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Australia Media 2.0
Published 2023A lot has changed in the Australian media, especially with the rise of digital technologies –– and this chapter gives a bird’s eye view of this vastly altered landscape. Taking the early 1990s as a reference point, it ...Book chapter -
The blurring line between freelance journalists and self-employed media workers
Published 2022This study uses the question, ‘what makes a freelancer specifically a journalist’ as a starting point for investigating the ways Australian freelance journalists experienced and managed precarious employment in COVID-19 ...Article -
CAVRN Syllabus, Vol. 1
Published 2023In this inaugural volume, we introduce CAVRN and set out an agenda for a Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research Network. Through what we refer to as ‘critical AR and VR studies’, we argue there is urgent need for ...Book -
CAVRN Syllabus, Vol. 2
Published 2024-02-15In its second volume CAVRN explores the implications that VR and AR technologies have on politics and policymaking, identity, ethics, socialisation and community building, and the economy from a critical, interdisciplinary ...Report, Research -
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 -
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 -
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: ...Book -
Emerging Online Safety Issues: Co-creating social media with young people - Research Report
Published 2023-09-20Research report for the Emerging Online Safety Issues project funded by the eSafety Commissioner Online Safety Grants Program. The project was a collaboration between the University of Sydney, Youth Action and Student Edge. ...Report, Research -
"Epistemic justice" (a memoir)
Published 2022This is a review essay, focussing on Emma A. Jane's (2022) memoir, Diagnosis Normal: Living with Abuse, Undiagnosed Autism, and coronavirus disease grade Crazy (2022).Article -
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 ...Report, Research -
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 -
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 ...Report, Research -
Mapping International Enquiries into the Power of Digital Platforms
Published 2022There has been a resurgence of interest across multiple jurisdictions in greater regulation by nation-states of aspects of the structure, conduct and performance of digital platforms. This has been driven by: growing ...Working Paper -
Mapping International Enquiries into the Power of Digital Platforms
Published 2022There has been a resurgence of interest across multiple jurisdictions in greater regulation by nation-states of aspects of the structure, conduct and performance of digital platforms. This has been driven by: growing ...Working Paper -
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Published 2022Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N=49,968 across ...Article -
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 ...Working Paper -
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 -
Play Beyond Playgrounds Symposium Report
Published 2024-07-11This report documents the proceedings and findings of the two-day symposium 'Play Beyond Playgrounds: Rethinking the role of public art in urban play' held at the University of Sydney on Thursday 30th November and Friday ...Report, Research -
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 ...Report, Research