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Mencinsky, Nadia, and Belinda Mullen. "Regulation of Children's Television in Australia: Past and Present." Media International Australia 93, no. 1 (November 1999): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909300105.
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The provision of quality television programming made specifically for children has been a significant issue in Australia since television was introduced. From 1979, specific requirements have been in place to ensure children have access to a variety of quality television programs made specifically for them, including Australian drama and non-drama programs. This article traces the development of these requirements and how they have led to the current Children's Television Standards (CTS). The Children's Television Standards (CTS), administered by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), are widely regarded in Australia and overseas as a notable example — if not benchmark — for how to regulate children's television in the public interest. The article also examines some key trends in programming since 1979 and identifies areas of the standards which are problematic and/or might need to be revised to ensure the expected outcomes are still being achieved.
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Aisbett, Kate. "Production of Australian Children's Drama: Is There a Future?" Media International Australia 93, no. 1 (November 1999): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909300106.
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of the children's programs classification scheme (1979–99), the Australian Broadcasting Authority, the Australian Children's Television Foundation and the Australian Film Finance Corporation commissioned a joint research project on C classification programs. The research investigated trends in programming over the 20 years of the classification scheme and current issues related to the financing of children's programs. This paper explores current developments in the production and broadcast of children's television in Australia and the place of regulation in facilitating the community's desire for quality Australian children's programs.
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Potter, Anna. "Junk Food or Junk TV: How Will the UK Ban on JUNK Food Advertising Affect Children's Programs?" Media International Australia 125, no. 1 (November 2007): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0712500103.
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The implementation of a partial junk food television advertising ban in the United Kingdom is adding to the woes of commercial broadcasters already under pressure in a fiercely competitive multi-channel environment. The UK free-to-air channel ITV1 recently announced the closure of its children's programs production unit and children's television production in the United Kingdom has been described as being ‘in meltdown’. The United Kingdom represents a crucial market for Australian producers of children's programs, who have traditionally sourced up to 80 per cent of their production budgets from UK partners. Australian cultural policy is adding to the challenges facing these producers, through the demands inherent in the ‘C’ classification. If Australia is to remain committed to the provision of dedicated children's programs, alternative sources of funding will have to be found.
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Potter, Anna. "Junk Food or Junk TV: How will the Uk Ban on Junk Food Advertising Affect Children's Programs?" Media International Australia 125, no. 1 (November 2007): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812500103.
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The implementation of a partial junk food television advertising ban in the United Kingdom is adding to the woes of commercial broadcasters already under pressure in a fiercely competitive multi-channel environment. The UK free-to-air channel ITV1 recently announced the closure of its children's programs production unit and children's television production in the United Kingdom has been described as being ‘in meltdown’. The United Kingdom represents a crucial market for Australian producers of children's programs, who have traditionally sourced up to 80 per cent of their production budgets from UK partners. Australian cultural policy is adding to the challenges facing these producers, through the demands inherent in the ‘C classification. If Australia is to remain committed to the provision of dedicated children's programs, alternative sources of funding will have to be found.
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Keys, Wendy. "Children's Television: A Barometer of the Australian Media Policy Climate." Media International Australia 93, no. 1 (November 1999): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909300104.
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In relation to media policy, children's television is ‘special’ on a number of levels. The ways in which childhood is constructed and defined are complex and often contradictory; the state of children's television can be used as a barometer of the broader media policy climate; and the subject of children's television has mobilised strong, active and ‘successful’ interest groups. The following discussion is based on analysis of the introduction, development and trajectory of children's television policy and production practices in Australia from the 1945 ‘List of Principles to Govern Children's Programs' (radio) to the debates, issues and policy initiatives raised in the Australian Commonwealth Government Productivity Commission Inquiry into Broadcasting in 1999.
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Bonner, Frances. "The Mediated Asian-Australian Food Identity: From Charmaine Solomon to Masterchef Australia." Media International Australia 157, no. 1 (November 2015): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515700113.
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This article considers the significance of food competitions, not just in helping ex-contestants to achieve careers in various food media sites, but also the consequences of this, together with televised food programs generally, in making Australian television more fully represent a multicultural nation, most specifically its Asian-Australian citizens. In 1964, Charmaine Solomon came second in a Woman's Day recipe competition. This, combined with her earlier training as a journalist in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, led the magazine's food editor, Margaret Fulton, to offer her a job. This began her long career as the leading Australian writer on Asian food. More recently, television and shows like MasterChef Australia have replaced magazine competitions in providing a breakthrough into a mediated career in the food industry. Again it was as second place-getter in the very first series of MasterChef that Poh Ling Yeow achieved her break and found her place. Television requires and bestows celebrity, and Poh provides a valuable counterpoint to Solomon here. Several other Asian-Australian contestants have similarly flourished after exposure on the program, like second series winner Adam Liaw. It has become evident that cooking competitions have become one of the principal sites in prime-time Australian television for Asian faces to be seen as a matter of course. While scholars of, and commentators on, Australian multiculturalism are rightly scathing about popular statements claiming a better Australian food culture as an index of the success of post-war migration policies, it appears that Australian television and other media continue to find this conjunction fruitful.
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Smaill, Belinda. "Commissioning Difference? The Case of SBS Independent and Documentary." Media International Australia 107, no. 1 (May 2003): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0310700111.
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SBS Independent (SBSI) is the arm of SBS Television responsible for commissioning new work. Since 1994, SBSI has been working in conjunction with other screen funding bodies to commission feature film, short drama, animation and documentary. The charter that dictates the practices of SBS Television also provides guidelines for SBSI, which is consequently required to focus on work that is innovative and concerned with Indigenous issues and cultural diversity. This article focuses on the case of documentary in Australia and the impact of SBSI on a filmmaking community and contemporary documentary culture with particular reference to the Australia by Numbers and Hybrid Life series of half-hour programs. The focus on diversity, and the fact that this is the first Australian television institution to adopt an outsourcing model for almost all production, means that SBSI has formed a unique relationship with independent documentary. Here I examine the specificity and efficacy of this relationship.
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Schibeci, R. A., J. M. Webb, J. Robinson, and R. Thorn. "Science on Australian Television: Beyond 2000 and Quantum." Media Information Australia 42, no. 1 (November 1986): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8604200114.
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For science on television in Australia, 1985 was an unusual year. There were two regular programs broadcast, instead off the more usual one. Further, one of these programs was shown on commercial TV: Beyond 2000, screened on the Channel 7 network. The other show was Quantum, the successor to the ABC's earlier program, Towards 2000. Both shows were being screened again in 1986. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse a sample of each of these two programs for the science content presented. A secondary purpose is to compare this analysis with the earlier analysis of Towards 2000 by Zadnik & Webb (1982).
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Roscoe, Jane. "Real Entertainment: New Factual Hybrid Television." Media International Australia 100, no. 1 (August 2001): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0110000104.
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Popular factual entertainment has changed the face of broadcasting in Australia. Where once dramas, long-running serials and current affairs programs filled prime-time scehdules, we now have docu-soaps such as Popstars, and reality gameshows like Big Brother. While some have expressed concern about this shift to light entertainment in factual programming, it can be argued that such programs have brought a new audience to non-fiction and revitalised debates concerning the real. This paper examines some of the current trends in popular factual entertainment programming, considers their innovations and explores why they are so compelling.
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Bye, Susan. "Sydney Tonight versus In Melbourne Tonight: Television, Taste and Identity." Media International Australia 128, no. 1 (August 2008): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812800104.
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In this discussion, I focus on the varying fortunes of Sydney Tonight and In Melbourne Tonight (IMT) in order to explore the very local nature of television in Australia in the 1950s and early 1960s. As part of this process, I document the way that the success of IMT and the perceived failure of Sydney Tonight became the basis for a sustained discussion in both the Sydney and Melbourne print media about the respective discernment of each city's viewers. Buttressed by continuing public anxieties about the sophistication of the developing Australian television culture, the rejection of inferior locally produced programs became understood as a marker of discrimination and maturity.
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Moran, Albert, and Karina Aveyard. "Vocal Hierarchies in Early Australian Quiz Shows, 1948–71: Two Case Studies." Media International Australia 148, no. 1 (August 2013): 107–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314800112.
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This article examines the complexities involved in transferring content and genre from one media platform to another by emphasising the shifting, fragile yet stabilising part that sound can play in such a transformation. Early television is often labelled as a period of ‘radio with pictures’, and this intriguing designation directs our attention to this ‘moment’ of changeover. This analysis explores the parameters of sound in television's displacement of radio as the primary broadcasting medium in Australia in the 1950s. We focus in particular on the role of the human voice (host, audience and contestants) in two early quiz shows – Wheel of Fortune and Pick-a-Box – that began on radio and were both successfully remade as television programs.
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Burns, Maureen. "A Brief History of Science Communication in Australia." Media International Australia 150, no. 1 (February 2014): 72–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1415000116.
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Early science reporting in Australia – up to and including the 1940s – was often sourced from overseas. During and after World War II, attention turned to applied science, at first for the war effort and afterwards to rebuild the nation. From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, entrepreneurs in science and media in Sydney worked together to provide science material in commercial outlets as well as for the ABC. In the context of the space race, the Cold War and atomic energy, science communication flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. Since then, science content has been widespread in the television schedules of commercial networks in forms such as children's television, lifestyle programs and news items, and is also apparent in community radio schedules as well as on ABC television and radio. Claims that Australia has little science communication may be based on too narrow a view of what constitutes science content.
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Phillips, Gail. "Reporting Diversity: The Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Australia's Television Current Affairs Programs." Media International Australia 139, no. 1 (May 2011): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1113900105.
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A recent study of ethnic diversity in Australia's television news showed that diversity of race, culture and religion is largely absent from the news services, unless people from ethnic minorities are posing a social problem of some kind. A parallel study of Australia's nightly current affairs programs has yielded similar results: like news, they represent Australia as an ‘Anglo’ nation. When ethnic minorities are featured, they tend to occupy peripheral roles, and where they are allowed a central role, it is usually to be shown as threatening and menacing to the Anglo mainstream. The industry codes of practice explicitly state the standards that should apply in reporting on race, culture and religion, yet only the public broadcaster, the ABC, follows the guidelines in the representation of diversity. The reporting practices on the commercial stations deliberately or unwittingly encourage a sense of racial hierarchy in which the Anglo dominates.
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Doherty, Bernard. "Sensational Scientology!" Nova Religio 17, no. 3 (February 2013): 38–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2014.17.3.38.
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The role of communications and information media long has been acknowledged as a key factor in religious controversy. Since the 1970s “cult wars,” new religions scholars have focused considerable attention on how the media communicate, influence and frame public perception of new religious movements. In this article, I briefly survey ways in which constant changes in communications media and consumption require scholars to reassess interaction between the media and new religious movements. Using as a test-case the Church of Scientology’s interaction with Australian “tabloid television” programs in a series of heavily publicized controversies, I outline some traditional journalistic practices and media constraints, identified by scholars, in television coverage of Scientology in Australia. I will introduce a series of additional practices and contingent factors dealing specifically with tabloid television which may assist scholars in assessing the complex relationship between the media and new religions.
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Noble, Grant, and Kate Freiberg. "Discriminating between the Viewing Styles of the Commercial and ABC Child TV Viewer." Media Information Australia 36, no. 1 (May 1985): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8503600109.
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In Australia discussion concerning the quality of children's television continues unabated. Over the years lobby groups have been successful in persuading the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (ABT) to bring in Regulations requiring commercial TV stations to produce programs specifically for children and to broadcast them at certain times. While lobbyists have referred to a research base when it has suited their purposes, the points of view of the child audience have not always been consulted. The goal of this study is to attempt to redress the imbalance.
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Stratton, Jon. "Perth Cultural Studies." Thesis Eleven 137, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 83–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513616647559.
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In the early 1980s Perth was probably the most important city in Australia for Cultural Studies. Through that decade many intellectuals who became leaders in Australian Cultural Studies and important players in Cultural Studies outside of Australia worked in Perth. Among them were John Fiske, John Frow, John Hartley, Tom O’Regan, Lesley Stern, Graeme Turner and, a decade later, Ien Ang. This essay discusses the presence of these academics in Perth and advances some reasons why Perth became so important to Cultural Studies in Australia. It also discusses the kind of Cultural Studies that became privileged in Perth and considers some of the reasons for this. Perth Cultural Studies in the 1980s was primarily text-based and focused on screen-related popular culture, especially television programs and popular film. Cultural Studies in Perth developed in a city thought of as marginal to Australia, in institutions that were either not universities or, in the case of Murdoch University, was a very new university, by cosmopolitan academics who mostly came from either elsewhere in Australia or from the United Kingdom.
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Davies, John Christopher. "The progress of Australian humour in Britain." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 4 (December 31, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.4.davies.
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There has long been a close link between both the comedy and, by implication, the sense of humour of British and Australians. Such distinctively British radio and television programs as Hancock's Half Hour and Till Death Do Us Part found their main overseas market in Australia rather than in other English-speaking countries. Americans either did not find them funny or else were not allowed to find them funny, or provided feeble imitations such as Archie Bunker. Only the Australians were able and willing to share the British sense of humour. The other side of this relationship is that Australian comedians such as Dick Bentley, Joy Nicholls, Bill Kerr, Rolf Harris, Barry Humphries and Kevin Bloody Wilson, having succeeded in Australia, have gone on to be successful in Britain as well. Clearly the same formulae work in both countries.
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Perlman, Allison. "Telecasting an “Effective Weapon for Peace”." Radical History Review 2021, no. 141 (October 1, 2021): 60–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9170710.
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Abstract This article investigates the history of the International Television Federation, or Intertel. A collaboration between telecasters from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Intertel throughout the 1960s produced and distributed public affairs documentaries for an international audience. Intertel’s members positioned public affairs programming in the 1960s as an “effective weapon for peace.” By making the nations of the world legible to one another, Intertel programs sought to deploy the international circulation of television texts as a means to diminish tensions in a world defined by uneven economic growth, Cold War ideological battles, and the specter of nuclear warfare. Drawing on archival materials, press reports, and the programs themselves, this essay offers an institutional history of the program’s development, expansion, and demise, as well as an analysis of its politics and ideological premises.
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Dwyer, Tim. "Recalibrating Policies for Localism in Australia's Commercially Networked Tv Industry." Media International Australia 108, no. 1 (August 2003): 125–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0310800113.
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This article considers the emergence of policies for localism within the Australian commercially networked TV industry. By historically reflecting on the construction of equalisation policies of the late 1980s, their trajectory is traced through to the ABA's regional TV news inquiry in 2001–2002. Against a background of late twentieth century international trends to deregulation, the reregulation of Australian regional TV is linked with a discussion of possible alternative rules for content distribution. The origins of localism in US commercial TV and comparable recent US developments in TV news are reviewed. It is questioned whether the intended beneficiaries of the equalisation policy — under-served rural and regional TV audience — have in fact had their promise of increased television choices compromised, with the winding back of the key genre of local news programs in some areas. It is further argued that broader contextual data — for example, information arising from economic and social policy research in rural and regional Australia — could appropriately inform the development of localism policies for the longer term.
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Rutherford, Leonie, Dean Biron, and Helen Skouteris. "Children's Content Regulation and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’." Media International Australia 140, no. 1 (August 2011): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1114000108.
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Some 30 years ago, Australia introduced the Children's Television Standards (CTS) with the twin goals of providing children with high-quality local programs and offering some protection from the perceived harms of television. The most recent review of the CTS occurred in the context of a decade of increasing international concern at rising levels of overweight and obesity, especially in very young children. Overlapping regulatory jurisdictions and co-regulatory frameworks complicate the process of addressing pressing issues of child health, while rapid changes to the media ecology have both extended the amount of programming for children and increased the economic challenges for producers. Our article begins with an overview of the conceptual shifts in priorities articulated in the CTS over time. Using the 2007–09 Review of the CTS as a case study, it then examines the role of research and stakeholder discourses in the CTS review process and critiques the effectiveness of existing regulatory regimes, both in providing access to dedicated children's content and in addressing the problem of escalating obesity levels in the population.
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Doherty, Bernard. "Quirky Neighbors or the Cult Next-Door?" International Journal for the Study of New Religions 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2012): 163–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v3i2.163.
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Beginning in 2005 the tiny Christian sect then known as the Exclusive Brethren suddenly underwent a media transformation from a virtually unknown or ignored group of quirky and old-fashioned Protestant sectarians to being touted as “Australia’s biggest cult” by tabloid television programs. This explosion of controversy came on the heels of media revelations about the involvement of Brethren members in providing financial donations to conservative political causes across the globe and a snowballing effect in response which brought forth a number of ex-members eager to expose their former group. This article looks at how this media transformation has been received by the wider Australian public. By studying the hitherto little utilized data contained in readers’ letters to Australia’s three mainstream broadsheet newspapers this article identifies which events or undertakings had the most impact on public perceptions of the Exclusive Brethren and which specific articles and issues struck the most responsive chord with readers. This content analysis found that Australian public opinion toward the Exclusive Brethren, while on the whole negative, was more indicative of their political involvement than their beliefs. The study also found that prior to what I call “The Brethren Controversy” the Exclusive Brethren had maintained a high degree of “sectarian tension” in Australia for almost four decades with little public outcry or media vilification.
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Vivian Moraa Nyaata;. "Regulating broadcast media adult content: A case of Kenya and selected other countries." Journal of Media and Communication (JMC) 1, no. 1 (August 26, 2022): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/jmc.v4i1.218.
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This study sought to regulate broadcast media adult content in Kenya and selected countries. The study was conducted through desktop research. This includes searches on government websites, academic databases, relevant book and journal literature, online publications, and reviewing primary legislation and regulatory instruments. Five jurisdictions (the US, Canada, South Africa, Britain and Australia) were selected for comparative analysis. The findings demonstrate that Kenya’s mainstream media frequently promotes unrealistic, sexually suggestive behaviour. It was also established that Kenyan television and radio are not adequately regulated. Furthermore, consistency and persistence in monitoring and rating media content prevent ‘ratings creep’ whereby, as earlier explained, content meant for adults is gradually and increasingly included in programs meant for children. A clear and consistent rating system must therefore be developed for Kenya by an independent regulatory authority to avoid ratings creep.
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Purdey, Annette L., Caroline L. Miller, and Jacqueline A. Bowden. "Depictions of Alcohol in Australian TV ‘Bachelor In Paradise’: A Content Analysis." Alcohol and Alcoholism 55, no. 6 (July 11, 2020): 674–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agaa064.
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Abstract Aims To quantify the depictions of alcohol in the popular Australian reality TV show—Bachelor in Paradise (season 1: 2018). Methods All 16 episodes were coded in 1-min intervals for the presence of alcoholic beverage related content and non-alcoholic beverage content, and the categories of actual use, implied use and other references. Results Alcohol was highly prevalent in all episodes. Alcohol content occurred frequently, with 70.7% of intervals having any alcohol content. Actual alcohol use occurred in 31.9% of 1-min intervals, implied alcohol use occurred in 63.4% of intervals and other alcohol references occurred in 14.0% of intervals. Alcohol content was present in the first or second 1-min interval of all 16 episodes. Alcohol content was more than twice as prevalent as non-alcoholic content (34.0%). Conclusions The high volume of alcohol content depicted in the show is of concern, due to the important influence it may have on the audience. Vulnerable viewers, especially minors and young adults, are being exposed to ubiquitous alcohol references. This may influence their perceptions of normal alcohol use, their attitudes toward alcohol and their own consumption of alcohol. A stronger regulatory regime is required in Australia to protect young people more effectively from depictions in television programs.
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Sonke, Jill, Kelley Sams, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Andres Pumariega, Faryal Mallick, Virginia Pesata, and Nicola Olsen. "Systematic Review of Arts-Based Interventions to Address Suicide Prevention and Survivorship in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America." Health Promotion Practice 22, no. 1_suppl (May 2021): 53S—63S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839921996350.
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Study Objective. Suicide is a serious health problem that is shaped by a variety of social and mental health factors. A growing body of research connects the arts to positive health outcomes; however, no previous systematic reviews have examined the use of the arts in suicide prevention and survivorship. This review examined how the arts have been used to address suicide prevention and survivorship in nonclinical settings in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Design and Setting. Ten bibliographic databases, five research repositories, and reference sections of articles were searched to identify published studies. Articles presenting outcomes of interventions conducted between 2014 and 2019 and written in English, were included. Primary Results. Nine studies met inclusion criteria, including qualitative, quantitative randomized controlled trials, quantitative nonrandomized, quantitative descriptive, and mixed-methods studies. The programs studied used film and television (n = 3), mixed-arts (n = 3), theatre (n = 2), and quilting (n = 1). All nine interventions used the arts to elicit emotional involvement, while seven also used the arts to encourage engagement with themes of health. Study outcomes included increased self-efficacy, awareness of mental health issues, and likelihood for taking action to prevent suicide, as well as decreases in suicidal risk and self-harming behaviors. Conclusions. Factors that influence suicide risk and survivorship may be effectively addressed through arts-based interventions. While the current evidence is promising with regard to the potential for arts programs to positively affect suicide prevention and survivorship, this evidence needs to be supplemented to inform recommendations for evidence-based arts interventions.
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Broun, K., and T. Harper. "A Whole-Organisation Approach to Increasing Bowel Screening Participation Rates." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 147s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.26400.
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Background and context: Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world, yet if detected early more than 90% of cases can be successfully treated. The Australian government's National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) send a free at-home iFOBT to all eligible people aged 50-74. Current uptake of the program is low (∼40%). Increasing bowel screening is a key focus of Cancer Council Victoria's (CCV) strategic plan (2017-2021). Aim: CCV aims to increase NBCSP participation rates in the state of Victoria, Australia to 50% by 2021. Strategy/Tactics: In 2017, CCV implemented its first ever television-led bowel screening campaign. A whole-organization approach was adopted to develop, implement and evaluate the campaign. Program/Policy process: A whole-organization approach included working with CCVs behavioral researchers to understand barriers and motivating factors to screen, collaboration with the epidemiology center to identify evidence to target campaign delivery, stakeholder liaison with clinicians engaged with the organization, engagement with the organization's support services to respond to calls as a result of the campaign, working with the fundraising team to develop strategies to engage supporters, and leveraging our flagship Daffodil Day initiative with a focus on bowel cancer. Outcomes: Adopting a whole-organization approach enabled all facets of the organization to be involved in a common goal. This resulted in shared ownership of campaign deliverables, greater engagement of staff across the organization in bowel screening and the identification of innovative strategies that wouldn't have been possible had this approach not been adopted. Importantly, CCV’s campaign led to greater numbers of eligible people participating in bowel screening. What was learned: The identification of bowel screening as a CCV priority was critical for enabling cross-organizational collaboration. Taking a whole-organization approach resulted in the identification of existing programs and services to leverage the campaign, strengthening its reach and overall impact.
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Stasch, Rupert. "The Camera and the House: The Semiotics of New Guinea “Treehouses” in Global Visual Culture." Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, no. 1 (January 2011): 75–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417510000630.
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One of the most frequently encountered representations of West Papuan people internationally today is a photographic or video image of a Korowai or Kombai treehouse (Figure 1). Circulation of these images first exploded in the mid-1990s. In 1994, anArts & Entertainment Channelfilm about Korowai was broadcast in the United States under the titleTreehouse People: Cannibal Justice, and in 1996National Geographicpublished a photo essay titled “Irian Jaya's People of the Trees.” Korowai and Kombai treehouses have since been depicted in dozens of magazine and newspaper articles and twenty television productions, made by media professionals from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Vietnam, and recently West Papua itself. Some representations have had mass global distribution through programming partnerships and satellite transmission agreements, and international editions of major magazines. Recently, several reality television programs have been produced about white travelers' stays in treehouses with Korowai or Kombai hosts. These include an episode ofTribebroadcast on BBC and Discovery in 2005, the six episodes ofLiving with the Kombai Tribeshown on Travel Channel and Discovery International in 2007, and an episode ofRendez-Vous En Terre Inconnuetelevised to much acclaim on France 2 in 2009. Treehouses were widely seen by Australian audiences in 2006 in theSixty Minutessegment “The Last Cannibals,” and during a subsequent media firestorm that surrounded a rival show's unsuccessful effort to film their anchor accompanying a supposedly endangered Korowai orphan boy to a safer life in town. In 2009, a BBC film crew filmed Korowai house construction for the forthcoming blockbuster seriesHuman Planet, and in 2010National Geographicbegan researching a possible second story on Korowai treehouses. In late June and early July 2010, photos of Korowai treehouses were published by newspapers in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Finland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and other countries, to illustrate stories reporting the Indonesian census bureau's announcement that it had counted Korowai thoroughly for the first time (e.g., Andrade 2010; most stories drew their content from Agence France-Presse). In August 2010, production began for a feature-length Indonesian film about physical and romantic travails of Javanese protagonists who sojourn with Korowai in their jungle home; no filming is being carried out in the Korowai area or with Korowai actors, but treehouses figure prominently in the film's early written and visual publicity.
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McIver, Damian. "Representing Australianness: Our National Identity Brought to You by Today Tonight." Media International Australia 131, no. 1 (May 2009): 46–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913100106.
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Since first being broadcast in 1995, Today Tonight has become one of Australia's most watched current affairs programs. It has also arguably become one of the most talked about and controversial programs on Australian television. This article explores the links between Today Tonight and discourses of Australian identity. By placing this program within a theoretical tradition that views television as a cultural storyteller, this article explores the complex and somewhat contradictory representations of the Australian identity made by the Today Tonight text. It will argue that, throughout a range of representations — from the discourse of the ‘Aussie battler’ to contrasting depictions of Australian society under threat and in decay, or as a place of opportunity — Today Tonight maintains a steady focus on ‘ordinary Australians’ as its main target audience and the bearers of our true national identity.
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Robotin, Monica Cristina, Gisselle Gallego, Zeinab Mansour, Ximena Masgoret, Jack Wallace, and Jacob George. "Arabic and Assyrian immigrants’ knowledge of hepatitis and liver cancer in Sydney, Australia. Findings of a community consultation process." Journal of Clinical Oncology 37, no. 15_suppl (May 20, 2019): e18167-e18167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2019.37.15_suppl.e18167.
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e18167 Background: In Australia over 50% of hepatocellular cancers (HCC) are diagnosed in immigrants born in viral hepatitis endemic areas. Therefore, increasing community awareness of viral hepatitis as a preventable and treatable cause of liver cancer is critical in designing community-based cancer prevention programs. Although 7% of Australians living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) were born in Africa or the Middle East, limited information exists about these communities’ knowledge and beliefs around hepatitis and cancer. To assist the design of effective strategies for screening and treatment, we conducted a community consultation process among Arabic and Assyrian-speaking communities in Sydney, Australia. Methods: The consultation involved semi-structured interviews with key opinion leaders in the Arabic and Assyrian communities and focus group discussions (FGD) conducted in Arabic, Assyrian and English with community members. Interviews and discussion were digitally recorded, translated and transcribed. Framework analysis was employed for data analysis. Results: Twelve face to face semi-structured interviews were conducted with Arabic and Assyrian community leaders. Sixty-six participants, aged from 22 to 71 years took part in seven FGDs. Findings were highly confluent and highlighted a limited knowledge and understanding of hepatitis and of links to liver cancer. Hepatitis and cancer are stigmatising diseases and kept within the family. To mitigate the distress brought about by cancer, euphemisms and protective language are used and a cancer diagnosis is not disclosed to family members. Communities’ ability to engage with the health system is limited. Fear and past medical interactions influence decision about accessing care and education levels, health literacy and English proficiency are significant barriers to navigating the health system. The internet, doctors, television and radio are the communities’ main sources of health information. Conclusions: Reluctance to talk openly about hepatitis and cancer and widespread ‘cancer fatalism’ need to be considered in clinical interactions. Health information messages need to be tailored to patients’ cultural beliefs, couched in accessible terms and delivered through a range of communication channels.
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رفعت محمد سعيد, إعداد: أسماء, إشراف:أ د. سهير عبد الحميد عثمان, and أ. م. د. وائل صلاح نجيب. "معايير إعداد مضامين برامج الأطفال التلفزيونية في ضوء خبرتي (أستراليا – المملکة العربية السعودية) Criteria for preparing the contents of children's television programs in the light of both of experience (Australia - Saudi Arabia)." مجلة التربية وثقافة الطفل 19, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 1–150. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jkfb.2021.202625.
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رفعت محمد سعيد, اعداد: أ/ اسماء, اشراف: أ. د/ سهير عبدالحميد عثمان, and أ. م. د/ وائل صلاح نجيب. "معايير إعداد مضامين برامج الأطفال التلفزيونية في ضوء خبرتي (أستراليا – المملکة العربية السعودية) Criteria for preparing the contents of children's television programs in the light of both of experience (Australia - Saudi Arabia)." مجلة التربية وثقافة الطفل 19, no. 3 (October 1, 2021): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jkfb.2021.211255.
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Flew, Terry. "Review: Cultural Regulation of Australian Television Programs." Media International Australia 88, no. 1 (August 1998): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9808800119.
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Durkin, Sarah J., Kate Broun, Matthew J. Spittal, and Melanie A. Wakefield. "Impact of a mass media campaign on participation rates in a National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: a field experiment." BMJ Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019): e024267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024267.
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Objectives and designThis field experiment aimed to compare bowel cancer screening participation rates prior to, during and after a mass media campaign promoting screening, and the extent to which a higher intensity campaign in one state led to higher screening rates compared with another state that received lower intensity campaign exposure.InterventionAn 8-week television-led mass media campaign was launched in selected regions of Australia in mid-2014 to promote Australia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) that posts out immunochemical faecal occult blood test (iFOBT) kits to the homes of age-eligible people. The campaign used paid 30-second television advertising in the entire state of Queensland but not at all in Western Australia. Other supportive campaign elements had national exposure, including print, 4-minute television advertorials, digital and online advertising.Outcome measuresMonthly kit return and invite data from NBCSP (January 2012 to December 2014). Return rates were determined as completed kits returned for analysis out of the number of people invited to do the iFOBT test in the current and past 3 months in each state.ResultsAnalyses adjusted for seasonality and the influence of other national campaigns. The number of kits returned for analysis increased in Queensland (adjusted rate ratio 20%, 95% CI 1.06% to 1.35%, p<0.01) during the months of the campaign and up to 2 months after broadcast, but only showed a tendency to increase in Western Australia (adjusted rate ratio 11%, 95% CI 0.99% to 1.24%, p=0.087).ConclusionsThe higher intensity 8-week television-led campaign in Queensland increased the rate of kits returned for analysis in Queensland, whereas there were marginal effects for the low intensity campaign elements in Western Australia. The low levels of participation in Australia’s NBCSP could be increased by national mass media campaigns, especially those led by higher intensity paid television advertising.
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Price, Emma, and Amy Nethery. "Truth-Telling at the Border: An Audience Appraisal of Border Security." Media International Australia 142, no. 1 (February 2012): 148–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214200116.
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Since its initial broadcast in October 2004, Border Security: Australia's Front Line has enjoyed sustained high ratings on Australian television. This article examines the key theme of ‘truth-telling’ in Border Security. Drawing on interviews with audiences and the program's executive producer, the article argues that the way truth-telling shapes the storytelling in Border Security taps into contemporary social and political ideas about how and why Australian borders should be managed. As a diagnostic tool for identifying authenticity, truth-telling is the key condition, or ‘rule’, that newcomers must follow if they want to enter the country. But audiences also apply the rule of truth-telling to the program itself, and disengage when they feel like they are being manipulated. Truth-telling at the border – by people wanting to enter the country and by the program production itself – contributes to the continued popularity of the program with Australian audiences, and also explains when and why audiences disengage with the program.
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McDougall, Jill. "A Writing Program: Rawa Community School." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 21, no. 5 (November 1993): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0310582200005903.
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Rawa School is an Aboriginal community school at Punmu in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. The community has a population of around 150 people whose first language is Manyjiljarra. The children have limited access to English as there is no television or radio and the community is over 800 kilometres from the nearest service town of Port Hedland.
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Rennie, Ellie. "Unintended Consequences: Satellite Policy and Indigenous Television." Media International Australia 149, no. 1 (November 2013): 92–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314900111.
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This article examines two instances of media policy involving satellite transmission and Indigenous television: the introduction of the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) platform in 2010 and the introduction of AUSSAT in the mid-1980s. The government's failure to provide community and Indigenous broadcasters with an access regime at the time of AUSSAT resulted in Australia's first and only Indigenous commercial television licensee, Imparja. Over a quarter of a century later, Imparja now forms part of the joint-venture company that runs VAST, a key component of Australia's digital switchover planning. During the passage of the legislative amendments required to establish VAST, the issue of access resurfaced – this time in relation to Australia's national and community Indigenous television channels. The article recounts the events leading up to the 2010 Bill, and examines the intended and unintended consequences of satellite policy in relation to Indigenous media, including equalisation and transparency of government funding programs.
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Sun, Wanning. "The virus of fear and anxiety: China, COVID-19, and the Australian media." Global Media and China 6, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 24–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059436421988977.
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This article analyses Australian media’s coverage of China’s efforts to contain COVID-19. The article is a critical discourse analysis of the major news stories, documentaries, opinions, and analyses published in the entire array of Australian media, including both television and radio programs from the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster the ABC, commercial media outlets such as Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper and Nine Entertainment’s The Sydney Morning Herald, and several tabloid papers. By identifying the key themes, perspectives, and angles used in these reports and narratives, this article finds that the more credible media outlets have mostly framed China’s efforts in political and ideological terms, rather than as an issue of public health. In comparison, the tabloid media—including commercial television, shock jock radio, and newspapers—have resorted to conspiratorial, racist, and Sino-phobic positions. In both instances, the coverage of China’s experience is a continuation and embodiment of the “China threat” and “Chinese influence” discourses that have now dominated the Australian media for a number of years.
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Makukh-Fedorkova, Ivanna. "The Role of Cinema in the History of Media Education in Canada." Mediaforum : Analytics, Forecasts, Information Management, no. 7 (December 23, 2019): 221–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mediaforum.2019.7.221-234.
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The era of audiovisual culture began more than a hundred years ago with the advent of cinema, and is associated with a special language that underlies non-verbal communication processes. Today, screen influence on humans is dominant, as the generation for which computer is an integral part of everyday life has grown. In recent years, non-verbal language around the world has been a major tool in the fight for influence over human consciousness and intelligence. Formation of basic concepts of media education, which later developed into an international pedagogical movement, in a number of western countries (Great Britain, France, Germany) began in the 60’s and 70’s of the XX century. In Canada, as in most highly developed countries (USA, UK, France, Australia), the history of media education began to emerge from cinematographic material. The concept of screen education was formed by the British Society for Education in Film (SEFT), initiated by a group of enthusiastic educators in 1950. In the second half of the twentieth century, due to the intensive development of television, the initial term “film teaching” was transformed into “screen education”. The high intensity of students’ contact with new audiovisual media has become a subject of pedagogical excitement. There was a problem adjusting your children’s audience and media. The most progressive Canadian educators, who have recognized the futility of trying to differentiate students from the growing impact of TV and cinema, have begun introducing a special course in Screen Arts. The use of teachers of the rich potential of new audiovisual media has greatly optimized the learning process itself, the use of films in the classroom has become increasingly motivated. At the end of 1968, an assistant position was created at the Ontario Department of Education, which coordinated work in the “onscreen education” field. It is worth noting that media education in Canada developed under the influence of English media pedagogy. The first developments in the study of “screen education” were proposed in 1968 by British Professor A. Hodgkinson. Canadian institutions are actively implementing media education programs, as the development of e-learning is linked to the hope of solving a number of socio-economic problems. In particular, raising the general education level of the population, expanding access to higher levels of education, meeting the needs for higher education, organizing regular training of specialists in various fields. After all, on the way of building an e-learning system, countries need to solve a set of complex technological problems to ensure the functioning of an extensive network of training centers, quality control of the educational process, training of teaching staff and other problems. Today, it is safe to say that Canada’s media education is on the rise and occupies a leading position in the world. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, Canada’s media education reached a level of mass development, based on serious theoretical and methodological developments. Moreover, Canada remains the world leader in higher education and spends at least $ 25 billion on its universities annually. Only the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia are the biggest competitors in this area.
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Armstrong, Mark. "Deregulation of Radio." Media Information Australia 41, no. 1 (August 1986): 45–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8604100114.
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Radio programs and advertisements have been greatly deregulated by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal in the last five years, with very little public controversy. This reflects changes in public attitudes and government perceptions, but most of all the opening of many new stations since 1975. The radio audience is now fragmented, and there is a much greater diversity in radio than in television.
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Attfield, Sarah. "The working class in the Australian mainstream media." International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 16, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp_00014_1.
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The Australian mainstream media is dominated by middle-class voices, and this shapes the way working-class people are framed within the media. Working-class people have tended to be represented as responsible for their poverty, or ridiculed for their lack of sophistication. But could very small shifts be occurring, as some outlets acknowledge the impact of neo-liberalism on working-class people and point to some of the structural causes of inequality? This article looks at some examples of working-class representation in Australian newspapers, television news and current affairs programs, and considers the ways in which working-class people are presented. The article also asks whether the Australian mainstream media provides a place for working-class voices?
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Loads, Matthew. "Transmedia Television Drama: Proliferation and Promotion of Extended Stories Online." Media International Australia 153, no. 1 (November 2014): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1415300106.
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This article reports on a study of additional transmedia content that is available online in relation to all Australian television drama productions and high rating international drama productions in a five-month period, between January and June 2012. In particular, it asks what additional material exists, and develops a typology of different types of content in order to further explain the current state of play in Australian production. The study examines extended storytelling texts developed specifically for the internet, like ‘webisodes’. It also considers other video and further content that can be based on extending the story world of a program. This article presents and examines the results of the study, arguing that this material can be seen to support the idea of an industry in transition. It finds that there are differences in approach to this type of content between public, free-to-air commercial and subscription broadcasters. Children's television programs are seen to offer the most sophisticated approach online at this time.
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Cryle, Denis, Christina Hunt, and Ross Quinn. "Researching ABC Rockhampton TV, 1963–85: Two Decades of Regional Television Broadcasting." Queensland Review 17, no. 1 (January 2010): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600005250.
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In 1963, Rockhampton was chosen by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to become its first television station in Queensland. ABC Rockhampton TV belonged to a select number of outlets that, in the days before aggregation and extensive networking, gathered and broadcast their own news and local programs to regional viewers. This article details the unearthing and preservation of records vital to this research, and uses these to document the highs and lows of the Rockhampton station. We argue that the history of ABC Rockhampton TV forms a neglected chapter in the ‘getting of regional television’ and the production of local content, and provides an account of the early operations of the organisation from its inception in 1963, an overview of its achievements and an explanation of the reasons for its abrupt demise in the mid-1980s. Additionally, we identify the achievements of particular programs and staff members, and acknowledge the personal tragedies that dogged the station and its community in the closing phase.
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Johnson, Rebecca, Emma Croager, Iain S. Pratt, and Natalie Khoo. "Legal Drug Content in Music Video Programs Shown on Australian Television on Saturday Mornings." Alcohol and Alcoholism 48, no. 1 (September 7, 2012): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/ags102.
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Craik, J. "Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel eds., Understanding Television; John Tulloch and Graeme Turner eds., Austraian Television: Programs, Pleasures and Politics." Screen 32, no. 4 (December 1, 1991): 458–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/32.4.458.
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Seo, Kyoko, and Marilyn McMeniman. "Listening strategies used by adult learners of Japanese to comprehend satellite television programs." Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese 15 (January 1, 1998): 139–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aralss.15.09seo.
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Abstract This paper identifies listening comprehension strategies from the perspective of cognitive psychology, with a focus on the experience of Australian learners of Japanese as a foreign language (L2). In this study, a listening strategy is conceptualised as a mental operation undertaken by a learner to solve a listening comprehension problem in a non-interactional situation. Reading researchers in L2 identified one of the variables which affects text comprehension as formal schema or discourse organisation of text (Meyer and Freedle, 1984; Carrell and Eisterhold, 1988; Carrell, 1991). However, this variable has not been the subject of intensive and extensive research in L2 listening and consequently, there is little empirical evidence which has explored this important variable. With the increased availability of media technology, satellite programs offer rich content and have the potential to provide such information. This paper investigates how news and drama texts may affect the choice of listener strategies, and discusses how the strategies selected by listeners relate to L2 learners’ language proficiency. To collect data on strategies, an introspective ‘think-aloud’ procedure is used and the results are analysed quantitatively.
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Wilson, Helen. "ABC Radio Spaces: Region, State, Nation." Media International Australia 88, no. 1 (August 1998): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9808800107.
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In contrast to the ‘high communication policy’ of most of Australian television, recent developments in ABC radio have exhibited an opposing tendency, towards multiple centres of transmission. This came about through an imperative to provide equity for rural listeners, with the establishment of a Second Regional Radio Network in the 1980s. The network has resulted in a complex layering of radio's ‘spaces of communication’ on regional stations, which broadcast local, regional, state and national programs. This paper outlines the regional structure of the ABC in three states and begins to explore the nature of radio space.
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Herd, Nick. "‘The Weaker Sisters’: The First Decade of ATV-0 Melbourne and TEN-10 Sydney, 1964–1975." Media International Australia 121, no. 1 (November 2006): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0612100115.
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This paper presents aspects of an historical analysis of commercial television as a cultural industry by reference to the introduction of the third licences in Sydney and Melbourne. I am looking at the period between 1964 and 1972 and the development of ATV-0 and TEN-10. In the first part of the paper, I examine some aspects of the industry and organisational structures of the time. Since programming flow is the structuring logic of television as a cultural industry, the second part of the paper looks at the programming strategies used by the stations to differentiate them from and allow them to compete with the other commercial stations. I will do this with reference to particular Australian programs scheduled by the stations. My argument is that, for most of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, these stations pursued an essentially defensive strategy attempting to change the station's competitive position within the existing rules. The change to a more offensive strategy with the genesis of Number 96 was what laid the foundation for financial success.
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Metaxas, Phillip, and Andrew Leigh. "The Predictive Power of Political Pundits: Prescient or Pitiful?" Media International Australia 147, no. 1 (May 2013): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314700103.
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Although Australian political pundits frequently make predictions about the future, little systematic evidence exists about the accuracy of these predictions. To assess the predictive power of experts, we survey the transcripts of two well-known political programs – Insiders and Meet the Press – and record all falsifiable forecasts. Looking at the three months prior to both the 2007 and 2010 federal elections, we are struck by the paucity of falsifiable predictions, with most pundits heavily qualifying their predictions (so that they can never be said to be wrong). In 32 hours of television, we identify 20 falsifiable forecasts in our sample, of which we judge thirteen to be correct. We conclude with some suggestions for political talk shows, and for political scientists seeking to better analyse expert predictions.
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Quin, Robyn, and Barrie McMahon. "Monitoring Standards in Media Studies: Problems and Strategies." Australian Journal of Education 37, no. 2 (August 1993): 182–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419303700206.
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Over the past decade, attention has been given to media studies syllabus development and there is now considerable international consensus about the objectives of media studies. The objectives focus on the processes by which audiences can make sense of, then critique the media. This paper examines the outcomes of these initiatives for a group of 15-year-old students in the Western Australian government school system. Information is provided about a sample testing program which investigated the extent to which the students were meeting the media analysis objectives. The test items cover both print and television analysis. The results provide information about the general cohort's capacity to make sense of the media messages and about the performance of particular demographic groups. On the basis of the strengths and weaknesses revealed in the testing program, some adjustments to present teaching programs are proposed.
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Dillon, Harvey, Greg Birtles, and Roger Lovegrove. "Measuring the Outcomes of a National Rehabilitation Program: Normative Data for the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI) and the Hearing Aid User’s Questionnaire (HAUQ)." Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 10, no. 02 (February 1999): 67–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1748459.
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AbstractSelf-report outcome measures were routinely collected from 4421 adult clients around Australia. The measures used were the Hearing Aid User’s Questionnaire (HAUQ), which assessed hearing aid use, benefit, problems, and satisfaction, and the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI), which identified client needs, change in listening ability, and final listening ability in situations important to each client. Listening to television or radio and conversing with one or two others in a quiet place were the most frequently nominated needs. The benefit reported for noisy places was less than for quiet places, but very positive nonetheless. The normative data collected show a marked concentration of responses near the upper end of the scale for each of the outcome items except daily use. Consequently, correlations between the measures, although highly significant, were mostly less than 0.4. When the data were collapsed across subjects seen at each hearing center, benefit, satisfaction, usage, and problems with the hearing aids became much more strongly correlated with each other, with correlation coefficients up to 0.8. Benefit, satisfaction, usage, and the types of problems clients encountered with their hearing aids varied significantly from hearing center to hearing center. The most frequently reported problem was dissatisfaction with the quality of the subjects’ own voices (i.e., occlusion effect), followed by feedback. The problems most closely related to usage, benefit, and satisfaction, however, were the presence of feedback, comfort of the earmold or earshell, and the quality of the users’ own voices. These outcome measures appear to be most suitable for identifying needs, identifying individuals receiving markedly less than average benefit, and for finding small differences between outcomes for subgroups of the population. Abbreviations: ANOVA = analysis of variance; APHAB = Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit; BTE = behind the ear; COSI = Client Oriented Scale of Improvement; GAS = Goal Attainment Scaling; HAUQ = Hearing Aid User’s Questionnaire; HHIE = Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly; ITE = in the ear; NAL = National Acoustic Laboratories; NAL-RP = NAL Revised Profound; SSPL = saturation sound pressure level
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Crofts, Stephen. "Hansonism, Right-Wing Populism and the Media." Queensland Review 5, no. 2 (December 1998): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s132181660000101x.
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AbstractThis essay aims to explicate the conditions enabling Hansonism. Politically, it argues that the party's exploitation of cynicism about mainstream politics and deepening economic and social divisions have been enabled by the Howard government's zealous pursuit of neo-liberal politics, its dismantling of Labor's welfare safety net, its wedge politics, its cynical reneging on election promises, and its attacks on the fourth estate, not to mention his endorsement of Hanson's freedom of speech'. In terms of the media, the essay argues that Hansonism's protest vote is based on a ‘plague o’ both your houses'. The allied populist prejudices of several radio talkback hosts have drawn their strength from television's virtual displacement of political debate in its posture as voice of the people, its actual address to viewers as domestic, atomised consumers and the increasing populism of vernacular genres such as lifestyle programs and sitcoms. Examples include the most popular Australian film of the Howard-Hanson era, The Castle.We live in the most polyglot and hybrid moment of human history […] Apostles of purity are the most dangerous people in the world. (Salman Rushdie 1994)People who can accept their own contradictions do not kill people. (Ariel Dorfman 1998)The media are […] so much more effective in disseminating information simultaneously to large groups of people that they not only supplement the political and educational systems but in some respects supplant them, because of their enormous power. (Anthony Wedgewood Benn 1972)