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Feminist Approaches And The South African News Media, Denise Buiten
Feminist Approaches And The South African News Media, Denise Buiten
Denise Buiten
Despite apparent feminist advancements within contemporary South Africa, gender transformation in the South African media industry has been both limited and irregular in terms of the ways in which newsroom cultures are being transformed, and the ways in which this impacts on the production of gendered media texts. Based on interviews with journalists and editors from three weekly South African newspapers, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Sun and the Mail & Guardian, this article explores the ways in which journalists articulate their understandings of gender and gender transformation within the media, and reflects on the ways in which these articulations …
Making News Today: A Tool For Adoption Of Ethics Principles Using Technology¿Supported Television Journalism, David Blackall, Barry Harper, Lori Lockyer
Making News Today: A Tool For Adoption Of Ethics Principles Using Technology¿Supported Television Journalism, David Blackall, Barry Harper, Lori Lockyer
Professor Lori Lockyer
There are movements internationally towards curricula that incorporate values and citizenship education. In Australia, this movement has been illustrated with the adoption of a national curriculum in values education. This has arisen from the perceived need for citizens to hold values around the rights and responsibilities of functioning within a democracy. The Making News Today programme has been designed to develop a range of literacies enabling learners, for example, to read the media beyond the interests of the elite. The programme incorporates a journalistic process for television news production for middle school students using laptop and handheld video technologies, with …
Making News Today: Literacy For Citizenship, David R. Blackall, Philip Reece
Making News Today: Literacy For Citizenship, David R. Blackall, Philip Reece
David Blackall
This paper is a report on an evaluation of the Making News Today project. This project is a partnership involving the University of Wollongong, Apple Computers, WIN Television and participating schools, supported with a grant from the Australian Research Council. Schools participating in the project are involved in the analysis and creation of news items for television. This evaluation focuses specifically on the potential of the Making News Today project as a vehicle for teaching literacy for citizenship.
Drop Out From Residential Treatment: Is It All Bad News?, C Morgan, Peter Kelly, Frank Deane, Trevor Crowe
Drop Out From Residential Treatment: Is It All Bad News?, C Morgan, Peter Kelly, Frank Deane, Trevor Crowe
Peter Kelly
No abstract provided.
Using Textual Features To Predict Popular Content On Digg, Paul H. Miller
Using Textual Features To Predict Popular Content On Digg, Paul H. Miller
Paul H Miller
Over the past few years, collaborative rating sites, such as Netflix, Digg and Stumble, have become increasingly prevalent sites for users to find trending content. I used various data mining techniques to study Digg, a social news site, to examine the influence of content on popularity. What influence does content have on popularity, and what influence does content have on users’ decisions? Overwhelmingly, prior studies have consistently shown that predicting popularity based on content is difficult and maybe even inherently impossible. The same submission can have multiple outcomes and content neither determines popularity, nor individual user decisions. My results show …
Fm Radio News: Spreading The News Or Spread Too Thin?, Denise Raward, Jane Johnston
Fm Radio News: Spreading The News Or Spread Too Thin?, Denise Raward, Jane Johnston
Jane Johnston
United Kingdom investigative reporter Nick Davies has coined the term 'churnalism' to describe the UK print media's reliance on wire copy and press releases for the vast majority of its news. This study looks at this trend in Australia, focusing on the FM radio industry and a case study of one radio station which also serves as a news 'hub' for a national network. Davies found that up to 80 per cent of Fleet Street news is based on wire service, other media or press releases. This Australian FM newsroom study found nearly 90 per cent of networked news bulletins …