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Technological Disadvantage Of The Digital Age, N. F. Johnson
Technological Disadvantage Of The Digital Age, N. F. Johnson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Debates continue about the relative benefits, costs and risks of the diffusion of computer-based technologies throughout society and schooling. One area that has received considerable attention is gender equity. Early work on gender and computers focused on differences between male and female access and use (e.g. Huff, Fleming & Cooper, 1992; Kirkman, 1993; Morritt, 1997; Nelson & Cooper, 1997; Sofia, 1993), with concerns focused on the potential for girls to be disadvantaged. In some respects, it is arguable that problems of gender equity in schools with respect to computers have been overcome. For example, in a small study I conducted …
Sourcing The News: Teaching Journalism Students Different Approaches To Sourcing Practices, J. Ewart, J. Cokely, P. Coats
Sourcing The News: Teaching Journalism Students Different Approaches To Sourcing Practices, J. Ewart, J. Cokely, P. Coats
Asia Pacific Media Educator
The experiences of a group of Australian university journalism students from diverse backgrounds are explored as they become involved in producing five editions of a new newspaper for the isolated community of Blackall in the Queensland Outback, 1500km north-west of Sydney. During this learning experience, non-traditional journalistic sourcing methods were trialed. This paper documents the exercise, compares the alternative methods with existing practices identified in the literature, and examines the effects and consequences of the exercise.
From Sailor-Suits To Sadists: Lesbos Love As Reflected In Japan's Postwar "Perverse Press", Mark J. Mclelland
From Sailor-Suits To Sadists: Lesbos Love As Reflected In Japan's Postwar "Perverse Press", Mark J. Mclelland
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper looks at a range of narratives positioning women's same-sex sexuality in the popular sexological press of the early postwar period in Japan.
Marketing Research For Volunteering: A Research Agenda, Sara Dolnicar, Melanie J. Randle
Marketing Research For Volunteering: A Research Agenda, Sara Dolnicar, Melanie J. Randle
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Contributing an estimated AUD42 billion dollars a year to the Australian economy and US150 billion dollars to the USA, volunteering has become an industry sector of major importance. It has consequently attracted significant attention among researchers of various disciplines, including marketing. Nevertheless, the industry is confronted with ongoing challenges, particularly in the area of recruitment. This article provides a review of prior marketing-related studies and identifies a number of gaps in the research, such as a limitation in the past to a priori approaches to categorising volunteers, which has offered limited insight and conflicting results. The authors recommend a more …
From Campus To Newsroom In The South Pacific: Credible Media Career Paths Versus 'Academic Anaemia', D. Robie, S. Singh
From Campus To Newsroom In The South Pacific: Credible Media Career Paths Versus 'Academic Anaemia', D. Robie, S. Singh
Asia Pacific Media Educator
The University of the South Pacific’s Regional Journalism Programme, which caters for 12 member countries1 from the Cook Islands in the east to the Solomon Islands in the west, was founded in 1994 with French Government aid. It began producing double major graduate journalists for the South Pacific from 1996. Two-thirds of the graduates live and work in Fiji. While some news media organisations in Fiji have generally recruited graduates, others have preferred to hire untrained school leavers. Parallel with draft legislation designed to turn the self-regulating Fiji Media Council into a statutory body, there have been public calls for …
Use Of Internet In Political Participation In South Korea, S. Bhuiyan
Use Of Internet In Political Participation In South Korea, S. Bhuiyan
Asia Pacific Media Educator
This article examines the role of the Internet in political participation in South Korea. It reveals that the Internet brought majority of the voters into the political process and produced a more fact-based election process in South Korea. It also reveals that Internet accessibility has become a stronger factor to explain increased voter participation. This article suggests that the rapid diffusion of Internet along with broadband connections have contributed to the increased use of Internet among young voters.
The Lucky Few: Female Graduands Of Communication Studies In The Indonesian Media Industry, P. Utari, P. Nilan
The Lucky Few: Female Graduands Of Communication Studies In The Indonesian Media Industry, P. Utari, P. Nilan
Asia Pacific Media Educator
For some years, women have been entering Indonesian communications degrees in much larger numbers than men, but only a minority of media workers at present are women. This paper reports on research into the limiting factors, which affect the progress of female communications graduates into professional media work. A case study was used to investigate the gap between the number of women enrolling in communication studies at Universitas Sebelas Maret in Solo, Central Java, and those working in television, radio, newspapers, tabloids and journals, public relations and advertising across Indonesia. This paper concludes by describing some of the factors, which …
What Moves Which Volunteers To Donate Their Time? An Investigation Of Psychographic Heterogeneity Among Volunteers In Australia, Sara Dolnicar, Melanie J. Randle
What Moves Which Volunteers To Donate Their Time? An Investigation Of Psychographic Heterogeneity Among Volunteers In Australia, Sara Dolnicar, Melanie J. Randle
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Many local environmental volunteering organisations face difficulties attracting volunteers from specific subgroups of the community. Consequently, it is crucial to gain understanding about the variety of factors that move people to participate in environmental volunteering. Factors which might have been underestimated in the past given the rather homogeneous community groups of volunteers which are, e.g., predominantly of Anglo-Saxon origin. This study reports on an analysis of volunteering motivations based on a representative data set provided by the ABS. It reveals that volunteering motivations vary widely and illustrates possible new ways of marketing volunteering organisations in order to attract new community …
Valuing Practice: The Place Of Practical Legal Research In Academic Life., K. F. Maxwell, J. Pastellas
Valuing Practice: The Place Of Practical Legal Research In Academic Life., K. F. Maxwell, J. Pastellas
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
Practical legal training has traditionally been the poor relation of the legal education family. Along with the similarly placed clinical legal education, it is a latecomer to formal legal education and its academic value is regarded with some reservation by those involved in more mainstream areas of academia. These reservations are not entirely unfounded. While few could deny the value of practical legal training in terms of teaching and contribution to the legal community, it is in the contribution to research and scholarship that practical legal training may be seen to be less successful. Few academics who teach in practical …
Disney Through The Web Looking Glass, Brian Martin, Brian M. Yecies
Disney Through The Web Looking Glass, Brian Martin, Brian M. Yecies
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
For critics of the Disney Corporation, the World Wide Web is a convenient medium for providing information and expressing concern. The majority of anti–Disney Web sites are run by either Christian or labour rights organisations as utilitarian adjuncts to offline campaigns. In contrast are a number of idiosyncratic individual anti–Disney sites that provide links to criticism from a variety of perspectives. The Web appears to facilitate this type of cross–issue critique. On the other hand, some forms of opposition to Disney, such as by employees and corporate competitors, are largely absent from the Web. Assessing challenges to a corporation by …
“Being Healthy”: The Discursive Construction Of Health In New Zealand Children’S Responses To The National Education Monitoring Project, Jan Wright, L. Burrows
“Being Healthy”: The Discursive Construction Of Health In New Zealand Children’S Responses To The National Education Monitoring Project, Jan Wright, L. Burrows
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
In this paper we examine the discursive resources which year 4 and year 8 students draw on to construct meanings for health. Drawing on students’ responses to tasks in the New Zealand National Monitoring Project (Crooks & Flockton, 1999) we examine what students have to say about health, speculate on where these responses have come from, and on the implications of these for health education pedagogy. The students’ responses indicate that they are well-versed in “healthism” discourses which link practices like eating, exercise, smoking, drinking and taking drugs with “health”. The students’ responses also point to the construction of health …
From The Stage To The Clinic: Changing Transgender Identities In Post-War Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
From The Stage To The Clinic: Changing Transgender Identities In Post-War Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper looks at the transformation of male-to-female transgender identities in Japan since the Second World War. The development of print media aimed at a transgender readership is outlined as is the development of bars, clubs and sex venues where transgendered men sought both partners and commercial opportunities. The origin of various transgender 'folk categories' such as okama, gei bōi, burūbōi and nyūhāfu is discussed and their dependence upon and relationship to the entertainment world is outlined. Finally, the paper looks at how the resumption of sex-change operations in Japan in 1998 has led to a new public discourse about …
Dissent And Heresy In Medicine: Models, Methods, And Strategies, Brian Martin
Dissent And Heresy In Medicine: Models, Methods, And Strategies, Brian Martin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Understanding the dynamics of dissent and heresy in medicine can be aided by use of suitable frameworks. The dynamics of the search for truth vary considerably depending on whether the search is competitive or cooperative and on whether truth is assumed to be unitary or plural. Insights about dissent and heresy in medicine can be gained by making comparisons to politics and religion. To explain adherence to either orthodoxy or a challenging view, partisans use a standard set of explanations; social scientists use these plus others, especially symmetrical analyses. There is a wide array of methods by which orthodoxy maintains …
A Research Framework For The Adoption And Usage Of Executive Information Systems By Organisational Executives: An Exploratory Study, Emmanuel Matthew Ikart, George Ditsa
A Research Framework For The Adoption And Usage Of Executive Information Systems By Organisational Executives: An Exploratory Study, Emmanuel Matthew Ikart, George Ditsa
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
To improve the performance of executives’ work, a number of organisations have implemented executive information systems (EIS). Although the use of EIS is important in executives’ work, majority of executives are unwilling to use EIS applications. By using social factors, habits and facilitation conditions variables from Triandis’ framework, this paper extends TAM to derive variables to address the problem of the low usage of EIS by executives. This paper reports on research in progress in Australia on the adoption and usage of EIS by executives. The preliminary results suggest that executives’ experience in EIS positively relates to their experience in …
Critical Inquiry And Problem-Solving In Physical Education, Jan Wright
Critical Inquiry And Problem-Solving In Physical Education, Jan Wright
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
[Extract] Whether they agree that we are now in a period of postmodernity, late modernity or high modernity (Kirk 1997), social commentators do agree that we live in times characterised by profound social and cultural changes which are recognisable globally but reach into the everyday lives of individual. The nature of these changes is in large part attributed to enormous advances in technology which have allowed for the rapid processing and transmission of information within and across countries and cultures. On one hand, the greater accessibility of information from a larger range of sources has exposed different points of view …
Predicting The Effectiveness Of Anti-Speeding Tv Advertisements By Skin Conductance Response (Scr), Jennifer Thornton, John R. Rossiter
Predicting The Effectiveness Of Anti-Speeding Tv Advertisements By Skin Conductance Response (Scr), Jennifer Thornton, John R. Rossiter
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Hopkins and Fletcher (1994) ad-testing measure - which uses skin conductance response (SCR) to predict the effectiveness of sales messages for commercial products and services - would be similarly predictive for road safety ads. The predictive ability of SCR was tested on four pairs of anti-speeding ads using a behavioural dependent measure of speed choice. Overall, there was a weak correlation between SCR scores and speed choice scores (r = -.116, p < .10), and this was largely due to a strong correlation for one of the eight ads tested Further analysis showed that out of 16 possible comparisons of SCR scores and speed choice scores, by gender and ad, only two were found to be significantly correlated in the hypothesised direction. The Hopkins and Fletcher SCR ad-testing measure is not a dependable predictor of the effectiveness of antispeeding ads.
Location-Based Services: A Vehicle For It&T Convergence , Katina Michael
Location-Based Services: A Vehicle For It&T Convergence , Katina Michael
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Location-based services (LBS), more than any other mobile commerce application area has served to bring together information technology and telecommunications (IT&T) industries. While much has been written on the potential of LBS, literature on how it is a catalyst for digital convergence is scant. This paper identifies and explores the various levels of converging technologies in mobile commerce by using three LBS case studies. Through literal replication the findings indicate that IT&T technologies are converging at the infrastructure, appliance and application level. It is predicted that mCommerce applications will increasingly rely on industry convergence to achieve their desired outcomes.
Support For Asynchronous Interaction In Group Experiential Learning, Joseph Meloche, Helen Hasan, Angelo Papakosmas
Support For Asynchronous Interaction In Group Experiential Learning, Joseph Meloche, Helen Hasan, Angelo Papakosmas
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
To be relevant to the constantly changing work patterns of the real world, effective learning in universities often occurs in small groups facilitated by collaborative environments where participants are dynamically involved in purposeful activities. The research described in this paper is an investigation of purposeful group work devised for experiential learning where a variety of socio-technical tools were used to support asynchronous tasks and communication among the learners. In order to explore the complexity of this collaborative activity a distinctive inductive research approach has been adopted using reflective developmental methods. The data collection and the analysis part of the research …
Hourly Wages Of Full-Time And Part-Time Employees In Australia, Joan R. Rodgers
Hourly Wages Of Full-Time And Part-Time Employees In Australia, Joan R. Rodgers
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This study investigates some aspects of part-time and full-time employment in Australia. The main objective is to analyze whether part-time workers receive lower hourly wages than full-time workers who have similar levels of human capital and perform similar jobs. The study is based on unit-record data from Wave I of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The results indicate that unadjusted part-time wage penalties of 21 per cent for men and seven per cent for women can be explained by selection into full-time or part-time employment and controls for human capital and type of job. There …
Stages Of Development: Remembering Old Sydney In Ruth Park's 'Playing Beatie Bow' And A Companion Guide To Sydney, Monique C. Rooney
Stages Of Development: Remembering Old Sydney In Ruth Park's 'Playing Beatie Bow' And A Companion Guide To Sydney, Monique C. Rooney
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Ruth Park's Playing Beatie Bow (1980) can easily be read as a bildungsroman, a novel of self-development or apprenticeship. Falling between the "child" and the "Young Adult" category, it is the story of an adolescent girl who comes to terms with the part she plays in a family romance. This plot, in keeping with other Oedipal dramas, matches personal development with issues of social, cultural and national importance. However, in tension with this thematic of personal and cultural progression is Park's exploration of the contradictory role that the fetish plays in a female coming-of-age narrative. This essay analyses Park's deployment …
Indicators Of Journal Quality, Lucia Tome, S. Lipu
Indicators Of Journal Quality, Lucia Tome, S. Lipu
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Some of the methodologies used to assess journal quality include citation analysis, peer analysis, circulation and coverage in indexing or abstracting services. (Ali, Young et al. 1996, p.41). Both quantitative and qualitative measures such as these are widely discussed in the literature. From a study conducted in the UK, Swan and Brown (1999) found that authors tended to consider firstly the reputation of the journal by using the impact factor, followed by international reach and coverage by abstracting and indexing services. They also found that “Scientists are much more concerned about the availability of an electronic version of the journal …
Pre-School Experience And Social/Behavioural Development At The End Of Year 3 Of Primary School, Edward Melhuish, Karen Hanna, Louise Quinn, Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Pam Sammons, Brenda Taggart
Pre-School Experience And Social/Behavioural Development At The End Of Year 3 Of Primary School, Edward Melhuish, Karen Hanna, Louise Quinn, Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Pam Sammons, Brenda Taggart
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This longitudinal study assesses the attainment and development of children followed from the age of 3 until the end of Key Stage 1 (age 8). Over 700 children were recruited to the study during 1998 and 1999 from 80 pre-school centres in Northern Ireland. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to explore the effects of pre-school experience on children's cognitive attainment and social/behavioural development at entry to school and any continuing effects on such outcomes up to 8 years of age. In addition to the effects of pre-school experience, the study investigates the contribution to children's development of individual …
Pre-School Experience And Social/Behavioural Development At The End Of Year 1 Of Primary School, Louise Quinn, Edward Melhuish, Karen Hanna, Kathy Sylva, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart
Pre-School Experience And Social/Behavioural Development At The End Of Year 1 Of Primary School, Louise Quinn, Edward Melhuish, Karen Hanna, Kathy Sylva, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This longitudinal study assesses the attainment and development of children followed between the ages of 3 and 7 years. Over 700 children were recruited to the study during 1998 and 1999 from 80 pre-school centres. Both qualitative and quantitative methods (including multilevel modelling) are used to explore the effects of pre-school experience on children's cognitive attainment and social/behavioural development at entry to school and any continuing effects on such outcomes up to 7 years of age. In addition to the effects of preschool experience, the study investigates the contribution to children's development of individual and family characteristics such as gender, …
Pre-School Experience And Social/Behavioural Development At The End Of Year 2 Of Primary School, Edward Melhuish, Louise Quinn, Karen Hanna, Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Pam Sammons, Brenda Taggart
Pre-School Experience And Social/Behavioural Development At The End Of Year 2 Of Primary School, Edward Melhuish, Louise Quinn, Karen Hanna, Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Pam Sammons, Brenda Taggart
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This longitudinal study assesses the attainment and development of children followed from the age of 3 until the end of Key Stage 1 (age 8). Over 700 children were recruited to the study during 1998 and 1999 from 80 pre-school centres in Northern Ireland. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to explore the effects of pre-school experience on children's cognitive attainment and social/behavioural development at entry to school and any continuing effects on such outcomes up to 8 years of age. In addition to the effects of pre-school experience, the study investigates the contribution to children's development of individual …
The Women's Voluntary Services, A Study Of War And Volunteering In Camden, 1939-1945, Ian C. Willis
The Women's Voluntary Services, A Study Of War And Volunteering In Camden, 1939-1945, Ian C. Willis
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
Camden is a country town whose history and development has been influenced by war. The town was part of Australias homefront war effort, and from the time of the Boer War the most important part of this for Camden was volunteering. The Second World War was no exception, and the most influential voluntary organisation that contributed to the town�s war effort was the Womens Voluntary Services [WVS]. The Camden WVS was part of the close cultural and emotional links that existed between Camden and Great Britain that began with the Macarthur family in the early nineteenth century. Camden saw itself …
On Rights, Duties And Vulnerability: Assessing The Role Of Human Rights In The Care And Protection Of Vulnerable People, Tony S. Jones
On Rights, Duties And Vulnerability: Assessing The Role Of Human Rights In The Care And Protection Of Vulnerable People, Tony S. Jones
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
When we are confronted with vulnerable people, with those groups and individuals who are impaired with respect to their ability to function as the rational, autonomous and moral agents that we typically take humans to be, we are encouraged to invoke notions of rights, and in particular notions of human rights, in order to secure their care and protection. Such an approach seeks not simply to reinforce the view that vulnerable people are the moral equivalents of us all and thus are entitled to an equal moral consideration, but also this approach recognises that to be vulnerable is often to …
Measurement And Meaning Of Core Relationship Theme Changes During Psychotherapy, Lisa Parker
Measurement And Meaning Of Core Relationship Theme Changes During Psychotherapy, Lisa Parker
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
Through the investigation of two related Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) methodologies, this study continued to contest the notion the field of psychoanalysis is bereft of empirical ventures. The Quantitative Assessment of Interpersonal Themes (QUAINT) and Core Conflictual Relationship Theme - Leipzig/Ulm (CCRT-LU) systems were applied to psychotherapy transcripts from the treatment of seventeen patients who had attended multiple sessions per week of longterm psychoanalysis. The thematic profiles of each method were modified to facilitate a direct comparison of the methodological structures, including the coding system. The investigation reported on the strengths and weaknesses of each system. The QUAINT and …
University Of Wollongong Postgraduate Course Handbook 2004 Subjects, University Of Wollongong
University Of Wollongong Postgraduate Course Handbook 2004 Subjects, University Of Wollongong
University of Wollongong Calendars and Handbooks
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University Of Wollongong Postgraduate Course Handbook 2004 Courses, University Of Wollongong
University Of Wollongong Postgraduate Course Handbook 2004 Courses, University Of Wollongong
University of Wollongong Calendars and Handbooks
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Beyond The P300: Target And Non-Target Erp Components In Schizophrenia, Kerri J. Brown
Beyond The P300: Target And Non-Target Erp Components In Schizophrenia, Kerri J. Brown
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016
The P300 component of the auditory ERP elicited to target stimuli has been extensively investigated as a potential psychophysiological marker in schizophrenia. Theoretical and empirical evidence is presented, suggesting the earlier components (N100, P200) to both target and non-target stimuli may better capture information processing deficits currently proposed to be central to schizophrenia. The thesis comprises 4 studies. Study 1 demonstrated deficits to non-target (reduced N100 amplitude, earlier P200 latency), in addition to target stimuli (reduced and earlier N100 amplitude, increased P200 amplitude), in schizophrenia (n = 40) compared with matched normal controls. The schizophrenia group was also characterised by …