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Web-Based Surveys And Assessment, Parviz Doulai, Ray Stace

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This paper describes methods of on-line assessment and students’ survey, which utilize the Web interfaces and use them in conjunction with the Internet. To find the most appropriate alternative methods of students’ assessment and survey a variety of commercial and public domain tools was used to implement the following two basic tasks: 1. ‘Student Suggestion Box’ where students evaluate the subject and make comments and suggestions on the subject and its assessment; and 2. a partially AutoMark short assessment task, containing two paragraph questions and three multiple choice questions, that offers final marks to the instructor/students and provides prompt feedback …

Applied Epidemiology - A Full-Subject Self-Directed Computer-Based Problem-Solving Learning Experience, I. A. Kreis, Adam Orvad, Dhammika Ruberu, Ray Stace

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

A major difficulty of teaching public health to students in a Masters Program is conveying the need for taking a strategic approach to situations. Tackling real-life public health issues is rather complex. There will generally be a number of avenues of investigation and it is necessary to be wary of the short and long-term consequences of actions. Also time and money need to be managed effectively. As one approach to the education of students about these issues, a computer-based package has been developed which simulates the investigation of a real public health problem. This simulation enables students to encounter such …

University Of Wollongong Campus News December 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

No abstract provided.

Optimum Design Of Absorber For Mdof Structures, Muhammad N. S Hadi, Y. Arfiadi

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

This paper discusses the optimum design of tuned mass damper (TMD) for seismically excited building structures. In the design process the multi degree of freedom structures are considered so that it makes improvement to the available design procedures so far, where usually only single mode model is considered.

Structural And Superconducting Properties Of R1 – Xcaxba2cu3o7 – Delta With 0.50 >= X >= 0.00, A. Sedky, A. Gupta, V. P. Awana, A. V. Narlikar

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

We report here a consolidated study of structural and superconducting properties of Ca substituted R1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-δ system, with R=Er, Y, Sm, and Nd, and for 0.50>~x>~0.00. Interestingly, with increasing x, Er/Y samples show a behavior significantly different from Sm/Nd. In particular (1) orthorhombic distortion of R:123 lattice is found to be little affected for Er/Y samples with increasing x in comparison to Sm/Nd samples, (2) although Ca substitution leads to oxygen depletion for all the four sets of samples, the average Cu valence is, in general, found to remain invariant with x, (3) ρ(T) is found to show an …

University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Health And Behavioural Sciences, Engineering And Science, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

No abstract provided.

University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Commerce 1 October 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

No abstract provided.

The ‘Graduate Woman’ Phenomenon: Changing Constructions Of The Family In Singapore, Lenore T. Lyons-Lee

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The central role of the family in state discourses of social change has been well documented in the case of Singapore. Within this discourse, the state has sought to strengthen the family as a key social structure and, while relegating the family to the realm of the ‘private”, has sought simultaneously to construct its own vision of family life. Women occupy a central role in this discourse of ‘state fatherhood” - they are both the mothers of the nation and the imparters of core cultural and national values. In recent years, in an attempt to address a perceived rejection of …

University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet- Arts, Creative Arts, Education And Law 30 September 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

No abstract provided.

University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Informatics And Commerce 30 September 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

No abstract provided.

University Of Wollongong Campus News September 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

No abstract provided.

"...A Small Fish In A Small Pond..." The Reverend W.B. Clarke (1798-1878): 200 Years On, Michael K. Organ

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

The Reverend W.B. Clarke remains something of an enigma in the annals of Australian science, despite the publication of numerous books and articles on his life and times. The author argues that this is mainly due to the deficiencies of previous researchers in addressing the full gamut of that Reverend gentleman’s work. Though the basic details of Clarke’s life are clearly known, numerous significant gaps exist in the surviving archive. For example, his personal collection of rocks, fossils, geological maps and library was destroyed in the Garden Palace fire of 1882; his large corpus of work which appeared in Australian …

University Of Wollongong Campus News August 1998, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

No abstract provided.

Challenges Of Sustainable Broadcasting Training In Contemporary Pacific, R. A. Hooper

Asia Pacific Media Educator

While the impacts of first world media on the cultures and institutions of developing nations have been well documented, the efforts of indigenous peoples to adapt the technologies and methods of television production to the development of an independent voice for local and regional broadcasting have received little attention. This paper will address issues faced in the transfer of television production methods and infrastructure, with examples drawn from the author’s work in Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Vanuatu and Fiji, and argues for a paradigm shift in media education and development to recognise the inter-relationships between culture, …

Mass Or Master's Medium? A Case Study Of Chinese Talk Shows, Y. Zhong

Asia Pacific Media Educator

This article is based on a research project on the communication model adopted by Chinese television talk shows which, together with other new genres, allegedly reflect progress towards liberalization and diversification of Chinese television in the post-Mao, post-Deng eras. Through an ethnographic observation and textual examination of a range of selected television shows, the author found that although it is making certain changes in the course of the national reform towards a market economy, Chinese television has retained a communication model characterized by the formal qualities inherited from its past and which discourage interaction with the common people and reject …

Working Towards A Practical Theory Of Journalism, J. Herbert

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The last issue of APME (January-June 1998) featured a section on the pedagogical conflict between cultural/media studies and vocational journalism courses in Australian universities. The following commentary wraps up the discussion with a plea for journalism to have confidence in itself, to know what it is and what it should consist. It contends that the public have aright to respect and believe their journalists. At present that is not always the case. Journalists, as a profession, are almost at the bottom of the pile. All of this is the fault of poor journalism education. To change the public perception, there …

Australian Press Coverage Of The 1995 Mururoa Nuclear Test, P. Putnis

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The1995 Mururoa nuclear test was at once a regional, global and, in its Australian press coverage, a distinctly Australian media event. Press coverage reflects this interpenetration of regional, global, and domestic concerns. This paper analyses coverage in The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald from three perspectives. Firstly, it places the coverage in the context of the total international news output of these newspapers in the week of the test. A comparison is made with British coverage of international news in the same week. Secondly, the nature of the coverage itself is analysed in terms of story type, main actors, …

Principles For Further Education In Professional Communication: Continuing Education Or Postgraduate Degrees?, J. Withnall, R. Harris

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The popularity of communication courses with specific vocational outcomes - journalism, public relations and media production suggests a maturing market for education in professional communication. There has, however, been comparatively less rapid growth in postgraduate education. This paper presents some preliminary findings about practitioners' attitudes to postgraduate education in journalism and public relations. Implications for university education, vocational specialisation and continuing professional development are discussed in light of current debates on professionalisation, the tertiary education sector and the nature of knowledge in our culture and society. Principles guiding new educational design in professional communication courses are proposed.

Playground Lost: Television, Video And Chinese American Children's Imaginative Play, S. Berggreen

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Since the introduction of the mass media, their content has been a rich vein from which children mine ideas for play. Television/video transformation play, the most common form of media-related play facilitates the child's development of creativity, intellectual growth, acquisition of social skills, reduction of egocentricity and building of peer cultures. Through ethnography, this study examines the role of American television and video in Chinese American children's culture of play and peer interaction. For comparison purpose, White children were also included in the study. Both White and Chinese children had access to similar media, yet they used media information very …

Thai Reporting Of Australia In The 1990'S Economic Crisis, G. Lewis

Asia Pacific Media Educator

This article considers some of the factors that shape Thai international news reporting and makes a qualitative analysis of two leading Thai English-language dailies -- The Bangkok Post and The Nation's -coverage of Australian news before and since the Asian financial crisis of July 1997. It concludes that while Thai coverage of Australia is either positive or benign, there are ambiguities in this coverage. Thai perceptions are quite sensitive to any evidence of Australian anti-Asian attitudes, as in the rise of the One Nation party.

Australian Visibility In The Korean Media, K. Kwak

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Following is a summary comment from an ongoing qualitative study of the changing visibility of Australia in the Korean media since the economic crisis in 1997-98. The comments are extracted from a longer paper presented at the international education conference on " "The Manipulated Message: Australia and Asia Before and After the Crisis" held at the Australia National University, Canberra, September 29, 1998.

Online Election Forums: The Voice Of The People?, M. Jones

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The Australian Federal election in October 1998 will go down in history for its contrasts. Australia has rarely confronted such a wide range of challenges as we do today, on the eve of the third millennium. Yet the candidates who took part in this election were astonishingly reluctant to face them. Whereas parties big and small have traditionally parried with policies on any area where they thought their opponents were vulnerable, debate in 1998 was narrowly confined to a mere handful of topics, with taxation and employment singled out as the only issues covered in depth by the Australian media. …

Editorial: In This Issue, Eric Loo

Asia Pacific Media Educator

A journal's as good as the articles it receives. Now in its fifth issue, APME has received articles ranging from critical commentaries and research papers to the occasional light features from those who see themselves more as journalists who write to tell a story, than academics who write to abstract a theory. We said in Issue No.1 (July-December 1997) that we would provide a congenial meeting place for scholars to meet practitioners in a rewarding and attractive intellectual environment. We have fallen short of that provision for lack of insightful contributions from the journalist. Articles refereed thus far have ranged …

Online Newspapers In Asia: Computer-Mediated Press And The Flow Of News, C. Elliott

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Based on a content analysis, this article claims that on-line newspapers in Asia provide a diversity of information to a world audience. Through the selection process of news to be reported. the online newspapers have provided an Asian perspective to the flow of information. Unlike the traditional Western approach to news, Asian on-line newspapers present a more positive orientation to the way Asia is represented but generally also to the way that the rest of the world is covered as well. The research findings provide a framework to examine, in part, new channels of news open to the world as …

Globalisation And Localisation - Dynamic Processes Of Cultural Change, I. Banerjee

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Debates on media globalisation and its cultural implications have taken on a new significance in the face of vast changes in communication technology and easy accessibility to diverse information channels. This article sketches some of the major theoretical perspectives on the study of media globalisation and its consequences on national cultures, and provides a critique of the major weaknesses and problems of these conceptual models. It concludes with a discussion of frameworks, especially that of intercultural communication which the author contends is perhaps most suitable to understand the process of cultural integration and disintegration.

Book Review: Dasher Wheatly And Australia In Vietnam, P. Mcgregor

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Walters, Ian (1998)
Dasher Wheatly and Australia in Vietnam,
Northern Territory University Press, Darwin. ISBN 1876248106

Review Essay by Peter McGregor

Ian Walters, an anthropologist, presents an analysis of the significance of the death of an Australian soldier during the American War in Viet Nam. In order to interpret Dasher (Kevin) Wheatley's death, Walters provides two dimensions of context: (a) a concise, accurate and astute analysis of the political history of the war, and of the USA and Australian interventions; and (b) the theoretical tools he uses - namely cultural studies, deriving, Walters claims, from an anthropological understanding of culture, …

Book Review: Cultural Battles: The Meaning Of The Viet Nam-Usa War, R. Phillipps

Asia Pacific Media Educator

McGregor, Peter (1998)
Cultural Battles: The Meaning of the Viet Nam - USA War.
SCAM Publications, Melbourne. ISBN 0-9585549-0-0

Reviewed by Richard Phillipps

Peter McGregor's collection of essays on the Viet Nam - USA War (1955-75) and its aftermath is enlightening and moving. It is also annoying and repetitive as one's assumptions about the conflict are continually challenged. Why USA War, you ask? Wasn't Australia there too? Yes,it was, but only as a junior partner. The death toll tells part of the story: about 500 Australians killed, 58,000 Americans, but Vietnamese north and south, civilian and military, somewhere between 1.5 …

Book Review: The Invisible Persuaders - How Britain's Spin Doctors Manipulate The Media, R. Stanton

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Michie, David (1998)
The Invisible Persuaders - How Britain's Spin Doctors Manipulate the Media
Transworld Publishers, Sydney ISBN 0593042387

Reviewed by Richard Stanton

It is self evident truth that metropolitan newspapers are no longer primarily journals of record. It is impossible to travel to most western countries, notably the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and, in the context of this review, South Africa, and pick up on the day's I main political, social or economic events simply by reading the three front pages of a morning or evening broadsheet. Once upon a time this was the most useful …

Book Review: Presenting The News On Air, A. Castillo

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Day, Anna & Moya, Pattie (1998)
Presenting The News On Air.
Department of Journalism, University of Queensland. ISBN: 18649903SX.

Reviewed by Antonio Castillo

A welcome partnership coming from the University of Queensland. Anna Day from the Department of Journalism and Maya Pattie from the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology have produced a step-by-step text and audio voice broadcasting training. While primarily designed to coach radio journalism students, this self-paced program, can also be used by those whose voice is their main tool of trade. The likes of teachers, politicians, public speakers - among others- can also benefit by this …

Elementary Electronic Excitation In Three-Dimensional Electron Gases Under Free-Electron Laser Radiations, W. Xu

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

I present a detailed theoretical study of the collective excitation associated with plasmon modes in threedimensional electron gases 3DEG’s, subject to free-electron laser FEL radiations. Using the exact solution of the time-dependent Schro¨dinger equation in which the effect of the electromagnetic e.m. radiation field is included in the Coulomb gauge, I have derived the Green’s function, the density of states DOS, and the density-density correlation function for free electrons in (K,t) and K, representation. With these results, the influence of the FEL radiations on plasmon spectrum in a 3DEG has been studied by employing the randomphase approximation. It has been …