David Mcknight
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 314354 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Mcknight |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Mcknight |
| FIRMA | MCKNIGHT D |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Tribune on Trove
Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery
This is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between marriage, violence and sorcery in an Australian Aboriginal Community, drawing on David McKnight’s extensive research on Mornington Island. The case studies, which occurred both before and after a Presbyterian Mission was established on the island, allow McKnight to show how the complexities of kin ties and increased sexual competition help to explain incidences of violence and sorcery,…
The Rudd Labor government and the limitations of spin
This article explores the news management practices of the first Rudd government (2007-2010) and the extent to which they were responsible for both the government's initial success and its later decline and the subsequent replacement as Prime Minister of Kevin Rudd. Based on confidential interviews with 15 media advisers who worked for ministers in the first Rudd government, the article draws conclusions about the nature of the 'permanent campaig…
The Rise of the Spin Doctor
This article contextualises the rise of political spin in Australian politics and discusses its meaning and implications. It examines the largely unmediated relationship between political leaders and journalists that existed until the 1970s. It locates the foundational period in the growth of professionalised public relations in the Fraser and Hawke governments and suggests that an assertive new style of journalism played a role in its birth. It …
Public Contest through the Popular Media
This article explores the 'mining tax ad war of 2010', which contributed to the removal of a first-term Labor prime minister and shaped Australia's Minerals Resource Rent Tax. In particular, it examines the uses, ethics and consequences of advocacy advertising, which is an under-explored aspect of communication power. The article identifies advocacy advertising as an increasingly prevalent technique used by corporations and lobby groups to influe…
Henry Mayer Lecture 2012
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using his news media. Murdoch himself is probably the most influential Australian of all time. He says the recent News of the World hacking scandal went 'went against everything [he stands] for'. But how true is this? He sees himself as an anti-estab…
You’re all a bunch of pinkos’
News Corporation is one of the most closely studied international media conglomerates, headed by the world’s most famous media proprietor. Yet, despite its prominence in the academic literature, little attention has been paid to the company’s book publishing operations. This article seeks to rectify this oversight. It investigates some of the more controversial book deals made by HarperCollins, outlining a partisan publishing pattern that conform…
A change in the climate? The journalism of opinion at News Corporation
In 2007 the global media company News Corporation announced that it would become ‘carbon neutral’ and generally endorsed scientific warnings about global warming. Its CEO, Rupert Murdoch, signaled not only that the media group held a corporate view toward the issue of climate change but that its editorial coverage would henceforth change. This article examines the period before this change of direction. From 1997 to 2007 newspapers and television…
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
Intra-Moiety Marriages
The Sunday Times and Andrew Neil
This article contends that The Sunday Times became a champion of the ideas of free market populism after it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch. The driving force for this shift was the editor (1983–1994), Andrew Neil, who argued that free market ideology was a radical set of ideas which was on the side of ordinary people and which was opposed mainly by “elites” and “establishments”. This populist view of markets owes much to the ideas of the America…
Not Attributable to Official Sources
During the Cold War in Australia, the political agenda was dominated by the threat of communism. One factor in building this agenda was the 'counter-propaganda operations' of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) which regularly released unattributable information to selected mass media outlets. In the period when these activities were most prevalent (1960-72), ASIO officers had regular contact with editors and with selected jo…
Rethinking Cold War History
Historians have rethought some of the prevailing assumptions employed in writing about the Cold War in Australia. Until recently, the history of the Cold War in Australia was often written with too little detachment and skepticism toward the Left, and with a failure of scholarly empathy toward the claims of the anti-Communist Right. The opening of new archival and intelligence sources (such as the 'Venona' papers) is one reason for the shift in t…
Arrestin-2 and G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 Interact with NFκB1 p105 and Negatively Regulate Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ERK1/2 Activation in Macrophages
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a recently described receptor class involved in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. Here, we demonstrate that arrestin-2 and GRK5 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5), proteins that regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling, play a negative role in TLR4 signaling in Raw264.7 macrophages. We find that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation is significantly enhanced in arrestin-2 and …
Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery
Contents: Preface History of the Wellesley Islands Marriage: Lardil and Yangkaal: endogamy and exogamy Kaiadilt endogamy and exogamy Violence: Early time fights Baya! Baya! Fight! Fight! Violence in the 1970s Reasons for violence Sorcery: Sorcerers and clever men Spearing in the Bush Recent sorcery cases Some general observations about sorcery All the Puripuri men are dead Appendix: sorcery cases Bibliography Index
Expressive Genres and Historical Change
This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. Research from New Guinea, Indonesia and Taiwan is used to assess how historical changes modify these forms of expression to adjust to the social and political needs of the moment
Australian Film and the Cultural Cold War
This article examines whether, and in what way, anti-communism was a factor in the slow development of an Australian film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s and in the kind of film culture developed in Australia, particularly through film festivals. In particular it examines the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) towards left and liberal filmmakers and film lovers. It briefly examines the effect of anti-comm…
Rethinking Social Democracy
What could be more appropriate in the age of neo-conservatism and in an era of post-communism than a conference devoted to an examination of the future of social democracy? Such was the motivation of the organisers of 'Rethinking Social Democracy', the first of a series of three conferences on this theme, which took place in April 2004. Held in London, the conference was sponsored by a number of European institutions including the Fondazione Inst…
A World Hungry for a New Philosophy
This paper outlines the high level of interest that News Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, Rupert Murdoch, has always had in politics. It details his trajectory on the political spectrum, arguing that while his position has changed, one consistent theme has been libertarianism. It examines the political stance of News Corporation's Australian flagship newspaper and argues that it helped forge a neo-liberal consensus in the late 1970s both wi…
Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War
From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes
From Hunting to Drinking
"From Hunting to Drinking reveals the devastating effects that alcohol has had over a period of 30 years on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland Coast, Australia. Drinking has become the main social activity on the island and the amount of alcohol consumed has reached a disturbing level. Suicide and homicide rates are alarmingly high and alcohol related illness is rife.David McKnight assesses this situation and explores how it now affects …
Sir Frank Packer
Introduction
Facts versus Stories
This article discusses journalism as a form of 'vernacular literature' and explores two traditions of reporting: the objective and the interpretive. In the first, emphasis is placed on the fact; in the second, on the story. In these terms, the article examines the transformation of the reporting style of the Sydney Morning Herald from objective reporting to interpretive reporting in the early 1980s. It examines the Herald's journalism from the 19…
The 1960s and '70s Are History
A change in the climate? The journalism of opinion at News Corporation
In 2007 the global media company News Corporation announced that it would become ‘carbon neutral’ and generally endorsed scientific warnings about global warming. Its CEO, Rupert Murdoch, signaled not only that the media group held a corporate view toward the issue of climate change but that its editorial coverage would henceforth change. This article examines the period before this change of direction. From 1997 to 2007 newspapers and television…
Public Contest through the Popular Media
This article explores the 'mining tax ad war of 2010', which contributed to the removal of a first-term Labor prime minister and shaped Australia's Minerals Resource Rent Tax. In particular, it examines the uses, ethics and consequences of advocacy advertising, which is an under-explored aspect of communication power. The article identifies advocacy advertising as an increasingly prevalent technique used by corporations and lobby groups to influe…
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
A World Hungry for a New Philosophy
This paper outlines the high level of interest that News Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, Rupert Murdoch, has always had in politics. It details his trajectory on the political spectrum, arguing that while his position has changed, one consistent theme has been libertarianism. It examines the political stance of News Corporation's Australian flagship newspaper and argues that it helped forge a neo-liberal consensus in the late 1970s both wi…
Distribution of Australian Aboriginal 'Marriage Classes
This article is concerned with the old question of environmental determinism. What part does environment play in a societys social organisation? Particular attention is given to Yengoyans claim that the distribution of `marriage classes in Aboriginal Australia is influenced by certain environmental and demographic conditions. I argue that Yengoyan has not succeeded in demonstrating that there is a triple correlation of tribal area size and destin…
Facts versus Stories
This article discusses journalism as a form of 'vernacular literature' and explores two traditions of reporting: the objective and the interpretive. In the first, emphasis is placed on the fact; in the second, on the story. In these terms, the article examines the transformation of the reporting style of the Sydney Morning Herald from objective reporting to interpretive reporting in the early 1980s. It examines the Herald's journalism from the 19…
Sorcery in an Australian Tribe
This article compares how sorcery operates among the Lardil of Mornington Island, Northern Queensland with beliefs and practices in other Australian tribes and then examines several relevant theoretical issues. Sorcery has been examined with a cosmological, or sociology of perception, approach by Evans-Pritchard (I937) and with a relationship approach by Marwick (I952, I965). In theory there is nothing hindering one from using both these and othe…
Henry Mayer Lecture 2012
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using his news media. Murdoch himself is probably the most influential Australian of all time. He says the recent News of the World hacking scandal went 'went against everything [he stands] for'. But how true is this? He sees himself as an anti-estab…
Broadcasting and the Enemy Within
For many years, Australia's internal securtity agency, ASIO, ran security checks on potential and actual ABC staff and monitored ABC radio and TV broadcasts, noting examples of left-wing influence. This was done with the cooperation of ABC senior management and the encouragement of the conservative federal government. These facts, long suspected, are now confirmed by the use of recently released archives which give specific instances of security …
The Wik-mungkan concept Nganwi
As my title indicates, this article is concerned with the Wik-mungkan concept nganwi. The Wik-mungkan are located at Aurukun, on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, Northern Queensland, Australia. Nganwi is used, for example, to refer to a man's unseen child, sickness, initiation ceremonies, and a child's first teeth, but its basic reference is to Taipan, the Rainbow Serpent, and to Taipan's menses. Readers familiar with Edmund Leach's article…
Introduction
Sexual Symbolism of Food Among the Wik-Mungkan
The Rudd Labor government and the limitations of spin
This article explores the news management practices of the first Rudd government (2007-2010) and the extent to which they were responsible for both the government's initial success and its later decline and the subsequent replacement as Prime Minister of Kevin Rudd. Based on confidential interviews with 15 media advisers who worked for ministers in the first Rudd government, the article draws conclusions about the nature of the 'permanent campaig…
The Rise of the Spin Doctor
This article contextualises the rise of political spin in Australian politics and discusses its meaning and implications. It examines the largely unmediated relationship between political leaders and journalists that existed until the 1970s. It locates the foundational period in the growth of professionalised public relations in the Fraser and Hawke governments and suggests that an assertive new style of journalism played a role in its birth. It …
Australian Film and the Cultural Cold War
This article examines whether, and in what way, anti-communism was a factor in the slow development of an Australian film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s and in the kind of film culture developed in Australia, particularly through film festivals. In particular it examines the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) towards left and liberal filmmakers and film lovers. It briefly examines the effect of anti-comm…
People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent
The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual)
Sexual Symbolism of Food Among the Wik-Mungkan
The Wik-mungkan concept Nganwi
As my title indicates, this article is concerned with the Wik-mungkan concept nganwi. The Wik-mungkan are located at Aurukun, on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, Northern Queensland, Australia. Nganwi is used, for example, to refer to a man's unseen child, sickness, initiation ceremonies, and a child's first teeth, but its basic reference is to Taipan, the Rainbow Serpent, and to Taipan's menses. Readers familiar with Edmund Leach's article…
Sorcery in an Australian Tribe
This article compares how sorcery operates among the Lardil of Mornington Island, Northern Queensland with beliefs and practices in other Australian tribes and then examines several relevant theoretical issues. Sorcery has been examined with a cosmological, or sociology of perception, approach by Evans-Pritchard (I937) and with a relationship approach by Marwick (I952, I965). In theory there is nothing hindering one from using both these and othe…
Distribution of Australian Aboriginal 'Marriage Classes
This article is concerned with the old question of environmental determinism. What part does environment play in a societys social organisation? Particular attention is given to Yengoyans claim that the distribution of `marriage classes in Aboriginal Australia is influenced by certain environmental and demographic conditions. I argue that Yengoyan has not succeeded in demonstrating that there is a triple correlation of tribal area size and destin…
Reassessing the Rosenberg and Petrov Affairs
For the last 12 months the American Left has been painfully coming to terms with some secrets newly released from two sets of archives which cover the origins of the cold war. The first are those from the Communist International in Moscow.1 It was only opened to Western (and most Russian) scholars in 1991-92. The second is a smaller and more selective group of archives released by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in spite of the objections, …
The Comintern's Seventh Congress and the Australian Labor Party
It cannot be expected that those Social-Democratic workers who are under the influence of the ideology of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie ... will break with this ideology of their own accord, by the actions of objective causes alone. No. It is our business, the business of Commumsts, to help them free themselves from reformist ideology ... there is no more effective way for overcoming the doubts and hesitations of Social Democratic work…
Broadcasting and the Enemy Within
For many years, Australia's internal securtity agency, ASIO, ran security checks on potential and actual ABC staff and monitored ABC radio and TV broadcasts, noting examples of left-wing influence. This was done with the cooperation of ABC senior management and the encouragement of the conservative federal government. These facts, long suspected, are now confirmed by the use of recently released archives which give specific instances of security …
People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent
The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual)
Introduction
Facts versus Stories
This article discusses journalism as a form of 'vernacular literature' and explores two traditions of reporting: the objective and the interpretive. In the first, emphasis is placed on the fact; in the second, on the story. In these terms, the article examines the transformation of the reporting style of the Sydney Morning Herald from objective reporting to interpretive reporting in the early 1980s. It examines the Herald's journalism from the 19…
The 1960s and '70s Are History
From Hunting to Drinking
"From Hunting to Drinking reveals the devastating effects that alcohol has had over a period of 30 years on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland Coast, Australia. Drinking has become the main social activity on the island and the amount of alcohol consumed has reached a disturbing level. Suicide and homicide rates are alarmingly high and alcohol related illness is rife.David McKnight assesses this situation and explores how it now affects …
Sir Frank Packer
A World Hungry for a New Philosophy
This paper outlines the high level of interest that News Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, Rupert Murdoch, has always had in politics. It details his trajectory on the political spectrum, arguing that while his position has changed, one consistent theme has been libertarianism. It examines the political stance of News Corporation's Australian flagship newspaper and argues that it helped forge a neo-liberal consensus in the late 1970s both wi…
Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War
From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes
Australian Film and the Cultural Cold War
This article examines whether, and in what way, anti-communism was a factor in the slow development of an Australian film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s and in the kind of film culture developed in Australia, particularly through film festivals. In particular it examines the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) towards left and liberal filmmakers and film lovers. It briefly examines the effect of anti-comm…
Rethinking Social Democracy
What could be more appropriate in the age of neo-conservatism and in an era of post-communism than a conference devoted to an examination of the future of social democracy? Such was the motivation of the organisers of 'Rethinking Social Democracy', the first of a series of three conferences on this theme, which took place in April 2004. Held in London, the conference was sponsored by a number of European institutions including the Fondazione Inst…
Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery
Contents: Preface History of the Wellesley Islands Marriage: Lardil and Yangkaal: endogamy and exogamy Kaiadilt endogamy and exogamy Violence: Early time fights Baya! Baya! Fight! Fight! Violence in the 1970s Reasons for violence Sorcery: Sorcerers and clever men Spearing in the Bush Recent sorcery cases Some general observations about sorcery All the Puripuri men are dead Appendix: sorcery cases Bibliography Index
Expressive Genres and Historical Change
This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. Research from New Guinea, Indonesia and Taiwan is used to assess how historical changes modify these forms of expression to adjust to the social and political needs of the moment
Arrestin-2 and G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 Interact with NFκB1 p105 and Negatively Regulate Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ERK1/2 Activation in Macrophages
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a recently described receptor class involved in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. Here, we demonstrate that arrestin-2 and GRK5 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5), proteins that regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling, play a negative role in TLR4 signaling in Raw264.7 macrophages. We find that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation is significantly enhanced in arrestin-2 and …
Not Attributable to Official Sources
During the Cold War in Australia, the political agenda was dominated by the threat of communism. One factor in building this agenda was the 'counter-propaganda operations' of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) which regularly released unattributable information to selected mass media outlets. In the period when these activities were most prevalent (1960-72), ASIO officers had regular contact with editors and with selected jo…
Rethinking Cold War History
Historians have rethought some of the prevailing assumptions employed in writing about the Cold War in Australia. Until recently, the history of the Cold War in Australia was often written with too little detachment and skepticism toward the Left, and with a failure of scholarly empathy toward the claims of the anti-Communist Right. The opening of new archival and intelligence sources (such as the 'Venona' papers) is one reason for the shift in t…
The Sunday Times and Andrew Neil
This article contends that The Sunday Times became a champion of the ideas of free market populism after it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch. The driving force for this shift was the editor (1983–1994), Andrew Neil, who argued that free market ideology was a radical set of ideas which was on the side of ordinary people and which was opposed mainly by “elites” and “establishments”. This populist view of markets owes much to the ideas of the America…
A change in the climate? The journalism of opinion at News Corporation
In 2007 the global media company News Corporation announced that it would become ‘carbon neutral’ and generally endorsed scientific warnings about global warming. Its CEO, Rupert Murdoch, signaled not only that the media group held a corporate view toward the issue of climate change but that its editorial coverage would henceforth change. This article examines the period before this change of direction. From 1997 to 2007 newspapers and television…
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
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