2,282 research outputs found
Mapping national news reports on COVID-19 in Australia: Topics, sources and imagined audiences
No full textNews media across the world have played an important role in contributing to public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic, including the actions being taken by governments to prevent and contain its spread and the role of citizens in the public health response. In this chapter, we analyse news reporting on the pandemic in The Australian newspaper and ABC News Online in Australia between February and August 2020. Our constructed week sampling approach examined news reports across 24 days with particular attention to the topics and sources included in the coverage and the ways in which audiences were addressed in the stories. Conceptually, we take as our starting point Briggs and Hallin’s framework of ‘biomediatisation’ and three predominant models of ‘biocommunicability’ that they identify in health news: biomedical authority, patient-consumer, and public sphere. These models variously position social actors in active or passive roles in relation to the flow of health information. Our analysis explores the presence of these models in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether or not adaptations or new models are better suited to capture some of the particular characteristics of this profoundly mediatised pandemic
Picking up the threads and expanding the dialogue on communicating COVID-19.
No full textThis chapter introduces the problematic and complex landscape of communicating COVID-19 since the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread around the world in the early months of 2020. Picking up the threads of the first edited collection, Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, the chapter foregrounds the breadth of communicative issues addressed in the book by over 60 scholars in the Global North and South . The authors introduce the book’s four parts, which address (1) radio, journalism and news media representations; (2) risk communication and community engagement; (3) vaccine communication and digital technologies; and (4) theoretical and philosophical concepts for understanding COVID-19 communication. Each of these parts contribute to the book’s central concerns of communicating the pandemic in the contexts of media, trust and public engagement, which are articulated and unravelled through the collective and diverse voices of multiple interdisciplinary contributors
The matter of trust in COVID-19 communication.
No full textThis chapter succinctly highlights and synthesises the diverse global input from 23 chapters that draw attention to the many new and recurring COVID-19 communication challenges. The chapter addresses a common theme throughout the book: the matter of trust and how trust plays into the impact and relevance of all communication efforts. The chapter threads the importance of trust in communication and public health with specific reference to the areas of news journalism, social media and community engagement. It concludes a rich collection of theoretical and practical conversations around pandemic communication in a way that invites us to think about the weight of responsibility of communicating COVID-19
Metajournalistic Discourse and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia
No full textThis chapter presents an analysis of metajournalistic discourse surrounding coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. ‘Metajournalistic discourse’ refers to statements that provide articulations of the meaning and role of journalism which, alongside other factors, influence both its production and reception. Drawing on the work of scholars who have approached COVID-19 as a ‘critical incident’ for journalism, the chapter examines examples of journalists and media commentators reflecting on and appraising the quality of journalism during the pandemic. Through this analysis, it identifies three broad ways in which metajournalistic discourse is deployed: (1) as a process of discursive reproduction wherein metajournalistic discourse reiterates contrasting and contesting models of journalism; (2) as a process of contestation, in which the field reflects on its values and practices in the face of both an immediate situation and wider currents of change; and (3) as a process of adaptation, which involves journalists reflecting on how to navigate novel challenges. In illustrating their arguments, the authors discuss key issues and controversies for journalism during the pandemic, including alarmism, objectivity, politicisation, misinformation and the public ‘performance’ of journalism at livestreamed press conferences
Lewis, Edwin F (Birth, 1890-08-07)
No full textAddress: 245 Everett5123/Pg 125/1890/W M/Cinti./Cinti./Mrs. Kate Born, Mid.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'Leonhard-Lewis, P'
Lewis, Edward Abraham (Birth, 1891-09-20)
No full textAddress: 135 Park Ave.6112/Pg.167/1891/M W/Russia/Russia/Mrs Kate Born - MidwifeOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'Leonhard-Lewis, P'
Kate: The Keen Android Travel Extension
No full textKate is a working prototype that shows that an app can assist a traveller in the travel decision process. Kate is built up from modules, the source of travel data (now the calendar) and travel time prediction (now Tripcast from Model IT) can easily be switched to another source which will require only the change of one module.Man Machine InteractionMediamaticsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Political trajectories in the painting of P. Wyndham Lewis
No full textThis thesis presents an analysis of the political dimension to the paintings of Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).Through an exegesis of the discreet and latent "voices" in Lewis's paintings the ideological parameters of his thought world are disclosed. These imperatives are examined for their display of political predispositions, for values and attitudes, which reveal a loading towards specific socio-cultural standards. In so far as these standards can be identified with historically relevant political programmes they become manifestos for political actions. Or, at the very least, they can be seen to exist as critical and prescriptive social insights. Importantly, the focus of this examination and interpretation remains the visual image and its related texts. A key aspect of both the methodology and argument within this thesis, insists that the visual image is the bearer of meaning in both its subject matter and technique. Values are communicated not only in reference to the thing displayed, but, in the manner of the display. Hence, an analysis of the intellectual and formal strategies employed by Lewis in his painting becomes a central concern of the thesis. Finally, the thesis rounds on the actual nature of Lewis's politics as revealed in his approach to art. While it is accepted that the mediation from the political to the painted throws up many and substantial barriers, the thesis insists that a political reading of Lewis's creative work is not only appropriate but necessary. In offering just such a reading the author hopes to transcend the boundaries between the disciplines of Art History and Sociology
This woman's work: Kate Bush, female fans and practices of distinction
No full textThis thesis proposes a broader understanding of the nature of women’s investments in popular music. Through a case-study of a group of mostly mature, middle class, white and heterosexual female fans for the British performer Kate Bush (1958- ) this thesis asks questions about the way in which gender, age, class, race/ethnicity and sexuality circulate within the field of popular music fandom, a field which has traditionally privileged masculinity and youth.
Studies of popular music consumption have tended to emphasise the notion of resistance to dominant culture, often by young, working class men. This has obscured the investments more mature and middle class women might have in popular music. This thesis shows that these investments are, instead of wholly conservative as is usually implied, both resistant and reactionary. In a similar way, these investments do not necessarily lead to powerful positions for the women (for instance, in a domestic context), but they do empower them to deal with the demands of work and relationships.
The women’s claims to distinction as serious music lovers are often made at the expense of other fans, especially young girls, and as such reinforce existing notions of the undiscriminating and ‘eroticised’ female fan. At the same time, however, their claims to distinction on account of their ‘feminine cultural capital’, enabled by Kate Bush’s blend of a ‘masculine’ musical virtuosity and a ‘feminine’ address, partly challenges the male domination of the popular music field. Furthermore, the women’s articulation of popular music and a mature sensibility challenges the medium’s youth ethos and offers an understanding of the way in which popular music returns its value for listeners through the long term
Kate M. Cleary a literary biography with selected works
No full textIn 1884 Kate Cleary moved from Chicago to Hubbell, Nebraska, where she bore six children and helped support her family by publishing hundreds of stories, poems, and articles. After her return to Chicago in 1898, Cleary continued to write stories about the American West. Susanne K. George's absorbing account recovers the life and works of a fascinating western American author. She vividly portrays Cleary's arduous decade and a half on the frontier and her last, tragic years in Chicago, where she died in 1905, at the age of forty-two. George also describes how Cleary's career reflects the difficulties faced by women authors at the end of the nineteenth century and the unique perspectives that such women brought to the art of fictionThe second part of the book is a collection of Cleary's writings. Some of these eighteen short stories, essays, and sketches are somber, even grim, depictions of homestead and small-town life in Nebraska, with special emphasis placed on the experience's of women. Others are humorous, ironic accounts of life on the western frontier. Also included is a sampling of Cleary's vers
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