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University Of Wollongong Campus News 18 December 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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University Of Wollongong Campus News 20 November 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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University Of Wollongong Campus News 30 October 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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University Of Wollongong Campus News 23 October 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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Tunneling Spectroscopy Of Hole Plasmons In A Valence-Band Quantum Well , B. R. Neves, T. J. Foster, L. Eaves, P. C. Main, M. Henini, D. J. Fisher, M. L. Lerch, A. D. Martin, C. Zhang

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

We investigate the current-voltage characteristics of a p-doped resonant tunneling diode. In the voltage range slightly above the bias corresponding to resonant tunneling of holes into the first light-hole subband of the quantum well, we observe two satellite peaks which we attribute to plasmon-assisted tunneling transitions. A theoretical model is presented to account for these peaks. The model is based on the excitation of intrasubband and intersubband heavy-hole plasmons in the quantum well by hot holes injected close to the energy of the first light-hole subband. We also study the behavior of the satellites when a magnetic field is applied …

University Of Wollongong Campus News 9 October 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Engineering, Informatics, Law And Science 4 October 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

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University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Commerce 3 October 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

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University Of Wollongong Graduation Booklet - Arts, Creative Arts, Education And Health And Behavioural Sciences 3 October 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Graduation Booklets

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Dome-Shaped Space Trusses Formed By Means Of Posttensioning, G. Dehdashti, L. C. Schmidt

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

Dome-shaped space trusses can be derived from a flat configuration by means of posttensioning. The structure considered here is devised to be a near mechanism initially and during the posttensioning operation. It is a near mechanism as only the flexural stiffness of the continuous top chords provides any resistance to deformation. Therefore, no appreciable force is induced in the members of the structure during the shape formation process. The results of experimental and theoretical work on the shape formation of a dome-shaped space truss by means of posttensioning are presented herein. An analytical procedure that includes both geometric and material …

University Of Wollongong Campus News 25 September 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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University Of Wollongong Campus News 18 September 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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Unemployment - Its Scope, Its Cost And Our Targets, Jerry Ellis

Sir Richard Kirby Lectures in Industrial Relations

Jerry Ellis, Unemployment - its scope, its cost and our targets, 18th Sir Richard Kirby Lecture.

University Of Wollongong Campus News 11 September 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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University Of Wollongong Campus News 4 September 1996, University Of Wollongong

University of Wollongong Campus News

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The Age Of Asia-Centered Media Perspective And Dawn Of The Global Village, Y. S. Beng

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The Asian-centered media perspective is a discourse of empowerment that reaffirms the necessity for Asians to talk to other Asians, regardless of the designs of the dominant Western media. Within the dynamics of empowerment, Asia's media environment will transform, and in time, move beyond Marshall McLuhan 's notion of a global to a vocal village. The vocal village, this article asserts, embodies Asia's brand and blend of political, social, economic and cultural concerns, free from the intimidations and biases of the West.

The Dilemma Of Change In Vietnamese Journalism, D. J. Smollar

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Two steps forward, one step back? Or one step forward, two steps back? That's the dilemma in trying to judge changes in Vietnamese journalism today. The nation's media, even though still government-owned, are in a state of flux under doi moi (market renovation policy). Take a few examples of the parry-and-thrust between reporters, editors and Party overseers.
A glossy, full-colour monthly called Thoi Trang Tre (New Fashion) proves wildly popular among Vietnamese youth with fashion and make-up tips, and bikini-clad photos of shapely Western and Vietnamese models. Yet its staff frets over each Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson photo lest …

Book Review: Trends In World Communication, A. M. Merican

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Hamelink, Cees J(1994)
Trends in World Communication,
Southbound Sdn Bhd, Penang, Malaysia. 168 pages. ISBN: 983-9054-06-6

Reviewed by Ahmad Murad Merican

If ever the majority of the world's populations sit in conference to discuss global communication, the organizer would probably be bombarded with a litany of questions, all of which may sound like: "Have we been invited?" Hamelink's view of contemporary discourses on the state of global communications runs counter to conventional wisdom, describing it as a metaphor which is "attractive, lucid, simple, and wrong".

Book Review: New Patterns In Global Television - Peripheral Vision, David Blackall

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Cunningham, Stuart; Elizabeth, Jacka; and Sinclair, John (eds) (1996)
New Patterns in Global Television -Peripheral Vision.
Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-871122-0, 238 pages.

Reviewed by David Blackall

This book holds a brave position, both in its analyses and its freedom from political, ideological or theoretical encumbrances. It contributes to the necessary erosion of a false notion that television and its effects are simplistic because television is young, simple and stupid. The book is reflexive in its acknowledgement of its own observational and analytical position. This runs a danger of superior posturing, yet "New Patterns in Global Television" pulls itself free …

Developments Of Journalism Courses In Australia: Some Preliminary Findings, R. Patching

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Where is journalism taught in Australia, who teaches it, how many students do they teach; and what form do their courses take? What do the journalism course coordinators around the country think about some of the contentious issues in journalism education, like accreditation, union involvement, equipment needs and shorthand? This article provides some answers based on a preliminary comparative survey of vocation-based journalism courses in Australia.

Talking Aids In Hong Kong: Cultural Models In Public Health Discourse, R. Jones

Asia Pacific Media Educator

This paper explores issues of cultural models in the discourse of public health in a multicultural, multilingual context through a 'frame analysis' of 20 AIDS awareness campaigns aired in both English and Cantonese in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1994. Using a methodology derived from the work of Goffman (1974), and Gee (1990), it examines how the authors of AIDS awareness messages in Hong Kong project cultural models on several different levels of "framing" and how these models both reflect and validate dominant ideologies within the society.

Email Usage In Academe: A Profile Of Hong Kong Universities, C. Elliott

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Given the increased use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and the varied channels it offers for the transfer of meaning, it is important to understand how CMC is being used and how it is affecting the use of other forms of communication, This article examines the usage of electronic-mail, as a form of CMC, among Hong Kong academics and whether it has changed their teaching and research profile, and interaction with their students.

Book Review: Racism, Ethnicity And The Media, M. Hirst

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Jakubowicz, Andrew; GoodallL, Heather; Martin, Jeannie; Mitchell, Tony; Randall, Lois; Seneviratne, Kalinga (1994)
Racism, ethnicity and the media.
Allen & Unwin: Sydney ISBN: 1-86373-364-7

Reviewed by Martin Hirst

A central concern of this book is that the myths of Australian national identity, especially as generated and communicated by the mass media, do not accord with the multicultural diversity of Australian life. This dissonance has varied and related causes. Some of them, such as declining national economic fortunes are locally-generated, though with an international context. Other factors are external, but impinge explicitly on national life and consciousness in Australia.

Editor's Note, C. Lloyd

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The Asia-Pacific MediaEducator is a new venture aimed at providing a forum for media educators across an increasingly Important spectrum of comparative study. Broadly defined, this area covers communications, journalism, media studies, cultural studies, applied media, and media arts, together with resonances in inumerable other disciplines. With rapid changes in media education and technology it may even extend to other areas that cannot be foreseen at the moment. In short, we are taking a "big tent" approach, welcoming scholars, educators, theorists, journalists, communicators and practitioners to contribute to this journal.

Journalism And Constructive Learning: Trusting The Good Sense Of Our Students, M. Breen

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Constructive learning is described by some scholars as active, cumulative, goal-directed, diagnostic and reflective behaviour. This article claims that all of these behaviours are present in current journalistic education. Because there is little place in journalism practice for the learner who indulges in surface (rote) strategies, which are chosen to pass a test in many different disciplines, the journalism curriculum is unique in a sense that it rests on best pedagogical practice. These ideas are put in a philosophical context of teaching journalism as a liberal art. The introduction of the internet and online investigations are discussed as significant enhancements …

Whither Mass Communication Education In Asia?, J. M. Chan

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Tensions of communication education are inherent in its pedagogical goals, professional objectives, contexts of operation and availability of resources. The tensions are exacerbated by the advent of new media, globalisation and imperatives of organisational integration. How will communication education in Asia continue to develop amid these tensions? This article examines several critical approaches to "reinvent" communication education to better fit the changing needs of rapidly developing Asian communities.

Relevance Of Philosophy In The Wisdom Of Journalism Schools, A. M. Merican

Asia Pacific Media Educator

The journalistic fraternity is gradually becoming unenlightened technicians and scribblers of words rather than transmitters of thoughts. This article argues for a thorough philosophical grounding in students of journalism both through epistemological orientation and professional practice as fundamental prerequisites in understanding ideas, determining events and processes, developing intellectual perspectives and departing from the finite realms of the immediate.

Cascade Learning Approach To Broadcast Journalism Education, J. Herbert

Asia Pacific Media Educator

This article advocates a "cascade learning approach" built on combined theory and skills, in the training of broadcast journalists. It attempts to show that the contemporary broadcast journalism curriculum for the Asia-Pacific region can develop its own core curriculum, not based on any educational imperialism or indeed on a traditional mass communication or communication studies approach. It also highlights the inadequacy of the "media/communications" approach to university education for journalists; and gives details of an experimental alternative approach to integrated learning in broadcast journalism.

Old Wine In A New Bottle: Public Versus Developmental Journalism In The Us, S. Gunaratne

Asia Pacific Media Educator

This paper argues that the emerging concept of public journalism in the United States is very similar to the concept of developmental journalism that the West denounced during the debate on the New World Information and Communication Order. Many of the ideas of the MacBride Commission (1980) have sneaked into the writings of those who advocate public journalism to rejuvenate American journalism that has failed to excite the readers. Scholars are now questioning the validity of the conventional news values and their relevance to changing consumer needs.

Language And Context: Some Problems Of Teaching Journalism In Second Language, B. Lowe

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Despite an international perception that Hong Kong is a bilingual society, the use of English - and English speaking fluency - is confined to a few elite realms of economic, political and cultural activity. Students rarely use English outside the classroom. In learning journalism in English students are greatly disadvantaged by their lack of familiarity with different English-language genres. Difficulties in comprehending spoken English in a context other than the classroom tend to hamper the students' acquisition of effective reporting and interviewing skills. The author attempted to overcome these problems with two different strategies: by utilising video technology and by …