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    Mornings with Radio 774: can John Howard’s medium of choice enhance public sphere activity?
    LEE, CAROLYNE ( 2007)
    This paper addresses the necessity for program-specific analysis in radio research by focussing on Jon Faine’s Morning Program on ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne). After establishing the present Prime Minister’s preference for radio appearances over all other types of media, I examine the extent to which Faine’s particular iteration of talkback has the capacity to enhance public sphere activity, given the view that this medium is being strategically utilised by politicians to gain virtually uncontested access to listeners. My examination occurs principally through a morning’s observation of Faine’s program, supported by information from recordings of a constructed week of the program from the previous two months. My findings suggest that while a certain amount of ‘top-down’ flow of information is unavoidable, some contestation of ideas often occurs, mitigating politicians’ exploitation of at least this particular program. Faine’s program does, moreover, seem to give the impression of an acceptance of listeners calls on topics that affect their daily lives, even though only a small number of ‘ordinary’ callers are featured each day. My observations suggest this program does offer processes that enhance public sphere activity, although with some qualifications.
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    Immersion, reflexivity and distraction: spatial strategies for digital cities
    MCQUIRE, S. ( 2007)
    This essay focuses on the ways that cinema and the city have mutually constituted new immersive experiences of urban perception.
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    Relatively benign corruption? Critical discourse analysis for media students
    LEE, CAROLYNE ( 2007)
    Don Watson, in his book Death Sentence, claims that the way in which the media disseminate information and the way politicians manipulate this process have resulted in a kind of corruption. Assuming this is the case, I suggest in this paper that it is therefore useful to equip students in media courses with the skills of critical discourse analysis. A useful starting point for teaching these skills to undergraduates, I have found, is a newspaper article by Alexander Downer, excerpted from one of his speeches about the 'war on terror'. Such a mediated political linguistic act as this will of course inherently involve power or resistance to power, and will contribute to the formation of a specific discourse community via strategies of coercion, resistance, opposition or protest, and dissimulation/de-legitimisation. This necessarily results in relations of struggle that are played out at the lexicogrammatical level, on which I invite students to focus. Such media texts, which represent and foreground starkly opposing ideologies, can be useful vehicles for teaching the concept of discourse communities, as well as the reading strategies of critical discourse analysis.
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    Ara Irititja: adding more value to Aboriginal art through education
    LOWISH, SUSAN ( 2007)
    The Ara Irititja project enables the Anangu (Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people) of Central Australia to re-engage with their own history through digitized archives. Specialized software, housed in purpose-built work stations called niri-niri, named after a similar looking beetle, protect the computers in a dust-, dirt- and bug-proof case. The project makes the wealth of recordings, images and written material that has accumulated in collections over time, available to Anangu in their own communities via computer. Through the active re-engagement with this material, Anangu people in central, southern and western Australia relearn, refine and re-engage with their own social history. This article argues that there is scope to apply this program to the recording of the history of Aboriginal art. An open access version of the entire history of Aboriginal art could help curb the over-emphasis on the monetary value of Aboriginal art.
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    I’ve written my talk: blogging, writing and temporality
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE ( 2007)
    Between the poles of speaking and writing, where do we place a published version of a written talk given about blogging? I find, as I write this up, that I can’t keep a straight writerly face. I’m unable to render the layers of past and present into a seamless tense, a smooth representation of speaking about writing, or writing about speaking. Mostly, we know how to read and write the conventions for ‘writing up a talk’, but the subject of blogging seems to call forth a different kind of reflection. Or does it?
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    Media Art Futures
    CUBITT, S (Elsevier, 2007)
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    The Haunting Affect of Place in the Discourse of the Virtual
    Wilken, R (Informa UK Limited, 2007-03)
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    Suffering, vice, and justice: Religious imaginaries and welfare agencies in post-war Melbourne
    Murphy, J (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2007-09)
    Faith‐based welfare agencies vary considerably, dependent on the nature of their leadership, the inheritance of their services, and the niche that they are assigned by state policy in the mixed economy of welfare. Another dimension of their diversity can derive from the discursive structures of their faith. This article examines the theological inheritances that shaped how three key welfare agencies in post‐war Melbourne imagined what they were doing, as they drew on the diversity of teachings about the poor derived from the Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist traditions.
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    I am hungry for fame-after-death: Percy Grainger's quest for immortality through his museum
    NEMEC, BELINDA (National Museum of Australia, 2007-09)
    This paper examines the autobiographical museum established in the 1930s at the University of Melbourne by the Australian-born composer, pianist, folklorist and educator Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961). The suicide in 1922 of his mother, Rose, served as the catalyst to Grainger's museum project. The paper discusses his attempts to create a museum that would both serve as a memorial to Rose and position Grainger himself for posterity as Australia's greatest composer. Grainger's attitudes to death, the past, nostalgia, memory and relics, as manifested through his museum collection, are explored.
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