Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231162386
Luci Pangrazio, Jane Mavoa
The home is a crucial site of young children's early encounters with digitally connected technologies. It is here that their emerging digital footprints are being formed and where digital data about them is being produced then collected, analysed and commodified in varying ways. While much is speculated about the rise of intelligent assistants, baby monitors, connected toys and goods, there is little quantitative information available about what sorts of devices households with children actually contain. This article reports on findings from an online survey of 504 Australian households with children aged 0–8 years. The survey was designed to capture a snapshot of internet connected devices and goods in households as a way of contextualising current discussions around the datafication of childhood. Results indicate that Australian households with young children are indeed highly connected, and this is primarily via devices already well domesticated into everyday family life such as TVs, computers and smartphones. We discuss several key points emerging from our findings, including: the safety and security of the household as a primary motivator for using smart home devices; the different rates of acceptance of the datafying objects in the home; and the Googlization of family life. We conclude the paper by outlining a research agenda that more accurately reflects the digital realities of Australian family life.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231159966
Yating Yu, D. Tay, Qian Yue
Although there has been an increasing number of studies investigating media representations of the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, less international attention has been given to Chinese media outlets’ coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak than that of their western counterparts. This study employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to investigate how China is linguistically represented in a state-run English-language news media. The analysis reveals that China is respectively represented as a victim, a fighter, and a cooperative/supportive country with ideological implications for global solidarity and humanitarianism. This study sheds light on the effective use of discursive strategies in promoting international cooperation and building a national image amid a global health crisis. The value of using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to examine national image is also highlighted.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231159423
Yoonmo Sang, J. Lee, Sora Park
This special issue, which focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, brings together five articles addressing the use of podcasting in a journalistic context. Drawing on articles that cover diverse topics, this issue paints a larger picture of how news podcasts are created and consumed in various global contexts. Implications are discussed. Reflecting different global contexts, the articles herein address such topics as health, politics and sports and invite researchers to explore the potential and limitations of news podcasts from a wide range of perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231158880
Rob Cover, L. Parker, Charlotte E. Young, Katia Ostapets
This paper discusses findings from a commissioned evaluation of an Australian government COVID-19 health campaign that utilised third-party influencers to increase the reach of health communication messages among culturally and linguistically diverse young people. Although the campaign was successful, interviews with select influencers and target audience members indicated that the ‘serious’ tone of the health messaging was less effective and less likely to be shared and that messages should be more ‘entertaining’. Analyses of data indicated three themes providing insights into how future campaigns may benefit from a focus that draws together health information and entertainment using models already constructed in the entertainment–education field: (1) Entertaining health messages have a stronger fit with influencers who are known for their entertainment value; (2) Entertaining messages are more memorable and more likely to be shared; (3) A balance between entertainment and the signifiers of trust and credibility such as government health authority logos overcomes trust issues in the context of current health disinformation and misinformation.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231154052
Yoon Y. Cho, Ahran Park, Jinhong Choi
The purpose of this study is to examine Korean listeners’ motivations for listening to political news podcasts drawing on uses and gratifications. This study revealed five motivations: social support, convenience, ease of obtaining political information, diversion/habitual use, and alternative use/de-authoritative flow. The study also confirmed that the extent to which gratifications sought for political news podcasts differs depending on listeners’ political orientations. Liberals have stronger motivations for convenience in use, ease of obtaining political information, and diversion/habitual use compared to conservatives. Furthermore, this research found that the motivations for social support, alternative use, and diversion/habitual use tend to impact political discussions with others, both online and offline, and this process could encourage their intention of political participation as well.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231154686
Bridget Backhaus
Regional community radio enriches and diversifies local media landscapes in Australia. It is also a space where communities isolated from mainstream processes of media production can actively participate and, subsequently, ‘see’ themselves reflected in their own media. While the importance of regional community radio generally is well-established, less explored is the history of regional stations. Most historical research on Australian community radio focusses on urban stations while regional and rural stations, which form the majority of the sector, are distinctly underrepresented. Exploring the history of regional community radio stations reveals the relationship between stations and how regional communities choose to represent themselves and construct their own mediatised identity. This article details the findings of a case study focussed on North Queensland station Triple T. One of the oldest regional community radio stations in Queensland, the history of Triple T offers rich insight into the mediatised identity of regional communities.
{"title":"Connections, Community, Coconuts: Exploring the History of Regional Community Radio","authors":"Bridget Backhaus","doi":"10.1177/1329878x231154686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x231154686","url":null,"abstract":"Regional community radio enriches and diversifies local media landscapes in Australia. It is also a space where communities isolated from mainstream processes of media production can actively participate and, subsequently, ‘see’ themselves reflected in their own media. While the importance of regional community radio generally is well-established, less explored is the history of regional stations. Most historical research on Australian community radio focusses on urban stations while regional and rural stations, which form the majority of the sector, are distinctly underrepresented. Exploring the history of regional community radio stations reveals the relationship between stations and how regional communities choose to represent themselves and construct their own mediatised identity. This article details the findings of a case study focussed on North Queensland station Triple T. One of the oldest regional community radio stations in Queensland, the history of Triple T offers rich insight into the mediatised identity of regional communities.","PeriodicalId":46880,"journal":{"name":"Media International Australia","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73582983","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 : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1177/1329878x231155255
Kateryna Kasianenko
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231154693
Mohammed Foysal Chowdhury
Social media entertainment (SME) is turning out to be an industry of its own, and native content creators on different digital platforms play an instrumental role in it. This volume conceptualizes the commercializing and professionalizing aspect of content creators in contrast to most scholarship on ‘user-generated content’ which has not given due attention to the entrepreneurialism of social media users. The rationale behind considering social media entertainment an industry is explained at the outset of the book – and three factors are emphasized: the growing economic value of the social media entertainment, the distinctive features that set it apart from established media forms and institutions, and the gradual transformation from an amateur content-production culture to a thriving formalized sector. Underlining the importance and challenges of studying SME creator culture, this volume organizes the major discussions under three sections: ‘Frameworks and Methods’, ‘Genres and Communities’, and ‘Industries and Governance’. Cross-referencing between and across these three domains is a central tenet of the book, and the debates and deliberations have been structured with reference to different platforms, modalities, and contexts. SME cuts across different sub-disciplines of communication and cultural studies among many other academic fields, and researchers require multidisciplinary approaches to studying SME creator culture. This volume explores a diverse range of approaches and theoretical frameworks that are of benefit to studying various dynamics and implications of the social media sphere. The efficacy of common approaches such as interviewing, document and discourse analysis as well as a few distinctive methods such as computational digital methods, app walkthrough, and autoethnography are explored in this book. Creator culture is shaped by the varied affordances of different social media platforms as well as various macro-political economic factors of different regions. Taking this into consideration, the authors have not limited their discussions to prominent genres and particular countries but dealt with different forms and regions. The analysis of genres such as Spanish book reviewing, Chinese livestreaming, an investigation of issues such as the cultural exchange between India and Pakistan on YouTube, and the rise of social media creators under the authoritarian regime of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are all testament to the authors’ deliberate attempt to engage with understudied trends and contexts. The investigation of the powerplay among different stakeholders such as content creators, state, advertisers, and platforms is one of the key themes of the book – and various implications of these power dynamics have been explored in the chapters such as ‘Political Economy of Sponsored Content and Social Media Entertainment Production’, ‘Creator Rights and Governance’ and so forth. The authors of these chapters instantiat
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221148499
M. Lindgren, Britt Jorgensen
COVID-19 showed the importance of trustworthy and accessible health information. News organisations increasingly introduced podcasting to keep their audiences informed. Podcasting's documented capacity for listener engagement makes it a pertinent medium to study another global public health threat – superbugs – through the lens of constructive journalism. Both constructive journalism and podcasting feature lived experiences of sources, in constructive journalism focused on empowering audiences to act. This practice-led research study is the first to explore how solutions-oriented journalism intersects with narrative podcasts. It demonstrates through the production of a podcast series about antimicrobial resistance (AMR), an affordance to tell complex and often scary health stories. It finds that podcasting can position individuals affected by AMR as sources of empowering information, rather than as victims. The study contributes new knowledge to constructive podcast journalism as an impactful approach in public health journalism, leveraging its potential to provide solutions to listeners and promote change.
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