http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:22874 Performance held at Wollongong Conservatorium, Wollongong, NSW on Friday 6 July 2012 2013-05-10T05:30:16.037Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:16850 In 1848 William Cuffay, the son of a freed slave, was arrested and transported to Van Diemen's Land by a government fearful of revolution that was sweeping through Europe. Aged 60 Cuffay, a tailor and leader of the London Chartists, was campaigning for the right to vote as part of the first mass working class movement in the world. His transportation to Australia didn't end his political activity. He continued to organise and agitate for democratic rights in Tasmania for another 20 years until his death in 1870, at the age of 82. Cuffay's Chartist legacy is today enshrined in parliaments in Britain and Australia. His lifelong political activism remains an inspiration to those who believe in workers rights, human rights and democracy. Although Cuffay died a pauper, newspapers in three states -- Tasmania, NSW and Victoria -- published obituaries. One observed that his grave had been 'marked', should a memorial to him be built at some future time. The memorial never transpired, and Cuffay was forgotten in Australia and Britain. But now there's a move to build one -- or perhaps even a statue! Broadcast 31 July 2011. Readings, and the voice of William Cuffay, were performed by Chris Haywood. 2013-05-10T05:20:36.975Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:20193 Broadcast on Saturday 20 August 2011 2013-05-10T05:20:18.752Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25336 Artist manager of the reorded album - Tim Hart, milling the wind. 2013-05-10T05:20:05.672Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25307 Despite growing work on the educational potential of digital media, literacy debates in Australia have remained locked in a banal opposition between serious educational aims and trivial entertainment media. To reinvigorate these debates, this article overviews progressive approaches to media literacy and case studies debates around the sexualisation of girls and young women in popular media. Ultimately, the authors - drawing on their submission to the recent Senate Inquiry on the subject - identify two ways to reset the media education and literacy agenda by incorporating a more productive engagement with digital media literacy. 2013-05-09T09:37:40.359Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25318 In her article Ambiguity, Children, Representation, and Sexuality Catharine Lumby considers current and historical scholarly and popular debates about the representation of children, including concerns about their sexualisation in such representations. The article begins by examining images taken by photographers in the Victorian era, including Charles Dodgson and Julia Cameron, and asks not only how the gaze of the photographer frames the child but how the child returns the adult gaze. Lumby seeks to problematize our understanding of the ways in which images sexualize children. Drawing on the work of James Kincaid, it examines discourses that frame children as, on one hand, naturally innocent, yet, on the other, as unnaturally corruptible. It explores how these discourses underpin current popular debates about the alleged sexualisation of children through amateur and commercial photography. Animating Lumby's argumentation are the questions: what draws us to images of children? What disturbs us about them? and what is at stake in the gaze of the child? Ultimately, Lumby argues that anxieties about representations of children are always located in anxieties about the ambiguity of the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. 2013-05-09T09:37:37.258Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25375 Popular politics -- The shock of the news -- Vanishing point -- Extreme close-up -life in the fame lane -- Entertaining sex and power -- True confessions and salacious scandals -- Media culpa - democracy and the postmodern public sphere. 2013-05-09T09:37:00.820Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25374 2 page(s) 2013-05-09T09:37:00.411Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25377 Tells the truth about contemporary family life. That beyond the outmoded idea of the nuclear family, there exists the messy realities of Gen X parenting. 2013-05-09T09:36:54.328Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25380 192 page(s) 2013-05-09T09:36:43.838Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25381 Using accessible case studies and provocative interviews with some of Australia's foremost media practitioners - including Margo Kingston's reflections on online media, John Safran on media pranksterism, Mike Carlton on the ongoing issue of 'Cash for Comment' and Maxine McKew on the future of journalism - Remote Control is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of debate about media ethics in Australia. 2013-05-09T09:36:42.880Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25383 Records the artist's creative metamorphosis from the early 1970s to 2000. 2013-05-09T09:36:39.495Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25386 The article provides events and accounts on the arrival of the Jews in South Africa during the 19th and 20th century. Accordingly, the emergence of the Jewish population into African culture defines their conflict against apartheid and discrimination from the existing system of government. Chronological discoveries of gold and diamonds as well as the role of the Lithuanians in the assimilation of Jewish community in South Africa are also presented. 2013-05-09T09:36:31.532Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25395 In the first comprehensive examination of the production and consumption of pornography in Australia, Alan McKee, Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby present a wide-ranging view of the adult-content industry and its consumers. 2013-05-09T09:36:13.008Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25396 Alvin Purple was the most commercially successful Australian movies of the 1970s. Catherine Lumby takes a fresh look at the film, the social and political era in which it was made and the forces that fuelled its success. 2013-05-09T09:36:12.990Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25403 An experimental documentary that explores the traces of Palermo’s history visible in its architecture and street life, and the way history can be constructed on screen. Direction, camera, edit, sound by Janet Merewether. 2013-05-09T09:35:56.818Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25429 Jonas Mekas wrote that 8mm home movies would be the folk art of the 20th century. SHORT BEFORE THE MOVIE takes us on a quick trip to the crossroads of cinema, where film as commodity, artform, home movie and cultural document meet. Director, camera, edit, sound - Janet Merewether. 5.5mins Colour, 35mm Dolby Stereo 1:1.85 (1 reel / 550 ft),Video Digital Betacam Stereo 16:9. 2013-05-09T09:35:12.889Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25428 A black comedy featuring an experimental, graphic style, Contemporary Case Studies takes a bleak look at the confused nature of heterosexual love and relationships in Sydney at the turn of the new century. Short film 35mm Colour 1:1.85 14mins DolbySR. writer/director/producer - Janet Merewether; associate producer - Jane Norris; dop - Jackie Farkas; production designer - Janet Merewether; editor - Janet Merewether; sound design - Liam Egan; mix - Phil Judd - Philmsound; poem writer - Gig Ryan. 2013-05-09T09:35:12.839Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25427 A short study of the relationship between words and meaning. Short film, 5mins 16mm/BetacamSP Colour. Director/Camera/Edit/Sound - Janet Merewether; Video to film transfer - Toula Anastas; Mix - Greg Fitzgerald. 2013-05-09T09:35:10.725Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25430 'Knit-face "toys" with the idea of the portrait in a pluralist society. A variety of handcrafted and well-loved knitted toys pose for a photographer. These characters are as diverse, imperfect and expressive as their human creators. The video plays with the idea of craft as a low-tech, inexpensive and accessible form of art, and aims to document the skills and aesthetic qualities of women's knitting works, which is, in our consumer age, a rare treasure. 30 sec digital video, produced and directed by: Janet Merewether. 2013-05-09T09:35:09.736Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25483 2 page(s) 2013-05-09T09:31:30.573Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25478 Storytelling is the thread connecting history, memory and imagination, piecing together alternate truths, unravelling forgotten memories, and making meaning for the teller and her audience. This paper examines the relationship between theory, history and imagination and their combined influence on this writer’s work of fiction. I was born into the South African Jewish community, a homogenous group that migrated from Lithuania around the turn of the twentieth century to seek an alternative to growing antisemitism and poverty, only to find themselves enmeshed in another form of oppression – apartheid – but this time embedded on the side of the oppressor. Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and apartheid permeated the psyche of all Jews in South Africa, and yet the imprints of shadows and silences exhibited themselves in contrasting responses to oppression – ranging from those who supported and benefited from apartheid to opponents and activists who fought the system from within and without. This article is the based on the unexpected outcomes of my PhD which comprised two components: a novel and accompanying dissertation. What I found was that the two streams – creative and academic – fed and nurtured one another to bring to the surface stories that had been generated by academic reading, personal, collective and submerged memories of a diasporic community, and imagination. 2013-05-08T06:30:15.329Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25345 7 pages(s) 2013-05-02T01:33:52.227Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25346 179 page(s) 2013-05-02T01:33:49.132Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25352 Making mental images: an enargetic rhetoric -- Reasoning from place to place: a thetical rhetoric -- Passion and perception: a tropical rhetoric -- Project-Bacon gaining properly quiet entry -- Project-Donne: getting properly included -- Conclusion : rhetorical style and the familiar. 2013-05-02T01:33:18.175Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25361 Review essy of 'Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet' By Nigel Clark Sage Publications, 2011, ISBN: 9780761957249 and 'The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons' By Colin Dayan, Princeton University Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780691070919. 2013-05-02T01:31:55.593Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25363 This article explores why women's sport in Australia still struggles to attract sponsorship and mainstream media coverage despite evidence of high levels of participation and on-field successes. Data are drawn from the largest study of Australian print and television coverage of female athletes undertaken to date in Australia, as well as from a case study examining television coverage of the success of the Matildas, the Australian women's national football team, in winning the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup in 2010. This win was not only the highest ever accolade for any Australian national football team (male or female), but also guaranteed the Matildas a place in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany [where they reached the quarter-finals]. Given the close association between success on the field, sponsorship and television exposure, this article focuses specifically on television reporting. We present evidence of the starkly disproportionate amounts of coverage across this section of the news media, and explore the circular link between media coverage, sponsorship and the profile of women's sport. 2013-05-02T01:31:16.213Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25364 In 2004, the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) commissioned the Playing By The Rules research project in response to allegations of sexual assault by members of a professional rugby league team. This article offers an overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches adopted by the team, and the subsequent workplace education programmes designed to promote ethical sexual behaviour and attitudes within NRL culture. The researchers reflect on contemporary thinking in the relatively new field of violence prevention education aimed at young men, and consider new critical approaches to the intersection of masculinities and sexual learning. 2013-05-02T01:31:08.831Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25370 Since the 2008 Australian Senate Inquiry into the Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media Environment, both the British and Scottish governments have conducted their own inquiries into the role that mediated representations of sex and/or sexuality play in the lives of children and young people. At the same time, scholars, commentators, activists and educators have continued to debate the boundaries between 'art' and 'pornography' in representations of children and young people; and the boundaries between 'appropriate' and 'inappropriate' content in popular and educational material for children and young people. This article introduces the multidisciplinary approach taken in this special issue of Media International Australia, which the editors hope will promote positive strategic approaches to promoting safety, agency and well-being for children and young people. 2013-05-02T01:30:27.515Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25339 A group of Australian researchers from a range of disciplines involved in studying children's sexual development developed a framework for researching healthy sexual development that was acceptable to all disciplines involved. The 15 domains identified were: freedom from unwanted activity; an understanding of consent; education about biological aspects; understanding of safety; relationship skills; agency; lifelong learning; resilience; open communication; sexual development should not be "aggressive, coercive or joyless;" self-acceptance; awareness and acceptance that sex is pleasurable; understanding of parental and societal values; awareness of public/private boundaries; and being competent in mediated sexuality. 2013-04-29T02:01:09.244Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25342 19 pages(s) 2013-04-29T02:00:47.702Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25337 Producer of Music video for Oh Mercy, directed by Jefferton James. 2013-04-26T05:20:01.757Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25296 In 2008, veteran current affairs journalist Peter Overton came to my house to interview me, in my capacity as an academic researcher in the fields of gender and media studies, about the sexualisation of children. He was one of a stream of journalists I'd spoken to who were genuinely concerned about claims that Australian children were being routinely sexualised both in and by popular culture. Before the camera started rolling we talked about his delight in having just had a baby and about the pleasure I take from my own children, two boys aged 8 and 10. 2013-04-24T04:51:46.804Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25299 Book review of 'Letting stories breathe: A socio-narratology' by Frank, Arthur W., University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN:97802226260136. 2013-04-24T04:51:39.155Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25304 Composed by L. Nova; H. Hiltula; J. Ahonen; J. Ahokas and B. Johnson. 2013-04-24T04:51:23.513Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25308 6 page(s) 2013-04-24T04:51:15.306Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25277 1 page(s) 2013-04-22T20:11:29.037Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25236 This is an exploratory paper which considers approaches, contexts and purposes of music education. It is particularly concerned with how the study of ‘other’ musics, or ‘music of a culture’ in the NSW syllabus, may be reenvisioned, not as separate units, but as integral to the study of music in general. Radano and Bohlman (2000:3) have argued against traditional musicology’s promotion of a musically centred ‘Europe’ “whose cultural and artistic boundaries, despite centuries of global encounter, remain tidy and distinct.” I suggest that in order to avoid such traditional assumptions, music in schools may be taught in ways which emphasize an idea of music as something that has since the earliest times developed in the process of cultural exchange (Fletcher, 2001:599). Understanding music as a socio -cultural and political construct means continuous reflection on problematic concepts like ‘culture’ and ‘authenticity’. It also means pushing the boundaries of what ‘music’ is as a discipline. In this paper, I add to debates on cultural diversity in music education, and emphasize cross - cultural and cross - disciplinary possibilities of music education by pushing music’s cultural boundaries, particularly in relation to television and foreign languages. 2013-04-17T19:41:28.251Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25201 This essay examines the torture and death of Gul Rahman in the CIA secret prison/black site known as the Salt Pit, located in northern Kabul, Afghanistan. Virtually excised from the public record, his name and death are mentioned in footnote 28 of the Classified Response to the US Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility Classified Report. This report, prepared by Counsel for Jay S. Bybee, is a detailed and lengthy repost to the accusation made by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) that Judge Bybee's memo (1 August 2002) to Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, authorized some forms of torture that contravened the US Torture Statute - 18 U.S.C. § 2340, which defines torture and declares it to be a federal crime. In its Report, the OPR concludes that Judge Bybee 'committed professional misconduct'. In what follows, I proceed to discuss the details of Gul Rahman's torture and death in the CIA Salt Pit in the context of the Bybee memo and his Counsel's response to the OPR's condemnatory report in order to flesh out the relations of legal and governmental power that were instrumental in establishing US regimes of torture and death in the CIA secret prisons. In delineating the forces that were operative in the torture and death of Rahman, I proceed to identify two intersecting modalities of violence - instrumental and gratuitous. In the concluding section of this essay, my analysis of the torture and death of Rahman is framed by the literal and tropological dimensions of redaction, as that legal process that edits and censors a document of any secret or sensitive information. I argue that the process of redaction must be seen as producing, analogically, its own discursive black sites of silence, loss and death. 2013-04-16T06:52:36.848Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25212 Thailand has responded to global warming with strategies of mitigation and adaptation since 1997, but today the country is still in the process of identifying its position on climate change and coordinating implementation of policies (Jesdapipat, 2008). As the mediating actor of policy and action, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has initiated several green campaigns targeting citizens since 2007 and established a long term plan for coping with this issue in Bangkok Metropolitan Administration: Action Plan on Global Warming Mitigation (2007-2012). However, the public environmental behaviors have not significantly improved according to the rising GHG emissions in urban area in Bangkok Assessment Report on Climate Change (2009) and the tendency of rapid climbing up to 2020 (Environmental Resources Management, 2002). Therefore, this research will identify and analyze the frames used in a major media campaign created in the Bangkok area, comparing these with frames held by target audience members before and after the campaign, to identify campaign effectiveness. 2013-04-16T06:51:57.626Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25215 16 pages(s) 2013-04-16T06:51:52.179Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25214 19 pages(s) 2013-04-16T06:51:45.768Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25222 This paper argues that contemporary moral panic theorists are often too narrowly focused on either refining the sociological framings of moral panic theory or, alternatively, on applying that theory to case studies without asking how the theory might be used to frame strategic interventions into public debate and policy. It examines the way that conservative politicians and media commentators have appropriated the accusation that they are fuelling moral panic as proof that they are actively engaged in a fight for morality. It contends that moral panic theorists need to use their knowledge of how moral panics work in order to engage in strategic interventions into public debate and policy. It concludes with a call for scholars working on specific issues in the field to apply their research and redouble their efforts to ensure that evidence-based research is heard and understood. 2013-04-16T06:51:06.445Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25221 14 pages(s) 2013-04-16T06:50:59.623Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25224 20 pages(s) 2013-04-16T06:50:45.594Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25138 234 page(s) 2013-04-11T11:23:06.510Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25159 6 page(s) 2013-04-11T11:22:26.437Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:19242 As the single most successful social-networking Website to date, Facebook has caused a shift in both practice and perception of online socialisation, and its relationship to the offline world. While not the first online social networking service, Facebook’s user base dwarfs its nearest competitors. Mark Zuckerberg’s creation boasts more than 750 million users (Facebook). The currently ailing MySpace claimed a ceiling of 100 million users in 2006 (Cashmore). Further, the accuracy of this number has been contested due to a high proportion of fake or inactive accounts. Facebook by contrast, claims 50% of its user base logs in at least once a day (Facebook). The popular and mainstream uptake of Facebook has shifted social use of the Internet from various and fragmented niche groups towards a common hub or portal around which much everyday Internet use is centred. The implications are many, but this paper will focus on the progress what Mimi Marinucci terms the “Facebook effect” (70) and the evolution of lists as a filtering mechanism representing one’s social zones within Facebook. This is in part inspired by the launch of Google’s new social networking service Google+ which includes “circles” as a fundamental design feature for sorting contacts. Circles are an acknowledgement of the shortcomings of a single, unified friends list that defines the Facebook experience. These lists and circles are both manifestations of the same essential concept: our social lives are, in fact, divided into various zones not defined by an online/offline dichotomy, by fantasy role-play, deviant sexual practices, or other marginal or minority interests. What the lists and circles demonstrate is that even very common, mainstream people occupy different roles in everyday life, and that to be effective social tools, social networking sites must grant users control over their various identities and over who knows what about them. Even so, the very nature of computer-based social tools lead to problematic definitions of identities and relationships using discreet terms, in contrast to more fluid, performative constructions of an individual and their relations to others. 2013-04-10T05:22:51.577Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25061 It can be argued that the nature of photography becomes drastically altered, and its identity changes according to the uses it is put to. This article will discuss the many aspects of photojournalism that shape and manipulate the current status of photography. Its origin as a means of objective documentation will be critically analysed in relation to its uses in war photography, political agendas and propaganda. The theories of Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, among others, will be drawn on to evaluate the extent to which photography is autonomous, changing and transforming depending on how it is employed. The conclusions drawn from the research show how photography has become a malleable artefact, capable of changing its identity in a post-modern context, and thus posing challenges for our concept of reality. 2013-04-08T13:29:31.088Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25114 Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this international collection of essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The unacceptable is explored in relation to censorship, pornography, free speech and hate speech, moral panics, drug culture, social policy and power, fears surrounding paedophilia and the family, gay marriage, childhood sexuality, smoking, and the representation of criminal or transgressive behaviour. The volume reveals the ways in which the category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society. 2013-04-08T13:22:59.438Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25122 Alec: how to be an artist is a graphic novel intertwining autobiography/memoir with the history of the graphic novel itself from the 1980s to the early 2000s. It was written, illustrated and published by the Queensland-based Scot, Eddie Campbell, best known as the illustrator of From hell (written by Alan Moore). This paper seeks to demonstrate that, through a variety of techniques (most notably sustained secondperson narration), the work subverts what structuralist Gérard Genette calls the most fundamental rule of novel writing: that the author must decide to narrate from inside the story via one of the characters (a homodiegetic narration), or from outside (heterodiegetically). Eddie Campbell in an array of forms (author, implied author, commentator and character) is inside and outside this story. He is at times narrator, protagonist and narratee, and at others appears to be a removed (and somewhat bemused) observer, or a powerless agent of fate. At many points the reader too is coopted as protagonist or narratee, thanks to the shape-shifting and unsettling nature of the second-person mode. It will be argued that the use of this unusual narrative mode (with the linked choice of future tense) is not merely a gimmick but a highly effective and appropriate way of telling Campbell’s story. 2013-04-08T13:21:38.835Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25124 Strident criticism since publication has failed to dampen enthusiasm for Bruce Chatwin’s The songlines (1987), which a quarter century later remains popular among visitors to Central Australia and those interested in Aboriginal culture. Early critical reception was shaped by postcolonial theory during the emergence of Aboriginal land rights in Australia, and a corresponding period of critical reflection for anthropologists. This led to significant themes and strengths of the text being overlooked, which are now being retrieved under the influence of ecocriticism. As part of a research project aimed at helping Australian nonfiction writers to better tackle the writing of place, The songlines is read afresh for walking’s contribution to its representation of a postcolonial geography. The narrative emerges as a peregrination, rather than as an example of Said’s orientalism, for which it was widely criticised. The preliminary results presented here highlight walking’s close relationship with place through embodiment, specifically its ability to help overcome the ‘filters’ through which humans view the world; in simple terms, when Chatwin walks, his prose talks. Walking enhances constructions of race and frontier, as well as underpinning the text’s thematic concern with place-making. The research provides new and valuable insights for writers of place, and promises a productive critical reading of this popular work, notably as to walking’s role in the construction of an Australian identity. Building on theoretical interest in walking as a critical tool, the paper contends that walking be considered as one technique of a postcolonial ecocriticism. 2013-04-05T05:43:13.348Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25059 Jim Mills -Raggin' Around - Original Piano And Rag Songs 2012. 14 tracks, Bruce Johnson was one of musicians for all tracks. Other musicians include Jim Mills, Tony Buckley, Leigh Birkett, Greg McClain, Pam Allen, Erol Mills, Christina Frazer. 2013-04-02T23:21:34.007Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25060 This article draws together strands from various publications that have been generated by over a decade of research in the field, as well as previous conference/symposium presentations, most particularly at the Institute of Popular Music, Liverpool UK, and for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology at Koli in Finland. 2013-04-02T23:21:33.331Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24915 Book Review of "Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China" by Zhong Xueping (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010), ISBN 9780824834173. 2013-03-28T02:24:50.706Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24914 Book review of "Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919–1954" by Andrew David Field, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2010; 364 pp. ISBN 9789629963736. 2013-03-28T02:24:48.652Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24925 4 page(s) 2013-03-28T02:24:19.158Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24927 This article examines the construction of Chinese nationalism through song performances on China’s national network, China Central Television (CCTV), with a particular focus on the accommodation of Hong Kong singers. It contributes to the body of knowledge on televised musical performances in Asia, a subject on which there is limited research. I examine two performances by Hong Kong singers on CCTV’s travelling programme The Same Song in 2007, the year China celebrated ten years since the end of British sovereignty over Hong Kong. I argue that singers who are identified as hailing from Hong Kong perform different but overlapping ideological roles for Party-state television. They appear to offer audiences a sense of freshness and modernity, and therefore help the Party-state project an image of open-mindedness and inclusivity. In addition, their songs serve to ease audiences into paying attention to the more overt ideological messages presented through the programme’s dialogue segments. 2013-03-28T02:24:16.087Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24930 3 pages(s) 2013-03-28T02:24:04.512Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24932 4 page(s) 2013-03-28T02:24:04.079Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24940 Staff record for Research Data Management 2013-03-28T02:23:43.732Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24966 12 pages(s) 2013-03-28T02:22:59.656Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25007 36 pages(s) 2013-03-28T02:21:56.998Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25038 8 page(s) 2013-03-28T02:20:28.128Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25004 Novel Musical Applications and Design Techniques for the Gametrak tethered spatial positioning controller are described. Individual musical instrument controllers and large-scale musical and multimedia applications are discussed. 2013-03-25T05:20:40.745Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25001 Research Data Collection of Prof Bridget Griffen-Foley 2013-03-25T05:01:16.324Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25002 Research Data Collection of Prof Bridget Griffen-Foley 2013-03-25T05:01:13.105Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:25000 Research Data Collection of Prof Bridget Griffen-Foley 2013-03-25T04:50:14.661Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24991 Research Data Collection of Dr Virginia Madsen 2013-03-25T03:30:11.131Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24970 Research Data Collection of A/Prof Joseph Pugliese 2013-03-24T23:30:12.662Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24961 Staff record for Research Data Management 2013-03-22T05:10:15.050Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24964 Staff record for Research Data Management 2013-03-22T05:10:07.165Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24632 This article examines the connection between mourning, memory, and national identity in Poland after World War II, with specific reference to the Katyn Massacre. In 1940, approximately 22,000 Polish citizens were executed by the Soviet secret police under Stalin’s orders, and then buried in mass graves. In 1943, German soldiers discovered one of the graves in the Katyn Forest. Stalin denied responsibility for the massacre and accused the Germans of committing the crime. Successive Soviet governments denied culpability for the Katyn massacre until documents that proved Soviet guilt were released under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, and then Boris Yeltsin in 1992. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s work on mourning, this article argues that mourning and historical memory are integral to recreating a sense of national identity after traumatic events. Commemorations and memorials are often instrumental in aiding this memory work. In post-World War II Poland, however, Soviet policy dictated which historical memories could be told. Memorials were used to reinforce the Soviet narrative of Katyn, silencing the public work of mourning and memory for the relatives of the victims. 2013-03-11T21:11:40.567Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24644 Book review of 'Foundations of community journalism', edited by Bill Reader and John A. Hatcher, Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2012, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781412974660. 2013-03-11T21:11:22.399Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24664 Book review of three books: 'Diversity in Theory and Practice: News Journalists in Sweden and Germany' Heike Graf (ed), 2011, ISBN 9789186523121; 'Media Literacy Education: Nordic Perspectives', Sirkku Kotilainen & Sol-Britt Arnolds-Granlund (eds), 2010, ISBN 9789186523008 and 'Teaching Journalism Amid the Techno Hype’ Asia Pacific Media Educator, no. 20, December 2010. 2013-03-11T21:10:44.836Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24574 25 page(s) 2013-03-05T23:20:04.601Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24297 Book review 'Doing family photography : the domestic, the public, and the politics of sentiment' by Gillian Rose, Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010, 9780754677321. 2013-02-27T05:28:11.162Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24423 Blue is the debut graphic novel by Australian cartoonist Pat Grant. Part autobiography and part science fiction, the book follows three spotty teenagers who skip school to go surfing and end up investigating rumors of a dead body on the train line. Provincial values and the emotions aroused by immigration clash as the teenagers encounter strange, blue-skinned foreigners that have arrived in their little beach town. 2013-02-27T05:21:09.820Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24285 13 page(s) 2013-02-19T18:11:35.646Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24294 Book review of 'TV Critics and Popular Culture: a history of British television criticism' by Paul Rixon London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2011, ISBN 9781848853195. 2013-02-19T18:10:30.514Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24209 The United States and China draw mutual fascination as the current global superpower and an incipient one, respectively. The state visit to the US in February 2012 by Vice President Xi Jinping, who is described as the Chinese president-in-waiting in the Western press, is examined comparatively across leading US and Chinese newspapers. Framing theory is employed in the examination to ascertain different frames that have emerged in the two political cultural contexts. 2013-02-18T06:32:55.018Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24136 3 page(s) 2013-02-11T03:20:54.439Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24073 Abstract—Internet application in China has maintained a constant development tendency in the past decade. China is now one of the most populous countries in terms of internet user population. While offering enormous opportunities, the dramatic digitalization also brings about a series of challenges that demand urgent attention. Digital divide is one of the challenges that affect China as well as other countries in the world. This paper examines digital divide in the Chinese context from the perspective of development communication. Through a case study of a rural township under the backdrop of the rapid internet development in China, the paper discusses the economic, psychological and cultural roots of digital divide; and explores development communication strategies addressing the roots of digital divide. It is argued that development communication must be responsive to the potentialities and preferences of the specific society and serve the purposes of participation and sustainability. 2013-02-06T03:41:29.645Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:24104 Although textual expressions by soldiers in their own trench and troopship newspapers are relatively well known, the way that the men created and used cartoon multi-panel format is not. Humorous visual self-expression has provided a record of satirical social observation from a 'bottom up' perspective. The contribution made by illustrative narratives of the armed forces needs to be acknowledged as early citizen journalism. Comic art by servicemen - mainly from the lower ranks - has contributed to the evolution of democratic self-expression in popular culture, and manifests aspects of collective First World War experience that can be construed as a form of journalistic observation. Soldiers' universal concerns about daily life, complaints and feelings about officers, medical services, discomforts, food and drink, leave, military routines, and their expectations versus emerging reality are emphasised. In this paper, we argue that perceptions of Australian identity can also be discerned in the detailed interaction between drawings, dialogue, and/or text that is unique to this early comic-strip form. 2013-02-06T03:40:29.114Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23999 2 page(s) 2013-01-31T04:51:15.540Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23821 Governments worldwide are increasingly attempting to use the internet to engage citizens. After an initial focus on delivery of information and services via what technologists call Web 1.0, strategies referred to as 'Government 2.0' and e-democracy have turned attention to the use of interactive Web 2.0-based 'social media' to engage citizens in consultation and participation to redress a concerning 'democratic deficit' and reinvigorate the public sphere. Even in countries with compulsory voting, such as Australia, electoral enrolment, voter turnout and formal voting are declining. Much focus has been given to expedient political use of social media during election campaigns, but an understudied area is how disengaged citizens and youth can be encouraged to engage or re-engage in democratic participation on an ongoing basis. This article reports analysis of initiatives by national, state and territory electoral commissions in Australia and New Zealand to use social media to engage citizens in political participation. 2013-01-24T03:21:52.821Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23548 The canonical theories of war divide between the account linked with Hobbes and Kant, which supposedly sees war as the opposite to civil society, and that of Clausewitz which sees war as continuous with politics. This chapter analyses these thinkers to show that their accounts were (often tmintentionally) more ambiguous than is usually thought. The consequence is that modem and postmodem acc01.mts of war from Freud to Derrida, which see war as paradoxical, both incited and refused by society, offer compelling insights into what war has been for western modernity. This account of war as 'double' has major consequences for our thinking about the relationship between war, on the one hand, and democracy and human rights, on the other. Democracy, for example, can be seen both to require and refuse violence and war. 2013-01-03T05:00:36.404Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23358 7 page(s) 2013-01-02T07:01:17.569Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23533 153 page(s) 2013-01-02T07:00:27.751Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23534 8 page(s) 2013-01-02T07:00:26.930Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23535 9 page(s) 2013-01-02T07:00:26.344Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23536 8 page(s) 2013-01-02T07:00:25.630Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:22963 In the last few years, there has been a minor explosion of Indian cinema-related events in Australia. How may we read this contemporary presence of Bollywood in Australia as a neoliberal archive of Australia's multicultural present? How is Bollywood part of an affective biopolitics generated in the main by members of the South Asian diaspora? How does this recent interface between multiculturalism, neoliberalism and Bollywood mark becoming Indian in Australia? This becoming Indian in Australia is fraught as the distinctions of the lived memories of the Indian diaspora in Australia compete with unlived memories of belonging, generated in effect by state forms of branding Australia and Indians in Australia. Drawing on the concept of Bollywood as an assemblage, this paper seeks to address these questions in a critical manner. 2013-01-01T23:30:46.242Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23360 25 pages(s) 2012-12-13T03:30:14.882Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23340 17 pages(s) 2012-12-12T00:00:05.306Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23263 23 pages(s) 2012-12-06T02:40:42.850Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23115 The authors discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality, and film in Australasia, particularly focusing on the depiction of religious belief in visual media. They address the prevalence of Christian themes in Australian, Pacific Island, and Oceanic films, as well as comment on the increasing attention being paid to indigenous spirituality in Australasian motion pictures. 2012-12-03T09:23:06.029Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:23201 Interview with Jonathan Dawson. Jonathan Dawson’s hugely varied career has seen him tackle journalism, radio, advertising, television, film and academia. Here, he looks back at his experiences within the media industry, as well as his role in the burgeoning field of Australian film theory. 2012-12-03T09:20:12.150Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:22961 This essay explores ways a documentary film can offer complex historical arguments about the truth status of memory. Analysing the dialogic relationship that may exist between a filmmaker and a subject together with a range of formal strategies employed in the documentary, The Trouble with Merle (Delofski 2002), it examines how the film attempts to represent the complex flow of stories that linked, and indeed continues to link, Bombay, Calcutta, Hollywood, London and Hobart through the transnational movement of the 1930s cinematic figure, Merle Oberon. A negotiation or re-narrativization of Oberon's Anglo-Indian origin by film studios in the Northern hemisphere did not achieve the goal of containing discussion of her provenance. Instead, an intriguing mesh of tales developed about the star as Tasmanians, in response to the studio tale of Oberon's aristocratic white background, also reconfigured her birth narrative in accordance with their ideas about colonialism, race and class; a reformulation that included a reluctant acknowledgement of a 'troublesome' connection to India. 2012-11-28T02:26:51.223Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:22962 Tamil cinema because of its origin is mostly preoccupied with Tamil culture, people and society. This is in contrast to the popular Hindi cinema or Bollywood that portrays a Hindi-speaking and an ethnically undifferentiated middle-class pan-Indian identity. Since the 1990s, driven by rising production costs, dwindling audiences and fickle markets, Bollywood began targeting the Indian diaspora as a potential market for its films. Bollywood immediately captured the imagination of overseas Indians, who are often depicted as successful migrants and having strong national allegiances to India. In this context, the ways in which diasporic Tamils are represented in Tamil cinema, especially the Sri Lankan or Eelam Tamils, who constitute the largest market and most proximate diasporic Tamil community outside Tamil Nadu, remain largely unexamined. This paper critically analyses depictions of Eelam Tamils in Tamil cinema in light of the three-decade-long separatist struggle, at most times led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, against the Sri Lankan government. We argue that shifts and changes in the India-Sri Lanka political relations in light of the ethnic conflict coupled with the nebulous articulation of ethnic affinity between Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Tamils greatly impacted on the ways in which Eelam Tamils were depicted in Tamil cinema. 2012-11-28T02:26:48.510Z ]]>