Research
Quality journalism in an online world
Social, Cultural and Health Impacts of Media Consumption
Peer-Based Mentoring in Sport- Strategies for best practice
"Hooking Up": Young Men, Sex, Sexuality and the Media
Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-partner Heterosexuals
The Ethics and Practice of Journalism
Media advisers and the reporting of politics
The Evolving Media Landscape
Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media and Youth Culture in Australia
(ARC Discovery Project)
- three-year study with Associate Professor Kate Crawford and Professor Gerard Goggin to investigate how young Australians aged 18-30 are using mobile media: from voice calls and text messaging, to mobile music, cameras, video and television.
- the first systematic, national study of mobile media and youth
- will provide detailed qualitative and quantitative data on the uses of new mobile technology in major capitals, regional centres, and remote towns.
- examines how mobile media and youth culture are being promoted and represented
- Studies the everyday uses of mobile media by a range of different youth cultures in big cities and small towns
- observes the effects of mobile media on friendships, family and working life in Australia
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Mobile Phone Culture
(ARC Australian Research Fellowship)
- Five-year project for Professor Gerard Goggin to study mobile phone culture, policy, and regulation.
- study the mobile phone as cultural object, investigating its history,
- cultural production, consumption, political economy and regulation;
- contribute new knowledge on the culture of new media technologies,
- elucidating the specific characteristics of new networked telecommunications technologies compared with older media forms;
- develop new insights into central theoretical questions in cultural and media studies, such as the relationship between culture and technology, as well as debates on the place of political economy in analyzing cultural forms and practices;
- develop innovative, new methodologies and theories for the study of new media.
Quality journalism in an online world
(Research in development)
- examines how best to preserve quality journalism in an online world where traditional media forms, such as newspapers have shrunk, changed form or disappeared
- project will establish a baseline of qualities such as depth, narrative style, public interest, investigative purpose etc. The project will then examine first, the challenge to find a business model which will pay for quality journalism yet which is independent of commercial imperatives; second, a set of policy recommendations relevant to the sort term designed to preserve high quality journalism in a future online environment.
Technologies of Listening
(Cultural Research Network project)
- Joint project between Dr Justine Lloyd and Associate Professor Kate Crawford to investigate how the practices of listening evolve alongside media formats
- Focuses on cultural forms of listening that bring together material objects with social practices, collective formations and subjectivities
- Explores to what extent technologies embody prior modes of listening and the extent to which they produce new ones
- Examines the function of shared spaces of listening in relation to individual environments, such as MP3 players and mobile phones
Social, Cultural and Health Impacts of Media Consumption
The Well-Rounded Person: The Role of Sport in Shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development
(ARC Discovery project)
- Elaborates, tests and further develops a conceptual understanding of what ‘the well-rounded person’ means and could mean in Australian society
- Discovers what the barriers are to participation in sport for teenagers and young adults, and what they like and don’t like about physical activity
- Investigates the way participation in sport shapes the relationship teenagers and young adults have to their bodies
- Investigates the way participation in sport shapes the way teenagers and young adults understand gender and sexuality
- Discovers what emotions teenagers and young adults associate with playing sport
- Discovers what values sport teaches teenagers and young adults about forming relationships, including social and intimate relationships with others.
Peer-Based Mentoring in Sport- Strategies for best practice
(ARC Linkage with National Rugby League)
- Explores whether rugby league players make effective peer-based mentors
- Explores whether mentoring programs have a valuable role to play in complementing the National Rugby League’s existing education programs
- Designs and pilots a peer-based mentoring program for the NRL
- Evaluates the effectiveness of this program in contributing to existing educational initiatives aimed at encouraging positive behaviours on and off the field.
- Uses the data from the study to assess whether elite athletes in general make effective peer-based mentors
- Assesses whether peer-based mentoring in sport may have a broader role in promoting positive social values
Football United
(Research in development)
- Dr Clifton Evers in conjunction with Football United and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM) is developing a longitudinal study into the impact of football and sport on social cohesion and community participation of refugee populations in urban areas.
- Determines the impact of Football United (FU) on participants’ personal development, sense of self, physical, emotional, mental health and resilience.
- Determines the impact of Football United (FU) on community capacity and social cohesion.
- Documents issues arising from implementation of the program in order to form future program implementation and replication of the intervention in other contexts.
- Tests innovative research methodologies that yield information about the way refugees negotiate with sport and Australian social expectations.
- Identifies strategies to promote ethical community sporting intervention programs
“Hooking Up”: Young Men, Sex, Sexuality and the Media
(UNSW Postdoctoral Fellowship)
- A three-year fellowship for Dr Clifton Evers to study the extent to which popular media consumption by Australian young men (aged 12-17) and how it influences their sexual identities and sexual practices.
- Investigates how and to what extent young Australian men use popular media to get information about sexual identities and practices and how they circulate this information.
- Analyses the way popular media commonly consumed by young Australian men deals with sexual identity and sexual practices.
- Explores the relationships between representations of sexual identity and sexual practices in popular media and the lived bodies and emotional lives of Australian young men.
- Develops and test innovative qualitative research methodologies that yield information about the way media representations intersect with young men’s bodily practices as well as their attitudes to sex and sexuality
- Identifies strategies to promote ethical and safe sexual practices and attitudes through young men’s use of popular media.
Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-partner Heterosexuals
(ARC Linkage with Family Planning NSW)
- Aims to discover how NSW based non-gay-and-lesbian identified people with multiple or concurrent sexual partners define existing practices and strategies for sexual negotiation and safer sex.
- Maps existing media networks produced by and for theses groups.
- Develops targeted, culturally appropriate strategies for members of these groups, in collaboration with Family Planning NSW.
The Ethics and Practice of Journalism
Setting an agenda
(ARC Discovery project)
- Examines the political commentary published in the global media outlets of News Corporation.
- Aims to discover whether a similar political and intellectual agenda is prominent in this global media corporation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
- Particular focus on the agenda-setting of columnists and editorials.
- Contributes to international research on the connection between media ownership and media content.
Media advisers and the reporting of politics
(Research in development)
- Looks at the reporting of politics by examining the charge (from UK PM Tony Blair among others) that the problems of spin arise from having to deal with a media which has become ‘feral beast’, reliant on triviality and sensationalism.
- Project will interview media advisers about their perceptions of the problems in political journalism.
- Examines the way in which messages from government are conveyed through the media and the battle for control of the content of messages going to public.
