Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231199830
Dina Matar
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231199331
Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon, Danielle Hynes
In an Australian regional and rural context, inequalities in the location of telecommunications infrastructure and uneven development pose urgent spatial justice questions for policy and planning. These spatial injustices are reinforced by the imaginaries and ideologies of telecommunications development and which populations and locations can benefit from the growth gains attributed to enhanced telecommunications infrastructures. First Nations contributions to telecommunications planning and development are marginalised within the imagined futures and current experiences of internet and mobile coverage in regional and rural towns. Drawing on data from a project focused on regional and rural consumer understandings of smart technologies in North West New South Wales, Australia, we suggest that in order to more substantively position First Nations as growth contributors to telecommunications futures, a re-orientation of place, connectivity, and mobility in planning and engagement is necessary.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231198317
Viet Tho Le, Lelia Green
This article investigates the differences and similarities between the news frames used by online mainstream media in Vietnam and Australia when reporting COVID-19 in the early waves of the pandemic. The project uses constant comparative analysis to interrogate data gathered from two online news sources: ABC Online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Australia, and Tuoi Tre Online in Vietnam. The article concludes that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation coverage focuses more on social, political and economic factors than is the case with Tuoi Tre Online, which foregrounds civic responsibility in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation highlights how COVID-19 amplifies the long-term consequences of social disadvantage while Tuoi Tre Online, in contrast, emphasises the short-term, acute community impacts of outbreaks, given that these require rapid identification and control. It is argued that differences between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's and Tuoi Tre Online's framings of the pandemic reflect national differences in governance of disasters. Tuoi Tre Online perceives healthy citizenry as soldiers, and constructs the vulnerable and infected as challenges to the biological safety of the whole: the majority social collective. In contrast, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation frames vulnerable and infected individuals as important, focussing on their rights and on the responsibilities of mainstream society towards those who are at risk.
本文调查了越南和澳大利亚在线主流媒体在疫情初期报道新冠肺炎时使用的新闻框架的异同。该项目使用持续的比较分析来询问从两个在线新闻来源收集的数据:澳大利亚的ABC在线(澳大利亚广播公司)和越南的Tuoi Tre在线。文章的结论是，澳大利亚广播公司的报道比Tuoi Tre Online更关注社会、政治和经济因素，后者强调应对COVID-19疫情的公民责任。澳大利亚广播公司(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)强调了COVID-19如何放大社会劣势的长期后果，而Tuoi Tre Online则强调了疫情对社区的短期严重影响，因为这些影响需要快速识别和控制。有人认为，澳大利亚广播公司(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)和Tuoi Tre Online对疫情框架的不同反映了各国在灾害治理方面的差异。青年在线感知健康公民的士兵,结构脆弱,感染的生物安全挑战整个:绝大多数社会集体。相比之下，澳大利亚广播公司将易受伤害和受感染的个人视为重要的，重点是他们的权利和主流社会对处于危险中的人的责任。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231198318
Christopher Ali
While called the “bedrock” and “cornerstone” of US media policy, the localism principle has been chipped away over 40 years by the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) full throated embrace of market-based practices. Recently, however, localism has emerged as a pivotal battleground in telecommunications. Through case studies of three recent regulatory issues—local cable franchising, municipal broadband, and small cell deployment—this paper examines the role of localism in US-based cable and telecommunications policy. It coins the term “telecommunications localism” to capture the changing technological focus of media regulation, from content to infrastructure. In regulatory actions over the past decade the FCC has simultaneously acknowledged local municipalities’ role in telecommunications deployment and actively worked to curtail this power through deregulation. These deregulatory actions strip municipalities of their autonomy over license negotiations and local rights of way and stymies the development and deployment of local communication systems.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231194803
W. Wang, Pengfei Fu
This article examines the production of operational space amidst the rise of self- and data-tracking media, through the case study of the Qantas Wellbeing App. We draw on the operational paradigm in media studies to envisage how the Qantas Wellbeing App is embedded in the social-material relations between its users and the app, and the broader data-platform economy. By conceptualising the Qantas Wellbeing App as an operational media, the inquiry focuses on its designs and techniques that prompt users to fulfil prescribed tasks and follow instructions. We follow Lefebvre's conceptualisation of the production of space to evaluate three sets of social relations reconfigured by the Qantas Wellbeing App: human-to-human, human-to-machine, and data-to-data. By relying on qualitative evidence collected from an auto-ethnographic approach, our analyses focus on (1) spatial practices and (2) social relations constructed around the Qantas Wellbeing App between the authors to argue that social space is becoming a programmed reality that adheres to the logic of technological automation. Our analysis here affirms the app's capacity and objective to modify human behaviours and to evaluate how the app has recalibrated the authors’ respective and shared social spaces to create the needed condition of behaviour changes among the users. As social space is centred around human relations and activities, human agency and lives become secondary in an operational regime, which relies on data synchronisation to prosecute for the operational space and life.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231193906
Runping Zhu, Wei-yi Hou, R. Krever
Central to the study of the persuasive powers of media messaging is framing theory, an explanation of how the press presents stories through specific frames to both present information and influence readers' views on the subject matter. Drawing on a case study of news reports in the Australian press of China's one-child policy, this article shows how two additions to traditional news frame analysis drawn from related disciplines may contribute to our understanding of the impact of journalism on Australians’ views of the world and themselves. The first is a consideration of the ‘self-reflective’ frames embedded in frames of other countries that deliberately imply the presumed superiority of Australian culture. The second is the addition of a new ‘social and cultural attributes’ issue frame used in news to ascribe factual news events in another country to supposed social or cultural attributes of the society in which the stories arise.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-13DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231193252
Chris Chesher, C. Albarrán-Torres
In mid-2022, AI systems automatically translating text into evocative original images became an internet sensation. People compared it to magic: invoking an uncannily competent artist–magician. We call it ‘autolography’ from the Greek ‘automatos + logos + graphos’ (self + word + drawing). Following a discourse analysis of online publications comparing autolography to magic, we analyse its enthusiastic reception from some and critique from others. We identify historical parallels and divergences between the reception of contemporary autolography and early photography: the reduction or transformation of creative labour, negotiations over intellectual property, the alleged democratisation of visual cultural production, and the association with the Western magical imagination. Both photography and autolography prompted renegotiations of artistic practices, professional identities and intellectual property laws. However, rather than being a mechanical eye on the world, autolography undermines faith in images by invoking digitally uncanny materialisations of floating signifiers from AI models.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231193909
Anand Badola
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Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231193191
J. Gleave, Lisa Waller
Cases of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) – the creation or distribution of private sexual or nude images – are on the rise across the world and internet, but the public does not understand this issue as a form of sexual violence. This is due in part to the role of journalists and the news media as the first site where the general audience hears about new issues. Research into IBSA has not considered the role of the news media to educate the public, so this article seeks to explore this gap through the creation of an experimental work of journalism. The creative component is an interactive journalism feature hosted on a website that offers the audience opportunities to engage with victim perspectives within the context of an explanatory journalism article about IBSA. This approach seeks to be an example for future journalism about sexual abuse and improve public understanding of IBSA.
{"title":"[Can’t] Delete: an intervention in mainstream news media representations of image-based sexual abuse","authors":"J. Gleave, Lisa Waller","doi":"10.1177/1329878X231193191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231193191","url":null,"abstract":"Cases of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) – the creation or distribution of private sexual or nude images – are on the rise across the world and internet, but the public does not understand this issue as a form of sexual violence. This is due in part to the role of journalists and the news media as the first site where the general audience hears about new issues. Research into IBSA has not considered the role of the news media to educate the public, so this article seeks to explore this gap through the creation of an experimental work of journalism. The creative component is an interactive journalism feature hosted on a website that offers the audience opportunities to engage with victim perspectives within the context of an explanatory journalism article about IBSA. This approach seeks to be an example for future journalism about sexual abuse and improve public understanding of IBSA.","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75371682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231193903
Nadia Jude
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