Research

Media has been recently recognised as an emerging research strength in the Faculty.

The Media Discipline researches industry and technology change, media ethics, policy formation, media representational issues, content regulation, and consumption and production practices and their impact on wider society. 

Staff are interested in a broad range of research questions and are involved in sole and collaborative research on media in Australia and other countries e.g., Nepal, Ghana, Singapore, New Zealand, and Europe.  

Current staff research themes include:

Digital and Participatory Media and Innovation

• Blogging
• Citizen and video journalism
• Creative praxis and industries
• Collaborative technologies
• Community media
• Connectivity: generation, gender
• Digital story-telling
• Eco-media
• E-democracy and e-government
• E-learning and digital pedagogy
• Emerging media technologies
• Games
• Intranets and peer production
• Media literacies and learning
• Mobile technologies and practices
• Production/practice
• User-generated-content

Media Theory, Industry and Policy Studies

• Communication theory
• Cultural policy studies
• Film theory and practice
• Media education policy
• Media ethics
• Media censorship and regulation
• Media and policy management
• Screen industries (film and television)
• Strategic communication

Global Media Studies

• Asian print media
• Chinese media
• Communication for social change and development
• Indigenous and multicultural media
• Nepali media
• ‘Nollywood’ and African Cinema
• Popular media in the Asia-Pacific region
• Virtual African and Asian Diaspora

Media and Cultural Studies

• Alternative media
• Fictocriticism
• Gender, identity and representation
• Media and religion
• Visual culture
• Women in sport
• Writing practices
• Youth studies