96 research outputs found
Stereotyping actors: A frame analysis of the Australian digital media coverage of'knock on the roof' during the Gaza War (2014)
No full textBy Mayyada Mhanna and Debbie Rodan, Published on 01/01/17
Identity and justice : conflicts, contradictions and contingencies
No full textDebbie Rodan adds breadth and depth to the field of literary, cultural and gender studies through a meticulous investigation of notions such as re-presentation, justice and legitimation. She examines their historical and philosophical trajectories as well as their politico-juridical underpinnings through an ambitious and timely recuperation of the Enlightenment projects of rationality and emancipation. The point of departure is a critical engagement with the theoretical work of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Jean-François Lyotard. Rodan claims each can be read as foregrounding diverse ways of constituting identity within the social world. Recognition of other people\u27s identity at the social, cultural and national level is crucial to the possibility of justice. Rodan tests the concepts of justice, legitimation and identity through detailed critical readings/analyses of a range of texts. The range includes the film East is East, a number of auto/biographical narratives as well as the Australian government report, Bringing Them Home, which is concerned with the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. She avoids polarising Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal notions of justice, identity etc. by including texts which raise and problematise questions of ethnicity and gende
Chewing the communal cud: Community deliberation in broadsheet letters and political blogs
No full textContending that media users are more than consumers and that the mass media are able to achieve more in the public sphere than simply meet market demand, Mummery and Rodan argue in this chapter that some types of mass media may in fact fulfil public sphere responsibilities
Chewing the Communal Cud
No full textContending that media users are more than consumers and that the mass media are able to achieve more in the public sphere than simply meet market demand, Mummery and Rodan argue in this chapter that some types of mass media may in fact fulfil public sphere responsibilities. The authors demonstrate how forums such as broadsheet letters to the editor and online political blogs—despite their commonly recognised limitations due to influence by private/commercial ownership, editorship, and the requirements of authorship—may exemplify, enable and support community deliberation over issues of public concern. More specifically, via engaging with Jürgen Habermas’ conceptions of the necessary conditions for rational and communal deliberation, and critically examining recent debates in these forums, the authors argue both that these mediated forums can enable and exemplify community deliberation and, more generally, that community deliberation itself does not need to be strictly consensus-oriented to be productive.</jats:p
The creative potential of new media technologies: Youth Internet Radio Network
No full textNew media technologies are thought to be significant tools for enabling creativity and innovation. We examine this through a project where young people create content for distribution on the internet and consume content created by other young people. How does this challenge the traditionally understood separation of the producer : consumer? How can we encourage creativity through the use of new media technologies? \ud
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This paper describes the early development of the Youth Internet Radio Network (YIRN) - a research project funded by an ARC Linkage grant. YIRN is designed as an 'open architecture' platform for experimentation, dissemination and exploration of the potential of streaming technologies to network young people across Queensland - focussing on content creation. Previous research and project development experience in Australia and South Asia has suggested the strong potential for combining old and new technologies, and clearly indicates the importance of creating a project development approach and project ‘ethos’ and space that encourages innovative and flexible applications. This paper draws on some of these experiences, which have contributed to the conceptual development of YIRN. YIRN aims to encourage participants to explore the full potential of its online network and encourage interactivity and communication across the network. To achieve this we have designed a network architecture that is essentially ‘open’ using the idea of the ‘end to end network’, so that the network and the website are responsive to the ‘intelligence’ that users add at the ‘ends’
Tactics or mobilising participation and action: GetUp! A cast study of communicative spaces
No full textGetUp! began in 2005. It is an Australian grass-roots community advocacy organisation that aims to build an accountable and progressive Australian Parliament, and for this reason it does not support any particular political party (\u27About GetUp!, FAQ (GetUp!)\u27, n.d.). GetUp.org.au claims it is \u27an independent political movement to build a progressive Australia\u27 bringing \u27like-minded people\u27 together \u27who want to bring participation back into our democracy\u27. GetUp!\u27s website is core to the network governance of the group. GetUp members number 350,000 (about 5% of the population). Members are asked to forward the emails they receive from GetUp! to \u27five friends\u27 and, according to GetUp!, through this act messages can reach millions (28 April 2010). Thus GetUp! conducts viral snowball campaigns to create a groundswell of action through: 1) bite-size emails which inform members of the latest issue that needs political action; 2) promotional videos on YouTube; 3) advertisements in national newspapers and on national television; 4) and the development of political campaign skills through Community Organizing Workshops based on \u27Camp Obama\u27. So GetUp!\u27s aim is independent media activism mainly activated through the communicative space of the Internet. The purpose of this paper is to analyse a sample of GetUp!\u27s videos that are used as visual media tools to engage members and the wider citizenry. The author concludes that GetUp!\u27s YouTube videos are potent and effective as tactics to gain access to the \u27symbolic power\u27 of the mainstream media (Couldry 2002) and at the same time retain control over production of their campaign messages. Tactics include production of visual media to be used as an \u27information source\u27 (Grabe & Bucy 2009, p. 26), and viral communication which is effective in creating a \u27media buzz\u27 (Castells 2009, p. 334
Tactics or mobilising participation and action: GetUp! A cast study of communicative spaces
No full textGetUp! began in 2005. It is an Australian grass-roots community advocacy organisation that aims to build an accountable and progressive Australian Parliament, and for this reason it does not support any particular political party (\u27About GetUp!, FAQ (GetUp!)\u27, n.d.). GetUp.org.au claims it is \u27an independent political movement to build a progressive Australia\u27 bringing \u27like-minded people\u27 together \u27who want to bring participation back into our democracy\u27. GetUp!\u27s website is core to the network governance of the group. GetUp members number 350,000 (about 5% of the population). Members are asked to forward the emails they receive from GetUp! to \u27five friends\u27 and, according to GetUp!, through this act messages can reach millions (28 April 2010). Thus GetUp! conducts viral snowball campaigns to create a groundswell of action through: 1) bite-size emails which inform members of the latest issue that needs political action; 2) promotional videos on YouTube; 3) advertisements in national newspapers and on national television; 4) and the development of political campaign skills through Community Organizing Workshops based on \u27Camp Obama\u27. So GetUp!\u27s aim is independent media activism mainly activated through the communicative space of the Internet. The purpose of this paper is to analyse a sample of GetUp!\u27s videos that are used as visual media tools to engage members and the wider citizenry. The author concludes that GetUp!\u27s YouTube videos are potent and effective as tactics to gain access to the \u27symbolic power\u27 of the mainstream media (Couldry 2002) and at the same time retain control over production of their campaign messages. Tactics include production of visual media to be used as an \u27information source\u27 (Grabe & Bucy 2009, p. 26), and viral communication which is effective in creating a \u27media buzz\u27 (Castells 2009, p. 334
Was macht es so schwierig, Bewußtsein naturalistisch zu erklären?
No full textWir Menschen sind seelisch-geistige Wesen, wir nehmen Dinge wahr, fühlen und empfinden etwas, denken über Dinge nach, wünschen uns Dinge, sind von etwas überzeugt und dergleichen mehr. In der Analytischen Philosophie des Geistes hat sich für Wahrnehmungen, Empfindungen, Gefühle, Gedanken, Überzeugungen, Wünsche, Absichten und so weiter die zusammenfassende Bezeichnung "mentale Zustände" eingebürgert. An diese Terminologie werde ich mich im folgenden halten
Casualising the use of nonhuman animals’ dodies in ‘meat porn’ television programs and websites
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