Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231191300
Katharina Esau
{"title":"Book Review: Hyperconnectivity and its Discontents by Rogers Brubaker","authors":"Katharina Esau","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231191300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231191300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87406211","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 : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231191302
Mohammed Foysal Chowdhury
{"title":"Book Review: Investigating Google’s Search Engine: Ethics, Algorithms, and the Machines Built to Read Us by Rosie Graham","authors":"Mohammed Foysal Chowdhury","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231191302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231191302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87388071","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 : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231191301
A. Edwards
{"title":"Book Review: Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young","authors":"A. Edwards","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231191301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231191301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"433 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78127355","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 : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231186445
C. Abidin, Jin Lee
We examine how TikTok expanded into the South Korean landscape by utilizing K-pop as a vehicle, thus demonstrating the theory of ‘platformed glocalization’. After several failed attempts to enter the Korean market – having been stigmatized as a ‘vulgar Chinese app’ – TikTok Korea eventually launched a successful event series known as ‘TikTok Stage’ to leverage on the gaps in the K-pop market arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. While ‘platformization’ has been studied as the pervasive reach and impact of platforms on cultures, we showcase the potential for a variant that we term ‘platformed glocalization’, usually observed when domestic market cultures and their associated socio-politics are particularly strong. We investigate K-pop stars and fans’ ‘promotional labour’ during the events, which is essential in the process of platformed glocalization. We discuss how the mainstream entertainment industry and newly emerging social media platforms work in tandem to produce a market-specific mobilization of digital cultures.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231185563
Yu Du
Civic engagement is vital for a functioning democracy. Digital media broadens avenues of civic engagement, allowing people to practise various forms of citizenship. This article explores Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement on various digital media platforms. The findings result from an interpretive analysis of 38 Chinese New Zealanders’ in-depth interviews. I found that interviewees practised engaged and flexible citizenship through digital media activities. These two forms of citizenship enable Chinese New Zealanders to negotiate multilayered identities and disclose internal diversity. They also used social media to develop essential skills to address everyday concerns. The research enriches the knowledge of the Chinese diaspora's online media practices and deepens the understanding of digital media's democratic potential.
{"title":"Practising citizenship through online media: An interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online","authors":"Yu Du","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231185563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231185563","url":null,"abstract":"Civic engagement is vital for a functioning democracy. Digital media broadens avenues of civic engagement, allowing people to practise various forms of citizenship. This article explores Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement on various digital media platforms. The findings result from an interpretive analysis of 38 Chinese New Zealanders’ in-depth interviews. I found that interviewees practised engaged and flexible citizenship through digital media activities. These two forms of citizenship enable Chinese New Zealanders to negotiate multilayered identities and disclose internal diversity. They also used social media to develop essential skills to address everyday concerns. The research enriches the knowledge of the Chinese diaspora's online media practices and deepens the understanding of digital media's democratic potential.","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91274030","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 : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231183289
Cheryl O’Byrne
{"title":"Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories by Jennifer Martin","authors":"Cheryl O’Byrne","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231183289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231183289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88450588","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 : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231183286
G. Peaty, Kathryn Locke, Kai-Ti Kao, Katie Ellis, Hersinta
This article investigates the multiple values of audio description (AD) across an increasingly discerning, broad and multi-platform audience of video consumers. While other accessibility features, such as closed captions, are an established aspect of accessible video consumption, AD has more recently emerged as a socially and culturally significant feature for audiences, both with and without vision-based disabilities. This article offers a review of historical accounts of AD and current discussions around both the quality and provision of AD for video. This discussion is presented alongside the findings from our three-way review of the accessibility of the video on demand landscape in Australia. We identify that AD is at a critical juncture, popularised by the rise in audio content and audience demands for personalised viewing options, thus becoming a mainstream entertainment issue as well as an accessibility issue.
{"title":"A series of lively impressions: Quality narration and the rise of audio description","authors":"G. Peaty, Kathryn Locke, Kai-Ti Kao, Katie Ellis, Hersinta","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231183286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231183286","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the multiple values of audio description (AD) across an increasingly discerning, broad and multi-platform audience of video consumers. While other accessibility features, such as closed captions, are an established aspect of accessible video consumption, AD has more recently emerged as a socially and culturally significant feature for audiences, both with and without vision-based disabilities. This article offers a review of historical accounts of AD and current discussions around both the quality and provision of AD for video. This discussion is presented alongside the findings from our three-way review of the accessibility of the video on demand landscape in Australia. We identify that AD is at a critical juncture, popularised by the rise in audio content and audience demands for personalised viewing options, thus becoming a mainstream entertainment issue as well as an accessibility issue.","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88119145","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 : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231184913
B. Green, C. Strong
Increasingly, music festivals in Australia are being cancelled, postponed or otherwise impacted by extreme weather events, including floods throughout 2022 and bushfires in 2018–2019. These and other forms of extreme weather, such as dangerous heat and drought, are predicted to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change. However, relative to the size of the problem, there is a lack of attention in both public discussion and scholarly literature to the impacts of extreme weather and climate change on the festival sector, and the need to adapt in response. This study explores this issue in the context of Australian music festivals. The threat of extreme weather to the Australian music festival sector and its benefits is outlined, with reference to climate science predictions as against known festival activity, as well as a detailed overview of recent impacts. This is followed by an examination of how music festival stakeholders in industry and government are responding to this challenge, through the analysis of policy submissions, media comments and changes of practice. This article concludes by proposing a set of questions and issues for research, policy and action concerning the escalating impact of extreme weather on music festivals in Australia, with relevance to other places.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231183292
Amber Marshall, Carrie-Ann Wilson, A. Dale
Despite recent investments in telecommunications infrastructure in regional Australia, a digital divide remains between rural and urban communities. The impacts of comparatively limited digital connectivity in rural Australia include fewer opportunities for economic participation, difficulty accessing health and educational services, and challenges responding to crisis events such as natual disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an acute need for improved access to robust mobile and broadband services before, during and after crises in rural Australia. This article presents solutions for improved digital connectivity and digital capability in Far North Queensland, founded in a project that brought together researchers, business owners, councils, development organisations, technical experts and service providers to collaboratively identify and define telecommunications challenges related to a catastrophic flood in 2019. The research supports telecommunications providers, state and local governments, and community development organisations working together to collaboratively invest in technical and social solutions that enable rural communities to achieve greater crisis resilience.
{"title":"New pathways to crisis resilience: solutions for improved digital connectivity and capability in rural Australia","authors":"Amber Marshall, Carrie-Ann Wilson, A. Dale","doi":"10.1177/1329878X231183292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231183292","url":null,"abstract":"Despite recent investments in telecommunications infrastructure in regional Australia, a digital divide remains between rural and urban communities. The impacts of comparatively limited digital connectivity in rural Australia include fewer opportunities for economic participation, difficulty accessing health and educational services, and challenges responding to crisis events such as natual disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an acute need for improved access to robust mobile and broadband services before, during and after crises in rural Australia. This article presents solutions for improved digital connectivity and digital capability in Far North Queensland, founded in a project that brought together researchers, business owners, councils, development organisations, technical experts and service providers to collaboratively identify and define telecommunications challenges related to a catastrophic flood in 2019. The research supports telecommunications providers, state and local governments, and community development organisations working together to collaboratively invest in technical and social solutions that enable rural communities to achieve greater crisis resilience.","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"5 1","pages":"24 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78396170","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 : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231183283
Tom Boniface-Webb
Desray Armstrong is one of the most prolific producers working in the Aotearoa New Zealand screen industry. As a wahine (woman/female) Māori, Armstrong's presence counters the traditional domination of white male screen professionals, yet her aim is to support writers and directors from all backgrounds who have a story to tell. Beginning as a production manager, she worked her way up over a career spanning twenty years, and in December 2021 the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) awarded her the Māori Screen Excellence Award. However, Armstrong gained her first producer credit only after employing a non-traditional financing model for the artistically ambitious Stray, which was considered outside the remit of the more commercially minded NZFC. Since Stray, and with the support of the NZFC, she has produced films that are challenging and topical, including the noir thriller Coming Home in the Dark, the family saga Juniper and the social media satire Millie Lies Low. This article demonstrates how the onerous public film funding model in New Zealand and the wider market can affect the ability of filmmakers to tell stories that sit outside the narratives acceptable to New Zealand's pākehā-dominated culture. It exposes the mismatch between Armstrong's view that her work is seen by some, as pākehā focussed and the NZFC's idea of the ‘Māori screen industry’. It concludes that despite the drive toward a more accessible industry, led by the NZFC, filmmakers like Armstrong challenge traditional views about how New Zealand should be represented on screen, choosing to position the story and the storyteller as the chief focus, and not where the story originates from.
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