Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231193918
Ben Kooyman
{"title":"Book Review: International Broadcasting and Its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft: Middle Power, Smart Power by Geoff Heriot","authors":"Ben Kooyman","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231193918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231193918","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"87316057","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 : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231193182
Bridget Backhaus, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, A. Leitch
Climate change is most acutely experienced at the local level so conversations and action must be locally relevant. Australia's community radio sector is uniquely positioned – both as hyperlocal media and a platform for diverse voices – to facilitate these conversations. Drawing on research conducted with 12 community radio stations, this article enlists Dreher and de Souza’s idea of community radio as community ‘listening posts’: spaces for communities to engage with external groups as well as those within. Community radio stations present opportunities for political leaders and policymakers to access community sentiment and experiences of climate change. The role of listening in community radio also speaks to the relationships between communicative justice and climate justice – the politics of who speaks and who is heard. The findings suggest that the Australian sector and its global contemporaries could embrace the role of listening with community radio to support community resilience to climate change.
{"title":"Listening for the local: Australian community radio and climate change communication","authors":"Bridget Backhaus, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, A. Leitch","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231193182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231193182","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is most acutely experienced at the local level so conversations and action must be locally relevant. Australia's community radio sector is uniquely positioned – both as hyperlocal media and a platform for diverse voices – to facilitate these conversations. Drawing on research conducted with 12 community radio stations, this article enlists Dreher and de Souza’s idea of community radio as community ‘listening posts’: spaces for communities to engage with external groups as well as those within. Community radio stations present opportunities for political leaders and policymakers to access community sentiment and experiences of climate change. The role of listening in community radio also speaks to the relationships between communicative justice and climate justice – the politics of who speaks and who is heard. The findings suggest that the Australian sector and its global contemporaries could embrace the role of listening with community radio to support community resilience to climate change.","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89849860","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: 10.1177/1329878x231191300
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":null,"pages":null},"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: 10.1177/1329878x231191301
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":null,"pages":null},"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 : 2023-07-27DOI: 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":null,"pages":null},"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 : 2023-07-12DOI: 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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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