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The Will to Power: the BAT in and beyond China
Published 2018This chapter examines the imperative for China to compete for international cultural acclaim. The term ‘strong cultural power’ (wenhua qiangguo), is a slogan institutionalised by the Xi Jinping regime to reclaim China’s ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The rise of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) and their role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Published 2020The Chinese digital technology giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT), dominate over their competitors in China across platforms that include e-commerce, digital entertainment, e-finance and artificial intelligence (AI). ...Open AccessArticle -
Producing Accessible Books in Australia: A Snapshot
Published 2020-12-10This exploratory study of Australian alternative format providers involved in the retroactive conversion of print into accessible formats seeks to better understand the issues affecting the remediation practices used in ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Inclusive Publishing in Australia: A Preliminary Report
Published 2020-12-10Despite the developments in digital technologies, people with a print disability such as blindness or low vision have limited access to reading material in accessible formats. This “global book famine” affects their ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Online Privacy Bill: Exposure Draft - Submission to the Attorney General’s Department
Published 2021This submission refers to the Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft, where the OP Code has identified children as one of the key vulnerable groups especially concerned with social media services. The three scholars named in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics
Published 2021There has been much discussion worldwide about the crisis of trust, with evidence of declining trust in social, economic, political and media institutions. The rise of populism, and the differing impacts of the COVID-19 ...Article -
The constant undercurrent: sexual harassment and discrimination
Published 2021O'Donnell. P., Sherwood, M. & Buller, B. (2021). The constant undercurrent: sexual harassment and discrimination. In A. Dodd & M. Ricketson (Eds.). Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism (pp. 89 - 101). Sydney: UNSW Press.Book chapter -
Pickets and payouts: Unions in the newsroom
Published 2021O'Donnell, P., Buller, B. & Ricketson, M. (2021). Pickets and payouts: Unions in the newsroom. In A. Dodd & M. Ricketson (Eds.). Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism (pp. 199-214). Sydney: UNSW Press.Book chapter -
What just happened? The days after redundancy
Published 2021O'Donnell, P., & Marjoribanks, T. (2021). What just happened? The days after redundancy. In A. Dodd & M. Ricketson (Eds.). Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism (pp. 254-263). Sydney: UNSW Press.Book chapter -
Resilience and reinvention
Published 2021O'Donnell, P. (2021). Resilience and reinvention. In A. Dodd & M. Ricketson (Eds.). Upheaval: Disrupted lives in journalism (pp 264-276). Sydney: UNSW Press.Book chapter -
Trust and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Published 2021What has been referred to as the crisis of trust in social institutions has deep connections with communications, whether it be declining trust in news media and journalism, debates about the power of digital platforms and ...Open AccessArticle -
Facebook: Regulating Hate Speech in the Asia Pacific
Published 2021This study was funded as part of the Facebook Content Policy Research on Social Media Awards to examine Facebook’s hate speech regulation challenges in the Asia Pacific. It maps hate speech law in five case study countries ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Visibility and security in the smart home
Published 2021Smart home, media and security systems intervene in the territory and boundaries of the home in a variety of ways. Among these are the capacity to watch the home from afar, and to record these observations over time, as ...Article -
WILLINGNESS TO PAY: NEWS MEDIA
Published 2021There has been much attention in recent years to the future sustainability of news production, and the implications of a decline in professionally produced and locally based journalism for civic engagement, democratic ...Open AccessArticle -
Trusting and valuing news in a pandemic: Attitudes to online news media content during COVID-19 and policy implications
Published 2021While the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to significant growth in news consumption, this did not translate into either greater trust or an improved financial situation for news providers. At a time when ...Article -
Trusting and valuing news in a pandemic: Attitudes to online news media content during COVID-19 and policy implications
Published 2021-04-01While the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to significant growth in news consumption, this did not translate into either greater trust or an improved financial situation for news providers. At a time when ...Open AccessPreprint -
Digital media
Published 2021-04-06“Digital media” refers to content that is created, distributed, consumed, modified, and preserved on digital electronic devices. The term digital indicates that it is content that takes the form of a combination of ...Book chapter -
Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance
Published 2022This Open Access volume provides an in-depth exploration of global policy and governance issues related to digital platform regulation. With an international ensemble of contributors, the volume has at its heard the question: ...Open AccessBook -
Regulating Chinese and North American Digital Media in Australia: Facebook and WeChat as Case Studies
Published 2022As the Australian government has legislated for a ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’ to compel Google and Facebook to pay for news content, platform regulation in Australia has prompted a heated ...Book chapter -
Contingency, Precarity and Short-Video Creativity: Platformization Based Analysis of Chinese Online Screen Industry
Published 2022Platformization theory proposes that cultural productions are contingent on platforms. This study argues that in the Chinese context; however, online productions are contingent not only on platforms, but on government ...Article