Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Response to public consultation paper for a new National Cultural Policy
Published 2026This submission provides recommendations on the Australian Government’s New National Cultural Policy, with a focus on Australia’s videogame industry. 1. Current funding and support caters predominantly to a narrow slice ...Open AccessOther -
An interdisciplinary research framework for social media and youth health [White paper] University of Sydney & Yale School of Medicine
Published 2026Policymakers, schools, families and clinicians are increasingly looking to take action to protect young people from potential harms associated with social media use. Australia’s national ban on social media accounts for ...Report, Research -
News Practices in Deep Media Convergence in China
Published 2024This chapter examines China’s state-led push for media convergence as a response to both the commercial pressures facing legacy media and the political challenges created by digital communication. It argues that convergence ...Book chapter -
From mainstream to the margins: Regime-driven delegitimisation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy critical journalistic norms
Published 2026The enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law on 30 June 2020 provides a case for examining how state power seeks to reconfigure journalistic norms and media legitimacy. Following the NSL, multiple pro-democracy ...Open AccessArticle -
Shadows From the Land Down Under (Dark Shadows in Australia)
Published 2025This book chapter reconstructs a strange, formative encounter with Dark Shadows (1966-1971) in early-1990s Australia, when fragments of a cult gothic soap opera lodged themselves in a child’s imagination long before they ...Open AccessBook chapter