Christina Spurgeon
Biographic Data
| ID | 126992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Spurgeon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Spurgeon |
| SIGNATURE | SPURGEON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2686-921X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kapori
This article explores kapori, an Indigenous form of storytelling to investigate and report experiences, motivations, responses, and challenges of sorcery accusation–related violence (SARV) by the Yuri people, a tribal group from the Papua New Guinea highlands. SARV is attributed to the belief that some people use supernatural powers to cause illness, deaths, or misfortunes to a community and, therefore, become targets of violent accusations. We o…
Researching media participation by listening to people with disability
A significant body of literature examines the under-representation of people with disability in the media. In news and fictional portrayals, people with disability are often defined by disability first, their personhood second, perpetuating stereotypes of people with disability as different. Activists attempt to change how media portray people with disability. Less well-considered are the challenges of media participation. This article argues tha…
Making Media Participatory
In 2002, Media International Australia published a special issue on Citizens' Media (no. 103). It profiled new academic work that was reinvigorating research into alternative and community-interest media. Contributions to that issue explored new possibilities for community media policy and argued that critical participatory media provided a crucial link between media studies and broader agendas in political theory and democratic debate. In this i…
Participatory Media and 'Co-Creative' Storytelling
Distinguishing critical participatory media from other participatory media forms (for example user-generated content and social media) may be increasingly difficult to do, but it nonetheless remains an important task if media studies is to remain relevant to the continuing development of inclusive social political and media cultures. This was one of a number of the premises for a national Australian Research Council-funded study that set out to i…
Young citizens, values and new/s media
The adaptation of market segmentation to political communication is identified here as a neglected explanation for why young people often figure in popular political debates as both the cause and symptom of declining social values and civic participation. New media also contribute to public anxiety because they enable new forms of mediated civic engagement and disrupt the capacity of transmission media to bind nations. Declining engagement with n…
The Promise of Computational Journalism
Computational journalism involves the application of software and technologies to the activities of journalism, and it draws from the fields of computer science, the social sciences, and media and communications. New technologies may enhance the traditional aims of journalism, or may initiate greater interaction between journalists and information and communication technology (ICT) specialists. The enhanced use of computing in news production is …
Brand New China. Advertising, Media and Commercial Culture
Advertising and New Media
This comprehensive introduction explores the evolving relationship between new media, advertising and new media consumers. Tracing the shift from 'mass' to 'my' media, Advertising and New Media critically evaluates the social and cultural implications of increased interactivity and consumer creativity for the future of advertising, with examples drawn from the USA, the UK, Europe, Australia and the peoples Republic of China.Features include: eval…
Premium rate culture
This article considers a neglected but crucial aspect of the new business of mobile interactivity: the premium rate data services industry. It provides an international anatomy of this industry model and the ways in which it has been used to capitalize upon the surprising success of short message service (SMS) to provide a basis for the development of consumer markets for mobile data services. It situates this analysis within a wider consideratio…
Mobiles into Media
The use of SMS as a feedback channel or return path (that is, a new communication channel) in broadcasting is increasingly commonplace. But, what is the real significance of these SMS-mediated television events? Is this massive shift in the new digital mobile messaging landscape a lifeline for broadcast television, now struggling with its advertising base? How are new developments in SMS and MMS (multimedia messaging) building synergies between o…
Is Anyone Listening? The Fate of Diversity in Digital Broadcasting Policy
This commentary examines how diversity of content is being addressed in the Howard government's 2006 media policy reforms. In particular, it identifies which services and providers have an interest in providing genuinely new content on new digital platforms
Advertising and the Media
Advertising and the New Search Media
This article takes a co-evolutionary approach to considering the influence of internet cultures and revenue sources on the development of the new commercial search media. The extent to which advertising revenues can be relied upon as a defining characteristic of commercial media in the global era is also problematised. A comparative consideration of the cases of Yahoo!, Google and Sensis pays particular attention to informational forms of adverti…
Mobile message services and communications policy
Something of a design after‐thought, mobile phone SMS (Short‐Message Services) have been enthusiastically adopted by consumers worldwide, who have created a new text culture. SMS is now being deployed to provide a range of services and transactions, as well as playing a critical role in offering an interactive path for television broadcasting. In this paper we offer a case study of a lucrative, new industry developing internationally at the inter…
Introduction
Ben Goldsmith and Christina Spurgeon introduce the special 'Culture, trade, services' issue of Media International Australia
Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China
This paper looks at recent developments in the Chinese magazine industry to illustrate trends in advertiser-funded media associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Advertising services are an integral element of the WTO 'wrecking ball' now being wielded to reform the marketplace and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. As the smallest of 'main media' categories, the Chinese magazine industry provides an interesti…
The 'Digital/Life' Moral Panic
This paper attempts to make sense of recent debates concerning broadcast media self-regulation of sex and nudity. It focuses on a period in mid-1998 when Sex/Life disappeared from Australian TV screens. Specifically, it tracks a 'moral panic' in progress at the time the Ten Network announced its decision to cancel this program. It describes and summarises findings of a quantitative analysis of the editorial content of 17 Australian newspapers mon…
National Culture, Communications and the Information Economy
This article analyses developments in Australian communications policy since the March 1996 change of national government. It considers Artsinfo, a new Australian government-sponsored Internet and telephone-based information service, as a product of this conjunction. It argues that Artsinfo is emblematic of the ways in which Internetworking developments are altering social space on local, national and global scales. This article also explores tem…
The Promise of Computational Journalism
Computational journalism involves the application of software and technologies to the activities of journalism, and it draws from the fields of computer science, the social sciences, and media and communications. New technologies may enhance the traditional aims of journalism, or may initiate greater interaction between journalists and information and communication technology (ICT) specialists. The enhanced use of computing in news production is …
Premium rate culture
This article considers a neglected but crucial aspect of the new business of mobile interactivity: the premium rate data services industry. It provides an international anatomy of this industry model and the ways in which it has been used to capitalize upon the surprising success of short message service (SMS) to provide a basis for the development of consumer markets for mobile data services. It situates this analysis within a wider consideratio…
Advertising and the New Search Media
This article takes a co-evolutionary approach to considering the influence of internet cultures and revenue sources on the development of the new commercial search media. The extent to which advertising revenues can be relied upon as a defining characteristic of commercial media in the global era is also problematised. A comparative consideration of the cases of Yahoo!, Google and Sensis pays particular attention to informational forms of adverti…
Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China
This paper looks at recent developments in the Chinese magazine industry to illustrate trends in advertiser-funded media associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Advertising services are an integral element of the WTO 'wrecking ball' now being wielded to reform the marketplace and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. As the smallest of 'main media' categories, the Chinese magazine industry provides an interesti…
Researching media participation by listening to people with disability
A significant body of literature examines the under-representation of people with disability in the media. In news and fictional portrayals, people with disability are often defined by disability first, their personhood second, perpetuating stereotypes of people with disability as different. Activists attempt to change how media portray people with disability. Less well-considered are the challenges of media participation. This article argues tha…
Making Media Participatory
In 2002, Media International Australia published a special issue on Citizens' Media (no. 103). It profiled new academic work that was reinvigorating research into alternative and community-interest media. Contributions to that issue explored new possibilities for community media policy and argued that critical participatory media provided a crucial link between media studies and broader agendas in political theory and democratic debate. In this i…
Participatory Media and 'Co-Creative' Storytelling
Distinguishing critical participatory media from other participatory media forms (for example user-generated content and social media) may be increasingly difficult to do, but it nonetheless remains an important task if media studies is to remain relevant to the continuing development of inclusive social political and media cultures. This was one of a number of the premises for a national Australian Research Council-funded study that set out to i…
Young citizens, values and new/s media
The adaptation of market segmentation to political communication is identified here as a neglected explanation for why young people often figure in popular political debates as both the cause and symptom of declining social values and civic participation. New media also contribute to public anxiety because they enable new forms of mediated civic engagement and disrupt the capacity of transmission media to bind nations. Declining engagement with n…
Mobiles into Media
The use of SMS as a feedback channel or return path (that is, a new communication channel) in broadcasting is increasingly commonplace. But, what is the real significance of these SMS-mediated television events? Is this massive shift in the new digital mobile messaging landscape a lifeline for broadcast television, now struggling with its advertising base? How are new developments in SMS and MMS (multimedia messaging) building synergies between o…
The 'Digital/Life' Moral Panic
This paper attempts to make sense of recent debates concerning broadcast media self-regulation of sex and nudity. It focuses on a period in mid-1998 when Sex/Life disappeared from Australian TV screens. Specifically, it tracks a 'moral panic' in progress at the time the Ten Network announced its decision to cancel this program. It describes and summarises findings of a quantitative analysis of the editorial content of 17 Australian newspapers mon…
National Culture, Communications and the Information Economy
This article analyses developments in Australian communications policy since the March 1996 change of national government. It considers Artsinfo, a new Australian government-sponsored Internet and telephone-based information service, as a product of this conjunction. It argues that Artsinfo is emblematic of the ways in which Internetworking developments are altering social space on local, national and global scales. This article also explores tem…
National Culture, Communications and the Information Economy
This article analyses developments in Australian communications policy since the March 1996 change of national government. It considers Artsinfo, a new Australian government-sponsored Internet and telephone-based information service, as a product of this conjunction. It argues that Artsinfo is emblematic of the ways in which Internetworking developments are altering social space on local, national and global scales. This article also explores tem…
The 'Digital/Life' Moral Panic
This paper attempts to make sense of recent debates concerning broadcast media self-regulation of sex and nudity. It focuses on a period in mid-1998 when Sex/Life disappeared from Australian TV screens. Specifically, it tracks a 'moral panic' in progress at the time the Ten Network announced its decision to cancel this program. It describes and summarises findings of a quantitative analysis of the editorial content of 17 Australian newspapers mon…
Introduction
Ben Goldsmith and Christina Spurgeon introduce the special 'Culture, trade, services' issue of Media International Australia
Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China
This paper looks at recent developments in the Chinese magazine industry to illustrate trends in advertiser-funded media associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Advertising services are an integral element of the WTO 'wrecking ball' now being wielded to reform the marketplace and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. As the smallest of 'main media' categories, the Chinese magazine industry provides an interesti…
Mobile message services and communications policy
Something of a design after‐thought, mobile phone SMS (Short‐Message Services) have been enthusiastically adopted by consumers worldwide, who have created a new text culture. SMS is now being deployed to provide a range of services and transactions, as well as playing a critical role in offering an interactive path for television broadcasting. In this paper we offer a case study of a lucrative, new industry developing internationally at the inter…
Advertising and the Media
Advertising and the New Search Media
This article takes a co-evolutionary approach to considering the influence of internet cultures and revenue sources on the development of the new commercial search media. The extent to which advertising revenues can be relied upon as a defining characteristic of commercial media in the global era is also problematised. A comparative consideration of the cases of Yahoo!, Google and Sensis pays particular attention to informational forms of adverti…
Advertising and New Media
This comprehensive introduction explores the evolving relationship between new media, advertising and new media consumers. Tracing the shift from 'mass' to 'my' media, Advertising and New Media critically evaluates the social and cultural implications of increased interactivity and consumer creativity for the future of advertising, with examples drawn from the USA, the UK, Europe, Australia and the peoples Republic of China.Features include: eval…
Premium rate culture
This article considers a neglected but crucial aspect of the new business of mobile interactivity: the premium rate data services industry. It provides an international anatomy of this industry model and the ways in which it has been used to capitalize upon the surprising success of short message service (SMS) to provide a basis for the development of consumer markets for mobile data services. It situates this analysis within a wider consideratio…
Mobiles into Media
The use of SMS as a feedback channel or return path (that is, a new communication channel) in broadcasting is increasingly commonplace. But, what is the real significance of these SMS-mediated television events? Is this massive shift in the new digital mobile messaging landscape a lifeline for broadcast television, now struggling with its advertising base? How are new developments in SMS and MMS (multimedia messaging) building synergies between o…
Is Anyone Listening? The Fate of Diversity in Digital Broadcasting Policy
This commentary examines how diversity of content is being addressed in the Howard government's 2006 media policy reforms. In particular, it identifies which services and providers have an interest in providing genuinely new content on new digital platforms
Brand New China. Advertising, Media and Commercial Culture
The Promise of Computational Journalism
Computational journalism involves the application of software and technologies to the activities of journalism, and it draws from the fields of computer science, the social sciences, and media and communications. New technologies may enhance the traditional aims of journalism, or may initiate greater interaction between journalists and information and communication technology (ICT) specialists. The enhanced use of computing in news production is …
Young citizens, values and new/s media
The adaptation of market segmentation to political communication is identified here as a neglected explanation for why young people often figure in popular political debates as both the cause and symptom of declining social values and civic participation. New media also contribute to public anxiety because they enable new forms of mediated civic engagement and disrupt the capacity of transmission media to bind nations. Declining engagement with n…
Making Media Participatory
In 2002, Media International Australia published a special issue on Citizens' Media (no. 103). It profiled new academic work that was reinvigorating research into alternative and community-interest media. Contributions to that issue explored new possibilities for community media policy and argued that critical participatory media provided a crucial link between media studies and broader agendas in political theory and democratic debate. In this i…
Participatory Media and 'Co-Creative' Storytelling
Distinguishing critical participatory media from other participatory media forms (for example user-generated content and social media) may be increasingly difficult to do, but it nonetheless remains an important task if media studies is to remain relevant to the continuing development of inclusive social political and media cultures. This was one of a number of the premises for a national Australian Research Council-funded study that set out to i…
Researching media participation by listening to people with disability
A significant body of literature examines the under-representation of people with disability in the media. In news and fictional portrayals, people with disability are often defined by disability first, their personhood second, perpetuating stereotypes of people with disability as different. Activists attempt to change how media portray people with disability. Less well-considered are the challenges of media participation. This article argues tha…
Kapori
This article explores kapori, an Indigenous form of storytelling to investigate and report experiences, motivations, responses, and challenges of sorcery accusation–related violence (SARV) by the Yuri people, a tribal group from the Papua New Guinea highlands. SARV is attributed to the belief that some people use supernatural powers to cause illness, deaths, or misfortunes to a community and, therefore, become targets of violent accusations. We o…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Advertising (9 works) · Business (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social media (5 works)