-determination. I argue that under these policies, the state would no longer act on Aboriginals as it had in the past. Rather, Aboriginals would be invited to act on themselves in managing programs proffered by the state. Through these means, the Aboriginal 'self' became an indispensable element in the operations of the government. However, since the Aboriginal self would be expected to carry out the work of the state, it also became the object of intense governmental scrutiny. Here, I show how a multiplicity of governmental technologies emerged throughout the 1970's that served to regulate, channel and enhance Aboriginal subjectivity in accordance with a number of governmental ends. In undertaking this task, I have focused primarily on the development of the 'incorporated Aboriginal association'. I will argue that such bodies not only allowed Aboriginal people a degree of 'self-management', but also provided the state with an institutional framework through which it could constitute both a competent and verifiable Aboriginal agency. The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, CAAMA, was one of numerous bodies established under these governmental technologies. The development of this complex organisation will serve as the main case study in this thesis. In taking this analytical approach, I have adopted one of Michel Foucault's primary objectives which is to examine the ways in which the human subject is constituted through relations of power, and attempted to respond to the following set of queries Foucault poses: How was the subject established, at different moments and in different institutional contexts, as a possible, desirable, or even indispensable object of knowledge? How were the experiences that one may have of oneself and the knowledge that one forms of oneself organised according to certain schemes? How were these schemes defined, valorised, recommended, imposed? (Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth, 2000:87)
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Zufferey, Carole. "Homelessness, social work, socal policy and the print media in Australian cities." 2007. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/43096.
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The social work response to homelessness emerges from particular historical, sociopolitical and economic contexts. It is influenced by public perceptions of service provision as represented in the print media and by political and policy processes. This research study examines dominant representations of homelessness and social work in the print media, social policy and social work practice. The focus of the thesis is how discourses from the Australian print media, social policy and social work practice co-exist in constructing homelessness as a particular social problem and influence social workers and social work responses to homelessness. Two research studies provide the empirical basis for this thesis. A mixed method approach is used. Firstly, a quantitative content analysis of newspaper articles in three Australian capital cities examines public discourses relevant to the constructions of homelessness, 'homeless people' and service provision. Secondly, a qualitative discourse analysis of interviews with social workers employed in the field of homelessness in inner city Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney explores how social workers make meaning of their identity and responses to homelessness in contemporary practice settings. The social work study highlights the varied and complex contributions of social workers to Australian policy and practice responses to homelessness, which is a new and important contribution to the existing body of research. The theoretical influences on this thesis are social constructionist, feminist, critical and post-modern social work perspectives. These varied approaches enable an analysis of power that incorporates contradictions, complexities and social work resistances (Pease and Fook, 1999).PhD Doctorate
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Buckmaster, Luke. "Constructing structurelessness : openness, closure and collective action - the case of Indymedia." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150004.
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Sharif, Mohd Hisham Bin. "Social media adoption and impact in Australian local government." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/102799.
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Individual and organisational use of social media is rapidly growing. Social media applications offer substantial opportunities for local government organisations to develop better community engagement, save costs and improve service delivery. However, limited attention has been directed in the current information systems literature towards understanding the adoption and impact of social media in the public sector, particularly in local government organisations. Building on DePietro, Wiarda and Fleischer‟s (1990) technology-organisation-environment framework (TOE) and DeLone and McLean‟s Information System Success (ISS) frameworks, a model of social media adoption and impact is developed and tested. This research explored qualitative evidence sourced from in-depth interviews with officers from 24 local government organisations and with a survey involving 173 local government organisations across Australia. The survey responses were analysed using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. The results suggest that compatibility, formalisation, bandwagon pressure and community demand are the important predictors of social media application adoption. An understanding of the social media application adoption factors provides a foundation for future social media application research as well as valuable guidance to organisations seeking to effectively use social media applications to benefit their organisation. The findings can be useful to many stakeholders, including adoption champions, marketing and communication officers in local government organisations. This study contributes to existing theory by improving current understanding of drivers of social media impact in local government organisations.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Business School, 2015.
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Mizrachi, Isaac. "Facebook Adoption by Australian Small Tourism Enterprises (STEs): Business Requirements and User Perceptions." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25800/.
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The findings of the research identified similarities in the way that both STEs and the users perceive Facebook as a marketing platform for the STE accommodation businesses. On the other hand, the research found significant limitations in the social media knowledge and skills STEs possessed, including the manner in which they interpreted the main function and goals of having a Facebook presence. In general, STEs were found to be overly experimental with their Facebook maintenance, which assisted them in exploring the business benefits of Facebook and, in particular, promoting their business in an affordable way. However, the same spontaneity led to the above-mentioned limitations.
The study proposed an implementation model for Facebook adoption by accommodation STEs. Two anchors form the model: one being the strategy of Facebook adoption and the other addressing the availability of resources and skills related to Facebook adoption. Measuring STE performance on Facebook is another interactive component of the model.
The research portrays a representational picture of early adopting accommodation STEs and their use of the Facebook social media platform and sets the foundations for future research. The proposed implementation model can be used to further explore Facebook adoption amongst the cohort of Australian accommodation STEs. Notably, the model proposed and the findings can be used in researching other types of STEs, both in Australia and in other destinations. Although premised on the Facebook social media platform, the proposed implementation model can be potentially extended to other forms of social media platforms.